Industrial Product Designer living in NYC 

ABOUT 

Inventive and ambitious young industrial designer, excelling in Industrial  Design, Physics and Presentation. 

Graduated from Loughborough University: one of the top Universities in the UK and known worldwide in Industrial and Product Design

Excellent problem-solving skills, calculative knowledge, communications and influencing strengths. Extremely skilled in public speaking and presentations. 

Looking to bring energy to any fulfilling environment in order to further my abilities.

Skills

Designer Software: Solidworks, Rhino and Rhino Plugins, Creo Parametric, Fusion 360, Photoshop, Illustrator, Sculptris, Keyshot, Axure, Pop App, Cura, Simplyify3D, Kita, Sketchbook

Workshop: Rapid Prototyping- including 3D printing and CNC work,  Machine fabrication, Modeling, Hand Crafting with Acrylic, Woodworking, Metalwork, Jewelry fabrication, Glassblowing, Neon Work.

Computation: Mathematics, Physics, Gemology, Mechanics, Material Science, Electronics, Coding, Chemistry, Research and Development.

Business Software: Quickbooks, Blue Vista, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Mailchimp, Wordpress, Google Ads and Google Analytics, Trello,

Communication: Public Speaking, Education and tutoring, Sales, Administration, Custom work with clients, Drama in performance, Live Presentations, Team Management, Customer Service, English and Writing.

Previous Employment  

Frank Darling: CAD Coordinator

CAD coordinator working with a great team at Frank Darling. Have contributed significantly to it’s enormous growth over the last two years, helping it transform into a global leader of the lab grown jewelry market.

Working with CAD designers across the globe to create gorgeous pieces of jewelry. Acting as coordinator between sales, production and multiple international teams of CAD designers. Ensuring designs are feasible, beautiful and made on time. Working closely with sales, gemology, quality assurance, diamond procurement, lifetime care and production teams to ensure that every piece designs is exactly tailor made to the clients specifications. Duties include assigning CAD designs, verifying design intent and assessing for feasibility, checking, altering and improving CAD models, troubleshooting potential manufacture issues and communicating with multiple people to exact time goals. Have implemented multiple projects that have increased efficiency and communication between various different departments: Including standardized onboarding training for all news hires. Currently implementing AI and automation solutions for further efficiency.

Krainzcreations : CAD Jewelry Designer and Model maker 

For 30 years, Krainz Creations has been merging  artistic vision, the latest technology and hand crafted elegance to bring stunning high caliber jewelry to a luxury clientele. Major clients including white labelling Harry Winston - the highest quality Jewelry in the world.

Duties include creating CAD designs for production to be 3D print and cast in platinum, gold and silver. Have worked with a variety of different precious stone designs, various CAD programs and with gem cataloging systems. Have modeled jewelry of all shapes, sizes and designs to tight schedules and impeccable quality. Have worked in collusion with other designers and manufacturers.  Specialized in Rhino, but adaptable with other Jewelry programs such as Matrix or Zbrush. 

Plexi-Craft: Design and Marketing Representative and Sales Assistant. 

Plexi-Craft: America's premier design company, specializing in luxury handcrafted Acrylic Furniture.  Professional duties include using CAD (Rhino) to recreate designs from clients, aiding in manufacture including handcrafting and utilizing CNC, taking designer photographs, creating marketing materials for both magazine and web advertisements, creating , editing and adding  content to the Plexi-Craft website, discussing new designs with design collaborators, organizing and taking part in design events such as the Architectural Design Show, International Contemporary Furniture Fair and 200 Lexington’s "What's New What's Next", educating crowds on Acrylic design, creating new design concepts and developing and refining designs into plausible and safe pieces of furniture. 

Designs include a fully Acrylic Crib- now one of Plexi-Craft’s bestsellers. 

Freelance: Jewelry CAD Designer, Salesperson and Marketing rep for various jewelry manufacturers 

Duties were mainly constructing CAD models (through Rhino or Matrix) along with renderings through Keyshot and photoshopped materials. Custom Client designs and sales experience. 

National Physical Laboratory

Lab Assistant to Professor Ian Robinson. Work experience placement on major UK initiative to re-define the Kilogram. Responsibilities included creating graphic representations of lab results, assembling and disassembling lab equipment and attending lectures. 

National Products Factory Ltd- “Nourish” brand.

Worked as a research assistant for Nourish Skin Care. Helped formulate and manufacture cosmetic products as part of a busy team working to deadlines. Demonstrated at trade shows, presenting and selling products while educating and engaging with customers.

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REFERENCES  (Numbers available through contact with me only)

• Hans Kretschman. Owner and CEO of Plexi-Craft Quality Products.

• Doctor Ian Robinson. OBE, NPL In Fellow of Electric Metrology.
  (Please note that Doctor Ian Robinson lives in England, time zone GMT +1,  five hours ahead of EDT. Please take this into consideration when calling. )

• Lydia Borrero: Head of Sales at Plexi-Craft Quality Products.

• Doctor William Davis. Miles postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UC San Diego.  Please note that Doctor William Davis lives in California, PDT, Three hours behind EDT Please take this into consideration when calling.  

• Yo Sik Cho: Chief CAD engineer at Krainzcreations and one of the best CAD Designers on the planet: