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Wilkes Barre, Pa

Directing Industrial Design activities for a global organization known for innovation and quality, over 25 product lines, 50 modular platforms, serving numerous commercial markets including Healthcare and Foodservice.Managing a human-centered creative process, understanding our customers’ and users’ objectives and collaborating with project teams to identify opportunities, and help define product and business requirements.Creating unique feasible product concepts, architectures, and shepherding design intent with our global development teams, leveraging our internal manufacturing processes and vendor partners. Reinvented and expanded our food holding and transport lines, more than doubling our market share and sales volume. Developed an innovative line of catering and transport products, meeting unmet user needs, in a new market segment. Developed, extended and consolidated numerous open and closed-storage product lines, optimizing value, reducing manufacturing complexity, strengthening brand image, and protecting our leadership position.

Pittsboro, Nc

Designed, and developed, hard-goods products for the largest retailer of bicycling products in the US.Worked with merchandising and QC departments to identify vendor partners, develop product concepts, specifications, names, marketing strategies, support literature, packaging, and catalog presentations.Worked directly with agents and suppliers in the Far East, Europe, and North America, to develop new and private-labeled products, qualify vendors, and approve pre-production product. Introduced products include bicycle transport products, cycling computers, tires, in-door training equipment, repair work stands, clip-less pedals.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Product design and support services with a small design consulting and model making firm, specializing in consumer and industrial equipment, computer enclosures, and computer kiosks.Responsible for ideation, presentation drawings, industrial design, design engineering, and design control documentation. Also responsible for model building, client / vendor liaison, and computer system and file management.Projects include rugged computer enclosures and mounts, touch screen video and banking kiosks.