Leading the design process from inception through product development, transforming research insights into innovative and tangible design solutions, ensuring our products meet both functional and aesthetic standards.+ Design Leadership: Overseeing and coordinating the entire design process, from initial research to final product development.+ Product Development: Assisting in leading projects through the New Product Development stage gate process, ensuring timely and successful… Show more Leading the design process from inception through product development, transforming research insights into innovative and tangible design solutions, ensuring our products meet both functional and aesthetic standards.+ Design Leadership: Overseeing and coordinating the entire design process, from initial research to final product development.+ Product Development: Assisting in leading projects through the New Product Development stage gate process, ensuring timely and successful completion.+ Prototype Development: Building and overseeing the fabrication of early prototypes, contributing to the iterative design process.+ Color, Material, Finish: Developing CMF specifications for product families, aligning them with overall product strategies.+ Client Interaction: Presenting design concepts and solutions to both internal and external clients, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.+ Cross-functional Collaboration: Working closely with international sales and marketing teams to address corporate objectives and strategic goals.+ Innovative Design Practices: Utilizing a combination of product research and brainstorming with sketching, prototyping, and CAD to inspire and create product designs. Show less

Union specialized in the design of contract furniture products for licensing to manufacturers.+ Combined expertise in development with design and systems thinking to create concepts that are sustainable, have a reliable supply chain, and are easy to ship.+ Lead designer for projects that involved innovative mechanisms and complex surfacing.+ Quickened time to market and reduced development costs for clients by including a detailed drawing package ready for DFM review and a BOM… Show more Union specialized in the design of contract furniture products for licensing to manufacturers.+ Combined expertise in development with design and systems thinking to create concepts that are sustainable, have a reliable supply chain, and are easy to ship.+ Lead designer for projects that involved innovative mechanisms and complex surfacing.+ Quickened time to market and reduced development costs for clients by including a detailed drawing package ready for DFM review and a BOM with licensed designs.+ Disrupted furniture design industry by embracing engineering constraints early. Show less

Shea+Latone consulted the contract furniture industry with expertise in product development, prototyping, and testing for over twenty years. Manufacturers contracted S+L to guide new projects from world-class designers and architects through development into production. + Created, edited, and managed others’ project documentation including CAD data, shop and production drawings, prototypes, BOMs, test reports, and schedules. + Eliminated high cost and long wait times of freelancers… Show more Shea+Latone consulted the contract furniture industry with expertise in product development, prototyping, and testing for over twenty years. Manufacturers contracted S+L to guide new projects from world-class designers and architects through development into production. + Created, edited, and managed others’ project documentation including CAD data, shop and production drawings, prototypes, BOMs, test reports, and schedules. + Eliminated high cost and long wait times of freelancers by adopting parametric master modeling methods with curvature continuous surfacing in SolidWorks.+ Created and implemented standard operating procedures for digital scheduling and client communications to improve business efficiency. + Increased total revenue by 60% over two years after purchasing company from the founders by gaining clients, elevating work quality, and growing staff. Show less

+ Collaborated with multinational designers, engineers, and vendors to solve manufacturing challenges and to support continuous cost reduction initiatives.+ Led development for major client-facing projects, including Humanscale’s Smart chair and Teknion’s Conflux lighting and Mast monitor arms. + Designed and assisted with fabrication of light machinery and fixtures to facilitate repeatable and reliable production assembly at client factories.