Dean Dijour is a multidisciplinary partner, designer, and AI engineer with nine years of experience turning product ideas into deployable systems across startups, research labs, and enterprise R&D. He leads Fusion Studios, delivering branding, product design, user research, and bespoke AI solutions, drawing on hands-on work building mobile/web apps and custom prototypes. His background includes invention-grade interaction design at Amazon’s UX Lab, haptics research and publications at Carnegie Mellon, and scaling a public-health startup from zero to 150k users. Comfortable as designer, engineer, and product lead, he ships production-ready code (React, NEXT.js, Kotlin, Swift) while also running cross-functional teams and sprint processes. Notably, he combines deep user-testing methodology with hardware and spatial interaction experience—skills honed through patent-backed IoT prototypes and arm-mounted haptics studies. Based in New York, he blends entrepreneurial grit with academic rigor to solve complex, human-centered technical problems.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Berkeley / Intel Hardware Accelerator Program, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Fundraising, Sales, Berkeley / Intel Hardware Accelerator Program, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Fundraising, Sales at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Summer Program — Leadership in the Business World, Management, Finance, Entrepreneurship, Economics, Summer Program — Leadership in the Business World, Management, Finance, Entrepreneurship, Economics at University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Bachelor of Science in Information Systems, Game and Interactive Media Design, Human Computer Interaction, Bachelor of Science in Information Systems, Game and Interactive Media Design, Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University
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