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Senior Industrial Designer
Bellingham, United States
Apr 2012 - Present (12 years 7 months)
• Hire, train, manage, and mentor a product development team of 6 designers, engineers, and interns and collaborate with production, marketing, and sales teams to develop products for 4 owned and 2 licensed brands
• Design for manufacturability including metal bending and forming, injection molded plastics, and sewn goods
• Product development from sketching through 3D CAD, rapid prototyping (purchase and operate the onsite 3D printer, plastics and metals shop, sewing machine), sales samples, and production parts and packaging for mass retail
• Coordinate daily with domestic and overseas suppliers; multiple trips to inspect factories in China
• Project documentation from composing the scope and project requirements to first article inspection reports
• Exhibit design and construction for trade shows, at-show market research, and supplier contact
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SolidWorks Instructor
Bellingham, WA
Sep 2014 - Sep 2016 (2 years)
• Develop curriculum, course instruction, and evaluation
• Introduce SolidWorks software, guide Mechanical Engineering college students through part and assembly development, rapid prototyping, sheet metal, surfacing, and specification drawings for production
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Industrial Designer
Samson Design Associates
Boulder, CO
Jan 2005 - Apr 2012 (7 years 3 months)
• Design and develop products from initial client meetings through production coordination (US, Europe, Asia)
• Experience with medical, electronics, scientific, consumer, and industrial products with 3 utility patents
• 3 years managing teams of designers and engineers as project lead
• Competitive and trend research, user testing and focus groups
• Design for injection molded and thermoformed plastic, cast and fabricated metals, and silicone
• Graphical user interface creation and website redesign
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Head of Graphic Design
Provo, UT
Apr 2001 - Nov 2004 (3 years 7 months)
• Oversee designers in operation of Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator, laser engravers, and sublimation machinery
• Website administration, customer service and consulting, product displays, marketing materials
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Industrial Design Intern
Richardson, TX
Jun 2002 - Aug 2002 (2 months)
• Hire, train, manage, and mentor product development team of 6 designers, engineers, and interns and collaborate with production, marketing, and sales teams to develop products for 4 owned and 2 licensed brands
• Design for manufacturability including metal bending and forming, injection-molded plastics, and sewn goods
• Product development from sketching through 3D CAD, rapid prototyping (purchase and operate onsite 3D printer, plastics, and metals shop, sewing machine), sales samples, and production parts and packaging for mass retail
• Coordinate daily with domestic and overseas suppliers; multiple trips to inspect factories in China
• Project documentation from composing the scope and project requirements to first article inspection reports
• Exhibit design and construction for trade shows, at-show market research, and supplier contact