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Human Centered Design Leader

Jason Boon

Plano, TX
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    Experienced strategic and cross-disciplinary designer that excels in creative problem solving, managing projects to meet business objectives, leading innovation through working like a start-up, and strategically planning design resources to build world-class brands.

  • Education
    • Design Management Design Management
      Grow Design Leadership
      2015 - 2016
      Completed 9 month intensive course for working professionals who want to continue to develop their design management and leadership skills. https://grow.empdl.com/#Education
    • BFA Industrial Design
      University of Wisconsin Stout
      1999 - 2003
      Graduated with a chancellors award in December of 2003; with a BFA in industrial design
  • Experience
    • Senior Design Manager, Baby and Childcare Brands
      Kimberly-Clark
      May 2020 - Present (5 years 2 months)
      - Key point of contact for the design function in 3-5 year innovation and strategy development for Huggies, Pull-Ups, and Goodnites brands for North America. Scopes projects to engage design resources for creative development, by aligning cross-functional partners through insight discovery, problem definition, and budget oversight (~$2M annually).
    • Global Senior Design Manager, Family Care Brands
      Kimberly-Clark
      Feb 2016 - May 2020 (4 years 3 months)
      - Developed a strategic innovation launch for Kleenex from identifying white space to having saleable product on Shopify in 3 months, with a three-person team that reported directly to the President of Family Care.
      - Led brand refresh for Viva, based on new positioning of “life inspired by clean”. Developed first ever brand identity guidelines to guide look/tone/feel of the brand in all touchpoints.
      - Delivered North American Packaging Guidelines that will manage the consistent look and feel of all future packaging adaptation
      - Delivered first ever brand identity guidelines for Scott brand outside the US, which aligned to key strategy and consumer target foundational tools with North America to allow for global synergies
      - Responsible for strategic agency performance reviews annually, ongoing feedback and communication, and pricing negotiations to create a high trust relationship that consistently delivers world-class design work.
      - Built a vetted network of freelance design talent (graphics, video, print and pattern, packaging, etc.) that has delivered significant cost savings over our design agencies.
      - Responsible for the mentoring and development of a junior level design manager through shared project work, collaboration on objectives, and ongoing 1:1’s.
    • Global Design Manager, Family Care Brands
      Kimberly-Clark
      Mar 2011 - Feb 2016 (4 years 11 months)
      - Responsible for complete design leadership on a global Kleenex line-extension into facial cleansing, including product forms, product embossing, primary and secondary structural packaging, branding, and merchandizing.
      - Led internal design training for marketing and R+E organizations (Design for Growth), shared key case studies within design team forums (Designing for Transactional Learning), and led two Kleenex Brand sponsored projects with master’s level design programs (IIT ID school, and SVA masters in branding)
      - Co-presented on design thinking (Prototyping to Learn) at the ABRE Brazilian packaging congress in Sao Paulo, Brazil in October 2014
    • Associate Design Manager
      Kimberly-Clark
      Jun 2010 - Mar 2011 (9 months)
      - Advocated design thinking in project plans and design briefs through collaboration with the cross functional teams. Built projects that allow for a robust design process vs. simple aesthetic exercises, leading through influence and not authority.
      - Gained experience planning and executing both qualitative and quantitative research with cross-functional teams, to gain insight and supporting data for design recommendations.
      - Managed design vendors to ensure the highest level of quality in client/vendor relationships and to help create partnerships.
      - Gained experience leading class II medical device design projects using Human Centered Design (project collaboration with IDEO and Ximedica)
    • Senior Industrial Designer
      Kimberly-Clark
      Jul 2006 - Jun 2010 (3 years 11 months)
      - Served as an industrial design specialist, supporting projects in both consumer and B2B business units, through both hands-on design work and managing external industrial design firms.
      - Led an internal project looking at sustainability within KC from a design perspective. Assembled a cross functional team to create ideas during a multi-day structured ideation and presented the results to the CIO.
      - Led implementation of a new prototyping shop
    • Industrial Designer
      In-Form Product Development
      Jun 2004 - Apr 2006 (1 year 10 months)
      - Hands on designer - Created quick hand sketches, technical illustrations (exploded views, sections), renderings, and CAD drawings to communicate design intent to engineering and to clients.
  • Awards

    15+ patents granted to date, with others in process.

    2016 American Graphic Design Award - Kleenex Facial Cleansing

  • Affiliations

    IDSA, DMI, GROW

  • Industries
    • Food & Beverage
    • Non-Profit
    • Services
    • Sustainability
    • Healthcare
  • Skills
    • Branding & Corporate Identity
    • Communication Design
    • Creative Direction
    • Creative Suite
    • Design Management
    • Graphic Design
    • Industrial Design
    • Packaging Design
    • Project Management
    • Sketching
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    @jason_boon, member since 2006
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