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Naperville, Illinois, United States

Naperville, Illinois, United States

Greater Chicago Area

• B2C focused with projects in lighting, lifestyle, entertainment, and technology
• Conceptualized products, iterated prototypes, and made mechanical designs and drawings; identified high-quality suppliers and conducted market testing.
• Successfully guided product from conception to launch.

Hanam, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

• Built strong business and technical relationships with semi-conductor manufacturers as we developed solutions for their current and future die transport needs.
• Maintained 5yr development roadmap: intersecting customer needs & maintaining technical leadership. >150 NPIs annually
• Partnered with senior leadership to invest ~$3M product redesign; >$2M annual revenue impact.
• Guided 45% growth in key product revenue through cost modeling and price justification.
• Developed biannual presentations for CEO’s external meetings to drive strategic growth initiatives.
• Briefed executive team on “at-risk” supply chain; drove task force meetings preventing customer impact.

Santa Clara CA

• Managed premier semiconductor accounts of ~$30M annual revenue.
• Utilized mixed manufacturing in design, enabling new revenue stream and qualifying new factory.
• Increased tooling and non-recurring engineering by ~50% supporting high-volume production in 8 mos.
• Led computational fluid dynamic initiative with $.5m budget to improve technical capabilities.
• Increased customer confidence and company efficacy as primary client contact, delivering hundreds of complex presentations on engineering, quality, and commercial topics to an international audience.
• Enhanced quality culture across 5 key customers, 7 factories, 10 vendors, and 4 reports; recognized with 5 client Quality Awards.

Santa Clara, CA

• Developed cutting edge power supplies, miniaturized them, and scaled to support our customers in the lighting industry.
• Developed novel, ultra-compact LED power supply and control system and were issued 2 patents.
• Built software MVP and iterated increasingly robust feature sets to meet customer needs.
• Defined product requirements, managed project schedules, interfaced with suppliers, and ran UL compliance program.
• Launched 3 generations of ground-breaking integrations of housed LEDs with SMT component drivers.
• Pioneered partnership with SK Group, positioning organization for sales increase and market disruption.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Accelerated adoption of Apple’s Lightning connector for integration into docking stations for laptops, iPad, and iPhones.
• Jump started adoption of Apple Lightning connector through document review and bread boarding, enabling launch of new docking stations to consumers ahead of competition.

San Jose, CA

• Brought startup vision of high efficiency, high intensity LED bulb replacements for outdoor applications to life through design, manufacture, and test.
• Oversaw full design cycle of high-intensity LED bulb with PCB driver and cooling for outdoor application
• Increased manufacturing yields by 82% through design and process modification.
• Built process and documentation: mfg. time reduced by 50% & testing throughput increased by 1200%

Warrenville, IL

• Designed power reliability products for industrial and utility companies protecting their equipment and improving their uptime.
• Built new revenue stream by developing new product category in power reliability, eliminating equipment downtime.
• Formed strategic partnerships with 3 utilities.
• Conducted field research and established warehouse and manufacturing facilities.

Lisle, Illinois, United States

• Supported company vision of solid-state lighting solutions by providing human-centered designs that captured the advanced nature of the product aesthetically.
• Assembled skilled team of 3 designers to deliver 3D models for integration into electrical designs; brought human-centric design considerations, provided differentiation, and delivered on time and within budget.

Chicago, IL

Mpdd, Master Of Product Design + Development

Industrial Design