• 20+ years of professional international experience in a design agency as a Lead designer across all aspects of the design process and User Experience analytics.
• 40+ designed and realized serial products in the railway industry.
• 1000+ passenger train cars built for public and private companies (Russian Railways, TransClassService, Grand Express, Kazakh Railways).
•  Design of complex industrial objects from design-research to production, including passenger trains, and transport interior components.
• Red Dot Design Award.
• Letter of gratitude from the Ministry of Transport of the Moscow Region for the contribution to the development of the industry.

Experience

Ippiart Studio | Tbilisi/Moscow
Co-Founder | 10/2010 – Present

• Design research, trend, and passenger request analytics.
• Design development from first layouts and concepts, CMF design to production.
• Work in close touch with industrial partners, coachbuilders, and suppliers to final clients such as national railways.
• Regular travel for business to meet partners and control design development and implementation on production plants.
• Supporting test rides with passengers and writing reports for refinements.
• Public presentation support and consulting, media communications.

Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts,
Transportation Design Department | Moscow
Associate Professor | 02/2016 – 12/2023

• Supervision of diplomas, course projects, and design competitions, teaching students the basics of design research and thinking, lecturing, and master classes.
• Organization and project management in collaboration with international companies (Renault, Lada, Mazda, Bertone Design, etc.).

Education

Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts | Moscow
PhD dissertation – Fine and Decorative-Applied Art and Architecture | 06/2013
Thesis – The origin and artistic-typological development of the palace architecture of Achaemenid Iran in the 6th–4th centuries BC.

Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts | Moscow
Postgraduate studies – Fine and Decorative-Applied Art and Architecture | 05/2010

Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts | Moscow
Specialist Degree – Interior Design | 05/2008