Rick Rundell

Rick Rundell

Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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I am an agile high-tech product, marketing and business development professional focused…

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Education

  •  Graphic

    commendation for academic and design excellence

    • Appointed Teaching Fellow in Visual and Environmental Studies Department
    • Appointed Resident Tutor in Art and Architecture for undergraduate Cabot House
    • Awarded Josephine de Karman Fellowship for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
    • Thesis and studio work used in several exhibitions and catalogs

  • magna cum laude

    • Foreign study program in Art History in Italy
    • 3 varsity letters in Fencing

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    • Fundamentals of Innovation through Human-Centered Design, LUMA Institute, 2016 (2 days)
    • Situational Leadership, 2013 (2 days)
    • Autodesk Business Leadership Experience, 2011 (4 days)
    • Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Financial Analysis for Senior Executives, 2007 (4 days)
    • Harvard Business School, Marketing Innovative Technologies, 2004 (4 days)
    • Target Account Selling, 2003 (3 days)

Volunteer Experience

  • Member, Greenway Public Art Advisory Group

    Member, Greenway Public Art Advisory Group

    Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy

    - Present 7 years 5 months

    Arts and Culture

    The Greenway Public Art Advisory Group, meeting quarterly, advises and supports the Public Art Curator in the strategy and selection of public art for the Greenway. Members serve a three-year term on the roughly nine-person committee. More at https://www.rosekennedygreenway.org/GPAAG

  • Member, Lincoln Cultural Council

    Town of Lincoln, MA

    Arts and Culture

    The Lincoln Cultural Council (LCC) promotes and supports community events and individual artists’ endeavors. There is a special emphasis on providing grants to programs that, in aggregate, represent a diverse cross-section of activities that appeal to across demographics.

  • Judge and Startup Mentor

    Judge and Startup Mentor

    MassChallenge

    - 9 years 1 month

  • Team Member

    Team Member

    MASS Design Group

    - 3 months

    Autodesk provides a six-week sabbatical for every four years of service. I took my six weeks as an "Impact Sabbatical", volunteering with MASS, a non-profit architecture firm in Boston effecting social change through the design and building process. Working from their Boston office, I conducted research into development organizations and sanitation technologies for informal urban settlements in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; developed schedule and budget tools for a project under construction in the…

    Autodesk provides a six-week sabbatical for every four years of service. I took my six weeks as an "Impact Sabbatical", volunteering with MASS, a non-profit architecture firm in Boston effecting social change through the design and building process. Working from their Boston office, I conducted research into development organizations and sanitation technologies for informal urban settlements in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; developed schedule and budget tools for a project under construction in the Democratic Republic of Congo; and advised on management, business development and marketing.

  • Elected Member, Lincoln Planning Board

    Town of Lincoln, MA

    - 7 years 6 months

  • Chair and Member of Advisory Board ("Board of Visitors")

    Chair and Member of Advisory Board ("Board of Visitors")

    Western Reserve Academy

    - 12 years

    Education

    The Western Reserve Academy (http://www.wra.net) Board of Visitors is appointed by the Board of Trustees to address specific strategic issues for the school. The visitors spend one three-day “strategic retreat” on campus per year to collect data and make recommendations on selected issues. I co-chaired this group for four years starting in my second year on the board. My co-chair and I selected topics with the headmaster and trustees, organized the agenda for the retreat, facilitated…

    The Western Reserve Academy (http://www.wra.net) Board of Visitors is appointed by the Board of Trustees to address specific strategic issues for the school. The visitors spend one three-day “strategic retreat” on campus per year to collect data and make recommendations on selected issues. I co-chaired this group for four years starting in my second year on the board. My co-chair and I selected topics with the headmaster and trustees, organized the agenda for the retreat, facilitated interviews, meetings and discussions, and wrote and presented the final report. Many of our recommendations on technology, athletics, curriculum, advising, and the boarding experience were implemented in the years following. I stepped down as co-chair in 2005, but remained actively involved as a member through 2012.

  • Construction Volunteer

    Construction Volunteer

    Habitat for Humanity International

    - 1 month

    Poverty Alleviation

Licenses & Certifications

Publications

Projects

  • Speaker on Technology, Startups and Innovation

    Frequent presenter and panel member on innovation, startups, and building-industry technology. These are my recent appearances. Looking for a speaker on any of these topics? Please get in touch.

    • “Notes on Research and Innovation”, MIT IDM Seminar, Sep 2022
    • “Robotics in Construction: Innovation to Implementation”, MassRobotics, May 2022
    • “Autodesk Technology Centers: Practical Innovation”, Perkins & Will Innovation Day, Oct 2021
    • “Purposeful Innovation: Research at…

    Frequent presenter and panel member on innovation, startups, and building-industry technology. These are my recent appearances. Looking for a speaker on any of these topics? Please get in touch.

    • “Notes on Research and Innovation”, MIT IDM Seminar, Sep 2022
    • “Robotics in Construction: Innovation to Implementation”, MassRobotics, May 2022
    • “Autodesk Technology Centers: Practical Innovation”, Perkins & Will Innovation Day, Oct 2021
    • “Purposeful Innovation: Research at Autodesk”, AEC Futures Symposium, Jun 2019
    • “Autodesk Technology Centers: Why What and How”, Autodesk TechX, May 2018
    • “Design to Make: The Autodesk Boston BUILD Space”, Autodesk University, Nov 2017
    • “Making a Maker Space for the Innovation District” EPAM Continuum Resonance Test 6, Feb 2017
    • “Influx Case Study: Autodesk comes to Boston”, Xconomy Influx, June 2016,
    • “BUILDing the Future in Boston’s New Digital Fabrication Lab”, Autodesk Technical Summit (internal), May 2016
    • “Building a Startup Environment In-House: Corporate Goes Agile” (panelist), Front End of Innovation Conference, May 2016
    • “Tech Trends in Construction: Reality computing, digital fabrication and design robotics”, Construction Institute Visionaries Forum, April 2016
    • “IDB Ideas: The Future of Making Things” (panel moderator), Boston Design Week event, April 2016
    • “Tech Trends in Design: Reality computing, digital fabrication and design robotics”, MIT International Design Center, March 2016
    • “Tech Trends in Design: Reality computing, digital fabrication and design robotics”, Yale CEID, February 2016
    • “Innovation Engagement and the Autodesk BUILD Experience”, Autodesk X Summit (Experience Design, internal), October 2015
    • “Tech Trends in Design: What’s next?”, 20x20xDesign for Boston Design Week at the Boston Design Center, October 2015
    • “Art and the City: Janet Echelman Discusses Cross-disciplinary Collaboration” (panelist), Harvard Graduate School of Design, September 2015

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