Coroflot

Resume

Clay Moulton
3564 Martha Custis Drive
Alexandria, VA 22302

540 552.7702
claymoulton@mac.com

EXPERIENCE:

Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, 2002-2007:

Industrial Design Consultant-FLASH Lab: Provided design services and model construction for an interactive museum installation at the Virginia Science Museum in Richmond, Virginia.

Human Factors Experiment Research Assistant-Advanced Product Testing and Evaluation Group: Completed various on-road and in-vehicle experimental tasks. Provided support of design, construction and implementation of numerous experimental protocols and experimental paraphernalia. Provided experiment support including data reduction and graphical data presentation.

Vehicle and Lab Support Senior-Center for Automotive Safety Research: Provided experimental protocol design, personnel training, experimental object construction and implementation. Completed vehicle instrumentation design and support. Completed extensive in-vehicle experiment support with human participants. Provided post-experiment support including data reduction and complex data presentation. Coauthored experiment report documents for the FHWA. Provided extensive State- and Federal-level document graphics creation and support.

Graphic Designer-Communications Team: Directed the development and designed an Institute-wide identity program including logos, letterheads, a style guide, digital presentation templates and other graphic paraphernalia. Provided graphic support for project proposals, interim project reports, and final State, Federal, and private client project documents. Created complex data presentation graphics. Created technical illustrations for reports and internal training documents. Created camera-ready artwork for advertising and outreach. Oversaw the re-design and development of the Institute web-site, while working within a University style guide.

Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban Studies, 2005-2006:

Graduate Research Assistant: One of a 12-member interdisciplinary student team specially selected to develop concepts for a traveling science exhibition for children, called Phoebe’s Field™. This work was a year long planning grant sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Acted as an Industrial Designer and Art Director, developing a thorough identity program culminating in the layout, pre-press and printing of a series of 130 page books documenting the project for submission to the NSF in the pursuit of a multi-million dollar construction and implementation grant.

USM Modular Furniture, 2002:

Summer Intern: Trained in planning, assembly and production techniques implemented in USM’s Häller, Häller Table, Kitos, Display and eleven22 office product lines. Completed training in proprietary small and large scale planning software and installation tactics. Created cost-sensitive design solutions tailored to small-scale domestic applications.

Performance Bikes / BikesUSA, 1997-2001:

Lead Technician and Service Manager at a $4.0-million annual-sales shop.

EDUCATION:

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg Virginia: Master of Science in Architecture Concentration in Industrial Design, December, 2007:

Coursework completed in design project management and sustainable design methods. In-depth special study in two simultaneous multi-year NSF funded projects: Phoebe’s Field™ travelling exhibit design and the Bush-to-Base Bioinformatics PLUG mobile laboratory – a lightweight, highly portable, near-zero environmental impact lab/living space shipped to Tanzania in May, 2007. Supported in part by the NSF. Thesis titled "Resonant Frequency: Artefacts in Response to Time" successfully defended, June, 2007.

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design Spring, 2003

Bachelor of Arts in Art and Art History Spring, 2003
Studio Art with a Concentration in Graphic Design

Robert E. Lee High School, Springfield, Virginia:
Advanced Diploma earned, Spring 1996

AWARDS:

Greener Gadgets Competition, New York, 2008:
Second Place, Gravia Floor Lamp

Urban Re:vision's Re:volt design competition, 2007:
Honorable mention, Gravia Floor Lamp

Inventor US Prov. Pat. VTIP:07-052: Gravia Floor Lamp
Inventor US Prov. Pat. VTIP:07-107: Corrulain Cups
Co-Inventor US Pat. 11/744,635 "Phoebe's Field Exhibit Components"

Dean’s List:
College of Arts & Sciences, College of Architecture & Urban Studies, 1999-2003

International Contemporary Furniture Fair:
Editor’s Choice Award, New York, 2003

USM Modular Furniture Summer Internship and Travel Scholarship:
Münsingen, Switzerland, 2002

Gold Addy, Roanoke Ad Fed, 2003

Silver Addy, Roanoke Ad Fed, 2002

James P. Wang-Hubble Lighting Scholarship, 2001

SKILLS: Macintosh and IBM compatible platforms: Microsoft Office, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Acrobat Professional, Adobe Acrobat Reader & Distiller, Adobe Streamline, Quark XPress, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash, Macromedia FreeHand, Macromedia Fontographer, Ulead and Studio 8 video editing software, Proprietary real-time data visualization and reduction software, Proprietary video-based object recognition software, Audio/Video Codecs and compression techniques, Contemporary digital pre-press and printing techniques and work-flows, Ashlar Designer Elements Suite (concentration in Cobalt), Sketchup Pro, Rhinoceros 3D, MasterCam V8, AutoCAD, KeyCAD, Stereolithographic rapid prototyping machinery, various wood, metal, and plastic processing/finishing machinery, tools, and techniques including: 2 and 3 axis manual and CNC machining/lathing, hot and cold working of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, MIG, TIG and Arc welding, plasma torch cutting, various wood cross-cutting, ripping, boring, carving, and finishing tools, small scale electric and electronic device fabrication and repair, comprehensive passenger vehicle drive-train, suspension, and control systems knowledge for trouble-shooting, repair, and modification, Virginia State operator certification for seated fork trucks, articulated and non-articulated (squirt-boom) aerial lifts.

References and Portfolio available by request