Resumé

Experience

Industrial Designer
Colony Inc.
2001 - Present

Responsible for all aspects of industrial design duties for Colony.
Duties / Responsibilities:
- Concept development & execution of redefining retail space and its touch points
- Experience working with major US retailers such as Target, Walmart, Kohl’s,The Home
Depot and Lowes as well as brands such as Sony, Procter & Gamble and Rubbermaid
- Project mgmt and working on cross-functioning teams – sales, engineering, project mgmt
- 2d & 3d cad modeling and rendering presentation
- Production & management of all internal & customer supplied art/graphics
- Direct client & vendor interaction

Freelance Designer
Crownware Manufacturing Inc.
2000 - 2001

Freelance handle designs for a new single handle can opener.
Duties / Responsibilities:
- Ideation to concept generation for manufacturing
- Working directly with engineering
- 3d cad modeling and rendering presentation

Graphic Designer
Artworks Sign Co.
1994 - 2000

Duties / Responsibilities:
- Design, fabrication and installation of commercial signage
- Direct client and vendor interaction
- Managing projects with quick turnaround and budgets
- Cad to design and cut vinyl, small format printing
- Working with various material substrates – wood, metal, plastic, glass, foam, vinyl

Education:

Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada
Bachelor of Design, Major in Industrial Design, May 2001

Kwantlen University, Vancouver, Canada
Diploma of Graphic Design May 1998


Skills:

- Conceptual and creative visual thinker through 2d and 3d form exploration
- Solid understanding of all phases of design process from brief to ideation to concept stages
- Mixture of creative and mechanical ability and understanding of how things actually are built and
go together
- Knowledge of manufacturing techniques and processes
- Cost sensitive and value engineered solutions
-Empathetic, user centered & user driven design
-Researching and understanding a detailed brief and documenting of design decision process
-Good written and verbal communication skills
-Client and vendor interaction and management
-Excellent time management for quick project turnaround and ability to work in a fast paced
environment
-Hand sketching and 3d rendered presentations
-Model making from sketch mock ups to appearance models in paper, wood, plastic, foam and
metal

Passionate about design.


Software:
RHINO 3D, Solidworks, Autodesk Inventor, Sketchup Pro, Adobe Creative Suite

Projects by Tim Chong

Feature Wall
3 Files

Student Work
9 Files

Juniors Department
4 Files

Grohe Stackout Tower
1 File

Home Depot Recycling Program
1 File

Mobile Kiosk
3 Files

Nesting Tables
1 File

POP
3 Files

Augmented reality t-shirt display
1 File

Sony eco endcap
3 Files

Lincoln Electric
1 File