Steve Chang ***Freelance Senior Product/Footwear Designer ***

**Senior Product/Footwear Designer — Los Angeles, CA

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I worked for various companies in all sizes as a full time employee and independent contractor in the past 10+ years. I designed and developed numerous products. I specialize in but in no way limited to product design, footwear design, snowboard boot designs and various soft and hard goods. Please contact me for new projects and also ask for special start-up rate.
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Experience:
10+ years
Education:
Art Center College of Design

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EDUCATION * Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA (1997-2001) -- Bachelor of Science, Product/Entertainment Design * Occidental College, CA (1992-1996) -- Kinesiology WORK EXPERIENCE * CINNADESIGN, CA (Nov. 2008 - Current) Position: Principal / Creative Director Brands: And1 basketball shoes, ision Casual footwear, Diff lifestyle canvas footwear line, CTRL Wakeboard boots, SoulSoles sandals, women's high heel, ERA footwear, VAPOR Studio, Messenger541 footwear, Celsius Snowboard boots, ArkCollective Backpacks, Wckd footwear, Myrtle footwear, Beloe footwear, Mantidz footwear and other start up brands that are confidential at the moment. Specialties: Product Design, Footwear and Snowboard boot design, Various Outdoor Product design ,Backpack Design, Branding, Various logo Designs, T-shirt Graphics. * MOSA ENTERPRISES – Eye wear/Accessories, CA (Nov.2009 – Dec. 2010) Position: Creative Director Duties: Managing the entire design process : eyewear design, packagin, P.O.P, graphics and etc * VANS, CA (Nov. 2003 – Nov. 2008) Position: Senior Product / footwear Designer Duties: 1.Managing the Vans Winter Footwear/Snowbaord boot design, team/process 2.Traveling to far east for design confirmation 3.Working with Sponsored-Riders on their signature Models * SOLE TECHNOLOGY (Etnies, Emerica, ES, 32), CA (Aug. 2001-Nov. 2003) Position: Product/footwear Designer Duties: 1. Managing the seasonal Emerica Footwear Design 2. Traveling to far east during the development season 3. Etnies and ES footwear and sandal designs 4. 32 snowboard boots designs * K-SWISS, Westlake Village, CA (Aug. 2000 - January, 2001) Position: Part time Footwear Designer Duties: Seasonal footwear design projects and SMU INTERNSHIPS * K-Swiss, CA (May, 2000 - Aug., 2001) Department: Footwear Design R&D Duties: 1. Participated in seasonal footwear design projects 2. Foot Action SMU projects(Running/Cross Training) SPECIAL SKILLS *LANGUAGE Fluent in English and Korean * Computer Skills Alias, Maya, Web-Design in Director, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator CONTACT E-mail. stevec@cinnadesign.com



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