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Product Designer
Richard Parsekian
Feb 2010 - Present (14 years 9 months)
* Design consultation, product concepts, project management and engineering; specializing in decorative lighting and home decor products
* Themed products and specialized products for themed invironments
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Product Design Mgr
Troy-CSL Lighting
Apr 2003 - Feb 2010 (6 years 10 months)
*Designing a successful mix of decorative lighting products; Including markets for Troy-CSL; Troy Contract; Hudson Valley and Corbett Lighting.
*Helped to train; interview and test new CAD staff for company's China office.
*Utilized strong conceptualizing skills.
*Traveled to Asia for design oversight and new product development.
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Lighting Products Design Mgr
D'lights, Inc
2000 - 2003 (3 years)
Product Designer for small custom manufacturer serving the Hospitality industry. Responsible for illustrating new product designs, determining manufacturing, sub-assembly sourcing, cost analysis, vendor selection, and quotations for custom products.
Created drawing packages and illustrations winning many projects for the company.
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Theme Lighting Designer
Walt Disney Imagineering
1996 - 2000 (4 years)
*Lead theme Lighting Designer over 100 custom lighting fixture families for two out of seven "lands" (themed environments) in the Tokyo DisneySea park in Japan;
*Theme Lighting for Animal Kingdom, Florida; Disney's California Adventure
*Producing unique product concepts-hand sketches.
Managed and produced AutoCAD contract document packages
*Facilitating inter-discipline design review meetings
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Industrial Designer/ Project Engineer-MTC/ PRC
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
1991 - 1996 (5 years)
Managed industrial design projects supporting the Deep Space Network
* Build visualization 1/4 scale models for new X-band feed support equipment
* Designed and conceptualized various exhibits and displays
* Proposed cost saving coolant pipe method for 70m Antenna retrofit.