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Bellingham, Wa, Us

Bellingham, Wa, Us

Bellingham, Washington, United States

- In addition to Industrial Design, role expanded into product management. - Defined and organized product positioning and requirements from auditing internal sales and sales reps, customer service, marketing and warehouse departments to generate Product Requirement Documents. Worked with key stakeholders to define product direction. - Established creative direction through trend/market research and customer insights. - Collaborated with marketing department to storyboard key product stories, organize product rollouts and provide copywriting input.- Orchestrated educational product seminars for assembly and marketing departments.- Organized and captured production feedback between assembly team and manufacturing partners from pre production through production cycles. - Provided support on key website features for DTC efforts.- Managed and structured asset libraries for all product and graphic files in Solidworks PDM and internal servers.

Bellingham, Washington, United States

- Collaborated with a team of designers, product managers, engineers and directors to bring a series of 10 bike projects and 8+ bike components to market. - Conceptualized and visualized concepts through high fidelity sketches, illustrations and CAD renderings. Established scalable form language for full line of bike products.- Delivered 3D and 2D engineering packages for vendor handoff. Articulated design intent for manufacturing by creating specifications detailing fit, finishes, color, graphics, etc. Led communication with vendors and manufacturing partners. - Reviewed samples, refined CAD models to achieve successful product packages. - Managed multiple projects and deliverables while adhering to deadlines.- Worked in carbon, alloy, steel, plastics, rubbers, paint, decals and finishes. - Crafted graphic deliverables for sales decks, technical user manuals, product graphic treatments and internal testing/assembly docs. Developed packaging concepts to deliver complete bikes to a customer’s door. - Managed testing and prototyping of components and products. Defined testing metrics for athletes and vendors.

- Contracted for a design sprint to formulate conceptual product architectures for a workshop with an internal client. - Delivered and refined multiple rounds of sketch concepts alongside the team that were used to generate new product discussion.

Greater Seattle Area

Collaborated with founder Brian Pape and the design team to deliver front end form language explorations and rough 3D models that were cohesive with the Miir product line. Products included the Miir Flip Traveler Tumbler, Miir Wine Set, and Miir Leakproof Straw Lid now sold in coffee shops and retail partners all around the world.

Supported the in-house design team in all steps of the development process to deliver molded and sewn luggage products for Ricardo, Skyway, & private label brands. Responsible for material research and initial form sketches, luggage component detail explorations, rough 3D modeling and tech package creation.

- Collaborated with established sporting brands including Patagonia, Salomon, Burton Snowboards, and Major League Baseball to deliver creative retail solutions that elevated the brand at the retail level. - Responsible for conceptualizing and producing ground-up store experiences, merchandising plans, tradeshow booths and retail fixtures to fulfill in-store brand initiatives.

Seattle, Wa

Worked in the design studio and alongside product managers and engineers to deliver industrial design direction for drinkware and cookware products under the Stanley, Aladdin and Starbucks food and beverage brands. Delivered on a line of products under the Stanley Adventure brand.

Freeport, Maine

After graduation, I returned to L.L.Bean to work as a contracted employee during the months before I headed West. My responsibilities included creating and editing technical packages for soft good products, developing original concepts for backpacks, hunting knives and injection-molded winter sleds alongside a team of developers and senior designers.

Freeport, Maine

I was hired as an equipment design intern between my junior and senior year of college. My responsibilities included creating technical drawings, measuring product samples and developing products from original design briefs for the Camping and Hunt/Fish departments. These projects included both softgood products and mechanical hardgoods. When needed, I also helped the Footwear, Travel and Outerwear departments with color swatches and trend research.

Yarmouth, Me

David Puelle runs a small but highly successful design agency specializing in strategic branding solutions. David hired me as a design intern during the summer between my sophomore and junior year of college. My responsibilities included editing packaging deliverables, editing copy, creating original environmental signage concepts and refining branding materials for clients including Sugarloaf Ski Resort, Sunday River Ski Resort, Big Claw Wine, and Energy Circle.