My Story:
I am Russell, I am a passionate professional specialized in 3D and Product Design as I had the opportunity to explore and contribute in both. I have worked on Feature films, TV series (3D), Live Action TV series and Games. Past few years I worked on various R&D Tech-based Projects in TOYOTA’s research orgs. I also had the opportunity to work with some collaborative projects of NASA, BOEING, WYNGATE Aerospace and AUDI of Volkswagen.
I am adaptable and I like to push my limits by taking challenges. Often I make mistakes but I learn from them to improve myself. Every evening I spend an hour to learn something new, e.g. market, products, emerging technologies, new tools & techniques. I like to share with colleagues what I learn, this helps the team to be stronger and smarter day by day. I am open minded, flexible and respectful to others as I put myself in their shoes to see things from their perspectives.
I have developed a wide range of technical, strategic and team management skills through working with cross functional team members, internal and external stakeholders. Working in collaboration with research scientists, electrical and mechanical engineers, programmers and developers on diverse projects helped me learn, grow and significantly contribute at the same time.
My summarized career background, experience and technical skills:
Career Experience / Achievements:
- Roughly 300 successful projects in career.
- 32 industry standard softwares and tools.
- Digital and Physical Product design (Automotive / Robotics) and high fidelity Real-time 3D Product visualization.
- In 2013 Participated in event re-creation of Apollo II launch for NASA (3d works).
- Helped teams at AUDI (ADAS/AD/HMI), BOEING (Real-time Flight Simulator), FEDEX (V/R Training).
- Successful Products in Market, Concept-i Prototype, bZ4X (EV), Rav4 Prime, Lexus (Interior/Exterior design, HMI / infotainment system design).
- Proposed new AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) Avatar based companion and guardian for a Concept EV for TMC (Toyota Motor Corporation) and HQ executive board approved fund for further assessment and research.
- Leadership experience managing & leading 3 teams since 2022 (UX/UI, 3D and Ar/Vr) at Toyota's HQ.
- Cross functional experience with Research Scientists, Automotive Engineers, University Professors, Programmers, OEM stakeholders, Portfolio and Partner company stakeholders, Robotics and Manufacturing, clay and digital design teams and time to time attending senior executive meetings.
Technical Skills / Experience in:
- Advanced technical skills, knowledgebase and experience in popular industry standard software and tools.
- Automotive Mechanical Rigging / 3d Polygonal and Surface Modeling / Complex PBR Shaders and Materials / 3d Animation etc.
- Very high fidelity product visualization, static to real time webGL based interactive product.
- Procedural and interactive 3D Environment Creation for Simulation and integration for physical Simulator.
- Car Configurator developments - Web and VR/AR/XR (Android / iOS).
- Product designs, strategic design thinking and methodologies.
- Expert in translating new concepts and ideas into realistic Visualization (often video demos for executives reviews) or Real-time interactive Visualization or visualization using VR or headset i.e. HTC/Oculus Rift etc).
- RT Engines e.g. Unreal Engine, Omniverse and Unity.
- Nvidia Omniverse connectors and pipeline development and integration for RT Engine and interactive Web.
- Aerodynamic Simulation / Physics (Crash) Simulations / Autonomous Simulations / Robotics Simulations.
- Synthetic raw data analysis and new Synthetic data generation from physical sensors / Lidar data analysis / Point clouds analysis and data to 3d conversions and visualizations.
- Sensor-captured data cleanup and archiving for data tagging for Machine learning for simulation tests.
- ADAS / AD, HMI, HCI.
Additional Skills / Info:
- Machine Learning, data-tagging, library generation and Ai-model based training.
- Dynamic Data Visualization.
- Microsoft certified SQL Database administration.
- Certified - CITI program on "Human Subject Research".
- Continual learning and skills development, new technology research, Ai integration tools research.
- Mentoring and training team members (bi-weekly).
- Adaptable, very fast learner, hard working, sincere to work, happy to help cross functional team members whenever they need and every evening spending 1 hour to learn something new (tech/tools).
Skills and Experience in Product Design And Developments:
- Enterprise level experience in large scale high fidelity Project Management.
- Experience in digital as well as physical Product design, User Research, User Experience, UI design and development.
- User Research and Testing.
- Strategic Product Thinking.
- Collaboration and Leadership.
- Market and Competitive Analysis.
- Problem-Solving and Critical Thinking.
- Personas and ideation.
- Team Trainer and Team Leader.
- A/B Testing / Survey / Feedback.
- Usability Testing and Accessibility.
- User Behavior Analysis and Metrics.
- Product and data Validation.
- End-to-End Design Process and product life-cycle.
- Collaboration with other Teams and Stakeholder.
- Product Management Principles.
- Visual Communication and Storytelling.
- Data visualization.
- Specialized in Motion Graphics.
- Figma / XD / Protopie / Adobe Suite / Jira / Productboard / Confluence / SurveyMonkey.
Credits / Awards / Achievements:
- Received Presidential award for extra ordinary score from Seneca Polytechnic, Canada.
- Feature film that I worked on as a Lead Animator got 2 Telly Awards in 2013, one of them was in “Animation” category.
- Credited by IMDB for several TV series, Live Action and Feature Films.
- AR game that I had worked on as a Lead got 47 million downloads on Google Store.
- Worked solo on a few online animation videos for a YouTube channel that got over 70 million views within 3 months and growing.