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Nike Footwear Designer Running
Charles Han
Faifax, VA
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About
Offers a blend of creativity and business. Skilled at visual communication and can express ideas through the use of sketching, rendering, and graphic presentation. Also studying a 42 credit business minor to compliment my industrial design background. I am very passionate about footwear and am currently taking steps forward to becoming a part of the footwear industry.
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Education
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Industrial Design FootwearVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University2009 - 2013Transfer from the Mechanical Engineering department.
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General Business MinorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Pamplin College of Business2008 - 201342 credit minor requiring a wide range of math, accounting, marketing, economics, and finance classes.
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Experience
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Associate Footwear Designer, Running and OutdoorNew Balance2013 - Present (13 years)Accepted a full time position for Running and Outdoor Associate Footwear Designer starting in January 2014
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Footwear Design InternNew BalanceJan 2013 - Jun 2013 (5 months)Design intern in the Running and Outdoor division. Working with cross sections, tech packs, shell patterns, model making, colorways, concept ideation, and display set up.
Worked directly with inline products along with product managers and developers. Internship was extended from 3 months to 6 months.
Actual shoe coming out to market in Q3/14. Pullovers and printed 3D sole units for personal projects also made during the time of the internship. -
Footwear Design InternSauconyJun 2012 - Aug 2012 (2 months)Working with Color Maps, Tech Packs, and Advanced Concepts in Tech Running, Athletic Running, and Saucony Originals.
Hands on experience with material selection, pantones, tech drawings, shell patterns, line art, and presentations during design reviews.
Worked on a project in Visual Technology. Hands on experience with Product Line Managers and Developers to create a vis-tech sole unit for Spring 2014. -
IDSA TreasurerVirginia TechSep 2011 - Jun 2012 (9 months)Treasurer for the Virginia Tech IDSA Student Chapter
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Entry Level Database InternLibrary of CongressMay 2005 - Aug 2005 (3 months)Physically and electronically cataloging any books coming into the library (ISBN Assignment)
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Elsewhere on the Web
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On Coroflot@charleshan, member since 2009
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