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Founder / Alias designer
San Francisco, CA
Nov 2008 - Present (16 years)
Shine On LED, a solid-state lighting “LED” company specializing in Class-A surface design, manufacturing & implementation of LED lighting for retail, commercial & residential lighting industries. Shine On LED creates custom LED lighting fixtures for high end clients, produces lighting solutions for strategic partners in the retail fixture industry. Shine On LED brings custom LED system solutions to life with a process from sketch to 3D model, to SLA working model, to final prototype.
ALIAS SKILLS
• Slab & Fillet Alias foundation. Bezier curves 1-9 degree, single span.
• Sketch –> Alias Slab & Fillet technique –> Illustrator line work –>Formlabs SLA –> Keyshot 10 –> Photoshop.
• Scan data to NURBS Class-A surface.
• Conceptualization of 3D data interpreted from concept sketches & data scans.
• Creation of Class-A production-ready automotive 3D CAD surfaces & shells across multiple projects & product categories.
• Design of automotive parts with consideration for plastic injection molding, CNC machining, metal forming, casting, extrusion, stamping best practices.
• Utilization of Alias Eval software for surface quality & design intent validation.
DESIGN SKILLS
• Standard Operating Procedure for LED fixture, power supply & wiring harness installation.
• Trademarked, designed & manufactured Lightblade™ line of LED products.
• Designed, developed & manufactured Lightblade™ flexible ribbon line card with 11 versions of LED Printed Circuit Boards.
• Designed, developed & manufactured linear LED 6160 Aluminum extrusions profiles corresponding to LED Printed Circuit Board designs.
• Developed Tunable Kelvin color temperature adjustable commercial, retail & residential solutions.
• Customized LED end cap connectors & end cap solutions, UL listed.
• Stereolithography printing for low production runs (SLA) of LED components.
• Created photo-realistic Keyshot 10 renderings & environments for website & future products.
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Founder /COO /Alias designer
Reno, NV
Jul 2006 - Oct 2008 (2 years 3 months)
• Created Elemental LED initial concept, business name, branding, LED product line and inventory for business launch.
• Developed Elemental LED P&L, Performa, Business Plan, Executive Summary.
• Set up and categorized inventory.
• Finalized investor details and deck for company launch.
• Modeled Class-A surface data for LED product manufacturing.
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VEHICLE QUALITY LAUNCH COORDINATOR
Auburn Hills, MI
Feb 2006 - Jan 2007 (11 months)
* Modeled Class-A surface for OEM projects for conversion from European to U.S. standards.
* Enabled inter-department vehicle launch strategy communications.
* Developed, implemented & maintained Volkswagen Launch web site for wholesale organizations.
* Created, implemented & lead quality management processes.
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ALIAS DESIGNER,
ASC INC
Warren, MI
Mar 2004 - Feb 2006 (1 year 11 months)
Advanced Concepts Group for Specialty Vehicles
• Alias concept design, modeling methodology & strategy.
• Worked in a design studio developing Class-A surface for OEM projects.
• Provided photo-realistic Alias renderings & 3denvironments.
• Transformed designer-sketched ideas into 3D models for clay review.
• Ability to take direction from designers to develop their sketches into 3d models.
• Ability to work with engineering criteria to develop surface from concept through production.
• Ability to develop Class A surface that can be used downstream for engineering/ production.
• Knowledgeable of other CAD software ( ex. catia, etc for checking/ stitching surface for release to engineering).
• Knowledgeable of Sub-D modeling tools in Alias.
• Knowledgeable of polygonal tools such as Maya.
• Knowledgeable of Vred visualization software for renderings/ VR presentations.
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ALIAS DESIGNER
GENERAL MOTORS
Warren, MI
Jun 2002 - Feb 2004 (1 year 8 months)
Advanced Concepts Group for Specialty Vehicles
• Alias concept design, modeling methodology & strategy using Class-A surface.
• Deciphered two-dimensional & three-dimensional design into surface data.
• Composed surface data for design review.
• Modeled surface for final .igs output into Unigraphics.
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ALIAS INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER
PIXE
San Francisco, CA
Jun 2000 - Jul 2002 (2 years 1 month)
(UNIX/02) CO-OP
• Assisted S.F. Bay Area clients; Astro, Lunar, IDEO, & NIKE with Alias models.
• Created quick Alias concepts & computer renderings.
• Class-A surface data development.
• Developed SLA’s of designs for product testing & market research.
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3D SOFTWARE ENGINEER
D.A.A.P PROTOSHAPE STUDIO
Cincinnati, OH
Dec 2002 - Jun 2002 (5 months)
(CO-OP)
• Knowledge of machine tools, IGS transfer, FDM, SLA.
• 3 Axis Bridgeport, 5 Axis Tarus, Unigraphics data transfer.
• Translated Class-A surface data scan from clients into product build.
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ALIAS SOFTWARE ENGINEER
ALIAS WAVEFRONT
San Francisco, CA
Jun 1999 - Sep 1999 (3 months)
(CO-OP)
• Assisted S.F. Bay Area clients with concept modeling methodology & strategy.
• Designed & developed tutorials for area clients.
• Assisted clients using class-A Alias for each stage of design & manufacturing.
• Assisted with the integration of the end-to-end shape definition process.
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ALIAS DESIGNER
ETHICON ENDO SURGERY
Cincinnati, OH
Sep 1998 - Dec 1998 (3 months)
(CO-OP)
• Developed & completed Alias class-A 3D models for the medical industry.
• Sculpted foam models & sketch development.
• Presented concepts, design & engineering of products to design manager.