About Domenique van Gennip

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I’m a Dutch-Australian product and UX designer living in Sydney, Australia.

With a background in engineering design and user experience, my interests are in the design and delivery of interactive systems and services, with those who use them, and guiding people to be human-centred in their design process. I love technical challenges and finding user-centred solutions.

Current availability

I’m currently the Lead Product Engineer at Nexport, working on building better electric buses. However, I’m open to new opportunities.

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Curriculum Vitae

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Skills overview

  • Strong creative, engineering, and research skills that enable me to scope, design, and develop novel ideas in software and hardware.
  • Exceptional written, visual and oral abilities to communicate effectively in English and Dutch.
  • Effective design and project management skills for innovative projects, including:
  • 13+ years of design and research experience in executing:
    • new product development and UX research, with a focus on emerging digital technology;
    • user-centred research methods to support development of interactive products, systems, and services (including interviews, diary studies, user flows, journey maps, etc.);
    • sketching, prototyping, and 3D animation to explore and convey design solutions.
  • 8+ years of university teaching experience on design and user research topics.
  • Proficient in CAD and digital design tools including SolidWorks, Blender, and Adobe CC.
  • Software development in HTML, CSS, JS, and python.
  • Adept at utilising documentation and project management tools (such as Confluence, JIRA, Asana) to track progress and foster collaboration across teams.
Overview of skills applied in projects

Notable training and certificates

  • 2024 Certified fire warden (1 day)
  • 2022 Solidworks, Introduction to CAD Modelling (4 days)
  • 2021 Project Management for Researchers (4 days, via UNSW)
  • 2021 Supervising Doctoral Studies (2 days, UNSW Graduate School)
  • 2021 Masterclass on Creative Leadership & Collaboration (5 days, TwoCollaborate)
  • 2019 Course Design Institute (5 days, UNSW Engineering)
  • 2017 ILM screen presenting (1 day, via UTS)
  • 2015 Innovation and Creative Intelligence Labs Series 5 (2 days, via UTS:ICI)
  • 2014 InSPIRE Graduate School (5 days, via UTS Graduate School)

Timeline of my life

  • 2024----- Lead Product Engineer at Nexport
  • 2022-2024 Industrial Design Engineer at Nexport
  • 2020----- Daughter Maya born
  • 2019-2022 Lecturer at UNSW Design Next
  • 2018-2019 Research Fellow at University of Technology Sydney
  • 2018----- Got married
  • 2013-2019 Casual academic at University of Technology Sydney
  • 2013-2018 PhD candidate (joint degree) at University of Technology Sydney and Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)
  • 2013----- Moved to Australia
  • 2011----- Exchange semester in Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2010-2012 MSc Human-Technology Interaction at Eindhoven University of Technology (NL). Graduated with high disctinction (cum laude)
  • 2006----- Exchange semester in Singapore
  • 2003-2010 BSc Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)
  • 2002-2010 Activity guide at Indoor Fun Centre Breda
  • 1997-2003 Secondary school, VWO, Mencia de Mendoza Lyceum
  • 1989-1997 Primary school, De Werft
  • 1984----- Born in Breda, the Netherlands