Craig Schultz Email & Phone Number

Hickory/Lenoir, North Carolina Area

Hickory, Nc, Us

Lead Cross-Functional NPD teams in the design, development and implementation of commercial furniture projects ranging in scope of $2-$10 million in sales, serving three major brands (HON, Allsteel & HBF). Lead Major Award winning projects including Jetty:Mod through the NPD process

Compton, California, Us

>>>Emagispace is a recently founded company that provides product solutions for Co-Working, Privacy Pods, Kiosk Retail Areas and Traffic Flow Control. Craig was a key member of a project team designing and implementing the Focus Room product. >>>The Focus Room product utilized Emagispace building block technology and expanded on the LEGO simplicity of it to build expandable size rooms. The Focus Room provided maximum flexibility at a compelling price point.

>>>Founded S&A, Inc. in June of 2010. Two main revenue streams are: contract labor and cleaning business. Acquired the assets of a local cleaning company in July 2010. We were franchisees of Maid to Perfection Global, Inc. >>>Our service area included Fairfax and Loudoun Counties. We finished our first year with sales up 45+% over the pre-acquisition level. Our commercial client list includes: Vera Bradley, Noodles & Co. Meadowkirk Conference Center, Dominion Christian Academy, German Gourmet, Crossfit Impavidous, Chantilly Academy Gymnastics & Culinaria Cooking School.

Chantilly, Va, Us

>>>Craig reported to the CEO in a fast paced product development role. He worked with design teams in the USA to develop many contemporary home theater and home furnishing products. Craig was instrumental in launching the "Sequel" Desk group, which is the companies first home office collection. >>>He worked with several factories throughout Asia to assure that the detail oriented products were made to very discriminating standards. www.bdiusa.com

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

>>>While at York/ Matthews Craig established structural/ performance test standards for products. He lead the set-up of a prototyping lab, a QA testing lab and upgraded the CAD system and staff. >>>Craig was also a key member of the veneer team that designed a line of products and set-up a production line of veneer wrapped caskets. Matthews is the second largest casket manufacturer in North America.

Muscatine, Ia, Us

>>>Craig was promoted to the position of Industrial Manager position shortly after the company was acquired by HON Industries (now HNI Corp). As the Industrial Design Manager he was a key player in the transformation of the new Allsteel. >>>Craig was instrumental in the set-up of the design department, prototype departments/ staff/ facilities. He coordinated the efforts of outside designers and in-house design projects. He then lead the implementation teams to set-up Lean manufacturing cells for production. >>>Craig also worked with the marketing department to assure a successful launch of each project.

Muscatine, Ia, Us

>>>Craig lead many product design projects though the concept development phase and then lead the implementation teams into Lean production work cells. Design, manufacturing and marketing functions were under this team lead role. >>>He was promoted to Sr. Industrial Designer and was physically located at the Geneva seating factory and the S.M.Howe technical center. >>>Craig also spent eight weeks per year on dedicated Kaizen Lean manufacturing improvement teams. 1998 sales of HON products that listed Craig as "primary inventor" on the patent totaled in excess of $60,000,000.

Grand Rapids, Mi, Us

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Menomonie, Wi, Us

BS in Industrial Design

Mba, Business Administration

Bs, Industrial Design

Ground School, Private Pilot Ground School