The Team | Tiger Studio Design

Luciano Hernandez

President

BackgroundB.S. in Industrial Design from Western Michigan University
A.S. in Technical Illustration from Ferris State University
He has 27 years of design experience, 10 years of dedication to Tiger Studio. Luciano is an IDSA member.

FactsPassionate about making our world a better place through design. He enjoys leading a studio, people and coaching. He also enjoys relationships with clients, loves to have fun at work and bug team members. Luciano is also married to Janie and has two children.

Luciano Hernandez

Raquel Rosas

Brand Development

BackgroundA.S. in Business Management, Davenport University
Working toward a degree in Website Development, KVCC
Raquel started part-time at Tiger Studio in 2001 and worked her way up to a full-time position in 2005.

FactsRaquel is a U8 Girls Soccer coach and loves spending time with her three children. Some of the activities Raquel and her family enjoy are being active outside or playing the “Kinect” game indoors

Raquel Rosas

Jon Moroney

Industrial Design / Research

BackgroundB.S. in Industrial Design,Western Michigan University
M.B.A. in Marketing and Consumer Behavior, GVSU
Jon’s entire career has been spent gathering diverse experiences. He has had the pleasure of working with dynamic and unique companies of all types from fortune 500 corporations to small and medium manufactures and entrepreneurial start-ups.

FactsJon’s passion is thinking…and he often spends too much time enjoying his passion. He really likes to dig into the details and tries to imagine how solving for the small details will impact the big picture.

Jon Moroney

Rury Vizcarra

Industrial Design

BackgroundB.S. in Industrial Design, Western Michigan University
One of Rury’s strong points is compelling form development which he implements across several different product markets.

FactsRury is a young passionate designer who grew up in Chicago, Illinois and proud of his heritage. He comes from a family whose roots are from the tallest mountain peaks of the Mexican Sierra Madre.

Rury Vizcarra

Churu Yun

Industrial Design / User Interface Design

BackgroundBFA Industrial Design, Kendall College of Art and Design
At Tiger Studio, Churu is contributing his visual knowledge, skills and unmatched attention to detail to the design of next generation of Automotive UI and consumer electronics. Churu also has experience in concept design, interaction design, physical production of robots and interactive
exhibitions.

FactsWhen not designing robots, interfaces and products, Churu is either recording music, collaborating with local artists on experimental projects or involved in community projects such as TEDx Grand Rapids.

Churu Yun

Andrew Mansberger

User Interface Design

BackgroundHome schooled, KVCC, Seattle Film Institute
Andrew has been working with graphics/video/sound/multimedia applications for 18 years.

FactsAndrew once spent 45 days in Abu Dhabi, playing the same five songs at least four times a day. He spent so much time writing scripts and “code” that he has a hard time ending sentences without a semicolon. When he was 13 he could play every Nirvana song as a medley that ran sequentially through the order of the songs on each album, in the order that each album was released.

Andrew Mansberger

Yana Foltice

Brand Development / User Interface Design

BackgroundM.A. degree in Design, Urals State Academy of Architecture and Arts, Russia. (US Equivalence
M.A. degree in Graphic Design, B.A. degree in Design & Visual Communications) Yana has done everything from being an art director, graphic designer, illustrator, copy writer, photographer to copy editor.

FactsYana has been to a variety of countries such as Spain and the Canary Islands, Thailand, Italy, England, France, Malta, Cyprus and East Europe. She enjoys design, travel, painting, foreign languages, downhill skiing and photography.

Yana Foltice

Emily Ross

Brand Development

BackgroundB.S. in Graphic Design, Ferris State University
Emily has experience working in print and environmental graphic design.

FactsEmily loves to cook, watch Jeopardy, and spend time with her family any chance she can. She is excited to be a part of Tiger Studio and work on the Brand Development Team.

Emily Ross

Adam Sivins

User Interface Design

BackgroundBFA in Visual Communications from Kendall College of Art and Design

FactsAdam enjoys being nerdy. He worked while in college on Web development but largely as an After Effects animator and Media publisher. He did a short stint as a video editor, as well. Adam has taken a general interest in mobile devices and is becoming a handy developer of mobile applications. He likes love movies and music, enjoys cooking and is a generally a tidy person.

Adam Sivins

Lukasz Wieczorek

Brand Development / User Interface Design

Background B.A. in Graphic Design from Kendall College of art and Design.
Lukasz has 10 years experience in design.

Facts Lukasz always had an interest in design and started dabbling in it when he was about 13 and about the same time he started playing around with web design. Lukasz is very passionate about design and art in general and it’s always been in his blood since he was a kid. He was born in Poland and has lived in Italy as well. He received a degree in Recording Technology with a minor in Piano and enjoys writing music in his free time.

Lukasz Wieczorek