Jeehoon Shin

Industrial design professor

Professor of industrial design, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

Exterior designer and advanced designer, 2016–21, Changan Automobile European Designing Center, Torino, Italy

Product design expert, 2013–16, Midea Kitchen Appliances Division, Foshan/Suzhou, China
Main designer responsible for Midea's first upright product line up for US, UK, and Australian market. Collaborated closely with engineers from ideation to realization in developing world's first single motor swivel brush upright vacuum cleaner mechanism. In charge of two-bag type canister vacuum cleaners for Middle East market from 2D sketch to 3D modeling, rendering and production follow-up, ready for production. Completed various concept designs, including BLOC vacuum cleaner.

Product designer for Home Appliance Designer Department, 2006–10, LG Electronics, Seoul, Korea
Responsible for designing, managing production model VC6007LHAY, canister type vacuum cleaner for Korean/ Russian market from sketch, 30 modeling, physical model to production follow-up with both Changwon and Tianjin factories. Designed first LG brand production upright vacuum cleaner LUV200R for US market Co-worked with London based design studio V2 on advanced design projects. Trend research for European market, customer home visiting, Paris, France.

Service Planner, 2004–06, SK Communications, Seoul, Korea
Planned and launched new online information sharing service, "Mini Channel," SK Communications' initial web 2.0 service, grouping diverse individual web activities to form a tangible group flow of similar interest and experience.