Experience

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  The Kinetic Concept llc

  • Portland, Oregon

  • Principal & Inventor.

    • Mar 2007 - Present
    • Portland, Oregon

    'Toy Invention'- Speculative consumer product ideation and development, intellectual property development, business development, product presentation, and consumer product licensing negotiation for over 20 licensed products in the Toy & Game industry.By both targeting holes in current product offerings and reacting to inspirations found in culture people young and older and the physical world, I created unique products that have long track record of attracting the interest of brands and buyers. These products have yielded significant Intellectual property assets including two issued USPTO utility patents.Primary tools: CAD (SolidWorks), 3D printing, Microsoft Office Suite, digital photography and video, hand sketching, prototype machine shop.

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  Hog Wild Toys

  • Clackamas Oregon

  • Chief Engineer

    • Mar 2019 - Jul 2020
    • Clackamas Oregon

    Engineering Manager for all product development of all categories at HogWild Toys where I developed production ready specifications for overseas venders from inventor submissions and internally created product ideas. Visited Hong Kong and mainland Chinese factories, managed vender workflow, developed RFQ and negotiated and interacted with venders throughout the quotation and product development process. Manged the creation of production equivalent samples for sales while working closely with creative sales and management to insure buyers received quality sample items for review in a timely manner.

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  Beaverstate Dental Systems

  • Newburg, Or

  • Design & Engineering Manager

    • Aug 2017 - Mar 2019
    • Newburg, Or

    Managing the design and engineering department at a BDS- an established class one medical device company that designs engineers and manufactures very high quality dental equipment in Newburg Oregon.

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  Lightfleet

  • Camas, WA.

  • Mechanical Engineer

    • 2007 - 2008
    • Camas, WA.

    Senior Mechanical Engineer and Industrial Designer in a computer hardware start up environment developing a next generation cluster computer utilizing free space optical all to all machine communication.Rapidly and accurately designed the mechanical envelope and precision sheet metal enclosure of a densely packaged Intel X86 Celeron CPU blade computer as used in a based 16 blade 4U rack mount cluster machine.Design of front panel, embossed logo, Device color and finish, ID coordination with marketing group.Primary tools: Solidworks with PDM 2006, and Microsoft office suite.

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  Monkey Business Sports

  • Product Designer, Manufacturing Engineer

    • 2006 - 2007

    Rapidly and cost effectively resolved several crippling manufacturing problems that had created failures for end users across the product line.Brought 3 products from 'inventor' submitted idea stage to high performing production items in company best time.Successfully integrated with the Creative Director to cohesively extend the brand language.Primary tools: Solidworks 2004, Microsoft office suite, Basecamp, Microsoft Office Suite, managed rapid prototyping and vendors, hand sketching, and utilized a complete manual machine equipped prototype shop.

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  Fogarty Design

  • San Francisco Bay Area

  • Industrial Designer

    • 2002 - 2006
    • San Francisco Bay Area

    Designed and engineered a patented hand held hair dryer sold by Conair and Remington that uses less energy, emits less noise, and dries hair more quickly.Designed, engineered, and managed a product development cycle that produced a patented fitness & wellness product on time and on budget.Designed, engineered, and built proprietary chocolate and confectionery equipment enabling a chocolate foods company to successfully present a unique confectionery product to the market.

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  Penguin Computing

  • San Francisco Bay Area

  • Senior Mechanical Engineer

    • 1999 - 2002
    • San Francisco Bay Area

    Solved reliability crippling thermal issues across the product line, interfaced with fan and CPU cooling manufacturers to redesign their product in order to meet rapidly increasing thermal capacity needs. Designed industry leading thermal capacity computer cases. Interfaced with overseas hardware suppliers to improve revision methodology, component delivery timing, and part accuracy.

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  frog design

  • Engineering Process Manager

    • 1998 - 2000

    Worked with web, middleware, backend, data warehousing software professionals, as well as frogs world class in house design and management to specify and prototype a consumer product design, manufacturing, and fulfillment integration Internet Portal that sought to create a contiguous digital environment for the entire consumer product life-cycle. It was a very very ambitious early Web 1.0 project that, like many of the Web 1.0 efforts, layed the groundwork and thinking that generated the eventual successes of 'Web 2.0'.

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  BC Tech

  • Santa Cruz, California

  • Industrial Designer, Mechanial Engineer

    • 1997 - 1999
    • Santa Cruz, California

    Industrial Designer, Mechanical Engineer, Project Manager.Design and engineering of medial devices from early concept through engineering and testing into manufacturing.Primary Tools: Solidworks 98, Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project, fully equipped prototyping machine shop, rapid prototyping vendors, and hand sketching.

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  Silicon Beach Design

  • Santa Cruz, CA

  • Founder and owner, Indutrial Designer, Mechanical Designer, Project Manger.

    • 1993 - 1998
    • Santa Cruz, CA

    Founder and Owner, Industrial Designer, Project Manager, Mechanical Designer, Business Development, and Project Manger. Supplied contract mechanical design and documentation to the semiconductor equipment industry, and Industrial Design for consumer product and medical device industries. Founded and grew business to 6 employees.Primary Tools: AutoCad 2D, MS Word, hand sketching, hand built prototypes.