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Custom Designer and Manager
thomasideation
May 2002 - Present (22 years 6 months)
Photography, illustration, video, and design for internet and print based marketing materials. Experience includes: Instructional, aesthetic, and technical design of products, illustrations and photography for internal business use and commercial use.
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Technical illustrator and product designer for the custom design department
Peerless-AV
Jan 2013 - Nov 2013 (10 months)
Conceptual design of products and Technical Illustrations for instruction manuals.
Duties include research, conducting interviews, formatting and illustrating instruction manuals, editing photos, developing renderings, illustrations and photographs to suit the needs of marketing, customers, design engineers, product managers, industrial engineers, UL Listing, assembly lines, and product development, building models of designs to understand the construction of and how to explain the assembly of the products.
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Project Manager, Product Concept Designer, Developer
Marbles: The Brain Store
Sep 2011 - May 2012 (8 months)
Project manager of developing hands-on games to break into the DIY (do-it-yourself) market. Duties: market research, concept development, mood board development, style board development, character profile development, product rendering, product story boarding, physical prototyping, product testing, user research, presentation development, social media marketing, blog based marketing, filming, video editing, product photography, process photography.
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Product Concept Designer
Sprout Home
Feb 2012 - Mar 2012 (1 month)
Sprout Home
Duties: market research, mood board development, style board development, character development, presentation development, product rendering, digital 3D modeling, and physical prototyping.
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Concept Product Designer
Specimen Guitar Shop
Feb 2012 - Mar 2012 (1 month)
Duties: market research, mood board development, style board development, character development, presentation development, product rendering, digital 3D modeling, and physical prototyping.
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Veterinary Assistant
Danada Veterinary Hospital
Aug 2001 - Jan 2012 (10 years 5 months)
Veterinary assistants help doctors in the treatment area of the hospital and in surgery. They carefully monitor the hospitalized cases, check in and release surgeries, check in boarders, and perform routine lab-work and procedures such as nail trims, anal gland expression and cleaning ears.
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Visual Designer/Recorder
Columbia College Chicago
Feb 2010 - Feb 2010
Translation of vocal presentations to written and drawn explanations on a 2D surface.