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Boise, Idaho

Fly Racing is one of the largest apparel brands in the motorsport industry. Making gear for motocross, street, bikes, and snow.• Manage a revolving workload of up to 10 incoming and outgoing products from multiple segments through design and development. This allows the brands to update their current product and introduce new products to their lines.• Perform annual market, design, technology, and color research to create product design forecasting. This research decides the direction of the brand's future line offerings.• Certified in 3D software Browzwear and trained team members to create catalog-quality renders for the sales team to present ahead of production timelines.

Great Falls, Montana, United States

The University of Providence is a private Roman Catholic university in Great Falls, Montana. It is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities• Responsible for designing print, digital materials, and university merchandise for the University Marketing Department.• Designed an entire apparel line for the new student store launch.

Eugene, Oregon

• Created product design curriculum incorporating: 3d printing, problem solving, and marketing skills to a group of 5 high school students based on their learning styles, interests, talents, and needs.• Led the group to design and present the product they created to audiences at Eugene’s First Friday art walk.

Eugene, Oregon Area

Maintained and monitored: 3D printers (Makerbot, Formlabs Form 2, LulzBot), Laser cutter, CNC mill, vinyl cutter, and Track Saw at the Polymer Lab.

Eugene, Oregon Area

• Developed bag design concepts for the company's product line.• Constructed custom bags, accessories, prototypes, and production samples.

St. George, Ut

An industry-leading supplier of baking appliances and products.• Designed new housing for the Bosch Universal Kitchen Mixer. • Successfully led the client through a series of ideation models to the final concept to be used in future production Bosch mixers. Design was then taken to Bosch Germany and approved by their factory.

Eugene, Oregon Area

The University of Oregon’s pre-college program mission is to inspire middle and high school students from low socioeconomic, first-generation, and underrepresented backgrounds from across the state of Oregon to pursue, enroll and succeed in higher education by providing first-hand experiences with faculty, volunteers, college student mentors and university campus resources. • Selected by the department head of the Product Design program at the University of Oregon to teach Product Design to high school students.• Pioneered and created the Product Design curriculum for classes of 20+ high school students, resulting in these students applying for the Product Design program. • Taught design tools, manufacturing and fabrication of consumer products, packaging, 2D and 3D computer-aided design (CAD) tools, 3D printers, and laser cutters.