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Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Delta, British Columbia, Canada

Vaughan, Ontario, Canada

Led an in-house design team to create desirable housewares, clear instructions, engaging packaging, and visually striking presentation assets to support the Sales team when pitching to national retailers. Developed product and marketing directives including, form, function, interaction design, and product finish. Worked closely and collaboratively with various manufacturing partners to deliver the product vision.Directed and revised both product and packaging to elevate and ensure product quality. Created dynamic product launch videos with CGI, photography and live action shots, as well as technical support videos. Created and presented a live product demonstration for IHA SpringConnect, 2021.Supported the VP of Sales and VP of Marketing by consistently reviewing and revising design and artwork drafts in advance of their final approval.

Toronto, Canada Area

Develop and refine bathroom housewares through ideation sketching, market research, 3D modeling, prototyping and supplier sampling.Create striking product renders for packaging, convincing in-situ marketing renders, animations, and painted prototypes utilizing SLA 3D printing.Refine designs and factory samples with observant problem-solving, precise communication, documentation and product testing.

Toronto, Canada Area

Active community member, working amongst other creatives on personal projects and freelance gigs.Self-declared, resident coffee & tech guru!www.bygoodgorilla.com/

Cincinnati, Ohio

Grew with a new bakery startup, focused on maintaining the brand's clean aesthetic, professional service, quality products across four new locations. As a designer, contributed to growing the network by ideating and presenting store layouts, kiosk design, automating smart lighting and music, redesigning menus and store assets in Google Docs to increase store autonomy.As an auditor, all elements of space, presentation, quality and even language were defined and inspected. Staff and managers alike were trained on store presentation, care of the sensitive product, speaking about the products and brewing excellent pour-over coffee and tea.

Cincinnati, Ohio

Joined a new bakery startup as one of their first employees. The position quickly developed into a multi-disciplinary role as retail processes, product, and details were refined to benefit staff and customer experiences alike. As a designer, many elements of the business were supported in their development such as store design, packaging, menus and graphics. Interior smart lighting, music and aesthetics where refined and managed. As a store manager, a small team was hired, trained and scheduled. Led with a like-follows-like mentality, where confident and gracious staff led to quality customer experiences. Handled day-to-day operations ensuring macaron, coffee and tea products were of quality and ready to serve.

Cincinnati, Ohio

As a founder and inventor, interactive electronic products were designed and prototyped utilizing 3D printing and embedded electronics; researched and planned for regulatory demands, small scale production costs and technologies.As an artist, collaborated and led production of more than a dozen works on canvas, participated in community gallery openings with electronic works.

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

As a designer, supported an international team in ideating, presenting and developing consumer products through sketching, rendering, production and research.

Toledo, Ohio Area

As a designer, ideated and refined glass packaging designs for client brands. Supported other teams by rendering ideated concepts for presentation. Worked with manufacturing engineers to ensure viable concepts were ideated.

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

As a returning co-op, continued to develop luxury home goods for a retail catalogue company. Presented design concepts weekly in VP and director level meetings, Researched fashion and consumer reviews to derive new products and product variants. Produced design documents for partner factories.

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

As a design co-op, developed luxury home goods for a retail catalogue company. Presented design concepts weekly in VP and director level meetings, Researched fashion and consumer reviews to derive new products and product variants.

Fort Collins, Colorado

As tech support representative, lead customer calls with clear, empathic language to resolve technical issues to replace equipment. Earned title of "Quality Assurance Superstar" after routinely scoring above 95% in QA listen-ins.

Bachelor Of Science In Design, Industrial And Product Design

5 Year Co-Op Education Program

Education record

Activities and Societies: Interaction Design, User Interface Design, Product-enabled Service DesignInternational Exchange Program Fall.