Muñiz-Rivera, Gerardo

- 5 years and a half as Industrial Design Director in the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey. - 5 years as Director of the Industrial Design and Product Innovation Master´s Program at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey. - More than 15 years of experience in innovation and development of new products and services in the industry and academia. - More than 15 years of experience in the Industrial Design field, Usability, and Rapid Prototyping in the industry and academia. - Solid experience in the following fields of innovation and new products and services developing processes: Triple Diamond Innovation Process and its Tools (Breakthrough Innovation), Systematic Innovative Thought, New Products and Services Developing Process from Customer to Customer, Innovation Projects Portfolio Management, Design Thinking and Innovation Business Models. - Solid experience in the following fields of Design and Marketing: Development of laboratories for virtual and physical rapid prototyping of high definition. Development of visual brand languages strategies. Brand Architectures. Development of tools to improve innovation in perceived quality, usability, and craftsmanship in the development of new products and services from ideation to launch to the market. Customer market research, Ethnographic Studies, Voice of Customer. - Solid experience in the following technical fields: Development of standardized household product testing laboratories (mechanical, thermal, fluids, vibration, and acoustic tests). Finite element analysis of mechanical, thermal, fluids, and electromagnetic systems. Protection of intellectual property (Trademarks, designs, patents). Implementation of Quality and Safety systems (ISO & OSHAS). - Solid experience in project management and leadership. Professional focused in extraordinary results, and promoter of change, with high level of leadership, high focus on final consumer, proven management skills, high levels of communication with people to create great place to work environments, attractor and developer of talents.