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Senior Industrial Designer
Santa Barbara, CA
May 2015 - Present (9 years 7 months)
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Senior Industrial Designer
HP / Commercial
Houston, TX
Oct 2012 - Apr 2015 (2 years 6 months)
- Design managing multiple accessories programs across various product categories & dierent verticals.
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Senior Industrial Designer
Motorola Mobility
Beijing, China
Jul 2010 - Oct 2012 (2 years 3 months)
- RAZR V MT887 & XT885
- Involved in projects from conceptualization to product launch while collaborating with various functional teams.
- Engaged during all phases of innovation from design analysis and experience planning to ideation and validation.
- Identify strategic product opportunities and define key product experience. Lead the development of many future
experience & product concepts.
- Work closely with Business team, Engineering team and ODMs to ensure proper implementation of designs.
- Various project management roles including ODM design management as well as leading full in-house projects.
- Mentor junior designers & interns.
- Earned two design patents, two design patents pending.
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Industrial Designer
Motorola Mobility
Beijing, China
Jul 2008 - Jul 2010 (2 years)
- DROID MT 716 & MING A1260
- Tasked with future concept exploration in mobile device space and other brand new product categories.
- Participated in emerging market research, analysis and brain storming.
- Collaborate with User-Interface and Experience team to create compelling interactive experience and design stories.
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Footwear Design Intern
Reebok
Canton, MA
Jan 2007 - Sep 2007 (8 months)
- Involved in the concept explorations for spring/ summer 2010 lifestyle unisex shoe concepts.
- Created new design concept solutions for lacing system, improved breath-ability, mid-sole & out-sole construction.
- Tasked & response for five inline running shoes minor design changes & colorways, achieved an increase close to
20 percent in total number orders worldwide compare to previous year.
- Concept explorations with emphasis on lower-cost production methods and weight reduction for the basketball &
running categories.
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Transportation Design Intern
Nissan Motors
May 2006 - Sep 2006 (4 months)
- Transportation Exterior Design internship, duties include trend & materials research and concept development for
the new production vehicle for the South East Asia market.
- Full development of an exterior concept project from research to 1/5 scale clay model.