Allen Wilson

Invention Illustrator, CAD Sculptor and More

"Focus Product Design is a Full Service Product Design and Manufacturing Services Firm Located in Palo Alto, CA in the center of Silicon Valley.

Focus Product Design will quickly take your idea from concept to detail design to prototyping and manufacturing. Focus Product Design has developed best in industry design methodology following a concurrent engineering design model allowing Focus engineers to design products in less time and money than the competitors.

Focus Product Design is staffed with Silicon Valley’s top engineers turning concepts to quality designs fast and efficiently while maintaining the highest standards in the industry.

Focus Product Design engineers are driven to innovate unique solutions in the areas of Product Design, Industrial Design, Mechanical and Hardware Engineering, Software Development and Design Validation including both FEA and CFD analysis.

No matter the stage of your project, Focus Product Design engineers can help you get to the next step quickly. At Focus, we have a complete set of service offerings to meet any project needs.

Focus Product Design works with dozens of manufacturers in the US and Asia to offer low cost and quick turn manufacturing to our customers."

Focus Product Design- Senior Industrial Designer (5 years)
Aquatic AV- Water Sports Devices
Excell Scientific, DT Engineering: Hand-powered Medical Lab Equipment
Covidien, Venus, Ingnenio Medical Group- Hand-powered surgical tools
Marchuck Design- Mechanical Pet Toys
Sports Equipment

Contact: 209-247-2045

SPECIALIZED SKILLS
• Human Factors
• HP/PCT CoCreate CAD,
One Space SolidDesigner
• Solidworks
• Rhinoceros
• Digital/Hand Sketching
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe InDesign
• Mechanical Solutions
• Research and Development
• Photography and Editing
• Visual & Working Prototype

Hand-Held Mechanical Surgical Devices
for Mid-Labs and Covidien/VNUS

website: http://www.ingeniogroup.com/index.html
Regular Contract Work

Industrial Designer specializing in in-house product-to-manufacturing and telecom industry consulting.

• Developed ID and key components in the multimillion dollar Giraffe product line
• Hold multiple co-inventor patents for hand and reach tools sold at Home Depot, Target, Pep Boys and Frontgate / Sky Mall
• Created visual models and renders for Polycom / Sipod's wireless VOIP
• Modeled and built working prototypes & tooling for above using CoCreate CAD, SLA, FDM & RTV molding
• Traveled to China to oversee manufacture and quality control
• Successfully brought the Netflix "Amoeba" project form Idea, through sketching to CAD for a winning bid for 200 prototypes
• Conceptualized and re-designed Topcon's future GPS user interface in conjunction with i.solve inc.

SPECIALIZED SKILLS
• HP/PCT CoCreate CAD,
One Space SolidDesigner
• Solidworks
• Rhinoceros
• Digital/Hand Sketching
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe InDesign
• Mechanical Solutions
• Research and Development
• Photography and Editing
• Visual & Working Prototypes


see website: http://www.wagic.com/

• Dean's scholar • with honors • 2 design scholarships...
• SJSU School of Art and Design Scholarship (2003)
• SJSU School of Art and Design Scholarship (2004)

• Worked closely with HM and SJSU anthropology • Starbucks seating: using induction for wireless public computing and heating beverages

• National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance •
Harvard grant proposal • humanitarian effort • Neat Ideas Fair •
San Francisco Chronicle • San Jose Mercury

SJ IDSA (Industrial Design Society of America San Jose State Student Chapter)

STEP Park Ranger seasonal: full time summers + weekends throughout the school year

• Graphically designed their first brochure while meeting federal standards
• Worked within ADA standards- redesign accessible campsites & fee-box
• Authored and led community interpretive programs
• 1st responder

• Earned multiple cash awards for innovating new efficiency and safety ideas
• Implemented in-store visuals and graphics
• Customer service and employee relations, front desk

• Full time community service in Oregon public school reading program,
• Winston Wildlife Safari volunteer program
• Oregon Eugene Mission: direct person to person interaction, motivation and teaching, public speaking, community and personal services • and much more
• Artist for Lighthouse Publishing greeting cards