Camilo Parra Palacio

Industrial Designer & Product Engineer

Olomouc, Czech Republic
Industrial Designer & Product Engineer, maker of toys, robots and consumer products with remarkable initiative to explore solutions in multiple areas with lateral thinking, together with engineering, 3D creation skills, hands on creating and teamwork to carry them out to the market.

Work Experience

Otto DIY

Founder & Product Designer

Designed a 3D printable bipedal robot aimed at STEAM education, available in various versions for
learners with different levels of maker expertise.

Created a brand and an international social media community to stimulate creativity and promote
learning of robotics in different communities around the world.

Launched a successful crowdfunding campaign to support further development of the project.
January 2016 - Brno, Czech Republic

Plobot

Co-Founder and Product Designer

Designed a tangible programming robot (including accessories and packaging) for children of 4+ age group to develop logical thinking and learn basic coding.

Responsible for iteration of robot prototypes using 3D printing and laser cutting.

Successfully admitted to the “Make in LA” hardware accelerator program and gathered 340+ backers in a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.
April 2014 - November 2015 Shanghai, China

Bestway Inflatables & Material Corp.

Industrial Designer & Product Engineer

Creative and design work in a multinational R&D team responsible for the development of inflatable summer leisure products for the second largest manufacturer in the industry.

Design of inflatable hot tubs, furniture, water sports products and toys for children (with Disney, Mattel and other licenses).

Responsible for the development of more than 100 projects per year (60 % of which enter the retail market).
March 2014 - March 2019 China

Industrias FH

Industrial Designer

Responsible for research, development and marketing of cryo-therapy and thermotherapy products and sublimation graphic process applied to polyester fabrics. Hand sampling of all ideas and defining final adjustments for manufacturing in the factory.
March 2013 - February 2014 Copacabana, Colombia

Anicom

Industrial Designer

Responsible for design and creation of animatronics characters for theme parks and shopping malls.
June 2012 - February 2013 Medellín, Colombia

Bestway Inflatables & Material Corp.

Industrial Design Intern

Made an Internship for the Innovation Lab working with an international team for development of new inflatable products.

Industrial designer for the 2nd largest global inflatables manufacturer in Shanghai, China.
Designing toys, kids play pools, bubble machines, inflatable toys for children, air pumps and packaging design for summer products.

Worked closely with engineers on the R & D center to generated new product development using Pro/ENGINEER CAD,CAM, CAE software. Work hands on in the rapid prototyping lab to explore new and innovative shapes with PVC sheets and rigid plastics for new product development.
July 2011 - December 2011 Shanghai, China

Education

EAFIT

Product Design Engineering

Universidad EAFIT founded on May 4, 1960. The emergence of a new institution of higher learning in the city responded to the demands of a rapidly changing world that was marked by political, economic and cultural tensions and which recognized the importance of ideas in resolving those problems.

The Product Design Engineering is the combination of different professional fields. On the one hand, engineering, with its technical and scientific foundation, as is the methodical process of design, dynamic and static computational analysis, the strength of materials, manufacturing processes, among others. On the other, human and social sciences and humanities, registered in the contextoeconómico-administrative, socio-political and cultural.
January 2007 - July 2012 Medellín, Colombia

Languages

Spanish (Native),
English (Fluent),
Chinese (Beginner),

Awards

STIDA

Second place in Industrial Design contest by Ministry of development in China

2016

Stratasys, Inc.

3D printer

2014

Parametric Technology Corporation

PTC Academic "Speaker Box challenge"

2011

Skills

CAD, CAM, CNC, Creative, Designer, Engineering, Illustrator, Industrial Design, Inflatable, Innovative Thinking, Problem Solving, Prototyping, Rendering, ROBOT, Toy, Toy Maker,