Rohann Dorabjee

• As a 3D artist and a interaction designer, I have always shared my passion for innovative thinking and creating positive, engaging experiences through my work. With the recent advancements in the digital age, I primarily focused on user experience in immersive 3D experiences with virtual, augmented and mixed realities.

• Part of being involved both in the industry and academics, I have had the opportunity to work alongside with other academics and having the opportunity to teach some of the most impressive students out there! The essential skills that I have developed during my degree at the Design lab at University of Sydney, was being able to think and apply new strategies to further push existing prototypes.

Focus

• Interaction Design
• 3D Modelling
• VR Conceptualisation

Software - Skills

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  Snr Unity Developer - Designer

  University of Queensland - Faculty of Science

  1 year - ongoing

  
  

  In my role at the University of Queensland's Faculty of Science, I am responsible for the 3D implementation and interaction design for a web tool for university students.
  
  My work primarily focuses on developing real-time 3D visualizations for virtual science experiments, enhancing students' understanding and engagement with visual simulations. Leveraging my expertise in Unity and design principles, I contributed to the delivery of the functionality, usability and front end design.

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  Unity Developer and Graphics Designer

  USYD - Faculty of Science

  3 years

  
  

  As a Unity Developer and 3D Artist, I was instrumental in the design and creation of visuals, textures, shaders, and virtual models for a 3D WebGL project named Data Lab Generator.
  This online web tool, has been used by numerous students for bioscience assessments, significantly enriched the learning experience in the Biochemistry department.

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  Lecturer in Design

  University of Sydney

  2 years

  
  

  Courses: DECO3009 - Designing for Virtual Reality, Principles of Animation (DECO1017), 3D Modelling & Fabrication (DECO1008/DECO2008)
  Teaching students the fundamental principles of animation and motion design, to develop an understanding of the process involved in developing character, text and motion graphics based animation. In addition, teaching students how to use game engines such as Unity in DECO3009, creating prototypes for virtual headsets.

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  Associate lecturer

  Design Lab - University of Sydney

  4 years

  
  

  Courses: Principles of Animation (DECO1017), 3D Modelling & Fabrication (DECO1008/DECO2008)
  Teaching students the fundamental principles of animation and motion design, to develop an understanding of the process involved in developing character, text and motion graphics based animation.

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  Lead UI UX Designer

  Urban Housing Lab - University of Sydney

  2 years

  
  

  Designing and developing an online platform for researchers and scholars to publish their publications, news feed and personal profiles.

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  3D User Experience Designer

  Van Den Berg Design Team

  6 months

  
  

  Recent involvements included Augmented reality experiences on mobile devices for clients.
  - Low topology modelling for AR experience
  - Animation for user experience

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  Tutor and Demonstrator

  University of Sydney

  2 years 7 months

  
  

  Sessional Lecturer and tutor for Principles of Animation (DECO1017), Animation and Motion Design (DECO3006) at the University of Sydney.
  Main focus was to introduce the fundamental principles of the animation process, to develop an understanding of the process involved in developing character, text and motion graphics based animation, and to develop an understanding of the integration between 2D artwork and 3D composition.

Mixed Realities Workshop - Co-Facilitator

Sydney Design Festival 2016

2 session workshop

Workshop participants will learn about current trends, interaction design challenges of VR apps, create Google VR Cardboards and use them to experience VR environments using 360 cameras.

Virtual and Augmented Reality Workshop - Facilitator

Life @ Sydney - Design Lab

2 day workshops - 2015 - 2016

This session involves a number of hands-on activities, in which participants were be able to design digital products, also presenting them with new tech, such as the Oculus Rift VR headset.

Bachelor of Design Computing (Honours) First Class

University of Sydney

2012 - 2016

Workshop participants will learn about current trends, interaction design challenges of VR apps, create Google VR Cardboards and use them to experience VR environments using 360 cameras.

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NZQA Achievement with Merit

Pakuranga College

2006 - 2010

This session involves a number of hands-on activities, in which participants were be able to design digital products, also presenting them with new tech, such as the Oculus Rift VR headset.

Hanley Wang

"Rohann has a very strong design process which is evident in his final products. Combined with his consistent progress checks and consideration of clients, and target audience - he produces highly polished works."

Technologist at Google Creative Lab

Martin Tomitsch

"I have known Rohann Dorabjee in my capacity as Lecturer and Program Director for the Bachelor of Design Computing since 2013. Rohann undertook the Interaction Design Studio which I taught in 2013. He immediately stood out from the rest of the class for his eagerness to learn, his willingness to help others, and his polite and welcoming character. His academic achievements were equally outstanding. His marks in the two final studios in his 3rd year were 93/100 in Semester 1 (Information Visualisation Studio) and 95/100 in Semester 2 (Human-­Experience Studio), placing him within the top 5% of students in his year.

While still being a student in his 3rd year, Rohann was offered a teaching role in our 3D Modelling unit, which is testament to his level of knowledge as well as his ability to convey this knowledge to others. He continues to teach for us until today, taking on a lead role in our Animation and Motion Design unit. Students praise him as being one of the best and most engaging lecturers in our program. Listening to Rohann delivering a lecture feels a bit like sitting in a movie at the cinema.

Equally he is greatly respected by his peers and greatly appreciated by all my colleagues. No matter who you talk to, everyone gives glowing reports about his performance and character."

Head of Design & Chair of the Design Lab

Nikash Singh

"To no one’s surprise the year after, Rohann was invited to complete an Honours year to distinguish his exceptional achievement with a research project of his own invention. It cannot be said with enough emphasis that Rohann single-handedly established a new culture in enigmatic and eminent presentation at the Design Lab by exceeding expectations in delivering his probation presentation. To this day it is considered the gold standard of quality in presentation and is regularly cited as the measure of unparalleled effort demonstrated by any student to exhibit their work engagingly. Anecdotally, many students and Lecturers alike since have referred to it as “Rohann’s TED talk”. He garnished his noteworthy undergraduate accomplishments by achieving Honours: First class.

More recently I have come to consider Rohann a capable peer and colleague rather than a former student. He has consolidated his scholastic achievements by publishing in reputable peer-reviewed academic conferences in the HCI community. He has developed a prototype that utilises the best in emerging technologies and tantalises us with the future of Human machine interaction, in a self-taught and independent manner that - it must be said - demonstrates his ability to learn rapidly and span the creative-technical divide with ease. And as a final flourish, I hear on a regular basis that my enthusiasm in teaching has been met and even surpassed by Rohann’s infectious love of what he does.

Senior UX Consultant at Commonwealth Bank