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Beaverton, Oregon, United States

Dreaming up future footwear concepts to serve athletes* and bringing them to life through iterative prototyping

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

Translating Nike By You footwear customization concepts--each with thousands of unique variations--from 2D designs to commercialized product through project management, complex collaboration, factory sampling processes, manufacturing troubleshooting, and more

Beaverton, Oregon

Nike By You (customization) seasonal and innovation material development and sourcing--after 16 months, supported commercialization of 60+ products and established core organizational processes

Deciphering, communicating, and recreating early 20th century footwear patents for book publication and museum exhibition.

Portland, Oregon Area

Led cross-functional team creating sponsored concept collection for partnership between Deo Juvante (emerging tactical gear brand) and Bemis (no-sew bonding innovator). Holistic process from user research and design brief to ideation, tech pack creation, and sample prototyping. Final deliverables of functional samples and presentations to industry.

San Francisco Bay Area

Managed Male Woven Bottoms category fabric development; collaborated with R&D, Design, Sourcing, Production, and suppliers to develop new fabrics, counter source existing qualities, and create garment samples using PLM system. Helped plan, organize, and run supplier visits showcasing new fabric developments. Helped conceptualize and create fabric.

Samsung Global Research Outreach/Wearables Design Group

Forecasted the future of stretchable electronics; journal article "Bring on the bodyNET" published in Nature. Provoked further ideation and social reaction to electronic devices that reside in or on the body through concept development, prototyping, and user testing to propose new avenues for wearables as a product category.

San Francisco Bay Area

Assisted with design, prototyping, and testing for nine client projects (health, home/office, and recreational products) including plastic parts (enclosures, snap-fits, toys with strict requirements) and small mechanisms (low-profile engagement and actuation). Collaborated with clients, medical professionals, and industrial designers on handheld medical.

San Francisco Bay Area

Assisted with eleven client projects (health, home/office, and recreational products). Designed, prototyped, and tested both engineering and industrial design concepts via FDM, model-making, light effects techniques, FEA, and human factors assessment. Performed user research and collaborated directly with clients.

San Francisco Bay Area

Led six and assisted with four orthopedic biomechanics research projects. Designed and conducted experimental protocols, created fixturing, prepared cadaver specimens, performed data processing/analysis, and submitted abstracts, manuscripts, and posters for conferences and awards. One journal and eleven conference acceptances, including a podium.

San Francisco Bay Area

Collaborated with UCSF surgeons to develop device for independent, post-operative patient walking. Created CAD models and engineering drawings based on target specifications set by benchmarking. Animated mechanical/ergonomic functionality and aesthetics for UCSF innovation presentations. Underwent rapid prototyping to build first iteration form prototype..

UC Ergonomics Laboratory

Investigated biomechanical effects of multi-touch device design on users with EMG, force-plate, infrared motion capture and usability measures. Developed experimental protocol using Microsoft Visual Basic for subjects to perform during testing. Processed data for analysis and drafted manuscript for scientific publication.

Ms, Product Design

Stanford Design Program

Bs, Bioengineering

Footwear Design

Scholarship recipient 12-week design intensive at PENSOLE Design Academy in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA)..