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Matt Betteker


Education
College for Creative Studies
Major: Industrial Design BFA
Minor: Illustration
Grad May 09

Western Michigan Universtiy
-Studied Industrial Design Engineering Degree for 1.5 years



Current:

LEGO Concept Designer - Full time (January 2011-current)
-Working in Buildable action figures, designing the future of educational play


Past:

Freelance:
EA Games Concept Artist(February 09-December 2010)
-Contracted Concept Artist for upcoming title
-Contracted concept Artist for Monopoly Streets
-Contracted Concept Artist for NERF N-strike Elite 2
-Contracted Concept Artist on multiple small in-house projects

Industrial Designer at ATOMdesign (June 09-Sept 10)
-worked on:
-hunting/military products
-office products
-packaging
-garden/shop tools
-interface design
-flash animation
-brand character design
-working in photoshop, illustrator, rhino, solidworks, pro-e, maya and flash.

Commission:
-42"-70" Forest Oil Painting
-Panasonic F1 Racer Wall Concept Piece


Internships:
Altair Product Design (September 08-January 09)
-Worked on new line of rescue tools for Para-jumpers
-Also a team member on multiple lighting projects for Ilumisys

Propane Creative (Summer 08)
-Learned how to collaborate with a design team to quickly fulfill a brief
-Designed for the following companies:
-Panasonic
-Flo Healthcare
-Hamilton Beach
-Raymond Forklifts
-Digital Blue
-A number of other high profile clients

Altair Product Design (Spring 08)
-Worked with the client Ilumisys to design a series of 5 LED hanging lights
-Prototyped the lights and designed a show booth for the lights to be
displayed in the 2008 Las Vegas Light Fair and upcoming tradeshows
-Won the Best Booth Award at the 2008 Las Vegas Light Fair
-The lights have been featured in numerous publications such as
Architectural SSL, Habitat Magazine, Natural Home, LED Journal, LED�s


Tennant Company (Summer 07)
-Learned how to incorporate manufacturing processes into design ideas
-Worked side by side with engineers and marketing on the Panther Line
of small riding machines that is still in development
-Joined Toastmasters to improve my speaking and presenation skills





Studios:
Caterpillar
-Collaborated with a local CAT dealership to redesign the
Caterpillar 320D Midsize Excavator
-Entered the project into the 2009 IDEA Competition
Nike
-Worked with Nike designers to create 2012 Brazilian basketball shoe
-Embraced and employed Nike design philosophies

Tekna Solutions Inc.
-Worked with designers and engineers to design a medical storage unit
-Learned about the medical field and how industrial design is applied.




Skills:
-digital/analog sketching
-Photoshop|Painter|Sketchbook Pro|Illustrator|Flash
-SolidWorks|Pro-E|Alias|Maya|Rhino
-Hand modeling|prototype
-Teamwork