Resumé

***Design Skills***

Strategic Thinking - Organizational Change
Design Management - Packaging
Design Management - Product
Design Management - Graphics
Contextual Research
Opportunity Analysis
Rapid Visualization Sketching
Computer Modeling
Computer Illustration
Model Making

***Computer Skills***

Photoshop CS6
Illustrator CS6
InDesign CS6
Acrobat Professional
Alias Sketchbook 2010 pro
Solidworks 2009
MS Office

***Professional Experience***

3/11 - Present Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Global Design Manager
- Leading design support for Kleenex innovation globally. Responsibilities include global innovation projects for the full user experience, as well as creating and implementing global design tools.

6/10 - 3/11 Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Associate Design Manager, ID
- Responsibility to be the voice of the consumer and design advocate, deeply embedded in brands, platforms, pilots, and projects for global consumer brands.
- Encourage design thinking in project plans and creating design briefs through collaboration with the cross functional teams to allow for a robust design process vs. simple aesthetic exercises.
- Actively participate in research and enable multidisciplinary participation to ensure team allignment on design principles grounded in user experience.
- Manage design vendors to ensure the highest level of quality in client/vendor relationships to help ensure partnerships. Partnerships support design sourcing strategy of few, deep partners that become immersed in our brands and add value over time.
- Share industrial design specific recommendations on ways to change organizational behavior in order to better leverage design in the future to support business growth objectives.

7/06 - 6/10 Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Senior Industrial Designer
- Served as an industrial designer with responsibility crossing all US consumer brands, partnering with top external firms while driving good design practice into the organization through design management in cross-functional teams.
- Served as key design contact for three brands, Pull-ups, Goodnights, and Little Swimmers. Managed project internally (hands on) and externally (vendor management).
- Led an internal project looking at sustainability within KC from a design perspective. Assembled a cross functional team to create ideas during a multi-day structured ideation and brought best concepts forward to senior leadership.
- Led implementation of a new prototyping shop with responsibilities including sourcing all equipment, shop layout/floorplans, safety coordination with facilities management, and creating the safety manual.

6/04 - 5/06 In-Form Product Development, Sun Prairie, WI
Industrial Designer
-Generated technical exploded view illustrations highlighting part count, assembly, and manufacturing options to provide project direction for design/engineering.
-Created quick aesthetic sketches, illustrations, and renderings to communicate design intent and match product family appearances.
-Generated CAD databases based on sketches to quickly create exciting renderings and/or rapid prototype parts for three-dimensional verification.
-Managed photography of company work for corporate portfolio, both in progress and finished prototypes.

6/03-10/03 Stout Design Research Collective, Menomonie, WI
Industrial Designer
Client: Andersen Windows Corporation
-Chosen as one of four senior students to develop new window concepts that challenge the anthropology of the future home and allow home-owners new and exciting ways to interact with their space.

6/03-8/03 Andersen Corporation
Production Associate
Oversaw 5 person sash production line in 200 series double-hung windows; helped make our line the most productive of the summer work schedule.

***Education***

University of Wisconsin-Stout
Bachelor of Fine Arts with an Industrial Design Concentration
Graduated in December of 2003 with the Chancellor's Award for Academic Excellence
GPA: 3.5

Projects by Jason Boon