Nathan Abel
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About
I work to inspire and lead multi-disciplinary design teams to strategically design successful Innovative human-centered products and processes.
Award winning Industrial Design Leader experienced in transforming technology, products, and emerging trends into successful user focused experiences, through leadership of product development programs and cross discipline design teams to meet strategic design direction and business goals.
A dedicated commitment to inspire and lead multi-disciplinary teams to strategically create successful Innovative human-centered products and processes.
Award winning team leader experienced in transforming technology, products, and emerging trends into successful user focused experiences, through leadership of product development programs and cross discipline design teams to meet strategic streamlined direction and business goals.
RESEARCH AND DESIGN
10 years of Product Development experience.
Facilitating brainstorms and deep-dive workshops
Design Thinking methodologies.
Application of all current design research and product development processes.
Strong Development core skills, sketching, CAD and rapid prototypes for user validation.
Voice of Customer, Voice of Technical, and Voice of Patent techniques.
Development strategy for new products and categories.
Conduct usability and customer acceptance studies.
Generation of style guides and long term product roadmaps.
Create and manage design briefs internally and externally.
CFM trend forecasting and application.
Strong communication and presentation skills.
LEADERSHIP
15 years of creative team leadership.
Exceptional leadership skills of global cross discipline collaboration, team strategy building, mentorship, and product development processes.
Drive and align design strategy to corporate objectives and efficacy through collaboration and consensus building.
Operational and strategic planning.
NPI stage gate process.
Global design standards and best practice processes.
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Education
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Bachelor of Fine Arts Industrial DesignUniversity of Wisconsin
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Film StudiesNew York Film Academy
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StudiesUniversity of California
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Minneapolis College of Art and Design Continuing Education
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Experience
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Industrial Designer Team LeadXIMEDICAPlymouth, MNSpearheaded Industrial Design projects during medical phase gate process from ideation through to manufacturing. Placed strong emphasis on user experience including Med Tech early phase research and early prototype discovery. Merged a seamless experience with physical and digital interface. Defined customer strategic direction. * Fostered and nurtured relationships with customers and achieved more than $2.5M in revenue, resulting in generation of new business for design services. * Developed portfolio, product design, and strategy for business and start-ups to gain funding or introduce internal technology.
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Lead Product Developer3MSt. Paul MN, United StatesXIMEDICA Controlled full phase development of health care products for various brands including ACE, Futuro, and Nexcare. Led product ownership and development, price points and drive overall creative direction of next generation products. Ensured company adherence to ISO 13485 requirements, prototype development, research and insights, and authentication of ideas. Performed additional duties inclusive of producing CAD drawings, material assessment and validation, supplier sourcing, packaging, and launch. Brand cohesion through research and forecasting. Established and delivered five newly invented healthcare products worth $1.35M. * Designed, developed, and introduced various products refreshes producing 30% market share. * Cultivated proficiency in IoT smart technology across business function.
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Principal Designer, Automotive DivisionLightingSt. Paul, MNSupervised product development while ensuring User centric customer interface and strategic lighting technology development & execution. Devised new and developing business with existing and potential clients. Managed customer relations and commercialization of product line within Light Management Group of automotive division. * Achieved new business worth $50M by creating new products. * Implemented solutions for new technology leading to creation of new business opportunities and models. * Built and steered a global innovation group within automotive business resulting in assessment and delivery of new business platforms through Global research.
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Awards
Good Housekeeping
Good Design Chicago Athenaeum
Red Dot
IDEA
NACE New Product
Annenberg Award
Emmy Award
NABCA
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On Coroflot@Nathan_Abel, member since 2009
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