Wes Thomas Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Australia

• Design and develop new toys alongside Creative Designers, Product Managers, and Director of Design, always ensuring they have innovative features and play patterns
• Responsible for mechanisms and inner workings of products including technical design solutions, product costing, and specifications

Brooklyn, NY

• Work with various clients to develop their products (such as toys, furniture, large-scale foam models)
• Concept ideation/ sketching, CAD modeling (including advanced surfacing & master model technique), & design for manufacture
• Collaborate with clients to reduce cost and complexity of parts and assemblies they're developing using streamlined design processes

New York, NY

• Worked closely with Head of Industrial Design & Director of Manufacturing to develop part designs for modular electronic toy kits
• Decreased development time for tooled parts and subassemblies by creating production-ready CAD models that can be manufactured without added costs
• Brainstorm and conceptualize product designs alongside talented team of product designers
• Travel and conference calls to Asia to collaborate with partners overseas and ensure a streamlined design process

Greater New York City Area

• Helped implement an in-house Industrial Design process for generating parts and assemblies of high quality toys and games for several iconic brands including ALEX TOYS®, POOF®, SLINKY®, IDEAL®, ZOOB®, and more
• Improved development costs and schedules by implementing DFM standards directly into product designs to reduce the need for outsourcing product development with vendors
• Closely collaborated with artists and creative concept designers to help them realize their ideas in ways that were easy to manufacture and inexpensive

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Conceptualized, designed, and developed toys for kids ranging from ages 3 to 12+, while managing multiple product lines simultaneously with different margin requirements, safety requirements, and scheduling restrictions
• Designed new parts in CAD software as well as used existing parts from the K'NEX library to design sets to fit meet market-driven price points
• Thoroughly researched competitive products and developed sets that deliver a higher value than the competition
• Presented ideas, features, and competitive advantages for my products to executive, marketing, engineering, and operations teams for evaluation and critique
• Traveled to various trade shows & events to set up, present, and break down product line displays as well as get the word out about K'NEX and interact with the community
• Provided tours of the K'NEX design, engineering, marketing, and graphics facilities to contest winners and their families, college and high school students, K'NEX fans, and various other visitors

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Designed consumer products from concept through production, managing projects each step of the way as part of a small, skilled team of individuals
• Worked on handheld electronic games, collaborating closely with programmers & electrical engineers, debugging program codes, writing instruction manuals, and drafting & maintaining technical, comprehensive game design.
• Traveled to Asia to coordinate with engineering staff and sales team
• Worked with talented staff of designers, illustrators, sculptors, marketing personnel, and other creatives to bring consumer toys and electronic games from concept to market

Philadelphia, PA

Industrial Design student at University of the Arts.Hired as a shop tech to run and maintain Industrial Design shop.

Philadelphia, PA

• Aided in general design and organization work for Postgreen, an award-winning modern, green developer in Philadelphia.
• Helped with presentation of content and rendering of graphics for postgreenhomes.com.
• Modeled and rendered various combinations of furniture/appliances/fixtures available in Postgreen's modern, efficient, and affordable homes for marketing/displaying their products.
• Worked closely with award-winning architects on various aspects of Postgreen's projects, including kitchen design/layout, interior and space design decisions, staircase designs, and how to render/display future concepts.

Bs, Industrial Design

Activities and Societies: Member of IDSA student chapter

Education record

Activities and Societies: Art Honor Society