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Assistant Coach, Men's Ice Hockey
University of Arkansas
2012 - Present (12 years)
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Creative GO TO guy
Vanguard Companies
2007 - Present (17 years)
Design and 3D Render POP displays out of various materials, corrugated, plastics, metal and wood. Produced concept drawings which led to working prototypes of temporary, semi-permanent and permanent floor, counter and other POP displays and signage. Worked with the ArtiosCad system and the Kongsberg and Data Tech cutting tables. Worked with the Adobe programs and Strata 3d. Ran the Roland large format printer and produced full colour mock-ups. Interacted directly with customers, account managers, estimators and purchasers. Took ownership of all jobs and made sure they went smoothly from concept stage to delivery.
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Packaging Design Engineer
Pine Valley Packaging
2006 - 2007 (1 year)
Designed returnable and expendable packaging for the automotive and
electronic industry. Prepared and created prototypes for customer approval. Monitored packs from sales through shipping.
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Owner
The Northern Mash Baseball Co. - Mash Bats
2003 - 2005 (2 years)
Started this wood bat making company in 1999 as a hobby and have grown it into a full time job. Cover the full range of producing a baseball bat from sales and marketing through to packaging and shipping. Selling bats to little leaguers right up to over 106 MLB players.
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Accounts Manager - Sales
Hughes Decorr
2001 - 2003 (2 years)
Managed several accounts and gained new accounts. Worked directly with clients their marketing departments to better understand their
needs. Gained a great knowledge in sales and in working with tight deadlines in the POP industry.
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Senior Structural Designer
Protagon Display Group
1999 - 2001 (2 years)
Designed POP displays out of various materials, corrugated, plastics, metal and wood. Produced concept drawings, which led to
working prototypes of temporary, semi-permanent and permanent floor, counter displays and other POP displays and signage. Worked with the ArtiosCad system and Kongsberg cutting table along with other computer applications. (Cimex, CapePack, Illustrator…) Interacted directly with customers, account managers, estimators and purchasers. Scheduled all of the design projects for 3 designers
and produced estimated completion dates for all of the projects in the design department.
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Structural Designer
Smurfit-MBI
1996 - 1999 (3 years)
Designed corrugated floor and counter displays. Produced concept drawings which led to working samples of displays and specialty containers. Worked with the Laserpoint Cad system and other various computer applications. Interacted directly with customers, sales people estimators and purchasers.
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Structural Design Engineer
Hughes Container and Decorr
1995 - 1996 (1 year)
Designed corrugated floor, counter displays and regular brown box containers. Produced concept drawings which led to working samples of displays and containers. Worked with the Laser Pak Cad system. Interacted directly with the senior engineer, sales people, estimators and purchasing personnel, as well as dealing with established accounts.
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Packaging Design Engineer
Pine Valley Packaging
1993 - 1995 (2 years)
Designed returnable and expendable packaging for the automotive and
electronic industry. Prepared and created prototypes for customer approval. Monitored packs from sales through shipping.