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Peter Fossick

Peter Fossick

Innovation Strategist, Service Design, UIX, Digital Media, Product Design, ...

Maidenhead, United Kingdom

I am an innovation consultant, designer and academic with extensive experience of developing innovative products, services and digital media working in a wide range of sectors...Read moreI am an innovation consultant, designer and academic with extensive experience of developing innovative products, services and digital media working in a wide range of sectors with leading global corporations and SMEs.
I founded FACTOTUM to provide integrated design strategies that enable a business to innovate and add value to its brand by developing engaging services and creating memorable experiences.
As an academic I have worked on new and ground breaking undergraduate and postgraduate design curriculum in the UK, SE Asia and the USA.
As an author, I have completed my first fiction novel 'The Age of Aquarius'. I am now writing a prequel; 'Year of the Snake'.
As a photographer and writer I undertake features for magazines.
I also undertake engagements for speaking and motivational workshops.
Innovation Strategies
Lateral Thinking
Creativity
Psycho-Demographic Profiling
Focus Group Research and Analysis
Usability Assessments
Software Prototyping and Coding
Product Design
Service Design
Interaction Design
Web Solutions
Branding
Corporate Communications
Marketing Strategies
Asset Creation
Project Management
Business Innovation

Area Covered: MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM
Industry: Design


Work Experience
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Job Title: Director
Company: Factotum Design - Media - Innovation
Description: Factotum is an agency specializing in design and innovation, developing new services, interactions, communications and products. We focus on building services and energizing brands with acute business acumen.
We provide - contextual and ethnographic research, psycho-demographic profiling of customers and market research. We base innovation around brand portfolio development. We provide product design, web and app design, service design, interaction design and communication design.
Factotum develops innovation strategies for companies leading to high impact commercial products, services and new media solutions that offer outstanding returns on investment for S.M.E.s and large corporations.
Sector experience includes; Banking and Finance, Consumer Products, Automotive, Information Technology (Hardware and Software), Retail, Fast-Food, Mobile Telecoms, Entertainment and Leisure, Education (Traditional and e-Learning), Furniture, Web, B2B and C2B.
From:01/Jan/1995

Job Title: Innovation Strategist
Company: Fulcrum Collaborative
Description: Innovation strategy development to aid companies develop new product platforms and services.
Worked with Fulcrum on developing the business in the USA during its early stages.
From:01/Jan/2009 To:01/Jun/2010

Job Title: Professor and Director of Collaborative Learning
Company: Savannah College of Art and Design
Description: Director for the Center for Collaborative Learning. The CCL at SCAD facilitated industry, business and leading figures in the creative and cultural industries working with SCAD in an immersive learning context to aid students understand professional issues in their chosen fields of study.
Coordinator of the MFA in Industrial Design
Developed, led and successfully gained accreditation for the first MFA and BFA in Service Design in the USA.
Developed an international study aboard program in Hong Kong and China leading to internships for senior students.
Taught a range of classes at UG and PG level including Senior Studio in Industrial Design, Interaction Design, Service Design, Entrepreneurship for Designers, Introduction to Industrial Design and many more.
From:01/Aug/2007 To:01/May/2010

Job Title: Business Development Manager and Course Leader
Company: Middlesex University
Description: Course Leader for the MDes in Product Design, Innovation and Management
Business Development Manager for Product Design Engineering
From:01/Sep/2003 To:01/Aug/2007

Job Title: Course Leader and Senior Lecturer
Company: Vocational Training Council
Description: Responsible for lecturing in a variety of subjects relating to product design, design theory and practice as well as interaction design and design for the web. Course leader responsible for managing faculty, academic planning and course development.
From:01/Sep/1995 To:01/Jan/2001

Job Title: Lecturer
Company: Glasgow School of Art
Description: Taught a range of classes in product design.
Facilitated an international study abroad program to the West Coast of America.
Developed relationships with external partners.
Researched emergent issues in interaction design and products as platforms and touchpoints in service architectures.
From:01/Jul/1992 To:01/Aug/1994

Job Title: Director and Founder
Company: Sense Design
Description: Design + Manufacturer
Sense provided design and manufacturing services with a focus on furniture and lighting. Sense provided highly specialized fabrication services working in metals (ferrous and non-ferrous), quality timbers, formed plywoods and veneers.
We provided industrial and furniture design services.
We created one-off and batch items of high-end furniture and
brought our own range of designs to market and exported to the USA, Europe and Japan.
From:01/May/1990 To:01/Sep/1992

Job Title: Studio Manager
Company: Andre Dubreuil
Description: I was responsible for organizing and leading a busy studio and workshop of skilled crafts-people making the designs of Andre Dubreuil, one of the world's leading designers of furniture and object d'art.
From:01/Jun/1988 To:01/Jul/1990



Education
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Degree: MSc
Field of Study: Computer Aided Engineering Design
University / College: University of Strathclyde
From:01/Jan/1993 To:01/Jan/1994

Degree: BA(Hons)
Field of Study: Industrial Design
University / College: The University of Manchester
From:01/Jan/1985 To:01/Jan/1988

Degree: BFA
Field of Study: Industrial Design
University / College: E.N.S.C.I. - Les Ateliers
From:01/Jan/1987 To:01/Jan/1987

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