Angelo Carpinelli Email & Phone Number

Emeryville, California, Us

Emeryville, California, Us

Headed product design in a fast-paced environment with a responsibility to expand user-centered research, provide market analysis, and improve process & planning by instituting development timelines. Excelled at presenting ideas efficiently & compellingly in every stage of development, from ideation sketches to CAD and photo-realistic renderings. Delivered expertise in other functional areas such as engineering, manufacturing & production, and marketing, created manufacturing tech-packs, managed patents & outside legal counsel, and conceived product testing for a portfolio of fitness, strength, outdoor, insoles, footwear accessories & shoe care brands sold in over 70 countries worldwide.• Mentored & motivated a team of senior industrial designers, mechanical engineers, graphic designers & product line managers and fostered an environment that built & strengthened individual contributor skills sets and career development.• Planned all user-centered research projects, developed requirements, evaluated & analyzed results, and defined product design strategies for 20 brands.• Grew 2018 top-line sales in a down trending market with initiating the design of eight new fitness products and a redesign of six insoles increasing incremental growth in both product categories.• Achieved a 12.5% increase in 2019 new product pipe sell-in by enhancing the product development process to utilize user-centered research, consumer data and consumer feedback as the cornerstone of the methodology.• Designed a diverse range of products including shoe cleaning accessories, injection & compression molded insoles, consumer electronics, foam massage rollers, weightlifting belts, fitness accessories & leather gloves, and traditional injection molded plastic & silicone parts.• Collaborated closely with Big Box & Specialty Retail clients to develop brand and design strategy and created quarterly quick-strike products increasing revenue and enhancing brand equity.

Charged with retooling a successful small business, championed user-centered research initiatives, increased product offerings & grew accessory sales in a declining market, implemented a design & development process, and spearheaded innovation. Persuasively presented all stages of development from hand sketches to rendered CAD models, headed engineering & manufacturing of a portfolio of 50 products and collaborated with the owner to prepare the company for an acquisition.• Managed, motivated, & mentored a small team of industrial designers, mechanical engineers and directed a four-person Chinese manufacturing company focused on the commercialization of open-market fitness products resulting in an annual savings of $120K.• Streamlined the design & development process resulting in a 5X increase in new product, improved time to market by 20% and increasing sales revenue in the accessory category by 50% YOY.• Designed a wide range of injection molded plastic, foam & silicone parts, welded metal fitness equipment, and cut-n-sew soft goods including lifting accessories and leather fitness gloves.• Spearhead all user-centered research projects, developed requirements, evaluated & analyzed results, and established a network of 25 professional athletes for advanced product testing.• Translated marketing objectives into clear design strategies, by harmonizing input from management, sales, and retail partners to create & refine products from concept through production.• Drove innovation using a hands-on development & learning methodology, employing low-cost prototyping for validation and user testing, and interpreted consumer fitness trends employing a data-driven retail research strategy to build team consensus.• Directed two external design companies in the creation of five new fitness accessories and increasing new products by 20% in 2014-2015.

Challenged as the director-designer to lead a global design team proficient in translating user & ethnographic insights into design opportunities for a wide range of products, and serving clients in consumer goods and commercial markets. Accountable for the creation of product form language, market & user research, mechanical solutions, prototype development & testing, client management, and new business development. Directed a team of designers, engineers, researchers, and interns located in the US and China.• Managed the creative process from beginning to end for a wide variety of domestic & international customers in the consumer electronics, commercial equipment, home improvement, industrial & institutional maintenance, sports equipment, residential lighting, baby products, housewares, and pet care markets.• Directed custom-made ethnographic & human-centered research projects for each client’s business model resulting in the creation of a network of strategically located research assistants that administered surveys, collected data, performed retail visits, and conducted consumer product testing increasing data collection & improving behavioral clarity.• Responsible for transforming client objectives into clear design strategies, established brand vision & initiated product form language, cultivated client communication managing expectations & resolving issues, defined functional requirements & specifications, and selling concepts and solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders using solid rationale and excellent visual, written and verbal communication resulting in designs suitable for manufacture under tight budgets & short deadlines.• Designed a distinct range of products including commercial gas pumps & ovens, baseball dugout equipment & golf trainers, computer power supplies & residential lighting and manufactured using a variety of materials & processes including injection plastics, cast & extruded metals, sheet metal and technical fabrics.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Industrial Design

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Finance