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St Louis, Missouri, United States

New York, New York, United States

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Lead designer on 5 in-line projects; 4 lacrosse padding lines that included shorter/smaller than normal deadlines and price points, 1 lacrosse head involving advanced knowledge of CAD surface modeling and injection.
• Increased company profit margins on an already low price point product by creating intellectual property that increases efficiency of the manufacturing process of a lacrosse head
• Increased company market share by creating intellectual property that surpasses a competitor’s IP, which had hindered STX sales for year’s prior.
• Opened the door for 2 additional IP’s (different from those listed above) that resulted from prototypes I made, showed to legal, and discussed with project managers to use in future products.

Pune Area, India

• Integral member of a 4-person research team that conducted extensive 1st hand research of all stakeholders in the Indian culinary marketplace across the country. Identified several areas of opportunity and formulated.
• Provided unique solutions to the design problems identified using my “foreigner’s point of view.”
• Improved company revenue by presenting my findings and concepts to the upper management of a leading company in the Indian market, Goodrej. Goodrej is currently working with Futuring Design to develop products.

Boulder Colorado

• Lead designer on 2 product lines, 1 backpack line and 1 camera accessories line. Worked with engineering, development, and marketing to progress the product lines to the first round of sampling.
• Expanded company's market share by creating a product sample that expanded Thule’s product scope into a genre of outdoor recreation that was completely new to the company. Thule is currently pursing development of the.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Lead designer on 2 in-line projects, 1 child safety gate and 1 modular newborn bathing system. Worked with engineering, and development to progress the product lines to the first round of sampling.
• Resolved a gap in the company’s product line by developing an advanced concept that is currently being pursed my Munchkin

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

Lead designer on 1 in-line project creating luxury fireplace accessories. Explored a diverse array of materials and the effects they can have one a rooms ambiance when interacting with a fireplace.

St. Louis

• Lead designer a one prospective project for a client and aided the design team on multiple other projects when needed. Researched the day to day work of an HVAC worker, identified an area of opportunity, and developed.
• Improved company’s revenue by presenting my research and design concepts to a client who is working with Fred Sparks to create products.

St. Louis

• Worked at Metaphase while I was a senior in high school and was involved in the front end of the design process studying aesthetic trends of cell phones, and various consumer tech, from their origin to current day.
• Kick-started multiple design projects by compiling research observations into a hypothesis of future aesthetic trends