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Senior Director of Design at TOMY - The First Years

Patrick Thraillkill

Boston, MA
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    Specialties: Design of medical, table top, appliance, tool, garden, infant, juvenile and electronics; design with a focus on consumer goods;design management; brand and line styling; design research; project management; design to engineering transition; hand sketching; rendering and modeling; software proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite 5, Rhino, Keyshot, MS Office.

  • Education
    • BID Industrial/Product Design
      Pratt Institute
      1994 - 1996
    • BS track Industrial Design
      Georgia Institute of Technology
      1991 - 1993
  • Experience
    • Senior Director of Design
      Tomy
      Apr 2012 - Present (10 years 10 months)
      Leading/managing industrial design, package design and engineering team. Working side by side with marketing and project management to elevate TOMY -The First Years brands by updating and building existing lines and breaking into new juvenile product categories. Designing truly differentiated products that offer benefits and innovation in the categories of large and small furnishings, gates, bathing, health care, safety, feeding and play. Responsible for all aspects of product design and delivering quotation and engineering packages to company overseas office. Responsible for sourcing and managing outside resources when needed within cost and schedule.
    • Director of Design
      TOMY - The First Years
      Nov 2009 - Mar 2012 (2 years 4 months)
    • Director of Innovation
      The First Years
      Sep 2008 - Nov 2009 (1 year 2 months)
    • Design Manager
      The First Years
      Feb 2007 - Sep 2008 (1 year 7 months)
    • Product Designer
      Staples Inc.
      Dec 2005 - Jan 2007 (1 year 1 month)
      Member of internal, own brand product development team. Responsible for interfacing with buyers, brand, and product development teams to design innovative products and graphics for Staples branded products in technology, supplies and furniture. Work to evaluate product categories and design product families. Design, coordinate and oversee work conducted by outside vendors.
    • Category Design Manager
      Evo Design
      Aug 2003 - Dec 2005 (2 years 4 months)
      Internal project leader headed up client product development programs. Responsible as primary interface with client design, marketing, engineering and manufacturing groups. With client input created design development proposals and costing. Managed and produced timely deliverables through all design phases. Compiled and conducted presentations at client locations. Worked closely with the Evo CT team on research, brainstorming, sketching and other deliverables to meet deadlines and budgets.
    • Senior Product Designer
      Evo Design
      Jul 2000 - Jul 2003 (3 years)
      Designer and project leader, responsible for working on and guiding client design projects. Assisted in the preparation of proposals and project layouts. Projects included design of consumer, medical, business, sports, industrial and juvenile products.
    • Designer
      Pitney Bowes Inc
      Sep 1996 - Aug 2000 (3 years 11 months)
      Industrial Designer, Shelton, CT - September 1996 - May 2000
      Design of business, consumer and industrial products in an internal corporate design team. Designed product face lifts and ground up developments of parts for varied plastics and metals production processes. Delivered full production data of injection molded parts. Conceived and instituted the use of master modeling techniques for computer modeling and control of interfacing covers and parts. Worked within the group to develop surface modeling and computer rendering skills in CDRS and ProEngineer.
    • coop
      Tupperware Brands
      1995 - 1995
      Worked on location with the design director and other group members to develop consumer house wares to fit within the company image and product line, through sketching and modeling .
    • intern
      ITEC Entertainment
      1994 - 1994
  • Awards

    International Design Competition Osaka 2005 Excellent Work

    PTC Awards, Design Excellence 2004

    Patents; Pitney Bowes D415,705; 6,406,591; Timex D471,469; Becton, Dickinson 7,022,128

    Emhart Design Contest, Merit 2002

    IDSA Merit Award 1996

    Taki-Fuji Fine Arts Association, Grand Prize 1995

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    • Design Management
    • Industrial Design
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