• Designed consumer products to define or reinforce brands while maintaining the considerations that ensure products make it on the shelves.
• Responsible for evaluating markets, leading design and engineering, developing brands, maintaining client relations, and tracking finances.
• Sourced and managed 50 contract designers to achieve success for clients.
• Worked with Walmart, Academy, Target, Bass Pro, Cabela’s, and others.
• Designs in use by the MLB, NBA, and UFC.
• Developed products for Bledsoe, Pelican, Flambeau, Engel, Big Rock, Hard Core, Evolution Outdoor Designs, PORCH + HALL, TimTam, and others.

• Taught INDS 2501, Sophomore Industrial Design Studio, for the spring semester in the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design.
• Recruited to instruct by Program Director in response to exemplary performance while attending the university.

• Directly managed a team of designers while providing creative direction and briefs for a team of marketing specialists.
• YOY sales grew 80%, driven by increased brand recognition, re-focused
marketing initiatives, and improved product representation.
• Led a rebranding initiative, including an assortment-wide packaging redesign, to target consumer segments and differentiate price tiers.
• Established brand languages and enforced them through brand guidelines.
• Executed product launch plans for entering new market segments and
oversaw their implementation.
• Initiated creative promotions— such as media buys, giveaways, and print
ads— and adapted them with feedback from key performance indicators.
• Coordinated with sales team and engineers to design a POP interactive that demystified product assortment and flattened the consumer learning curve.
• Defined and embodied brand strategies via a 65-page product catalog.
• Implemented project management software to track multi-phase projects.

• Responsible for evaluating consumer segmentation, anticipating market
trends, and developing products to appeal to retailers and consumers.
• Collected and quantified market research, sourced factories, created
construction spec packages, reverse engineered competitive products.
• Increased sales and sell-through year-over-year.
• Developed manufacturing techniques revolutionary to the market.
• Designed a product showroom space in China and managed foreign
contractors to maintain budget and complete an extensive buildout.

• Designed and developed a bi-hormonal insulin pump (artificial pancreas).
• Assembled a team, formed a business plan, and established bylaws and operating agreements.
• Raised funding, filed a provisional patent, and applied for SBIR grants.
• Designed and built a complete functional prototype.
• Raised $23,000 in funding.

• Responsible for designing the interiors of museums across the U.S. and
abroad, and leading the shop via construction drawings to complete
buildouts.
• Duties encompassed conceptualization, engineering, and production of
museum layouts and elements.
• Developed interactive modules, researched and designed to tell a story
while educating the audience.
• Projects include: Equatorial Guinean Presidential Library and Archives,
Chennault Aviation & Military Museum, Texas Tennis Hall of Fame, Pasadena
History Museum, Historic Arkansas Knife Gallery, and others.

• Worked remotely as supplemental design support.
• Designed and developed concepts for Bledsoe, Petmate, others.

• Responsible for creating daily email content, managing creative for the retail.
website, product photography, and general marketing materials.
• Assisted with the design of women’s shoes, handbags, and jewelry.

• Designs habitable vehicles to support comfortable living, usability, and aesthetics while engineering and incorporating complex mechanical solutions.
• Develops human-centered products with anthropometrics at their core.
• Manages a gated NPI design process that encompasses research, sketching,
3D modeling, engineering, prototyping, usability testing, and procurement.
• Plans, distributes, executes, and reviews design work across internal and
external design, engineering, and manufacturing resources.
• Creates prototypes of varying fidelity and represents design intent through
physical models, sketches, and renderings.
• Conceptualizes, designs, and prototypes support systems such as plumbing,
electrical, HVAC, and propane to improve safety, comfort, and usability.
• Applies CAPM project management principles to set schedules, engage
cross-functional teams, manage budget, and lead design reviews.
• Designs and creates drawings for parts made via CNC and waterjetting.
• Administers Solidworks PDM to manage iterations of complex 3D models.

Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture & Design

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