Ryan Henry

Leads all aspects of design for the company with a primary focus on driving the look, fit, and feel of wearable robotics and powered clothing for the industrial workplace, peripheral devices and components, packaging, and apps. Using patented technologies to create wearable electric muscles to augment physical strength and reduce fatigue, workplace injury, and lost wages.

Functioned in entrepreneurial way to spearhead design direction, calendar, material, and process of seasonal apparel concept collections 6 months to 1 year plus ahead of design teams.Collaborated cross-functionally with category apparel leadership to establish process, calendar and innovation road-map for this new-to-category position, essentially building the job description for role.
- Created 4 seasonal collections, 2 per year, focused on different seasonal business initiatives, transitioned to go-to-market team with design direction elements, material innovation, construction technique, and functional aspects elevating market ready product, and driving status as leading-edge apparel product.
- Collaborated with senior technical developer during pandemic to transition concept collection focus to building and testing processes for remote creation, utilizing 3d pattern making software, shortening timeline to final samples, and reducing physical sample production.
- Led communication with vendors, material mills, and garment factories during 2020 pandemic to source materials and resources to create 2 complete seasonal concept collections, delivering on time to team leadership.
- Mentored junior level designers and cross-function partner junior level teammates, growing and evolving team and individual contributors.

Acted as lead for NIKE-PRO base layer product lines that focused on padded Pro Hyperstrong, sport specific solutions, athlete asset specific needs, and 1st layer protective garments intended for competitive impact sports. Experience in role culminated in leading creation of first *Nike PRO Collection* of apparel.
- Drove new product line within category (Pro-Training Collection), created with the intent of being top-of-the-line training apparel, leveraging athlete and consumer insight to direct functional and on-trend garments in collection.
- Identified athlete and marketplace insights and led collaboration across teams to update product design for Hyperstrong product line, incorporating innovative construction, reducing complexity while improving margin and aesthetic.
- Worked in entrepreneurial way to lead aesthetic direction, calendar, material, and process for seasonal refresh of 20+ Hyperstrong product styles, in addition to woven base layer specific to World Cup 2018, revolutionary engineered jacquard woven tight for NBA launch kit.
- Named in Nike Patent for heat mold-able protective plate element used on 2017 Nike Pro Hyperstrong.

Planned, designed, developed, and implemented functional benefits for future apparel product, from concept to production, as part of a multidisciplinary team. Involved in 5 major project initiatives.
- Co-designed AIT project team that directed research, produced, and presented 3 American football uniform concepts, focusing on specific protective base layers and conceptual base layer / shoulder, and pad / jersey systems for future on-field NFL uniforms.
- Invented and handed off future thigh impact protection concept for Nike Pro featuring patented molded lip structure, reducing impact forces felt by wearer. - Created Men*s 2016 Rio Olympic Vapor track and field sprint apparel, including creation, testing, and refinement of revolutionary 3-dimensional aerodynamic aid (*Aeroblade ), providing highly effective advantages in wind tunnel testing and reducing times by measurable amounts.
- Designed women's specific Aero-react layering top system for running category, utilizing ground breaking material technology with capabilities to adapt to wearers temperature to cool or warm athletes as needed.

Designed in-house soft goods product for Fox owned SHIFTMX and corporate Mountain Bike product lines.
-Managed design and technical specification of all entry level apparel product line, gear bags and motocross accessories, 30+ styles of carry-over product and 5 new styles Mountain Bike Divisions products, providing on-schedule release dates for high volume / margin product lines.

Created in-house soft goods product for Fox owned SHIFT Racing. Focused on all aspects of performance of product offerings, which included: technical motocross performance apparel, technical street motorcycle protective apparel, bags and accessories.
-Charged with design and specification of 3 highest volume seasonal motocross race apparel, including entry level, better level, and pinnacle level product lines, resulting in improved sales at all levels and positive reviews from industry press.
-Cultivated unique brand style language leading to 2 popular premium level product lines in off-road style apparel market and pinnacle Motocross race product line, including a popular limited production, highly sought after variations.
-Owned conceptualization and technical specification from initiation through technical packet hand-off for most popular seasonal street product lines, including: textile jackets, premium leather jackets, technical street protective apparel, and the brands’ best-selling and longest living textile jacket.