Angelo Carpinelli
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About
An imaginative designer, inspiring leader, and recognized innovator who can see the big-picture opportunities with clarity identify strategic issues that increase sales and grow profits and capable of developing unique user-centered product solutions for a wide range of emerging consumer & commercial markets. Proven ability to add incremental growth of established brands, revitalize stagnant product lines and develop innovative design solutions to acquire a market position.
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Education
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BSID Industrial Design - Magna Cum LaudeArizona State UniversityDisciplines: Visual Communication, CMF Design, Materials & Processes, Plastics Design, Human Factors, and Psychology.
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BBA Business Finance - HonorsStephen F. Ausitn State UniversityDisciplines: Finance, Production & Operations Management, and Marketing.
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Experience
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Director of Product Development & Industrial DesignEmeryville, CAJun 2019 - Present (2 years 3 months)
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Senior Director – Industrial DesignDurham, NC2015 - 2018 (3 years)Headed product design in a fast-paced environment with a responsibility to expand user-centered research, provide market analysis, and improve process & planning by instituting development timelines. Excelled at presenting ideas efficiently & compellingly in every stage of development, from ideation sketches to CAD and photo-realistic renderings. Delivered expertise in other functional areas such as engineering, manufacturing & production, and marketing, created manufacturing tech-packs, managed patents & outside legal counsel, and conceived product testing for a portfolio of fitness, strength, outdoor, insoles, footwear accessories & shoe care brands sold in over 70 countries worldwide.
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Director of Product DevelopmentFairfield, CA2010 - 2015 (5 years)Charged with retooling a successful small business, championed user-centered research initiatives, increased product offerings & grew accessory sales in a declining market, implemented a design & development process, and spearheaded innovation. Persuasively presented all stages of development from hand sketches to rendered CAD models, headed engineering & manufacturing of a portfolio of 50 products and collaborated with the owner to prepare the company for an acquisition.
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Executive Director of DesignDallas, TX2006 - 2009 (3 years)Challenged as the director-designer to lead a global design consultancy proficient in translating user & ethnographic insights into design opportunities for a wide range of products, and serving clients in consumer goods and commercial markets. Accountable for the creation & implementation of product form language, market & user research, engineering & mechanical solutions, rapid prototype development & testing, client management, and new business development. Directed a team of designers, engineers, researchers, and interns located in the US and China and completed the successful development of over 25 products.
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Awards
• Editors’ Choice Award: 2018 Bicycling Magazine - TRIGGERPOINT GridVibe+
• Editors’ Choice Award: 2018 RUNNERS WORLD - TRIGGERPOINT GridVibe+
• Best Gear Award: 2015 Men’sHealth - Harbinger/HumanX 20lb. Weight Vest
• Best Products Award: 2014 Outside Magazine - Harbinger X4 Speed Rope
• First Prize: 2010 CSP Retailer Choice Best New Product - Starbucks/TurboChef Sŏta Rapid-Cook Oven
• First Prize & Best of Show: 2009 ABCA Convention & Product Showcase - The Bench Coach Dugout Organizer
• Finalist: Product of the Year 2006 SGMA – CenterG Elliptical Trainer
• Editors’ Choice Award: Bicycling Magazine - EC90 Carbon Ergonomic Road Bar
• First Prize: Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE-Europe) - Marzocchi Bomber RAC Carbon Fiber Mountain Bike Fork -
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Elsewhere on the Web
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On Coroflot@angelodesigner, member since 2002
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