Jeff Kennedy

Jeff has more than 31 years of experience in Industrial Design, product development and design management. His work displays his passion and energy to take on the biggest design challenges. His unique hybrid abilities as an Industrial Designer/Mechanical Engineer/ Inventor and creative problem solver has made him a valuable asset for many companies. He has a proven track record for taking ideas from napkin sketch to manufactured product. The last 31 years has allowed Jeff to hone his skills in the following areas:

- Building breadboard prototypes to test ideas.

- Create innovative mechanisms to deliver on functional as well as aesthetic expectations.

- Ability to work from sketches into SolidWorks and PRO-E.

- Presentation ideas to team members and clients.

- Manage projects from start to finish with multidisciplinary teams.

- Participate and run in brainstorm sessions.

- Ability to understand nuances of complex design and form.

- Part design using a variety of materials and processes.

- Ability to identify and specify appropriate materials for products.

- Holds numerous patents and has received design awards for his work.

- Design products in a multi-phase ISO process.

Jeff also offers a Technical Sketching Workshop for design and engineering professionals. With the increased reliance on computers for everyday tasks, hand sketching skills have become nearly obsolete. Yet, often the best way to capture and develop ideas in a fast-moving environment is in sketch form. This unique workshop has been developed specifically to teach engineering and design professionals sketching techniques that will help them visualize, develop and make their ideas actionable.



On January 1st of 2008 - Jeff initiated the creation of a new blog as a challenge. The challenge is to draw a fishing fly a day for an entire year. Part of the challenge is the discipline to accomplish this every day and the other is to expand my creativity and to help find my artistic voice.