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Colin Anderson

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Founder, Lead Designer @ Aethermotics

  • Education

    • Auckland University of Technology

      2019 - 2021
      Master of Creative Technologies First Class Honours

      I received a scholarship to develop a wearable ECG and separate EEG monitoring system working with a biomedical engineering team. This was completed using conductive textiles, machine knitting and advance manufacturing techniques to create a number of novel outputs in the wearable design space. Wearable Biopotential Technologies: An Exploration of Textile Based Biopotential Sensing Electrodes for an ECG Wearable Device - https://openrepository.aut.ac.nz/handle/10292/14208

    • Auckland University of Technology

      2016 - 2018
      Bachelor's of Creative Technologies Top of Program: Oustanding Creativing Technologist Award

      Focusing on design theory, making, digital fabrication, CAD, programing, electronics, sound design and VR development.

  • Experience

    • Mt Washington Alpine Resort

      Dec 2010 - Apr 2011
      Snowboard Instuctor

    • Mt Washington Alpine Resort

      Dec 2011 - Apr 2012
      Snowboard Instructor

      Instructor, Substitute Head Coach for the children's freeride program.

    • Landform NZ

      Jan 2012 - Jan 2014
      Landscaper

      Summer seasonal Landscape work in Auckland and Northland.

    • SLR

      Jun 2013 - Sept 2013
      Workshop Technician

    • Jindabyne Sports

      May 2014 - Sept 2014
      Workshop Manager

      Workshop: Tuning technician, Rental department.

    • Alpine Sports

      May 2015 - Sept 2015
      Workshop Manager

      Managed Workshop: Technician, Assistant manager for rental department, Sales assistant .

    • Brothers Beer Ltd

      Dec 2017 - Dec 2018
      Packaging, Brewery Team

      Part time packaging, Cellar hand.

    • Auckland University of Technology

      Jan 2019 - Dec 2020

      Teaching Programming, Introduction to Creative Technologies, Interactive Technology Systems, Creative Audio and Digital Fabrication (CAD). Oversee the mechatronics lab and provide help to students from the creative technologies and architecture programs. Presenting workshops on working with e-textile as well as programming and developing for wearable applications. Developing wearable technology for medical applications.Designer for: garment design, electrode design, electronics enclosures and interface mechanisms.

      • Teaching Assistant

        Jan 2019 - Dec 2020

      • Workshop Technician

        Mar 2019 - Nov 2020

      • Workshop Presenter

        Mar 2019 - Sept 2019

      • Research Assistant

        Jan 2019 - Sept 2019

    • Lanaco

      Nov 2019 - Feb 2020
      Industrial Designer

      Production of CAD and technical drawings for manufacturing. Creating packaging and marketing media. Liaised with manufacturers and suppliers and created cost effective design solutions.

    • C A Design

      Apr 2021 - now
      Industrial Designer

      Providing bespoke design solutions to customers for a range of scales and budgets across a spectrum of design disciplines. A interdisciplinary approach to user experience and design for manufacturing underpin creative approaches generating disruptive solutions.

    • Aethermotics

      Oct 2021 - now
      Founder, Lead Designer

      Research, design and fabrication of advanced wearable heat management systems. From novel soft system development and manufacturing, to cutting edge heat exchange and hard systems design.Managing a team of engineers and designers to achieve new man portable cooling and heating outcomes in a wide array of environments.Responsible for all facets of design and execution, in addition to managing and planning system scaling and the parallel development of novel manufacturing methods.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • SBINZ Children's Certification

      SBINZ

    • SBINZ Level 1

      NZSIA

    • SBINZ Level 2

      NZSIA