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Industrial Designer
Invent@NMU
Oct 2014 - Present (9 years 11 months)
I work on bringing people's product concepts to life. I create sketches, physical models along with computer models of various concepts.
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President
IDSA (The Industrial Designers Society of America)
Aug 2014 - Present (10 years 1 month)
President of the IDSA chapter at Northern Michigan University. Met weekly as a group and talked about trending design and critiqued projects students were working on. We were also able to have a conference call and learn from Gary Braddock who was the chief interior designer for the 2013 Ford Fushion.
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Ad Design Manager
The North Wind Student Newspaper
Sep 2013 - Dec 2014 (1 year 3 months)
I work every week on getting all the ads ready for print each week. I design some of the ads and create internal plug ads to fill space and make sure the pages with ads are formatted well. Once all the clients are happy with the ads we have created I place all the ads using InDesign.
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Customer Service Associate
Northland Foods
May 2011 - Aug 2012 (1 year 3 months)
I ran up customers purchases and handled returns. I kept the customer service area neat and clean. I took inventory for lotto sales and cigarette count. I would stock the alcohol supply when there weren't any customers. I received a raise due to good work quality.
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Newspaper Layout Designer
White Pine Press
Sep 2011 - May 2012 (8 months)
I would layout the bi-weekly newspaper along with two other designers we would create graphics for stories and edit pictures along with formatting all the text. I also created my own craft column for the newspaper. While I worked here, I was able to attend a week long conference in Orlando, Florida to learn more about successful newspaper layouts and participate in workshops. During my employment we were awarded first place for general newspaper excellence by the Michigan Community College Press Association along with first place in overall page design. I also was awarded third place for informal graphic/illustration.