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Sina Salimi

Vancouver,BC

Summary

Product Innovation Specialist with a decade of experience in designing and developing cutting-edge products across various engineering domains including mechatronics, biomedical, automotive etc.... Proven track record of success in bringing new ideas to market and delivering high-quality products that meet customer needs. Skilled in utilizing a variety of design and development tools to bring new products to life, and passionate about staying up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies. Committed to collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve common goals and drive business success.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Data & Quality Analyst

StreetScan ULC.
09.2021 - 02.2023
  • Pavement & Sidewalk data analysis for feature extraction.
  • Quality analysis of data to deliver projects to customers.
  • developed SOP of the company using problem-solving techniques to overcome various problems of data analysis methods.

R&D Project Manager

IFIA
06.2013 - 12.2022
  • Achieved 12 international Awards from different countries and organizations for designed products.
  • Manage Projects from A to Z and present new innovative products at international competitions & exhibitions. The products and results are illustrated in the awards section.
  • Get user feedback from clients to inform R&D teams in order to integrate the data into the design, innovation, and development process for detecting further problems and providing proper solutions.

Graduate Research Assistant

École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS)
09.2018 - 08.2022
  • Investigating current problems of modern creative design methodologies utilization in industrial area.
  • Use of Customer feedback and needs for designing new user-friendly products.
  • Development of a new innovative design methodology using customer-driven and innovative design theories.
  • Designing a new innovative product in biomedical-mechatronics areas to test the new design methodology usage in industrial area and deliberate its results for user-friendliness aspects.

Product Designer & Developer

TurkFrama
01.2020 - 04.2020
  • Participated in the design and development of a bio-medical product.
  • Participated in user interviews with the product manager to get customer desires data.
  • Utilized Quality Function Deployment (QFD) to collect customer needs data and use results to get the most appropriate engineering solutions.
  • Investigated problems of competitors’ products and provide innovative technical solutions with the help of R&D team members.

Product Manager

Padideh Caspian
02.2015 - 11.2017
  • Doubled amount of orders on a yearly basis by changing import methods and increasing the number of sales with the help of the marketing team.
  • Increased customer satisfaction using user feedback by providing unique after-sale services,
  • Increased sales rates by identifying best-seller products through a one-year market investigation with the marketing team’s help.
  • Gathered data to order and provide essential parts to representatives for repairing sold products if needed.

R&D Team Leader

IFIA
03.2013 - 06.2013
  • Design roadmap and R&D teams leadership.
    Prepare new products for international patenting.
  • Contribute on products innovation and development process with R&D teams.
  • Help R&D teams’ members and engineers to dig into problems and combine findings to propose solid solutions.

Senior Product Developer & Inventor

IFIA
11.2012 - 03.2013
  • Development of raw ideas and solutions.
  • Detailing current problems and finding their sources.
  • Solve customers’ problems using design-thinking with defining stages of design.
  • Simplify difficult problems by combining findings from several research and providing various options.
  • Use customers’ data to design and develop user-friendly innovative products.
  • Assessed competitors products and designs to compare projects.

Education

Master of Science - Product Innovation & Development Engineering

École De Technologie Supériure (ÉTS) , Montreal, QC
09.2022

Bachelor of Science - Civil Engineering

Azad University of Mahabad , Mahabad, Iran
02.2016

Skills

  • SolidWorks 2D&3D
  • 3DsMax
  • Microcontrollers
  • Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
  • AutoCAD
  • Research & Development
  • Design & Innovation methodologies
  • Critical Thinking
  • Product R&D
  • Innovation Management
  • Microsoft Office

Certification

  • Official Inventor of IFIA & United Nations Organization
  • Machine Vision-Sharif University of Technology

Awards & Portfolio

  • Gold Medal of engineering inventions-2015. Invention: System for decreasing fuel usage of aerospace engines.

     Issued by INPEX international exhibition of inventions PA-USA.

  • Gold Medal of medical invention-2015. Invention: Intelligent diagnosing system for melanoma skin cancer.
    Issued by INPEX international exhibition of inventions PA-USA.
  • Gold Medal-2015. Invention: Control & condition monitoring system for helicopters’ engine.
    Issued by 45’th international exhibition of inventions Geneva-Switzerland.
  • Golden Award-2015. Invention: Intelligent diagnosing system for melanoma skin cancer.
    Issued by ARCA international exhibition of inventions Zagreb-Croatia.
  • Gold Medal-2015. Invention: Intelligent diagnosing system for melanoma skin cancer.
    Issued by international exhibition of inventions Warsaw-Poland.
  • Silver Medal-2015. Invention: Smart braking system for cars to reduce fuel usage by ultrasonic waves.
    Issued by 45’th international exhibition of inventions Geneva-Switzerland.
  • Bronze Medal-2015. Invention: Smart concrete pump.
    Issued by 45’th international exhibition of inventions Geneva-Switzerland.
  • Best Medical Invention Prize-2013. Invention: Balance supplier device to help patients with joint and muscular problems.
    Issued by association Russian rouse for international scientific and technological cooperation.
  • Gold Medal-2013. Invention: Page turning robot for disabled people by brain signals processing.
    Issued by 41’th international exhibition of inventions Geneva-Switzerland.
  • Honorary Diploma-2013. Invention: Balance supplier device to help patients with joint and muscular problems.
    Issued by Head of 65’th international trade fair of inventions Nuremberg-Germany (iENA).
  • First Place-2013. Robot: Raisin cleaner.
    Issued by Robocup IranOpen competitions.

Timeline

Senior Data & Quality Analyst - StreetScan ULC.
09.2021 - 02.2023
Product Designer & Developer - TurkFrama
01.2020 - 04.2020
Graduate Research Assistant - École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS)
09.2018 - 08.2022
Product Manager - Padideh Caspian
02.2015 - 11.2017
R&D Project Manager - IFIA
06.2013 - 12.2022
R&D Team Leader - IFIA
03.2013 - 06.2013
Senior Product Developer & Inventor - IFIA
11.2012 - 03.2013
École De Technologie Supériure (ÉTS) - Master of Science, Product Innovation & Development Engineering
Azad University of Mahabad - Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering
Sina Salimi