Meet the Simply Rhino Grasshopper 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 the Film & TV Industry
• 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, our Rhino Core AEC programme, 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. Sean is also an Authorised Trainer for the Rhino Advanced Landscaping plug-in, Lands Design. 

Training Focus

• Introductory Modelling Classes, both Scheduled and On-Site Classes
• Lands Design - Advanced Landscaping Software for Rhino 3D

Sean also delivers our Introductory Rhino Level 1 Scheduled classes and our Rhino Taster Workshops.

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 and Rhino Level 2 for Jewellery courses.

Ivana is a Computational Design Specialist with more than 15 years of experience in computation for AEC. She is a part of the Design Technology team at Grimshaw Architects, where she is working as computational support for large-scale projects, Rhino & Grasshopper trainer, and is involved in various digital technology strategies and initiatives. She as well teaches computation at the University of the Creative Arts.

Her PhD research looks at advancing interaction with digital media in Architecture and Urban Design. Her work has been exhibited at V&A, Miami Art Basel, Amsterdam Light Festival, and public spaces in London.

Training Focus

• Rhino.Inside®.Revit

Ivana also delivers our Rhino.Inside®.Revit Essentials Training Course

Arthur is an architect and a lecturer at the University of Westminster in London. He is the director of the award-winning architecture practice Mamou-Mani, specialising in a new kind of digitally designed and fabricated architecture. He has been working with Simply Rhino for the past ten 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 has won the American Architecture Prize, the RIBA Rising Star Award and has been awarded the Pierre Cardin Prize for Architecture from the Academie des Beaux-Arts in France.

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

Fun is an architectural designer at London-based Architectural practice Mamou-Mani Ltd., specialising in generative design and fabrication processes. Her work incorporates research, parametric design, and fabrication management. She is also a faculty assistant at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) and has been giving Grasshopper 3D workshops at the Architectural Association in London.

She holds an MSc (Distinction) in Emergent Technologies and Design from the Architectural Association (2019) and a BSc (Hons) in Creative Media and Computer Science joint degree from City University of Hong Kong (2016).

Training Focus

• Grasshopper

Fun also delivers the Scheduled Grasshopper Level 2 class.

Clinton Mendonca is an Architect and a Computational designer, riveted in parametric, computational and generative design. Having completed his Postgraduate degree from Emergent Technologies at the Architectural Association, he is explorative in the fields of digital fabrication and manufacturing, computational and data driven design, extended reality visualisations and believes in the integration and co-existence of physical and digital media as the future of the built environment. Prior to working at Mamou-mani Architects he has worked as an architect for 5 years at various design firms based in Mumbai.

Training Focus

• Introduction to Grasshopper
• Advanced Grasshopper

Clinton also delivers the scheduled Grasshopper Level 1 and Grasshopper Level 2 training courses.

Éléonore is an architect, she studied architecture and theory at the École de la ville et des territoires of Marne-la-Vallée Paris-Est, where she graduated in 2020. Éléonore's research focuses on habitat and identity; practicing architecture, writing, and painting; she crafts various abstract geometries by reusing different art mediums and emergent technologies in her endeavors.

Training Focus

• Introduction to Grasshopper

Éléonore also delivers the Grasshopper Level 1 training course.

Jonah is a digital fabricator at Fab.Pub, where parametric design meets the cutting-edge of digital fabrication. He specialises in design-to-manufacture and technical design, working closely with the team of Mamou-Mani Architects to turn concept into reality. Jonah has worked on a variety of projects over 3 years, many involving 3D printing directly through Grasshopper.

Working as an Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, as an Advanced Technology tutor for the MArchD programme over the last 2 years, Jonah teaches Rhino and Grasshopper to architectural design students at a range of skill levels.

Training Focus

• Introduction to Grasshopper

Jonah also delivers the Grasshopper Level 1 training course.