Meet the Simply Rhino Training Team

Phil is an experienced product designer who has overseen hundreds of designs from concept to production. He has been working with Simply Rhino for over fourteen years and is responsible for advanced Rhino 3D training and bespoke Rhino workflows for customers.

Phil is also a V-Ray and T-Splines trainer. He has trained many leading creative and engineering businesses including Foster and Partners, HOK, Mothercare, Samsung plus academic institutions including the Royal College of Art and Central St Martins.

Training Focus

• Advanced Modelling and Surfacing
• Rhino in Product Design
• Rhino in Furniture Design
• Rhino for Architectural Design
• Rhino for 3D Print
• SubD Modelling in Rhino
• Reverse Engineering workflows with Rhino
• Tailored Project Specific Modelling
• V-Ray for Rhino
• KeyShot

Phil also delivers the Scheduled Rhino Level 2, Rhino Level 2 for Architects & Engineers plus the V-Ray for Rhino and KeyShot rendering classes.

Sean’s background in CAD goes back over 20 years, his main experience is in Architecture plus M&E Services Industries. Sean has been a Certified Rhino Instructor since 2006 and delivers the Simply Rhino Introductory classes. Sean is well known to the many hundreds to have come through our Level 1 Day or Evening Classes and those who he has privately trained on site. Sean also delivers training at our annual Rhino Summer School to educators from Schools, Colleges and Universities.

Training Focus

• Introductory Modelling Classes, both Scheduled and On-Site Classes

Sean also delivers both the Day & Evening Introductory Rhino Level 1 Scheduled classes and our Rhino Taster Workshops.

Arthur is an Architect and a lecturer at the University of Westminster in London. He has been working with Simply Rhino for the past six years, giving Grasshopper3D workshops to prestigious design and engineering companies including Heatherwick Studio and Foster + Partners as well as many leading academic bodies such as the Architectural Association School of Architecture and UCL-Bartlett. He is the director of Mamou-Mani Architects and the Digital Fabrication space Fab.Pub. He has won the Gold Prize at the American Architecture Prize for the 'Wooden Wave' project installed at BuroHappold Engineering and the Architizer Award for the temporary installation 'Tangential Dreams' at the Burning Man festival. 

Training Focus

• Introduction to Grasshopper + Advanced Grasshopper
• DIVA (Now ClimateStudio - Daylight & Energy Modelling for Rhino)
• Kangaroo Physics-based simulation
• Karamba Structural Analysis
• Galapagos and Octopus Evolutionary Solvers
• Tailored Project Specific workflow with Rhino & Grasshopper
• Interoperability with BIM 
• C# plugins for Grasshopper
• Silkworm 3D Printing 
• Next Limit Maxwell Render 

Carmen is a computational designer from Canada. She holds an MSc in Emergent Technologies and Design from the AA. Her interests include computational design and analysis of complex geometries, parametric modeling, and material fabrication using robotics. She previously attended the Pratt Institute in New York and received a BA in Interior Architecture from California College of the Arts, San Francisco. Prior to her current position she worked at Woods Bagot, SF and an interior design practice in Hong Kong.

Training Focus

• Introduction to Grasshopper
• Rhino.Inside Revit
• Advanced Grasshopper

 Carmen also delivers the scheduled Grasshopper Level 1 training course.

Krishna Bhat has an MSc degree in Emergent Technologies and Design from the Architectural Association where his work specialized in computational design and advanced digital fabrication. An expert in parametric modelling Krishna has since been involved in a wide range of projects. His interests include generative design at an architectural and urban scale, integrating complex geometry, environmental and structural analysis. Prior to his masters at the AA he had 5 years of work experience in Qatar and India.

Training Focus

• Introduction to Grasshopper
• Karamba Structural Analysis
• Introduction to Python

Jack Meyer has been providing jewellery CAD training in London's jewellery district Hatton Garden since 2006. Over 800+ students have passed through his classes over the years. His combined background in computer graphics programming as well as jewellery manufacturing is unusual among jewellery CAD instructors. He is also one of the few jewellery CAD instructors in the world who is certified to provide training in all major jewellery CAD software packages. When not writing or delivering courses, he runs a bespoke jewellery design business and moderates a jewellery technology trends blog, where he uses his combined knowledge of all types of jewellery CAD to provide advisory to those keen on starting out in jewellery CAD.

Training Focus

• Introduction to Rhino for Jewellery Design
• Jewellery Specific Classes

 Jack also delivers our scheduled Rhino Level 1 for Jewellery course.

Long is currently a Research Associate at the Institute for Computational Design (ICD) at University of Stuttgart. As a computer scientist with several years working with the architecture community, Long has developed a deep interest in computational design. His current activities at the ICD includes research in computational geometries, digital form findings, digital/robotic fabrication, plugin development for Rhino/Grasshopper and Autodesk Dynamo. He also has a great passion for teaching programming, algorithms, mathematics and computational design thinking, especially to architecture students and practitioners.

Training Focus

• Python Programming - Introduction to Advanced
• C# Scripting & PlugIn Development