Craig Hofmann, Industrial Design Manager in Pittsburgh, PA

About

Industrial Designer with 18 plus years experience in a consultancy environment. An additional 7 years

corporate (OEM) and another 4 in management. I have a diverse product portfolio developing products from conception to market place with the knowledge base to mentor and develop strategies for maximum sales, margin and turn.

Education

BFA Industrial Design

Rochester Institute of Technology

1993
Graphic Design

Buffalo State

1990

Experience

Design Manager

Dicks Sporting Goods

Pittsburgh, United States

Outdoor categories Responsible for a team of 6 designers ranging from staff level to lead designer for 5 major vertical brands categories: Camp, Paddle, Outdoor Recreation, Bike and Tackle. Daily interactions with Business Development, Merchants, overseas factories and other cross functional teams to develop products under DSG vertical brands. Responsibilities include: Business acumen and strategies for sales/margin/turn in terms of gaining maximum adoption. Developing design talent and execution of the design process.
Lead Industrial Designer

Carestream Health

Rochester, United States

responsible for 3 other designers. Responsibilities included: Working directly with upper management to strategize on health imaging equipment. Working with cross functional team members and physicians to develop products from conception to manufacturing this includes Sigma six and lean manufacturing, Whitness builds and first article inspections. Responsible for multiple global CSH divisions.
Sr. Industrial Designer

KEK Associates

Rochester, United States

Responsible for developing products from conception to marketplace, trend research, development of design languages, presentations, working with multidisciplinary teams including manufacturing as well as engineering oversite.

Awards

- Patent# D6211805 Personal display device

- Patent# D438569 Photo service kiosk

- Patent pending for infotainment device (TYCO Electronics)

-Patent# 20110083948. Switch conversion Apparatus

- 2101 IDEA award finalist for personal video display device

-IDSA/Business Week IDEA silver award for Fisher-Price bouncer/ rocker

- Healthcare Innovation Achievement award 2015 for Carestream Touch Ultrasound system

- 2015 Frost and Sullivan Award for Carestream NDT HPX-Pro for innovation in imaging for a portable device.

- 2016 Frost and Sullivan award for Carestream OnSight 3D Extremity System.

- 2016 Aunt Minnie award for best new Radiology device- Carestream OnSight Extremity System

- Patent # 14/572850 for Deployable burn guard for mobile x-ray system

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Craig Hofmann

Assistant/Associate Professor - School of Industrial Design

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