Basil Pio

Product design and creative technology leader with more than two decades of experience developing consumer products for globally recognized licensed brands including Disney (Marvel and Star Wars), Warner Bros., Coca-Cola, the NFL, MLB, NHL, and the U.S. Armed Forces.
Known for building high-performing design teams, implementing scalable digital design pipelines, and integrating emerging technologies that accelerate product development and marketing production. Combines deep expertise in 3D design, prototyping, and visualization with strong operational leadership across product development, marketing, and creative teams.
Leads initiatives that connect product design, digital visualization, and emerging AI tools, enabling organizations to produce high-quality product assets faster while maintaining design excellence and commercial viability.

Manage and coordinate the development of new products between developers and product designers based on assessment of competing products, market niches, pricing and profitability.
Mentor and inspire a team of highly skilled product designers to plan and execute a wide range of products ranging from Apparel to Jewelry and from Home Decor to Collectibles.
Using the latest technology and over 10 years of experience in prototyping to oversee the use additive 3D printing for product prototypes.
Maintain and build the design pipeline with the use of relevant software and hardware optimized for product design.
Implemented best practices and processes to streamline the creation of 2D and 3D design content.
Developed and designed a database with collaboration from product developers, designers, advertisers and marketers. Built to ensure product workflow has a consistent delivery, transparency and efficiency through the design cycle.

Responsibilities included working with product development managers to create and refine beautiful consumer products.
Skills needed were the ability to execute concepts with the help of 3D applications to create images for advertising and marketing.

Creating animations in 3D for broadcasting. Interactive Flash content for the web and presentations. 3D animations and video editing for children's programs geared for closed-circuit TV.

As an adjunct instructor for courses in 3D modeling and illustration. Including scene setup with lighting, texturing and rendering of 3D content.