Professional Strengths:
+ Collaborative and Entrepreneurial Leadership
+ Product & Packaging Design Engineering
+ Design Thinking & Implementation
+ Project Management
+ Branding
Specialties: Disruptive & Rapid Innovation, Experience Mapping and Ethnographic Research, Systems Design, Sustainable Development, Industrial Design, Packaging Design Engineering, Design Management, Sourcing, COG Tracking, Vendor Auditing, Charette Leadership, International Regulatory Liason.
ASTM, ISTA, ISO, QC/QA Implementation.
Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, AUTO CAD, Solid Works, ARTIOS, CAPE, Rhino, Flash.
AWARDS
Chairperson - Innovation Committee
Cosmetic Industry Buyers and Suppliers (CIBS) New York, NY
“If You Knew” campaign - Best illustration of social benefits of FSC: 2009 Design21 WOOD, PAPER, CHECKMARK awareness campaign for sustainable forestry
Contributing Editor - Beauty Packaging Magazine “Expert View”
Advisor
FIT: Sustainable Packaging Advisory Committee
Advising development of the Fashion Institute of Technology Sustainable Packaging curriculum.
Guest Critic
FIT: Sustainable Packaging Design - Senior Class
Creative Consultant
Sustainable South Bronx
Strategic brand consulting and development, including e-mail templates and web-based branding.
Standardized e-mail template and streamlined communication strategy, increasing e-mail opens and click-through 10% within the first month
IDSA, CIBS