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Design Facilitator & Toy Blogger
Playful Factory (Sole Proprietorship)
Aug 2010 - Present (13 years 8 months)
Facilitating monthly toy design projects through this interactive blog allows me to help children explore their creative abilities as I guide them through a simplified design process developing and building their own toys.
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Senior Associate Designer
SC Johnson
Sep 2013 - Sep 2014 (1 year)
Improving the lives of people around the globe through home cleaning innovations and other epic international design adventures. Let's grab a muffin and talk about it sometime.
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iPRO Assistant Instructor
Illinois Institute of Technology
Aug 2012 - May 2013 (9 months)
I am assisting two Interprofessional Projects Program (iPRO) teams made up of various undergraduate concentrations and disciplines. We are work together to solve a real-world problem using a condensed innovation process. This role has been just as much innovation project management as it has been teaching.
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Design Research & Strategy Intern
IA Collaborative
Feb 2012 - Jul 2012 (5 months)
Assisting the research and strategy team is providing me with hands-on experience and exposure to the challenges and excitement of helping our clients innovate. It is a great opportunity to be able to work with multi-disciplinary designers, ethnographic researchers, and strategists as we go through user-centered design activities including; user research, contextual research, data analysis, framework creation, insights generation, concept development, and strategic planning.
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Designer
Playful Studios
Aug 2008 - Aug 2011 (3 years)
As a design consultant, I help make business fun by developing new products, brands, websites, interactions, and experiences.
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Designer
Tenshon
Nov 2009 - Mar 2011 (1 year 4 months)
I managed the design, marketing, production, and purchasing process in the manufacturing and distribution of tensile shade for commercial and residential use, including; shade sails, shade canopies, shade umbrellas, and shade structures.
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Guest Designer
Moderncat Studio
Sep 2009 - Jan 2010 (4 months)
Working with Kate Benjamin at Modercat Studio gave me the opportunity to design and hand-make a chew toy line for cats.
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Designer
Squint Studio
Aug 2008 - Jan 2010 (1 year 5 months)
I leveraged my industrial design experience, along with my partners' intellectual property and business smarts, to help turn people's thoughts into things.
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Designer
Boon Inc.
Feb 2008 - Sep 2009 (1 year 7 months)
At Boon I started as an intern and was later hired as a staff industrial designer and project manager. Working as a team we developed product 'Innovations for Modern Parents'.
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Designer and Fabricator
Creative Home Engineering
May 2007 - Feb 2008 (9 months)
As part of a team of mechanical engineers and industrial designers I experienced extreme problem solving as we designed and built custom secret passageways for residential and commercial use.