Heitor Aguiar Bordin

Experience

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  Asadesign

  Jul 2014 - Apr 2015

  Product Design Intern

  Development of new designs of premium furniture for home and office market, researching tendencies, attributing target audience profiles, sketching several iterations for new pieces, modeling the items in 3D with render and building presentations for clients’ approval.

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  IPPUC - Research and Planning Institute of Curitiba

  Feb 2016 - Oct 2016

  Product Design Intern

  Development of new solutions for urban furniture in Curitiba and neighboring towns, such as bus stations, park benches, sculptures, prototypes and visual identity for street signaling.

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  DIAM Group

  May 2017 - Jul 2023

  Lead Design Engineer

  DIAM manufactures luxury store displays for makeup, skincare and perfume for Sephora (diaminter.com).- Hundreds of thousands of displays manufactured and sold with premium quality.- Brands include Carolina Herrera, Dior, Guerlain, Fenty, Clinique, Givenchy, MAC, Rare Beauty, Shiseido and 23 more between international and national clients. - Core day-to-day tasks include creating approval documents for clients, designing CNC machining parts, aluminum extrusion profiles, sheet-metal structures, 3D-printed prototypes, vacuum-forming molds, creating bill-of-materials and loading them into SAP. - Responsibilities include assigning employees to different tasks, approving custom tooling samples, aiding with and designing new manufacturing and drawing guidelines, training employees and overseeing all projects so they meet DIAM and brand standards.- Implemented additive manufacturing solutions that resulted in reducing cost of vacuum-forming molds by 92%, saving a quarter of a million dollars in the span of 4 years.- Pushed glue-less solutions that enabled a 301% increase in recyclability, while preventing over 10.000 kilograms of plastic waste to end up in oceans and landfills. Show less

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  Freelance (Self employed)

  Aug 2023 - now

  Independent Contractor

  - Design Concept- Engineering- Rendering- Animation