Patrick Ege

• Designed and launched to market a Powered & Smart high-end entry door that is the only one of its kind in the market. Anticipated sales 10k units in the first year
• Utility patent issued and pending for unique method for installing doors that reduced the frame size by half thus saving significant display space on the floor of a big box store

Initiated and led advanced research (Consumer, Trend and Ethnographic) to design projects including smart home/IOT integration for new products. Used Fusion 360, Inventor, AutoCAD, sketching, models, prototypes.

* Taught course in Furniture design * Adjunct Instructor, International Academy of Design and Technology * Taught courses in Two-dimensional design, three-dimensional design, AutoCAD, Toy Design, Point of Purchase Display, Color Theory, Photography for Advertising (composition), space planning, architectural drafting

Clinets include: Concept design for line of high-end kitchen faucets.
FRANKE Luxury Product Goods, Smyrna, TN

Oversight of user centered design research; consumer, market & technology trend research, best practice development of methodologies and procedures for project and process. Influenced product, category, merchandising and brand strategies and engaged and inspired project team (6 direct reports) & outside agencies
Developed project time lines and budgets, defined deliverables and vendor direction with factory visits.
Extensive experience presenting design as a professional and strategic function to senior level executives