Paul Osimo
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About
I'm a senior product designer with 16 years of industrial design experience in fishing product, aquatic toys & games, sports accessories and juvenile products to name a few. My repertoire includes concept ideation, CAD, designing both hard goods & soft goods, working with multiple manufacturing processes, model-making & prototyping, communicating with overseas & US factories and bringing a product from napkin sketch to market.
Some of my products have been showcased as number one sellers on Amazon and have even received an International Design Awards, placing Gold in the Outdoor Sports/Toys/Games category.
I am currently focusing on developing product specifically for the sportfishing and related outdoor product industries.
Fun Fact: At some point in the middle of all that industrial designing I was also an offshore sportfishing captain and I've bothered fish all over the world from Tasmania's southern coast to the northern tip of the Shetland Islands. Just ask and I'll probably talk your ear off about it. -
Education
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Bachelor of Fine Arts Product DesignRhode Island School of Design1999 - 2003
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Experience
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Owner / Designer / Sourcing Manager2018 - Present (3 years)Designing parts | sourcing components | communicating with
manufacturers to develop and distribute a patent pending fly fishing
system designed both to hone fly casting skills and provide fly fishermen
with a uniquely hand-line focused fly angling experience -
Director of Product Development2019 - 2019Investigating, designing, and assessing new product | Guiding
brainstorming sessions, Managing designers | Communicating
with factories, vendors and sourcing contacts | Tracking and executing
product targets from initial concept art, to finalization and distribution -
Product Design ConsultingFreelance2018 - 2017 (11 months)BigMouth Inc. | Pool Toy Line, Inflatable and Hard Good Concepts
Mystery Tackle Box | Line of Tournament Quality Fishing Lures
Ximedica | Brainstorming Workshops & Medical Device Ideation
Mayo Clinic | Medical Illustrations for use in Medical Journal Articles -
Senior Product Designer2016 - 2017 (1 year)Designing dive toys with focus on hydrodynamics | Designing inflatable
games, toys & related pool accessories | Designing hard & soft goods |
Designing licensed product for Tommy Bahama, Nickelodeon, Little Gym,
Sanrio | Developing concepts for new clients | Researching trends &
keeping up with competitors’ product lines | Operate 3D printer for use
as concept development aid | Communicate with factories regarding
product development | Patent illustration and research | Familliar with
uses and limitations of various materials in large scale manufacturing |
Travel overseas for sourcing and to aid in product development |
Mentor junior designers | Help maintain workflow -
Senior Product Designer2015 - 2016 (1 year)Developing proprietary product designs and mechanisms for the
novelty and redemption toy industry | Researching trends & keeping
up with competitors’ product lines | Exploiting the secrets of the claw
game for personal gain; i.e., stuffed animals -
Product Designer2013 - 2015 (2 years)Designing dive toys with focus on hydrodynamics | Designing inflatable
games, toys & related pool accessories | Designing hard & soft goods |
Designing licensed product for Tommy Bahama, Nickelodeon, Little Gym,
Sanrio | Developing concepts for new clients | Researching trends &
keeping up with competitors’ product lines | Operate 3D printer for use
as concept development aid | Communicate with factories regarding
product development | Patent illustration and research | Familliar with
uses and limitations of various materials in large scale manufacturing |
Travel overseas for sourcing and to aid in product development -
Product Designer2006 - 2013 (7 years)Designing a wide range of juvenile products, sport accessories, package
designs and graphics for mass market clients such as Target, Playtex,
Dr. Brown’s, Medela, Harbinger Fitness & Baby Nova | Researched,
purchased and operated 3D printer for use as concept development aid -
Product Designer2005 - 2005Creating line art for all lines of juvenile furniture including Safety 1st,
Costco & Eddie Bauer | Development of product specification sheet
for overseas factory workers & wordless, symbol based system to
convey product specifications to factory workers | FUN FACT:
I was reunited with my system & spec sheet design years later at Aqua
Leisure Industries, Inc.
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Elsewhere on the Web
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