Design Director
CurrentDriving the future of wearable robotics and powered clothing at Seismic. Leads all aspects of design for the company with a primary focus on driving the look, fit, and feel of wearable robotics and powered clothing for the industrial workplace. Additional responsibilities include but are not limited to peripheral devices and components, packaging, and apps / user interface design. Using patented technologies to create wearable electric muscles to augment physical strength and reduce fatigue, workplace injury, and lost wages. -Created Design Direction for new product release for 2022 as well as foundational direction for all future products.-Collaborated cross functionally with a team of mechanical engineers, DFM engineers, product managers and developers to drive quick revisions of existing product for large customer needs.-Collaborated on the writing and documentation of Product requirements and subsystem requirements.-Lead product concept photoshoot for website imagery and product release documentation and presentations-Managed company website content updates and creation of social media content calendar and executed against.-Lead prototype development while managing a team of two product technicians, one intern, and one materials and factory sourcing expert.-Work Cross-functionally with product engineering team to build both functioning prototypes and aesthetic prototypes for product launch.-Vetted and set up new vendor agreements for production of product and components and maintain relation-ships.-Created wireframe concept directions for demonstration applications and full suite web and app based user interface.