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Packaging Design Manager @ Church & Dwight
John Almstead
Princeton, NJ
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At Church and Dwight as an Industrial Design Manager, I am responsible for ensuring a disciplined and consistent approach to the process of design from 2D to 3D into production. Asset creation & management for all C&D Categories, Brands and product applications while driving sales and business growth and establishing strong partnerships with external agencies to develop best-in-class design. Skilled in Consumer Goods (CPG), Medical and Packaging, Experience Design, Design Strategy, design Thinking and Design and Project Management. Parametric CAD modeling and visualization tools and 20+ years of bringing new products, strategies, and solutions to life. Professional skills include SolidWorks, Adobe Creative Suite, Siemens NX, Concept Development, Design Thinking, Design Management
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Education
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Bachelor of Industrial DesignRhode Island School of Design1998
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Bachelor of Fine ArtsRhode Island School of Design1997
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Experience
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Design ManagerPrinceton, NJJan 2022 - Present (2 years 10 months)At Church and Dwight as an Industrial Design Manager, I am responsible for ensuring a disciplined and consistent approach to the process of design from 2D to 3D into production. Asset creation & management for all C&D Categories, Brands and product applications while driving sales and business growth and establishing strong partnerships with external agencies to develop best-in-class design. Skilled in Consumer Goods (CPG), Medical and Packaging, Experience Design, Design Strategy, design Thinking and Design and Project Management. Parametric CAD modeling and visualization tools and 20+ years of bringing new products, strategies, and solutions to life. Professional skills include SolidWorks, Adobe Creative Suite, Siemens NX, Concept Development, Design Thinking, Design Management
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Innovation ManagerBuena, NJAug 2016 - Dec 2021 (5 years 4 months)Product development at Comar is driven by long-term relationships with customers and industry regulators, which help keep us aligned with market dynamics. I lead the design team here on a host of new projects to improve upon existing packaging or to design highly specialized solutions that will help differentiate our customers in their respective markets. As Innovation Manager I work with my team from concept development, to design and engineering, to modeling, prototyping and sampling through to commercializing. As a leading injection and blow molding company we offer some of the most unique custom molding solutions available anywhere. With a commitment to continued growth, standardizing best practices, and sharing information across the organization.
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Sr Industrial Designer -Personal CareTrumbull, CTMay 2005 - Jul 2016 (11 years 2 months)Creating new and innovative products for the Personal Care [Design] group. Engineering design agency models with Unigraphics to manufacturers specifications while preserving the integrity of the original design Developing parametric CAD models that are prototyped in-house and then tested on our pilot lines The categories that I am responsible for are: Early design facilitation, Ideation sketching Visualization / VR
Opportunity scoping Technical sketching, Intelligent & Responsive CAD Models retaining design intent – Faster decision making
Produce Accurate & Robust Advanced Surface Geometry – Quality surfacing for packaging -
Industrial Design ProfessorBridgeport, CTJan 2013 - May 2016 (3 years 4 months)Teach a night class on the Basics of NX 8, 3 credit design studio. Each student has a space for in-class assignments with an adjacent computer design studio, a clean room for large-scale mock-ups and a well-equipped model shop and a photography studio. In addition to the full time faculty, practicing professional designers are invited to teach studio courses ensuring that the student receives a practical and current education.
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Industrial Designer ConsultantLink GroupNewtown, CTJul 2006 - Dec 2014 (8 years 5 months)Brand/Product development, Developed brand strategy
Concept Consulting, including design and manufacture strategy development.
New concepts for Toy/Pet and home goods
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Industrial Design SupervisorStamford, CTNov 1998 - May 2005 (6 years 6 months)Guided the creative team in all stages of the development and execution of designs and model making
Conceived and executed design solutions for all divisions of Conair:
Personal Care, Cuisinart, Interplak, Professional, Rusk, Consumer Electronics, and Toiletries
Created engineering tooling packages for use by our overseas vendors
Constructed breadboard models in collaboration with our engineering team to prove functionality
and safety of product concepts
Developed over 250 new concepts in 2003 for the New Product Department
Worked in a very fast paced shop where it was necessary to multitask to meet aggressive deadlines
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Creative DevelopmentDisplay World Inc.Warren, RIJun 1995 - Mar 1998 (2 years 9 months)Developed point of purchase displays for clients such as: Clarks, Brookstone, and Disney Created engineering drawings for developing efficient ways to set up the assembly lines Designed instruction booklets for each of our products Started an in-house silk screening line
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IDSA, RISD Alumni,
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