Sachin Mistry

Industrial Designer

Irvine, CA, USA
I'm an industrial designer with over 15 years experience working in corporate and consultancy environments. I specialize in concept ideation and illustrating ideas. I enjoy being curious and problem solving.

Work Experience

Sachin Mistry Design

Industrial Designer

I'm open towards offering my services. I specialize in sketching quick loose ideas, as well creating refined presentation level sketches. I also offer Solidworks 3D modeling and Keyshot rendering services. I've worked with Grayhill Electronics, Big Green Egg, Flameboss, Gembah, and many other companies.
September 2018 - Irvine, California, United States

Mixer Design Group

Senior Industrial Designer (contract)

Helped out an exciting multi-disciplinary design consultancy. Worked with engineers, UX/UI designers with designing various products primarily in the consumer electronic space. Clients include Garrett Metal Detectors, Intel, TMGCore and Dell.

Responsibilities include digital sketching, Solidworks 3D modeling and Keyshot rendering in design concept development. Collaborated with various prototypers and vendors in delivering labels and badges in a timely manner. Assisted with various research, as well as creating and conducting surveys to understand new markets.

Worked with UI/UX designers to gather a basic understanding of creating prototypes with AdobeXD and Figma.
August 2019 - November 2019 Austin, Texas, United States

Fahrenheit Design

Industrial design contractor

I'm currently helping out Fahrenheit design with concept ideation, Creo 3D modeling and Keyshot rendering work. We primarily focus on consumer electronics, with Dell being a major client.
November 2018 - Texas, United States

Dell

Industrial designer

Lead designer for Wyse 5070 slim and wide thin client computers. Developed specialized wall mounts, dual VESA mounts, E-series fixed stand monitor mounts and expandable behind-the-monitor mounts for Wyse 5070 computers. Worked with marketing, engineering and manufacturing groups to bring the ideas into mass production.

Assisted with the development of the next generation Dell design language. Contributed many ideas for desktops, all-in-ones and patterns through rapid ideation, Adobe creative suite, Creo 3D modeling and Keyshot rendering. Helped contribute to storytelling through digital storyboard sketching. Contributed to the development of the next generation of OptiPlex commercial desktops, Inspiron
gaming desktops, and the XPS high end desktops.

Worked with user experience engineers and product managers with refining the Dell Canvas drawing display. Recorded my digital sketching to find bugs within the system, so that we can create the best sketching experience.

Made research decks documenting Dell commercial desktop computers vs competitors. Compared form factors, price, performance and features. Disassembled and reassembled Dell and competitor desktops to create research decks looking at mechanical features and manufacturing techniques.

Helped the operations team by creating a guide assessing all the prototype vendors we use. Sent out a survey to the industrial design leads to gather information on the various strengths and weaknesses of each vendor.
September 2016 - September 2018 Texas, United States

AXIS Design

Industrial Designer

Industrial designer working at a design consultancy developing innovative designs in the consumer electronics and housewares fields. Clients include Dell, Nextivity, Novatel, Jarden Consumer Solutions and Snap-On Tools. Responsibilities include rapid ideation of ideas, refinement theme sketching, presentation layout and some Solidworks 3D modeling. Helped with the development of the Urbanist Cycling brand with contributing ideas, packaging design and organizing photoshoots. Organized the LooLedge Kickstarter campaign, from initial ideation, to brand development, storyboarding and video. Assisted with Axis Design's business development by creating a thorough database of potential clients.
April 2014 - June 2016 Round Rock, Texas, United States

Soulcake

Industrial Designer

Working as an industrial designer to help raise the profile of Soulcake within the Southern California design community. Responsibilities include creating presentation level sketches / technical drawings for clients, 3D rendering, brainstorming, sharing design techniques and insight with others. Worked with corporate and start up clients such as Cobra Golf, ZAGG/iFrogz, Verifone, Baxter, Altec Lansing and many others.
June 2010 - February 2014 California, United States

Concept Engineering

Industrial Designer

Contract industrial designer. Helped with design work for the Owens Corning Atticat insulation blower, accessories and other product offerings. Also assisted with the development of glass repair tradeshow exhibits for Belron US.
January 2010 - April 2010 Ohio, United States

Fitch

Industrial Designer

Industrial design consultant for SABIC Innovative plastics (formerly GE plastics). Responsible for creating designs for a variety of clientle ranging from the healthcare, electronics and appliance fields. Design solutions often involve collaboration with engineers in the use of the teardown process to learn about assembly and how innovative materials can be utilized within a product.
May 2007 - December 2008 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States

Education

Cleveland Institute Of Art

Bachelor of Fine Arts

August 2001 - May 2006 Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Skills

Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Alias Sketchbook, Alias Studiotools, Bunkspeed Shot, Digital Sketching, Ideation, Modelmaking, Modo, Photo Manipulation, ProEngineer, Prototyping, Sketching, Corel Painer,