Tell us who you are in one sentence.

I am an Industrial Designer who thrives in new & old techniques of fabricating just about anything.

If you weren’t a designer, what would you do?

If I wasn’t a designer I would be a teacher. I love seeking new tasks and obstacles. Life is all about ironies, when a teacher is there to teach the students but in the end of the day, everyone learns from each other. Fortunately, I am a designer and I love what I do, from the hair pulling research and ideation stage to the rapid prototyping stage and to the final fabricating stage, I love it all.

What is something you wished you designed, either because you love it, or because you feel you could have done it better?

I love to travel, I love everything about it, from the moment I plan the getaway to the moment I pack to the moment I sit down in my seat of the airplane. After the first hour I would say, I start getting so uncomfortable in my seat that I start designing my own seat, this is the case every time I fly.

What was your biggest design mistake?

I jump too quickly into solving problems, for example I would always try to solve world hunger. My first semester in my senior year of design school, I designed something so complicating for the poor in Dominican Republic, I was way over my head. My good intentions are always there but sometimes I need to take a breather and really take my time in the beginning instead of getting a rush of ideas.

What advice would you give someone entering the design field?

In design it is truly easy to lose motivation just because you see someone else’s work and think that theirs is way better than what you could ever have designed but you need to use that feeling towards motivating yourself to making yours better. If you find something that you designed has already been designed, just make yours better.