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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Key Duties: brainstorm, create and innovate, test and validate● Lead brainstorm sessions in multi-team settings to identify new opportunities and guide the ideation of new products and interpret user feedback. ● Work with the CEO and the VP of product development to create sketches and 3D concepts in Solidworks and Keyshot, and work through the mechanical engineering and electrical needs and specifications of new product designs. ● Filled the role of go-to guy for mechanical and electrical challenges. ● Refine winning designs, explore cost-reduction options and resolve anticipated issues with the designs early in the process. ● Prepare 3D prints, prototypes and proof of concept models to validate design direction and mechanical solutions. ● Proactive communication with manufacturing and other vendors around the world to clearly establish expectations and accurate bill of materials. Work with factory engineers to eliminate potential quality issues and risks with the project. ● Receive and thoroughly test samples of new products in order to ensure quality and all performance goals have been met.

Provo, Utah, United States

Key Duties: Product designs and mechanisms, new design creation● Designed and engineered a UV-C sanitizing wand proven to be the most powerful and effective on the market, earning Oprah's attention and endorsement. ● Improved mechanical systems, internal geometry, mechanisms and assembly process for UV phone sanitizers resulting in significant drop in returns due to structural and mechanical failures. ● Lead new product brainstorming sessions to apply new technology to future projects, resulting in successful collaborations placing sanitizers in medical offices, select hospitals and airports.● Worked with sales and marketing teams to prepare photorealistic Keyshot renderings of new sanitizing products for potential business partners like Delta Airlines and the NFL. ● Applied simple machine concepts to new products, eliminating overly-complicated and expensive plans for automation.

Springville, Utah

Key Duties: design for manufacture, supervise engineering, client solutions ● Lead a team of 5 engineers to develop innovative and disruptive products in the industrial and modern office furniture space; provide vision, creativity and technical insight.● Liaison with a multi-million dollar account, personally designing and engineering custom office furniture for a national co-working company.● Challenged in-house fabricators to adopt new manufacturing techniques and workflows, reducing production time and waste.● Helped develop an automated drafting system, reducing the drafting time by approximately 80%.● Produced professional computer animated installation videos which resulted in a drop of upset customer calls, improved Rustica online ratings and freed up service reps to take sales calls and process more orders, increasing sales by an average of $3-5K per day.

Bluffdale, Utah

Key Duties: invent, build, evaluate ● Helped invent, design and engineer more than 68 new and innovative products, winning multiple CES awards and media mentions. Many of these products are still on the market. ● Lead product ideation and original concept invention, presenting prototypes and renderings to the executive team in strategic review sessions.● Reconsidered engineering routines and challenged norms to make better products faster and more efficiently.● Meticulously evaluated mechanical and electrical performance of prototypes and communicated expectations to manufacturers.

Bfa, Industrial Design

Activities and Societies: Industrial Design Society of America -Recognized within my group for achievements in industrial design -Earned.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts - Bfa, Industrial And Product Design