Francisco Hernandez

Automated makeline for Chipotle & other restaurants.

Industrial Design to create a modular product that could be customized to different restaurants and keep a consistent visual language.

Work consisted of exterior design as well as interior component design and exploration to meet the stringent needs of a commercial kitchen.

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Sr. Industrial Designer at UBTECH North America Research and Development Center. Later became Futronics.

Member of the Hardware and Design group developing the next generation of service robots for the healthcare industry.

Work with R&D team, Engineering and Program Managers to research, design, and define autonomous robots.

Responsible for research, ideation, concept refinement & Solidworks (A & B Sides) models for prototyping.

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Metcal dual fume extractor. The BVX-250 is a portable, two-station filtration system for removing workplace fumes, smoke, dust, and vapors. With 99.97% efficiency HEPA 13 filtration, 30-second filter changes, and twice the suction power of previous models.

Industrial Design to address ergonomic enhancements and new unit architecture to allow users to change filters without pulling out unit or disassembling unit.

https://www.metcal.com/

The Innovative KRISS Super V System

The KRISS Super V Recoil Mitigation System uses an innovative nonlinear operating system that revectors energy down and away from the shooter’s shoulder to dramatically reduce felt recoil and muzzle climb. This system allows the shooter to recover faster, for quicker and more accurate sequential shots.

KRISS USA came to us with the purpose of improving the butt stock ergonomics and to design different models of the KRISS Vector line of weapons. The butt stock had to be adjustable and had to fold forward so we had to design the geometry in order to clear access to the handle and trigger and yet be comfortable during use and when folded.

Panasonic Avionics partnered with Encore Aerospace to design, prototype and showcase a conceptual yet manufacturable seat that would be centered around Panasonic’s In-Flight Entertainment Products

The seat offered an interchangeable monitor shroud to use any Panasonic monitor and an innovative drop down armrest that gave users a wider more comfortable back.

Custom aircraft interior design visualizations for Encore Aerospace.

Worked with Sales, Marketing & Engineering teams to design custom elements to retrofit & design new interiors. Created photo-realistic visualizations of Encore Aerospace’s Interior Products.

In charge of creating and modifying data in order to achieve desired results for Boeing & Airbus interiors.

Created custom materials & lighting for different views.

Conceptual galley designed for Encore Aerospace. We were tasked with exploring a modular G2 galley to offer airlines options as to what their customers saw as they entered the plane.

Prototype with a working monitor is on display at Boeing’s Design Center. The engaging display and high quality trim and finish continue to attract new airline customers to Encore Interiors.

I’ve created dozens if not hundreds of aircraft galley visualizations for EnCore Aerospace. Galleys vary from G1, G2 in front of the plane to custom G4’s in the back of the plane.

These renderings have been used for their website and promotional material but mainly for bid presentations in order to provide that extra visual for airline companies.

I’ve worked with their sales and engineering teams working with 3D CAD models, AutoCAD drawings and napkin sketches. A key aspect of working with these models is data management. These often have thousands of parts, hardware and polygon intensive geometry. Preparing these files for rendering is an art in itself.

Complete seat design for Zodiac Aerospace.

We were tasked to design a seat from the ground up keeping in mind all the potential aircraft the seat has to go in; from narrow body to wide body and from four across to six across.

We also had to keep in mind family styling for Economy to Business Class variations and how we could tailor selective parts to accommodate those needs.

Taylor Dunn, the leading provider of commercial & industrial vehicles, came to us with an interesting challenge. They were manufacturing the ET-3000 electric vehicle in Anaheim California and purchasing their assembled cab from Italy.

In order to reduce costs, lead times and uncertainty of shipping a partial vehicle overseas, they decided to manufacture the cab in-house as well.

They came to us to design the front fascia and bumper of the cab. It had to be durable and fit their cab structure design which transitioned from a flat surface to a curved windshield. We had to pay close attention to transitions and manufacturing methods. Both the front fascia and bumper are vacuum formed parts manufactured locally in Huntington Beach.

Overall the new vehicle was well received and we were asked to later design a wider version with the same styling.

In 2006 American Lawn Mower Co. launched their family of electric powered mowers under the Earthwise brand. A couple of years later we were contacted to improve the aesthetic look of their products.

Our tasks ranged from simple hood & component designs for their Earthwise brand, to complete OEM lawn mower designs under the Homelite brand.

Integrated a removalbe battery for the cordless version

Created and applied a visual aesthetic that worked for multiple models varying in size & type of power.

Vizio asked us to design their first Blu-Ray player. We had to design and have a working prototype within 3 months in order to show it at CES.

Afterwards we continued to work with them in the design of additional models for Best Buy, Costco, and other major retailers. We were also engaged in designing their remote control and initial HDMI cables.

Metcal came to us to design their first dual station portable fume extractor.

Close attention was placed at how the unit would be serviced/opened and transported.

Because of its size and weight we integrated the handles on the side of the unit at the same time hiding the exhaust vents.

Instead of using off-the-shelf latches we ended up deigning custom latches that integrated seamlessly into the design of the body.

Throughout the years we were involved in one way or another with the design of the Alcon Cataract Refractive Suite.

LensX: Concept design for body enclosure

Centurion Vision System: Trim & finish visualizations

ORA System with Verifeye+ Technology: Designed monitor enclosure as well as the V+V medical cart to improve ergonomics and component configuration.

Liquid Shade is a portable mister designed to be taken outside to provide cool relief from hot temperatures.

This was a start up company that came to us with a prototype with multiple manufacturing/assembly issues. We proceeded to change the internal component configuration and visual language.

Thermador Product Visualizations

Photo realistic renderings of Thermador’s Kitchen Appliance family of products. Responsible for rendering CAD database and compositing with selected kitchen environments to be used for catalogs & promotional material.

EnCore Aerospace asked me to visualize their future Design, Manufacture and Testing facilities for their new seat company, Lift.

Working from Architect drawings, existing building photos and product manuals for the Seat Testing Sled I had to create a 3D CAD model and several renderings highlighting the different areas of the proposed facilities. This was instrumental in getting Boeing on board during their supplier evaluation.

Fluidmaster came to us to incorporate their patented Click-Seal technology to a consumer grade garden hose.

Incorporating the technology aimed to provide feedback to know when the hose is and isn't tight enough. Its click seal technology clicks, just like the gas cap on your car, so you know it's sealed tight, no need to over-torque or wonder if it’s tight enough.

Listed on Patent # D 707,334

https://patents.justia.com/patent/D707334

ecco Personal Pocket GPS Locator is a keychain style handheld navigator that takes you back to a specific starting point--your car, campsite, hotel, trail, dock, house, etc.

Ultra-sensitive GPS searches up to 32 satellites within 60 seconds and triangulates the three best to lock in the starting point. The device then saves your location and when you are ready to go back to your car or location it displays distance and direction with a simple arrow guiding the user in real time

It store and instantly recalls up to three locations, with a distance of up to 9,999 miles.

We were involved in the design and development from the initial research to mock ups, presentations, packaging and manufacturing liaison services.

Osmetech, an international molecular diagnostics company, approached us to design their eSensor XT-8 molecular diagnostics platforms’ User Interface. The FDA-cleared device produces results in less than 30 minutes detecting multiple genetic markers from a prepared patient sample.

The Osmetech team consisted of about 5 people with different backgrounds/disciplines. The challenge was presenting several options addressing their multiple concerns and ultimately combining their feedback into a clean user interface that provides an easy-to-use graphical, touch screen interface & requires limited operator training.

The esenor XT-8 received a Medical Design Excellence Award for innovative device design in 2009.