DESIGN DIRECTOR / PRINCIPAL DESIGNER with 22 years of experience in design consulting and developing consumer electronics.
EDUCATION:
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena - BS (with honors) Industrial Design, summer 1999 - summer 2002
Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara - Liberal Arts studies, spring 1998 - spring 1999
Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg - Product Design studies, fall 1996 - fall 1997
CURRENT:
Nike (2022 - ongoing): consultant - industrial design / product development (NXT Space)
Nekar (2020 - ongoing): design principal / design consulting
Time Off (2019 - 2020): spending time in Europe with family and friends between Germany and Montenegro
EXPERIENCE:
Director of Design (2015 - 2019): leading a team of designers responsible for the Surface tablet PC and Surface Studio product lines / representing product design and user experience throughout the business and product development functions.
Design Lead (2010 – 2015): leading the Surface Pro product line / manage designers / concept creation / liaison to engineering and manufacturing disciplines
Microsoft PC Hardware
Design Lead (2008 – 2010): leading the Webcam and Keyboard product lines / concept creation / liaison to engineering and manufacturing disciplines
IDEO Palo Alto ambassador (visiting resident, june2007 - march2008): nurture IDEO Shanghai design community
- mentor junior designers / interview and propose ID candidates
LCD TV: design language for a new product line of flat panel TV’s for the Chinese market
- lead designer: mentor junior staff / serve as liaison during engineering and manufacturing phases / concept development / 3D Cad surfacing
IDEO Palo Alto (march2004 – july2008) www.ideo.com
HP inkjet printer: exploring evolutions, implementation of HP’s design language specifically for multifunction printers
- lead designer, project manager: mentor junior designers / manage client and outside vendors / concept creation / 3D Cad surfacing
HP design language 2: development of multi product line design language
- senior designer: mentor junior designers / manage day to day client needs / manage outside vendors / concept creation / 3D Cad surfacing
HP laser printer: exploring evolutions, implementation of HP’s design language specifically for laser printers
- lead designer, project manager: mentor junior designers / manage client and outside vendors / concept creation / 3D Cad surfacing
Pfizer / Target: packaging system design development
- senior designer: concept creation / 3D Cad surfacing / manage outside vendors
Oxo Trash bin: design development of a small trash bin family
- designer: concept creation / 3D Cad surfacing / engineering liaison
Oxo Steel can: design development of steel kitchen trash cans
- designer: concept creation / 3D Cad surfacing / engineering liaison
Intel concepts: concept development of handheld computers
- designer: concept creation / 3D Cad surfacing
Avaya business telephone line: developing new product line of voip business phones for the global market
- designer: concept creation / 3D Cad surfacing / manage outside vendors
HP inkjet printer design language 1: unifying several inkjet product lines into one cohesive product family
- junior designer: concept creation / 3D Cad surfacing
IDEO Boulder (march2003 - march2004)
Gerber Breast pump: design development
- junior designer: concept creation / 3D Cad surfacing
Formart Design, Hong Kong (fall2001)
- design intern: developing products for the Asian and US markets
Suxdorf Design, Hamburg (summer1995-fall1996)
- design intern: building up my design experience while working on projects with P&G, Rotring and Montblanc
