# Alex R.

> Innovation specialist Honeywell XD team

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexr1

## Work Experience
### Innovation design lead XD team Honeywell @ Honeywell
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | Fort Mill, South Carolina, United States
Innovation lead / individual contributor

### University Lecturer @ Iowa State University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Ames
As opposed to sharing "direct" knowledge, such as skills, specific materials or processes,
I want to share "indirect" information with designers, so as to help  individuals identify their own vocabulary and methodology in the field of design.

### Freelance Industrial Designer @ Self-Employed
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | everywhere

### Design Lead @ fuseproject
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019

### Airbnb Samara Studio @ Airbnb
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Design Manager @ NewDealDesign
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Designer @ Samsung Electronics
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016
Advanced concepts team

### Senior Industrial Designer @ LUNAR Design
Jan 2003 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco
For the last 8 years at Lunar,I have been exposed to all aspects of product development.Working with mechanical engineers, managment and direct contact with clients for the last 8 years has made me more than proficiant with all tools required in my profession, and exposed me to multiple theoretical aspects of product development.
Recently, I have been more concerned and interested in crafting what I call an "opinion" and personal methodology, based on material research and other experimentation, while documenting the process in a visual and digestible format. An idea, opinion or design
can take no more than 5 minutes to materialize in the midst of day-to-day activities involved in concept creation for a given project, while the rest of the effort can be focused on getting this "5 minutes concept" made. Documenting and sharing  this etherial and intangible aspect of the process and its results with clients and peers is my current challenge and interest.
In the end, the most valuable service I can provide is a well
informed, strong and clear opinion materialized in a visual format and story.

### Guest lecturer @ California College of the Arts
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | San Francisco Bay Area
Guest critique of current ID students work

### Guest lecturer @ Stanford University
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Palo Alto
I was invited multiple times to D school at Stanford to
give lectures on drawing methodology for professional designers


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design and Illustration
ArtCenter College of Design

### Industrial Design
ECAL


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alexrochat
- Portfolio: http://arochat.allyou.net/4721057/

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Last updated: 2026-04-13