Kyle D. Narkiewicz

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

Product Development: 12+ years of product development in successfully launching 100+ innovative products to the consumer market across major retailers in different product segments with a focus on soft-goods, hard-goods, specialty materials, and cutting edge manufacturing processes.

Collaboration: Deep understanding of design for manufacturing and communication working directly with suppliers in a stage-gate design process turning concepts into market viable solutions.

Consumer Research Led Innovation: Focused on organizing detailed market research and trend documentation which leads to creating human-centric products with the user being the key driver of a product’s features and innovations, while exceeding business expectations.

PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW:

Dedicated and highly motivated industrial designer with experience at industry leading Fortune 500, as well as family-owned organizations. Extensive knowledge of consumer product design, detailed parametric CAD modeling, building working prototypes, and manufacturing methods, who excels at creating market successful consumer products within a scheduled time frame and budget utilizing the stage-gate design process. Highly organized at communicating aesthetically pleasing designs to cross-functional departments including project management, mechanical engineering, marketing, sales, and executive leadership teams.

Led deep-dive consumer and competitive market research to optimize product decisions based on costs and feature sets to elevate multiple brands across various brick and mortar as well as online retailers. Thrives at critical problem solving under time-centric situations of the design process focusing on attention to detail to ensure the achievement of strict quality and safety standards with minimal supervision via automation, workflow, and documentation optimization. Flexible problem-solving abilities working directly with domestic and international partners delivering real-time solutions to manufacturing challenges during the development stage whether in-person or utilizing digital communication and conferencing. International work-group experience communicating and traveling to suppliers globally and a deep understanding of the role of diversity in a company. Experience tackling the ever-changing challenges with creating products for various channels and markets across the globe. Diligently growing as a professional and constantly improving work efficiency and the personal developmental process, to strengthen being as effective and efficient as possible.