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Portland, Oregon, United States

Lead user experience designer for Fusion 360s CAD core modeling, supporting Fusions growth from an incubation project to over 175,000 commercial subscribers and five million educational customers.Core areas product responsibilities:•Work in partnership with product manager to set design strategy and priorities for core modeling workflows, feature enhancements, new feature development, experience debt and bug fixes.•Engage with an external customer board, for customer validation, workflow enhancement and requirement gathering, road map review and refinement, as well as bug logging and pre-production release validation.•Partner with ux research, content and visual design teams to ensure customer validation and content deliverables are in place prior to product updates.•Key contributor to target customer personas in collaborations with our ux research team.•User experience for core CAD modeling and assembly modeling including: 2D and 3D sketching, solid modeling, surface modeling, sheet metal modeling, mesh and T-Spline modeling, rendering and visualization.•Supporting eight global scrum teams.•Collaborate and partner with core kernel development leadership for establishing requirements for kernel capabilities to support strategic product goals.•Mentor junior and senior designers that do not have specific customer domain expertise the help them up-level their customer empathy.

Portland, Oregon

Leading a global design team supporting mechanical engineering and industrial design CAD customers and an extensible cloud-enabled platform. Extending the platform in a mixed desktop and cloud ecosystem that supports CAD/MCAD tools, FEA and simulation, CNC manufacturing, 2D documentation, rendering and visualization capabilities. Leading platform efforts around consistency of UI, adherence to and extension of Autodesk's corporate brand and design standards.Responsibilities:•Partnered with product management and engineering development leadership to set strategy and delivery priorities and ensure timely delivery of UX specifications in an agile development environment.•Stood up design review program for collaboration across multiple design teams and product domains. This was a chance for designers who didn't necessarily have direct collaboration and interaction to gain a perspective on other areas of the product that is being developed.•Ensured staff designers were on target for deliverables and working effectively with their respective development partners•Managed a seasoned team of senior to senior principal designer•Mentoring designers in helping them shape their career growth, advancement goals and objectives, and seeing that budget was allocated for professional development.•Performed quarterly and annual performance reviews•Frequent recruiting process and hiring

Portland, Oregon Area

Designed a scalable platform for industrial design and MCAD/CAM tools for product development and manufacturing.Supporting the needs of multiple engineering and design personas while building a new cloud-based experience tailored to SMB design and manufacturing companies.

Portland, Oregon Area

Led product marketing efforts around three manufacturing industries focusing on product offerings in: industrial design, injection molding simulation and electrical engineering.

Portland, Oregon Area

Built competitive sales and marketing material for industrial design.Created demonstration datasets supporting competitive advantages for use by sales and field marketing.

Designer and Manufacturer of build to order stainless steel entry door systems. Project manager, handling all aspect of every customers order including: execution of cad shop drawings and revisions of each door for customer approval, procurement of all components from various vendors, project scheduling,project and vendor management throughout manufacturing and production process, development of new processes and procedures to improve customer experience.

• Technical surfacing for ID development and 3D surface control data• Ability to bridge between designer, design engineer, graphic design• Design of plastic and metal parts for rapid prototyping and manufacturing• Additional duties include: 3D rendering using Alias Design Studio, 2D CADimplementation, 2D renderings, graphic control documentation for screen/padprinting processes, designing and assembling client presentations, video technician for usability testing lab, shop management including specifying and purchasing equipment, assistant network administrator, and facilities management

• Concept design and development of projects ranging from consumer and broadcast video hardware, consumer elctronics and commercial food service equipment.• Managed product development program; oversaw all phases from initial concept design through prototype development and preliminary design for manufacturing. Development of 2D Design Control Drawings and 3D solid and surface Design control data for injection molded, rotational molded and thermoformed plastic parts. Full comprehension of screen/pad printing for products, lexan labels and membrane keypads. Model building: form development in foam to hand finished appearance models.• Managed projects from concept phase through ID Control Drawings

Ba, Industrial Arts, Emphasis: Product Design And Development

Activities and Societies: Student chapter of the IDSA, Co-ChairGraduated Cum Laude

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