Alexander Troitzsch

Angestellt, Director of Product Design, Optum
Atlanta, United States of America

Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse

Leadership
Design Planning
Ethnographic Research
Design Strategy
Business Design
Account Management
Project Management
Branding
Product Design
Service Design

Werdegang

Berufserfahrung von Alexander Troitzsch

  • Current 9 years and 2 months, since Apr 2017

    Director of Product Design

    Optum

  • Current 12 years and 2 months, since Apr 2014

    Associate Director of Research & Strategy

    THRIVE

    Heading up the Research & Strategy Department at THRIVE in Atlana, GA.

  • 3 years and 3 months, Jan 2011 - Mar 2014

    Senior Design Strategist

    RKS design

    Project work for international clients across industries (CPG, CE, Healthcare, IT). Responsibilities include: ethnographic research, data analysis and synthesis, strategy development, concept development and evaluation, workshop facilitation, project management.

  • 1 year, Jan 2010 - Dec 2010

    Design Strategist

    Toca

    User Experience Design and concept development for a visual market intelligence platform and several mobile phone apps.

  • 1 month, Jul 2010 - Jul 2010

    Adjunct Faculty

    CEDIM

    Taught Design Research and Strategy at CEDIM, a leading design school in Monterrey/Mexico

  • 4 months, Jan 2010 - Apr 2010

    Research Associate

    Conifer Research

    Ethnographic research, research analysis and opportunity definition in the area of healthcare and health insurance.

  • 7 months, Jun 2009 - Dec 2009

    Design Strategist

    Business Innovation Factory

    At the Business Innovation Factory I co-led a LUMINA funded project on how to improve student experience in the US and helped to establish the student experience lab within the organization.

  • 7 months, Jun 2008 - Dec 2008

    Research Associate

    SAP

    During my last semester at the IIT Institute of Design I led a research initiative about Innovation Performance Assessment in large organizations in close collaboration with the Design Services Team at SAP (Office of the CEO).

  • 3 months, Jun 2007 - Aug 2007

    Design Strategy Intern

    SAP Labs/Palo Alto - Design Services Team - Office of the CEO

    Summer internship at the Design Services Team (Office of the CEO). Created use case scenarios and an ontology for a semantic networks based social network and helped to facilitate various design thinking workshops.

  • 6 months, Apr 2006 - Sep 2006

    System Designer

    iViews - Business Semantics

    Developed system concept, business model and prototypes for a semantic networks based knowledge management system. The system enables large organizations to archive, correlate and search knowledge related to people, companies, products, trends, strategy and methodology in a smart and structured manner. The prototype lead to a commercial knowledge management application.

  • 5 months, Oct 2004 - Feb 2005

    Trend Research Intern

    Trendbüro - Consultancy for Social Change

    Secondary research, pattern and trend identification, future scenario creation from a marketing and branding perspective.

  • 11 months, Apr 2003 - Feb 2004

    Researcher/Sound Designer

    Fraunhofer Institute - IGD - Virtual Reality Department

    Developed sound design for virtual reality exhibits and analyzed e-learning applications and games.

  • 4 years and 6 months, Jan 1998 - Jun 2002

    Music Producer

    I/O Music

    Managed music production studio specialized in recording, sound design and mastering. Project work for ad agencies, TV and radio.

  • 10 years and 6 months, Jan 1992 - Jun 2002

    DJ

    Mark NRG

    DJ career with gigs in Europe, US, Asia, Australia. Written, recorded and released dozens of successful club tunes for various record labels in Germany, Spain, US and UK.

Ausbildung von Alexander Troitzsch

  • 2 years, Jan 2007 - Dec 2008

    Design

    IIT Institute of Design, Chicago

    design planning, strategic design

  • 4 years and 1 month, Jul 2002 - Jul 2006

    Media System Design

    University of Applied Sciences/ Darmstadt

    economics, programming, design, project management

Sprachen

  • German

  • English

  • French

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