Mekin Elcioglu

CAD-CAM Department Unique Settings is a firm which is currently serving over 12,000 independent retailers in USA while providing them the styling on custom jewelry in order to enable the retailers to receive special requests from consumers. Along with subsidiaries like Crow Casino Furniture and Unique Aluminum Extrusions, the company is expanding its facilities with furniture design. Current job definition and specific responsibilities taken in this position involves: * Model making CAD and Hand-Sculpted. * Designing new products along with redesigning and restoring the ex-service or out-of-date product range. * Design customization * Designing and executing usability studies, analyze data, provide actionable recommendations to product development teams. * Research & Development on new concepts by contributing to the early identification of usability issues and opportunities for product improvement. * Collaborating with various functions of other departments to understand consumer trends, needs, and physiological research findings. * Consulting on conducting competitive product usability tests and benchmark rankings in usability studies including user interviews and surveys. * Determining appropriate approaches to concept development, design research, and usability testing to Create and Process Custom Design Solutions. * Maintaining current awareness of consumer and competitor product offerings relative to Human Factors issues and requirements in both U.S. and foreign markets.

Department of Industrial Design Faculty of Architecture of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, established 122 years ago, is the oldest institution of Turkey, in the field of architectural, design and fine arts education. Fostering the interdisciplinary and wholistic idea contemporary educational approaches with conceptual and technical aspects of art and design defines the core of education at the Department of Industrial Design. The main objective is to educate professionals and the academicians of design in the wider spectrum of design issues, with a strong technical and conceptual foundation as well as to provide design professionals for the major fields including public services, research, development, execution and publication. * 8 year of experience on lecturing and administrative levels (domestic and international relations) * Produced project solutions and implemented them in real-time environment as products by collaborating with the industry and other departments when necessary such as Urban Planning and Interior Design. * Carried out both National and International Development Projects that later turned to Finished Products for different sectors of the industry. * Conducted Industrial Design Studio: Industrial Design Studio, Design Research and Methodologies with materials and production processes (Levels II, III and IV) * Taught Semantics: Introduction to Product Design Paradigm and Semantic Approach Trend Management: A comprehensive analysis of recent design trends in design history and creating new design trends with semantic models. * Consulted and Provided expertise on various design problematic to professional corporations, as non-profit organizations, design and industrial firms. * Editor for DESIGN & THEORY - National Design Index Publication * Editor and Vice-Chairman of Publishing Board of Monthly News Journal "AYINIZI" * Responsible for Curricular...

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE * +3 years of CAD+CAM Department experience on jewelry design with Unique Settings of NY * +10 years of furniture and decorative elements design experience with Vico Magistretti / Vario Design.

I.T.U. (Turkey) and Kelebek Furniture Company (Turkey). * 5 years of automotive design experience with design departments of brands like Fiat (Italy), Karsan-Hyundai (Turkey - S. Korea), TOFAS (Turkish Automotive Industry) and Volvo (Sweden). * 3 years of publishing and design experience as being the Editor for Design & Theory National Design Index Publication & Editor and Vice-Chairman of Publishing Board of Monthly Ayinizi * 7 years of voluntary work and experience such as Creative Children's Association TR - Institutional and Educational Sponsor and Consultant, Lego League Int'l Organization for Special and Gifted Children (as Tutor), HABITAT Organization Coordination Committee - Istanbul, Turkey, International Design Congress Committee Member - Istanbul TR * Countless workshop experience over the years as a professional and as an academician with organizations like DOCOMOMO International, Art Center College of Design (USA) Workshop with Prof. Steve Diskin, Domus Academy of Italy, Vario Design of Italy, Swedish Design Days Int'l. * Research Specializations include Product Semantics, Biomimicry and Biomimetics in Design, Recent Design Trends and History of Design, Human-Centered Design, Transportation Design. Software Experience include Rhino, 3Desıgn CAD with 3Shaper, 3d Studio, Alias, Photoshop, Office Tools (Windows and MacOS) * Sketching & Modeling Experience 2D sketching with Wacom Tools, Freehand, 3D Clay Modelling

Department of Project & Design Implementation The international company was established as a technological systems manufacturer and installer and became one of the leading companies to introduce and provide the design and architecture field with hi-tech systems such as stainless steel meshes, tensioning and decorative cable systems with different levels of implementations of both interior and exterior projects from furniture design to wall claddings. The company's design implementation and project department is associated with both the domestic and the global market. * Designed, managed and implemented new projects such as furniture, interior and exterior decorative products. * Produced Solutions and implemented these solutions for the corporations as well as designers and the architects who are affiliated with a wide variety of private sector projects. * Supervised a team of engineers, mechanics and salespersons. * Dealt with big-scale design and construction projects like Hangar Doors and their various applications. * Represented and promoted affiliated foreign corporations of which TUR Group uses the products both in and out of the country on different levels.