RESUME
Skills:
* Proven record with creative visioning and strategic thinking of consumer products.
* Exceptional hand sketching in various mediums with applicable skills in Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Illustrator CS3.
* Applied understanding of biomechanics and human factors as it relates to performance product creation.
* Demonstrated ability to incorporate relevant marketing and branding principles in design.
* Effective design leadership with active project management.
* Cross-cultural skills with an accent of global thinking.
Consulting Experience:
DAVID LEWIN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN – Consultant, Owner and Principal Designer, Portland, OR, 04/2005 - Present
* Multi-disciplined industrial design visionary currently developing intellectual properties for:
-- Top footwear: Athletic to lifestyle.
-- Consumer products: Portable electronics, multi-tools, optics, flashlights, bags, illustrations and graphics.
-- Custom automotive industries: Design and rendering of automotive interiors and exteriors.
* Client list: Leupold Stevens Optics, Under Armour, REI, Crocs, SR Suntour, Leatherman, Keen, Caterpillar, Polliwalks, Coast Cutlery and others.
* Solely responsible for daily business operations including new business development, account management, client relations, talent acquisition, creative design and direction. Focus on consumer cultural storytelling within a business context.
* Responsible for establishing and nurturing methodology for concepts, strategies, goals and ideas to business partners at key project intervals.
* Offering effective design insight, problem solving, technical information and ultimately visualization or modeling services for various companies.
* Adjunct Professor of Industrial Design at ART INSTITUTE OF PORTLAND.
* Teaching ideation, product theory, presentation rendering and mentoring aspiring Industrial Designers.
* Presentations to area high schools educating on careers in industrial design and product manufacturing.
Professional Experience:
ADIDAS INTERNATIONAL - Senior Design Manager, Portland, OR 08/1996 – 04/2005
* Responsible for setting design direction, merchandising and managing issues with as many as 12 team members.
* Leveraging of brand mission, cross category knowledge and heritage to create relevant design strategies.
* Seasonal initiative leader, fiscally responsible, planning, staffing, managing workload and counseling team.
* Extensive international and domestic travel for research, marketing and development.
* Category point person presenting trends, feedback, and external/internal design promotion to global management team.
* Assisted with apparel and accessory design for cross-team product synthesis.
* Collaborate with marketing to create product briefs and work with development technical service groups to resolve product issues - from initial design packages through commercialization.
* Completed Technical Packages (drafting, patterns, material spec. and color maps).
* Hands-on Senior Design Manager of Cleated Sports (Football/Baseball 2000 – 2005).
* Helped grow business to rank second in Cleated Footwear Industry.
* Awarded “Footwear business Unit of The Year” for 2003 by Adidas Sales force.
* Senior Design Manager of Action Sports (Skateboarding/BMX 1998 – 2004).
* Implemented category technologies that resonated throughout industry. Examples: Ground Control Cleat ’05, First Laser etched shoe and much emulated air-circulating skate “Clima” shoe (Gonzales) ’02, Clima baseball cleat ’03, Recycled mono-filament as foam replacement for foam (Converse Outdoor ’94).
* Authored key products from account level to advanced concepts and signature athlete products (T. Aikman, R. Clemens, V. Guerrero, L. Mountain, M. Gonzales, D. Mirra, R. Nyquist).
* Assisted designs in Training, Basketball, Originals, and Kids category teams 1996 – 1998.
REEBOK INTERNATIONAL- Designer 2, Stoughton, MA 01/1996 – 06/1996
* Designed technical product for running with DMX technology and Cross-Training footwear.
CONVERSE INC. - Footwear Designer, North Reading, MA 01/1995 - 01/1996
* - Designed performance outdoor and “Athleisure” skate/casual product lines from initial design to commercialization.
AD CONCEPTS – Freelance Footwear Designer, Reading, MA 06/1994 – 12/1994
Education:
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Bachelor of Fine Arts – Industrial Design 1989 – 1992
* European Honors program 1992. One of two students to represent RISD at GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART.
* Nissan sponsored automotive design project.
* BROWN UNIVERSITY - Liberal Arts courses 1989 – 1992. Comparative Anatomy 1&2 (Anatomical Illustration, Human Physiology), public speaking, U.S. military history and Japanese art history.
UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT - Industrial Design 1987 - 1989
