Head of Design & Brand at Hydrific. Working with an agile team to develop new Hydrific business strategies & consumer technology products. Hydrific is a new venture, part of LIXIL, exploring water conservation, usage, and sustainability in homes, focused on researching and solving problems in water-stressed regions across the globe, to make better living a reality for everyone, everywhere.

Co-Founder & Customer Development Lead at Hydrific, a new venture by LIXIL

Organizing events for IDSA members to help connect and educate industrial designers working within the housewares & home products industry.

Industrial Design Director at LIXIL Americas - Creating kitchen and bath products for American Standard Brands & DXV brand.Major projects: Saybrook Digital Filter Kitchen Faucet Studio S fittings collection, Clean IR handsfree bath, Aspirations collection direction, Etre kitchen collection, Fairbury 2S Kitchen, Ultima flush valve, NextGen touchless bath, Paradigm Touchless bath, MeasureFill electronic kitchen faucet, Grayson Semi-pro kitchen, Southport kitchen, Tamarind Semipro kitchen, Renate kitchen, Raviv kitchen, Cayenne Semipro Kitchen, Maven Kitchen collection, Northport kitchen, Gladden Semipro Kitchen, Porcini Semi-pro, Fitzgerald fittings bath collection, Oakhill fittings bath collection, Edgewater Semi-pro, Estate bath and kitchen collections, Patience bath collection, Avery kitchen faucet, Chatfield bath & kitchen collection, worked on the original Spectra shower head design with colleagues, Corsham, Becklow, Braymer, bath collection, Chancellor, Managed: Delancey bath & kitchen collection, Palestra kitchen, Town Square S bath collection, Westerly & Crawford bath, Kaleta, Rumson & Glenmere bath, Edgmere, Delsea, Belmeade, Marchand kitchen, Copley kitchen, and others…

Developing new fittings kitchen & bath plumbing products for the American Standard & DXV Brands with LIXIL Global Design teams.

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• Developing new industry leading reusable beverage-ware products for one of the top coffee mug & hydration brands in the US.• Expanding into emerging product categories, identifying relevant areas for the Contigo brand outside of core drink-ware applications. • Human centered design processes and identifying potential growth through qualitative and quantitative research, solving identified problem with novel design and manufacturing approaches. • Strong focus in fashion trend tracking, new and emerging beverage trends, health and wellness concerns, consumer and generational trend analysis, thus cultivating a quick development process to lead the industry in a fast paced ever changing marketplace. • Created unique & innovative IP protectable mechanisms that differentiate Contigo products & add real consumer benefits. • Responsible for core hot & cold beverage container development, as well as expansion into relevant tertiary housewares products such as on-the-go food containers, serving ware, entertainment products, utensils, etc.• Major projects: West Loop 2.0 lid design with locking mechanism, Pinnacle mug with improved drink experience, Purity, the first plastic-free glass, stainless, and food grade silicone to go bottle, Bueno low cost snap closure mug, Contigo Lakeshore fruit infusing Autoseal pitcher with push button lid.

Sr. Industrial Designer, Masco Product Design Global Office 10/07 – 06/12• New product development services across all global Masco business units. • Focus on water delivery, bath & kitchen, and decorative home hardware while also expanding into hand and power tools, and spas/hot tubs. • Managed designers on a project to project basis, across a wide range of product categories. • Exploration into new product spaces and brand expansion. • Accomplishments include several industry and design awards, successful product launches in Target stores, Home Depot, Lowe’s, etc.

Lead Designer, Delta Faucet Company 06/04 – 10/07• Designing and developing new products for the Delta and luxury Brizo brands. • Emphasis on consumer research, trend tracking, new material uses, and conceptual product development. • Designed several top selling product lines, including Brizo Virage, Charlotte, Vuelo, Belo, Talo, Baliza Delta Dryden, Vero, Deluca, Addison, etc.

Interaction Design – 12/03 – 06/04• UX focus developing new & improved existing complex software systems used to manage internal Stage Gate processes, FDA documentation requirements, internal compound functional area repositories, and internal marketing coordination systems.• Improved, developed, and tested software systems based on the principles of human factors, usability, and user experience,Interaction Design Intern – 05/02 – 09/03• Applied usability methodologies for the development of complex internal web applications.Contract Graphic Designer – 06/01 – 08/01• Contractor, Graphic Design, user interface development and graphic design for internal applications.

Design NationJune 2000 – August 2000• Supported senior design staff, created graphics, icons, and websites. Emphasis on client interaction

Freelance web and graphic design projects for a variety of local clients in North Carolina and Indianapolis from 1998 - 2007. Projects ranging from website design, interaction design, logo and brand design, to physical signage and print design (flyers, mailers, business cards, posters, letterhead, etc.)