Resume | Professional Practice
Experience
Fisher Price: Senior Product Designer
Little People and LP Collector (2019-2025)
Senior Product designer on Little People and Little People Collector teams for Fisher Price. Help innovate new products for team through cross-departmental and collaborative brainstorms, concept drawings/renders, presentations, 3D modeling, and physical foamcore prototyping
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Communicate with overseas design counterparts on sculpt, design, and base-level engineering execution.
Provide artistic feedback to preserve design intent and deliver high quality results.
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Review final product and prototypes to ensure original design intent is translated and preserved.
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Regularly work with licensor partners including WB, NBC, Universal, FX, BBC, DIsney, Epic Music Rights, Hasbro, Netflix, etc. to help translate and preserve characters into LP style
Hasbro: Adult Games Co-op (2018)
Participated in team brainstorms for Fall 2019 games line. Gathered and compiled trend insight data for marketing and product proposals. Ideated and rendered product concepts and compiled presentations to be pitched to management and marketing.
Proctor and Gamble: Co-op (2018)
Intern for Hair and Beauty Innovation team. Helped define strategies for research and organize research results for brands such as Head and Shoulders. Conducted market research in forms of audits, image boards, consumer profiles and trend identification to find opportunity space in the naturals and sustainability sector/market. Created
original brand story, form language, and prototypes. Worked with contractors to create final presentation models and research tools. Contributed in brainstorms for other projects in the Hair and Beauty department.
Munchkin: Product Development Intern (2017)
Brainstormed, ideated, rendered, prototyped, and presented different projects including toys, bottles, brushes, bassinets, cups, conceptual proposals, and instructional manuals
Rapid Prototyping Center DAAP (2016-2018)
Operated and maintained 3D printers
(3D systems Zcorp 4500, Formlabs Form2, Uprint Plastic Printer)
Operated and maintained Laser Cutters
(BEAM Laser Machining Center, EPILOG, Rabbit)
Communicated and aided students in using the facility/services.
Reviewed and fixed geometry and files
Education
University of Cincinnati, DAAP
- B.S Industrial Design
- Minor in Entrepreneurship
- Class of 2019
Skills
Adobe
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
CAD
Rhino, zBrush,, Keyshot
Microsoft/Google
Word/Docs, Power Point/Slides, Excel/Sheets
Other
Concept Sketching, Rendering, Foam Core modeling, 3D printing, Laser Cutting, Trend Research, Image boarding Presentations, Student Mentoring
Personal Development
1:1 Mentoring for University Students
Mentorships include helping define project scope, managing goals and checkpoints, weekly check-ins, and live feedback sessions. Live demos and lectures are developed per students' needs
Writing and Comics
Short stories, Media Reviews, and Comics. Includes narrative script development, character design, story-boarding/thumbnailing, layout, inking, and coloring.