Nitin Gurram

As an innovator, I love to create things that have never existed before. I enjoy the delightful process of blending my mechanical engineering and healthcare knowledge with an industrial design skill set to make useful and meaningful products.

To me, designing is a responsible creation of useful things

I hail from the southern part of India and now reside in The Netherlands. I received a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from VIT University in India. After working for two years as a Product Design Engineer, I moved to The Netherlands to pursue my master’s in Industrial Design at TU Delft.

I graduated with an MSc in Integrated Product Design with a specialization in medisign. I am currently looking for opportunities to make a valuable impact in healthcare by making products more efficient and accessible.

Ambitious and Inventive

A great zeal for invention to improve the way we live has pushed me towards new endeavors in my life. The genuine aesthetic forms inspired by functionality and the technical aspects of manufacturing help me design to improve the health and lifestyle of people. I have a flair for ideas and an aptitude to work on each stage of the process that brings a design to life. In my previous roles, I had multiple opportunities to work on some of the most innovative products in consumer electronics and healthcare. Starting from the conceptual stage, I solely developed a few of the products through sketching, product architecture, CAD, analysis, prototyping, testing, until the tooling phase. Some of these products are now available in the market and it gives me a great deal of satisfaction to have been a part of their journey.

Experience

Industrial Designer, Laerdal Medical

Working on the development of an advanced birthing simulator to help healthcare professionals train midwifery and obstetric students. Working closely with Prpduct managers in conducting user research and translating user requirements into feasible concepts for the development team. Additionally, taking intitives for establishing the Design Language of the simulator, which contributed to the company’s overall design guidelines for human-like products.

Also, worked on introducing Mixed Reality as a new training modality for the birth simulator, conducting thorough research on the technology, user acceptance, and finding the best applications to complement the physical manikin. This was a unique opportunity to contribute to the company’s portfolio, as it was their first time offering a Mixed Reality solution.

Feb 2021 – Present

Industrial Designer, Manus VR

Developing some of the best ways to track the intrinsic and extrinsic muscle movements of hand for Motion Capture and Virtual Reality

Nov 2019 – Jan 2021
14 Months

Graduate Student, Zimmer Biomet

Concept to End development of a training simulator for Oxford Partial Knee Replacement surgery

March 2019 – Aug 2019
6 Months

Disruptive Innovator, Unilever R&D

Conceptualizing and prototyping plant-based dressings for the millennials on the brand of Hellmann’s .

Sep 2018 – Feb 2019
6 Months

Design Intern, University Medical Center, Amsterdam

Improving the patient journey and developing a toolbox for patient journey at pediatric department.

Jul 2018 – Sep 2018
3 Months

Design Intern, Critical Alarms Lab

Realizing the silent ICU concept by developing a working prototype of a silent patient monitor, Ultimo.

Jul 2018 – Sep 2018
3 Months

Product Design Engineer, Invent India Innovations

Working on the Engineering Detailing & prototype Release of various design projects ranging from Point of Sales Devices, Consumer Electronics, Security Devices, FMCG, Smart Devices, Baby products, Medical devices to mention just a few.

Jul 2015 – Jul 2017
2 Years

Aisquare Technologies Pvt. Ltd

Lead – Product Design and Development

I was one of the founders of AISQUARE, and had the responsibility of leading the product design & development team. I developed a GSM based agricultural controller from end to end and. conceptualized a ‘Customizable Touch Keypad’ with multi-level haptic feedback.

Dec 2013 – May 2014
6 Months