Icon Motosports
Sr Industrial Designer

June 15 | Present
Responsibilities: Worked with Creative Director and development team to generate concepts and production specs across entire product offering. Designs included helmets, helmet graphics, jackets, pants, gloves, footwear, bags, accessories, and casuals. Created production ready 3d models for helmets, protective gear, apparel accessories, trade show displays, and custom motorcycle parts. Responsible for 3d printing prototype lab.

Sport Dimension / Bodyglove / Jetpilot
Creative Director

Nov 11 | June 15
Responsibilities: Manager position tasked with leading a creative team to design and develop product, packaging, and marketing materials for Body Glove and Jet Pilot. Build timelines and development plan to track and manage product categories including wetsuits, PFDs, bodyboards, snow sleds, rashguards, and other watersports-related products. Design for multiple levels of distribution including specialty, sporting goods, and large national retailers including SMU projects for outside brands like Marvel, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Rockstar, Laird Hamilton, Jean Michel Cousteau, and SeaDoo.

SixSixOne / One Industries
Sr Industrial Designer

Feb 10 | Nov 11
Responsibilities: Worked with brand manager and sales team to create brand strategy and design direction for 661. Managed all aspects of the design process from product brief, timeline, and concept creation through product confirmation, 3d design, and prototyping. Led product design team to produce all visual and product elements of the brand including product, packaging, catalogs, print ads, and trade show booths. Set up prototyping lab to produce 3d mockups in clay and foam modeling.

Z1R Helmets
Lead Industrial Designer

Oct 07 | Feb 10
Responsibilities: Designed and developed new helmets and technical apparel for street motorcycling industry. Introduced in house 3d modeling environment with factory to speed up development cycle by 12 months. Developed brand direction through visual presentations including product, art, and video. Implemented a testing system to reduce noise and turbidity in helmets through qualitative wind tunnel testing.

Pro-tec / Vans
Industrial Designer I – II

Aug 02 | Oct 07
Responsibilities: Designed action sports helmets, pads, snowboard boot technologies, bindings, footwear and accessories for a leader in the action sports market. Worked with product management to develop products based on product brief to meet target costs and company’s strategic plan. Developed new concepts and technologies for possible integration into product line.

AWA Consulting Group
Associate Designer

Jun 99 | Aug 02
Responsibilities: Designed various products for a small design consulting firm using skills in model making, concept rendering, concept sketching, and research. Products included cable boxes/routers, power tools, hand tools, grills, grill accessories, etc. Designed and built tool testing structures to interview and observe expert user research.