Producer (Intern: Aug 2007 - Present) The Ludic Group London, UK. Ludic is a strategy and management consultant company that uses the design process at the core of it principals. My position as a producer is varied. It ranges from project manager, managing teams of design professional during Ludic events, supporting facilitators at client sites at in house strategy sessions, to designing graphics for new Ludic products. Producer Creative Capital : the Hospital Club London, UK. Held at The Hospital Club [www.thehospitalclub.com] Creative Capital is a Ludic sponsored,meeting of the minds where experts are brought in to discuss hot button topics of today ranging from media and business to design, and it's social impact. I work in conjuction with the Hospitals creative staff to put the monthly events together. Designer (Summer Placement: July 2006 - Sept 2006) Fagor Brandt London, UK. Worked closely with Fagor Brandt in a team of IDE students to develop concepts for new technolgy in microwaves. Required brainstorming, concept refinement and modelmaking. Designer (Summer Placement: Aug 2006 - Sept 2006) Hybrid State Malmo, SWEDEN. www.hybrid-state.com Worked in twice in 2 week installments developing a product for the consultancy that can be used to allow groups to transfer ideas from brainstorming to innovative product in an open innovation paradigm. Also, developed and built full prototype that is now used and being tested for production. Research Engineer (Dec 2003 - Aug 2005) Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, Illinois, USA. - Design, develop and fabricate, electromechanical - simulation devices for training and assessment - studies in medical education. - Facilitated and performed data mining and data analysis. - Developed new projects - Troubleshot & maintained electromechanical devices. - Instructed, trained, supervised, and evaluated - research staff in procedures & methods Robotics Lab - Research Engineer (Oct 2002 - Dec 2003) Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Chicago, Illinois, USA. - Oversee and develop the WAM project - Coordinate collaboration with other robotics - research areas at Northwestern University. - Author, edit, and evaluate custom software - that operates mechatronic devices. - Assist with hardware and software development - for data acquisition and analysis. - Participate in research projects, including recruiting - subjects, experimental testing, processing data, - analyzing data, compiling results, and generating - written and oral reports. Research Scientist - Hardware Lab (Aug 1998 - Jun 2001) Starlab NV/SA Brussels, BELGIUM. - TEA: Technology for Enabling Awareness. - [www.teco.edu/tea] - Project Technical manager over duration of the project. - Oversaw submission of deliverables and project reports. - Design of hardware module and integration - of module with mobile phone - Development of experimentation schemes - investigating application of “Context Awareness” - I-Wear: Intellligent clothing - Worked with Adidas in the development of - wearable technologies. Project / Quality Engineer (Feb 1998 - Jun 1998) Brown Innovations, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. - Experimented with improving Frequency Response - of Speakers by carbon fibers inlays - Developed prototype for new product attachment. - Assembled and tested speaker enclosures. Technical Assistant (Aug 1997- Jan 1998) Active & Materials Structures Lab - M.I.T. Boston, Massachusetts, USA. - Worked on 1/6 scale helicopter rotor testbed. - Design and machine of unique hardware pieces for - testbed operation using lathes and milling machines. - Support of research assistant’s design - through Pro-E design.

Design skills - Visualization, concept design, modelmaking. - Small scale prototyping, Proficient with workshop tools. - Micro-controller based digital design. Computer skills ProEngineer, Solidworks, Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, Corel Painter, Adobe Premier Pro, PowerDirector, Rhino, Protel99 & Matlab. A. Schmidt, K. A. Aidoo, A. Takaluoma, U. Tuomela, K. Van Laerhoven, and Wan de Velde, “Advanced Interaction in Context”.In H. Gellersen (Ed.) Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 1707, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg: 1999, p. 89-101. K. Van Laerhoven and K. A. Aidoo, “Teaching Context to Applications”, In Personal Technologies: Situated Interaction and Context-Aware Computing, A. Schmidt, G. Kortuem, D. Morse and A. Dey (Eds). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000 K. Van Laerhoven, K. A. Aidoo and S. Lowette “Real-time analysis of data from many sensors with neural networks” In: Proc. 5th Int. Symp. on Wearable Computers, ISWC 2001, Zurich, Switzerland (IEEE Press, 2001), pp. 115-123. MA, Master Of Arts (Oct 2005 - July 2007) Industrial Design Engineering Royal College Of Art, London, UK. Group Project: Designed and built scale model of a kinetic, interactve installation for Coutts bank, Bank to the British Royal Family. MSc, Master Of Science (Oct 2005 - July 2007) Mechanical Engineering Imperial College, London, UK. BSME, Bachelor of Science (May 1997) Mechanical Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA - Major Design Project: Developed testing - procedures and designed a new performance - enhancing snowboard boot. - Minor Subject: Art. Winning team for Opera Set Design Module Royal College of Art, London, UK, 2005. Our winning design has been realized at Barbican and Teatro Ventidio in Italy.