Résumé (click here for PDF)

Education

Pratt Institute – Brooklyn, NY
Master of Industrial Design

Hampshire College – Amherst, MA
Bachelor of Arts, Liberal Arts

Design Experience

Product Designer: March 2008-Present
Lifetime Brands, Inc. – Garden City, NY
Design products and prepare 3d and production drawings for nationally branded and private label kitchenwares, including KitchenAid, Cuisinart, Farberware; liaise with overseas production facilities; quality control; project management

Project Leader – The Dumpster Project: September 2006-May 2008
Pratt Design Incubator – Brooklyn, NY
The Dumpster Project was commissioned by the Mayor’s Office for Industrial and Manufacturing Businesses in New York City

Product Modeling & Rendering: April-November 2007
Lawrence Metal Products, Inc. – Bay Shore, NY
Create dimensioned line drawings and renderings for 2008 catalog

Contract Print Production – Various, including ESPN Books: 2001-2009
Book Design. Formatting Translated Documents, Website Production, Computer Systems

Teaching Experience

Visiting Instructor: Fall 2010
New Jersey Institute of Technology – Newark, NJ
Third-Year Industrial Design Studio

Grants & Awards

2005 International Contemporary Furniture Fair – New York, NY
Mantis Chair prototype selected for display Pratt/ID booth; the Mantis Chair was subsequently exhibited at the Silas Marder Gallery in Bridgehampton, NY

Lemelson National Program at Hampshire College – Amherst, MA January 1996
Grant awarded for materials and development costs relating to the Inflatable Playspace

Internship

Cann Associates Industrial Design – Amherst, MA February 1998-May 1998

Product Licensing

The Inflatable Playspace, licensed to Haystack Toys (as AirMaze) November 1999

Media Recognition for Inflatable Playspace / AirMaze

Forbes Magazine, Nov. 29, 1999; The New York Times, Dec. 30, 1998; Inc. Magazine, March 2000; The Denver Post, Mar. 12, 2000, Nov. 5, 2000; Newsweek, Jul. 24, 2000; FSB Fortune Small Business Magazine, Apr. 2001; WWLP-TV (Springfield, MA) Spring 1998.

Software

Alias StudioTools
PTC Pro/E
SolidWorks

Adobe
Acrobat
Dreamweaver
FrameMaker
Illustrator
InDesign
Photoshop

Microsoft
Office Suite

Quark XPress