• Guided start-up clients through the design process for establishing new products and brand.• Encouraged open communication to achieve mutual understandings and develop sound relationships with clients.• Experienced with turning client’s ideas into working concepts.• Communicated clear and concise concepts for tangible solutions to meet client’s specifications and budgets.

Relocated from New Zealand to the USA

• Guided start-up clients through the design process for establishing new products, brand and marketing management.• Supported small local businesses with design thinking strategies to explore new channels to market.• Experienced with turning client’s ideas into working concepts.

• Consistently demonstrated multiple design processes and principles for developing concepts into products, solutions and systems for the tapware industry using SketchBook Pro.• Effectively participated in cross-functional team sprints within the design process including research, design, prototyping, testing and manufacturing.• Efficiently managed the design of a double check valve that would blend seamlessly between existing and future tapware products aesthetically and functionally, as per AS/NZS 4020:2018 Testing of products for use in contact with drinking water and other industry standards.• Encouraged cooperative discussions with external suppliers of products and components to maintain CMF specifications and tolerances.• Used SolidWorks to develop assembly and sub-assembly models and engineering drawings to meet internal and external design for manufacturing (DMF) processes.• Motivated and challenged cross-functional teams, including marketing, engineering and production to ensure new and existing tapware products were well designed and met the “WaterMark” scheme administered by the Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB).• Identified risks and opportunities for new and ongoing products and solutions for continuous improvement within development meetings.• Collaborated with Auckland University 3D printing engineers and researchers to help incorporate high volume 3D printing as an alternative manufacturing process to streamline an 8-step manufacturing process down to 3, reducing labor costs and manufacturing times for plastic rotor pressure parts designed for shower mixers.

• Assumed responsibility for establishing and maintaining MiTek New Zealand’s SolidWorks Program Data Management (PDM) for cooperation between design, engineering and manufacturing departments.• Leveraged SolidWorks Program Data Management (PDM) metrics to maintain Overall Operating Efficiency (OOE) and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) for design for manufacturing (DFM) processes.• Over 7 years using SolidWorks to design and develop 3D modeling assembly and sub-assembly models for prototyping, manufacturing and production engineering drawings.• Created and maintained CAD modeling data for all products across 20 product lines using SolidWorks. Design, engineering and manufacturing departments now have better consistency across the product manufacturing life cycle of production processes.• Over 8 years’ experience using Adobe CC (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) for graphic visualization and presentations for internal and external partners.• Demonstrated success in reducing costs while maintaining high quality on-brand graphics, technical document and packaging design using Adobe CC, SolidWorks and KeyShot saving $2,000 – $5,000 per product line.• Spearheaded the design development and implementation of MiTek Asia Pacific’s marketing and brand language for visual design, to better communicate brand identity and storytelling to align with MiTek Global.• Excelled in solving critical problems during design sprints with user experience and engineering teams to produce prototype models, surface and material finishes utilizing 2D sketching, 3D modeling and product renderings.• Utilized design research, prototyping, SolidWorks and KeyShot to identify risks and opportunities to develop or improve future and current products across 20 product lines.• Effectively identified areas needing cost reductions for marketing materials by founding an in-house product photography studio, saving $1,000 – $5,000 per photoshoot compared to contracting with external vendors.

• Worked independently using design sensibility and analytical thinking to produce rough and detailed form development sketches of fixing and fastening concepts for construction industry products and systems using hand and digital sketching (SketchBook Pro).• Experienced with using both Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) and Binder Jetting and Selective Laser Melting (SLM) 3D printing to create 1:1 scale model making forms of concepts and prototypes from SolidWorks models.• Applied user research and design principles, theories and methodologies across the new product development process (NPD) during problem solving and design sprint sessions within cross-functional teams.• Collaborated with multi-discipline cross-functional teams to conduct usability testing and design research assignments across the design process to address human factors and ergonomics for products and systems.• Analyzed and translated usability insights into tangible products and solutions using Agile Methodologies and Grounded Theory for customer needs.• Contributed within cross-functional teams to collaborate, design and develop 12 major products for structural performance for the agricultural construction industry using both anthropometrics and human centered design methodologies.• Identified better manufacturing methods around 3D printing and CNC machining to create exposed truss plates for the XPO TRUSS™ brand of decorative trusses.