Design Op’s focused. Establishing user experience, design, brand and innovation maturity.Global Design leadership team and steering.Lead multidisciplinary design and experience for North America Professional, Residential and RoboticsCurrent Initiatives: - User Experience - UX - Customer experience - CX - Design Thinking integration and growth - Design research integration - Innovation development and management - Team growth and optimization - HCD implementation - Risk reduction - Brand Design Development - Creativity, Curiosity, Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking

Enabling organizations to amplify user centricity, innovate and inspire those they serve. Including: - Innovation & Design Consulting - Design Thinking / Human Centered Design - University Lecturer - Advisor - Speaker - Mentor - Facilitator - Thought Leadership

Associate Professor of the PracticeFocus on an iterative and collaborative approach to opportunity finding and problem-solving deeply, rooted in making and human-centeredness.Creation, facilitation, and delivery of learning to multidisciplinary groups from all Notre Dame colleges.- Design Thinking- User Experience- Human-Centered Design- Design Research- Innovation Partnerships- Insight, Foresight, Derisking- Rapid prototyping and testingAdvise and coach to innovation start up and partnership ventures.Curiosity, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, Design, Strategy

Design and Ideation Leadership across a multidisciplinary global design footprint.Directly responsible for Design across Yankee Candle, Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Quickie, IRWIN Tools, Lenox, Woodwick, Millifiori.Advised and collaborated across organizationBuilt design teams, directed 16 + members managing $3.5B in business. Led conceptualization and development of new products from ideation through completion utilizing design thinking, user-centered research, consumer marketing insights.Translated marketing objectives into clear creative strategies by synthesizing input from management, sales, engineering, and development partners to design and refine products from ideation to mass production.Developed and refined strategic plan, incorporating changes to the creative function to meet market changes and competitive threats.• Launched > 26 product ranges for Rubbermaid Commercial Products driven by consumer marketing insights, user centered research and usability.• Established $45M home fragrance pipeline, developing long-term strategies to increase market share capitalizing on future trends.• Achieved $14M worth of mass retail business via rapid cross-functional design response. • Orchestrated design for Yankee Candle Elevation with protectable intellectual property (IP), resolving #1 user issues, exceeding sales by 185%.• Acquired 15% of brand sales for Calphalon Premier Cookware with elegant 30% space saving design and protectable IP.• Broke new ground for Rubbermaid Commercial’s decorative refuse category though exquisite architecturally aligned design and leadership presence at NeoCon and in Contract magazine world leading trade show & magazine for commercial interior design & architecture.• Planned & executed global industrial design summit for over 100 designers. • Reduced timelines by 30% with qualitative research for discovery, development and validation• Awarded recognition with 2 industry awards for overall design and excellence.

Directed two design teams with five members each, driving a positive, creative, and work-oriented studio atmosphere.Direct Responsibility for: Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Calphalon, Goody, LevolorExtended collaborative responsibilities across all in Industrial Design.Identified, proposed, designed, and built solutions that spanned product design, user experience, and interaction, as well as product and service design domains. Established high and consistent standards for design quality and creative process. Elected as subject matter expert for development organization and defined industrial design process with partners. Selected Achievements: • Increased margin while retaining premium brand positioning for Calphalon Cookware sub-brand by streamlining design strategy. • Created and launched visual brand language (VBL) for Goody Brand that included clear brand identity, improved usability, and reduced complexity/costs. • Enhanced performance by leading training on company development process for over 300 employees. • Accelerated productivity with recognition and award ceremony for global design teams.• Increased consistency and effectiveness through ID process definition with partners, served as the subject matter expert for the development org.

Co-founder and managed a branch office for a global design consultancy, collaborated across four branch offices to evolve user centered design culture, elevate content quality, maximizing strategic impact of design effort.Managed industrial design concept generation and lead ethnographic research. Developed and implemented efficient and profitable process that consistently met or exceeded client expectations.Pitched and won key client business, acquiring and managing local and national client accounts. 2007+ AUTHORED various published design related articles for industry publications2011 IMERJ (Flextronics) Design Collaboration on Dual Screen Folding phone and ecosystem design - ID Collaborator2011+ THOUGHT LEADERSHIP FORUM, Corning 'Day of Glass Summits.2011 CONCEPTUALIZED and led development of the award winning Skygolf SGX GPS 2011+ GORILLA GLASS, Provided design leadership on Corning Gorilla Glass projects, built internal advocacy and new customer adoption. 2009 Dell Adamo: worlds thinnest laptop & multiple advanced projects supported through ideation 2007 Directed industrial design and user experience (UX) processes for first electroluminescent (EL) keypad. 2006 DIGITAL healthcare, 1st Company ‘concept study’ publishedAwarded 20+ Industry Honors/AwardsClients: Dell, Corning, Flextronics, Qualcomm, RIM/BlackBerry, Harris, Xenex, Enfora, ETS Lindgren, Kimberly Clark, GPSI/ClubCar, Marvell, Skygolf, JMI Equity, Novartis, Fenway, Smiths Medical, Covidien, Smith’s Medical, Steris, Cardianal Health, Invitrogen, BCBSFLIndustries: Computing, Mobile Technology, Medical, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Defense, Communications, Consumer Electronics, Safety,

Increased the Industrial Design sensibilities and capability, building on ethnographic research, spreading a creative culture across multi-disciplinary teams in this hands on role. • Introduced digital workflows for increased impact, speed and accuracy• Increased quoting values with new and existing clients• Developed Qualcomm’s first consumer focused development platform, gained industry press• Designed the smallest smart phone at the time - Sendo X2• Awarded 10 Industry Honors / Awards Clients: Qualcomm, RIM/BlackBerry, Harris, Kimberly Clark, Newell, Novartis, Fenwall, Smiths Medical, CovidienIndustries: Computing, Mobile Technology, Medical, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Defense, Communications, Consumer Electronics, Safety, Lifestyle, Housewares, Security

Broke new territory for the LEGO Group leading the creation of new concepts for global licensing partnerships and core businesses. 2001 LEGO InMotion full size concept vehicle unveiled at NAIAS - Initial vision & Design Lead for LEGO2000 LEGOTIME New range of watch & Clock systems1999 LEGO Playseat NAIAS Best in ShowLEGO Lifestyles, LEGO Media, LEGOTIME, LEGO System A/S, LEGO USA, Johnson Controls.

Created multiple new ideas for endless play based upon the design research, kid workshops and market data. Concepts lead to new commercial products releases.Influenced/Actively designed for Slizer (Bionicle), Minifigure Collector Packs, Duplo Zooters, LEGO Watch System, New concepts, Active Play1999 Toy of the Year LEGO ClikitsSegments: LEGO Systems A/S, Technics, Girls, Duplo, Bionicle, LEGO Boston/MIT.

Successful independent design consulting business with multiple client relationships providing multi disciplined kick-starts, ideation and design.Clients: Beanstalk Group, Crayola, Equity Kids, The Marketing Store, Worlds Apart, Grundfos, Product Development Technologies.