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PRODUCT CONCEPT / DESIGN and CREATIVE WRITING
Design / Mattiene
Nov 1993 - Present (31 years 1 month)
"Left & Right Brained".
PRODUCT CONCEPT & DEVELOPMENT
Invention, Stylistics, Product Engineering, Package & Display Design, Collateral & Promotional Writing, Product Line Naming.
Toys, Games, Gift Lines, Collectibles, Desktop Accessories, Lighting, Cosmetics & Fragrance Lines Development, Retail Business Concepts, Interior Layouts & Retail Frontage Elevation Designs, Architectural and Memorial Park Concepts, Medical Literature graphic programs & logos.
Set-Up Planning for Corporate New Product Development Functions, Including Define Mission Statement, Development Flow Systems, and Personnel Staff-Building,etc. Moderator of CBS Inc. Alumni Group.
Product Markets include juvenile, male, family, and family programs, projects and programs.
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Design Director in Residence
The Franklin Mint
2000 - 2001 (1 year)
Styled in New Products for the Male Gift Collections.
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Co-President / Designer / Inventor / Writer
RMD - Reiley-Moustakas Development
Feb 1985 - Oct 1993 (8 years 8 months)
Lines Plans Drafter, Product Inventor, Designer,Stylist, Pre-Engineer, and Client Presenter.
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Vice President / Creative Director
Freelance Inc
1980 - 1981 (1 year)
Invented, Designed, and Promoted a line of New Products, in all materials.
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Vice President, Product Concept & Development
CBS Inc, Creative Playthings & CBS Toys Division
Mar 1973 - Jan 1977 (3 years 10 months)
Senior Designer to Design Director to Vice President in three years.
Quality Toy and Game design and development.
Established first Product Concept, Design, Engineering, Packaging, and Print Collateral Group under one overview.
Reconfigured catalog line of Euro-Design wooden toys into cohesive mix-material line for specialty toy stores and mass-market.
Created five annual lines of dozens of patent-prone products with line extendability.
Creative Member of CBS Consumer Products European companies acquisition entourage: London, Frankfort & Milan. Built staff of designers, concepters, M/R, and prototypers.
Increased sales three-fold in four years.
Highlighted in CBS Inc. house organ "Columbine", for creative achievement.
Created electronic toys and games with CBS Labs, Stamford CT.
Focus groups with Gene Riley Associates, Darien CT. Consulted with child psychologist at E.T.S., Princeton NJ.
Created products for National School Supply & Equipment show, St. Louis MO.
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Sr. Product Development Manager
Parker Brothers Games (now division of Hasbro.com)
1971 - 1973 (2 years)
Toy and game invention, physical and stylistic design, componebt cost-structure analyses, and viable expected profit-margin assurance.