Stefanel Barutcieff, senior designer in Munich, Germany

About

With over ten years of experience in consumer electronics, home automation, home appliances, medical devices and automotive interiors, I worked as in-house product designer at Motorola (Chicago) and as senior designer and creative director at Pilotfish (Munich), I led projects for clients like Samsung, Dell, Bose, Bosch & Siemens White-goods, Bosch Automotive, BMW, Mini, etc.

During my earlier master training at Institute of Design (IIT) Chicago I became a very strong believer in the “user-centered” approach and successfully applied many of the research methods and tools later in practice.

Lately I have been managing more complex consumer electronics projects, leading not only the industrial design aspects but also the user experience (UX) around the product, working together with the User Interface team to create a consistent result.

Education

Master's degree Industrial and Product Design

Illinois Institute of Technology

2001 - 2003
undergraduate Industrial Design

Universitatea de Artă din București

1994 - 2000

Experience

senior product designer / creative director

Pilotfish

Munich, Germany

Aug 2005 - 2018 (13 years 3 months)

Designed for clients like Samsung, Bosch & Siemens White-goods, Bosch Automotive, BMW, Mini, Logitech, Dell, in the following fields: consumer electronics, home automation, home appliances, medical devices and automotive interiors.

Lately led UX projects involving multidisciplinary teams of researchers, ID and UI designers with the aim of delivering an integrated hardware and software experience for end-users.

Managed the relation with clients, handling schedules, budgets, deliverables, leading project workshops and presentations.
designer

Motorola

2003 - 2005 (2 years)

Worked on the iconic RAZR product family, in charge of designing the 3G mobile phones models. Involved also in the implementation phase, working closely with the engineering team, to ensure that the original design intent was preserved until production.
graduate student

Institute of Design, IIT

2001 - 2003 (2 years)

Focused on front-end part of Industrial Design, learned methods applicable in user research, analysis and synthesis as well as connected fields like product planning, product platform, interaction mapping, etc

Skills

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@stefanelid, member since 2014

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Stefanel Barutcieff

Assistant Professor - Educator, Communication Design, Myron E. Ullman, Jr. School of Design

Systems Administrator, Visible Futures Lab (VFL)