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About
Senior product & footwear design consultant. Ten years of creative direction & management experience. Ten years of footwear design experience. Senior-level UI/UX design experience with advanced prototyping skills and proficient front-end development skills.
Versatile strengths in both progressive and price-point footwear design, component design, graphic design, illustration & brand development. Advanced fluency in Adobe Creative Suite applications & Figma. -
Education
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BFA Program Graphic DesignThe Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University2001 - 2005
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Experience
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Senior Product Design ConsultantSelf EmployedPortland, OROct 2023 - Present (2 years 8 months)Product design, UI/UX, information graphics, marketing materials & illustration. Direct field research in the deployment of solar power equipment at live events and how power data is utilized in real time. Auditing existing hardware, power monitoring software & website to develop a product roadmap.
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Senior DesignerPortland, ORAug 2022 - Sep 2023 (1 year 1 month)Responsible for product design, UI/UX, responsive website wireframing & design, advanced prototyping, marketing strategy, branding, illustration, information graphics, and video editing. Presenting design work directly to clients and implementing client feedback.
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President & Creative DirectorPortland, OROct 2012 - May 2023 (10 years 7 months)Responsible for all company operations and creative direction for Last Place & Commonwealth Skateboarding, a privately held design, retail & service company in Portland, Oregon. Established our wholesale product business unit, with over $250,000 in sales of original branded products I designed.
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Footwear Designer IICanton, MASep 2006 - Mar 2012 (5 years 6 months)Responsible for the design and development of Reebok men’s lifestyle products. Anticipating trend directions for each product line as well as creating compelling seasonal brand stories. Working directly with global factory development teams to manufacture briefed projects.
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Footwear DesignerStoughton, MAAug 2005 - Sep 2006 (1 year 1 month)Footwear designer for the Tommy Hilfiger boy's athletic team. Responsible for the design and technical specifications for multiple products per season. Executed product renderings, technical drawings, material selection, graphics for each product.
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Elsewhere on the Web
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On Coroflot@mattkicks, member since 2004
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