Zack Simmering

Co-Founder, President, and Industrial Designer for a small but powerful industrial design consultancy that was created to solve business problems through Design. Led teams of experts in Product Design & Development, Structural Packaging, Graphic Design, Strategic Branding and Marketing, Retail Merchandising, and Amplifier® Market Research. M80’s broad range of experience was built on a wide array of business categories, from the smallest, niche brand’s products to the largest CPG’s packaging. Clients included Pfizer Consumer Healthcare (ChapStick, Advil, Centrum, Imedeen, Caltrate, Celebrex, Robitussin, Emergen-C, Thermacare), Barilla Group, Huffy, Evenflo, Jarden, Tic-Tac, Gorilla Glue, Cold Jet, Best Buy, Car Freshner, IFCO Systems, and more.

Part-time automotive design instructor for CIA and Chrysler. Responsibilities included the teaching of various levels of sketching and rendering techniques, realistic automotive design details, rules, and sensibilities, translation of design into clay models/modeling techniques, 3D Alias modeling fundamentals, and presentation prep. Worked with a variety of student levels from beginner to fully
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Founder and Industrial Designer of design consultancy. Clients included Safety 1st, Nestle Foods (Purina NA, Purina Canada, Purina Europe, Juicy Juice), Duracell, Walgreen’s, Gilmour-Nelson, Clopay, Sheba Cat Food (Mars Inc.), Generosity Water, Midmark, Timbertech Decking, and more.

Industrial Designer for mid-size, design consultancy with a highly talented, multi-discipline team that specialized in finding the “big idea” for consumer product and retail brands. Responsibilities included research, conceptualization (2D sketching, ideation, digital sketching), 3D CAD modeling /rendering, and design management. Clients included Bosch North America (Bosch, Skil, Dremel, Gilmour), Elmer’s, Spectrum Brands, Chiquita, Jack Daniels, Ethicon, General Mills, Heath-Zenith, Krazy Glue, Motorola, Microsoft, Owens-Corning, Office Depot, Pep Boys, Rubbermaid, and more.