Enric Gili Fort | Institute of Design

Education	Institute of Design (ID), Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Chicago Master of Design, Design Planning, Spring 2007 Graduated with Honors Awarded with Nathan Fellowship Relevant Coursework: Strategic Design Planning, Design Analysis, User research, Human Factors, Communication Planning. Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain Master’s Degree in Interaction Design, 2001 Elisava Escola de Disseny, Barcelona, Spain. Bachelor of Fine Arts in Industrial Design, 2000
Experience	Design Services Team (DST) - Office of the CEO. SAP Labs, Palo Alto, CA. USA Senior Strategic Design Consultant, 2006 - Present Worked on the product definition of the next SAP flagship product doing research, using analysis tools to find out insights and develop design criteria. In addition, organized and facilitated internal workshops demonstrating design methods and frameworks to fellow employees. V2_Lab Institute for the Unstable Media, www.v2.nl Rotterdam, The Netherlands. User experience designer and Researcher, 2002 - 2004 Worked as lead User Experience designer in one of the leading media labs in Europe applying user-centered design methods to the development of multimedia interactive works. Conducted research on 3D search environments, virtual communities, digital archives and networked applications in the context of European-wide projects. Publicly presented live digital works at the Technology Fair of Utrech and at the Amsterdam ‘e-Culture Fair’ and was invited as respondent in the ‘Digital Werk’ seminar. Herraiz & Soto + CSSWG, Barcelona, Spain Interactive Media Creative lead, 2005 Led and developed an ‘advergaming’ project for an on-line advertising campaign for Mahou and Real Madrid CF. Managed design development team, developed creative strategy and incorporated basic Artificial Intelligence (AI) principles applied to agents and entities. Entertraining Company, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Interaction and visual designer, 2001 Led multidisciplinary User Experience team that designed a wide range of interactive and webbased applications related to e-learning, corporate intranets and websites for nationwide Dutch firms like Elsevier and Verenigde Tankrederij.
Publications and Awards	Book “Media House Project” Actar Ed. Barcelona, 2000 Published media research project “DomOS“ (6 pages) which investigated new ways on how virtual and physical objects could be linked and managed by users in the context of domotics and in the scenario of a networked house of the future. EUROPAN - European Federation of Architectural Competitions 1st Prize Award among +2000 participants in the 7th EUROPAN biannual Competition “The suburban challenge”, 2003 Teaming with 3 European architects, conducted both on-site field user research and secondary research, and envisioned strategies and solutions to address the challenge of developing new sustainable suburban areas in fast growing European cities.
Teaching	Kellogg School of Management, Chicago \| University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Workshop Co-author and Facilitator, 2006 Co-authored and facilitated a workshop created to help participants immerse themselves in Emerging Markets and generate valid offerings and profitable business models. Piet Zwart Institute. Willem de Kooning Academy. Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Project tutor at the Media Design Master Program, 2003 Provided methodology and tutored students in the development of an interactive project aimed at reinforcing the identity of a multiethnic area in Rotterdam by providing them a virtual platform to interact, cooperate and build relationships among them. Escola Elisava de Disseny. Barcelona, Spain. Guest teacher at the Interface Design Master Program, 2004 Taught methodology and interaction design development processes to be applied later by students in their final master thesis. IIT Institute of Design - IIlinois Institute of Technology, Chicago Teaching Assistant at the Master of Design, 2006 -2007 Assisted students in both a Product Workshop class sponsored by Honeywell (spring 2007) and in the Structured Planning class taught by Charles L. Owen (fall 2006).
Skills & Capabilities	Design ∙ Truly multidisciplinary design thinking ∙ Focus on design and business value ∙ Holistic approach to problem solving ∙ Sharp analysis and insight generation ∙ Leadership and team collaboration Interests Networked communities, Information Technologies, Emerging Markets and BOP, Sociocultural Trends, Globalization, Sustainable Business and Contemporary Culture. Languages fluent in English, Spanish and Catalan. Some familiarity with Dutch and French. Software Communication tools: Photoshop, Visio, InDesign, Microsoft Office, Illustrator Interactive Media authoring tools: Object-Oriented Programming, HTML + CSS, Flash, Director + Lingo