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Innovator, creator, collaborator, group leader, designer. Broad experience leading teams with multiple stakeholders across disciplines, locations and cultures. Expert translating unmet needs into solutions that support strategic outcomes. Background in industrial design, design strategy, product development and consumer product business with experience at top design consultancies as well as independent design studios. Leadership on programs for some of the world’s leading brands as well as start-ups. Repeated success with speculative entrepreneurial ventures. Winner of 29 international design awards including 4 IDEA Gold Awards. Consulting experience in categories ranging from consumer, industrial and medical product design, furniture design, business strategy and development, brand design and brand communications. Inventor on dozens of domestic and international design and utility patents. Experienced with intellectual property and licensing. Client work has included: Microsoft, OXO, Reebock, Kaz/Vicks, Omron, John Deere, Hyster/Yale, Brown Foreman, AT Cross, Kikkerland, Brookstone, Starbucks, among many others.Specialties: Collaboration, Leadership, Management, Innovation, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Design Leadership, Invention, Consumer Products, Intellectual Property, Product Design, Creative Direction, International Product Development, Design Management, Brand Strategy, Product Strategy, Project Management, Product Management, Ergonomics, Industrial Design, Design Direction.