Proprietor at Hydraulic Design

James Carruthers

Ottawa, Canada

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Freelance Industrial Designer with experience across a wide range of fields and advanced 3D CAD expertise in tasks like high-quality surfacing, reverse engineering, and how to automate design and production processes.
Education
- BID Industrial Design
  
  Carleton University
  
  1994 - 1998
Experience
- Proprietor
  
  Hydraulic Design
  
  1999 - Present (25 years)
  
  I do sales and training for Rhinoceros 3D, as well as provide Industrial Design and 3D modeling services for a variety of industries.
- Lead Designer
  
  Dynamo Playgrounds
  
  Jan 2014 - Jul 2016 (2 years 6 months)
  
  -Designed park layouts, customizations, and new play structures for projects ranging from small school playgrounds to multi-million-dollar marquee parks
  -Created and maintained installation manuals and customer-facing CAD data
  -Devised procedures and implemented Kanban to manage Design requests as the Team grew
  -Trained new Designers and Engineers on Rhino software
  -Developed tools using Python and VBScript to automate numerous tasks including the creation of detailed 3D models and production cut lists for rope assemblies and a prototype Product Data Management tool
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