About Me
My background
- Born in Chicago and raised on the Chesapeake Bay, I came to North Carolina to attend North Carolina State University. I completed my undergraduate work and went on to earn a master's degree in Industrial Design. In later years, I earned my Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture and art history at East Carolina University.
- During my career, my client list included many Fortune Five Hundred companies as well as a variety of startup ventures. I was also honored to have taught industrial design in the School of Art and Design at NC State and Art Fundamentals in the Leo Jenkins School of Art at ECU.
My experience
- I have intimate knowledge and experience with every manufacturing process, every material, and every step of the team effort and individual contributions necessary to deliver your products from concept through production to your customer. My experience includes working closely with marketing, sales, outside suppliers, and offshore manufacturing. I firmly believe in up-front-loading to keep all stakeholders informed and involved in decision-making to prevent costly mistakes downline. I am a team player but also a self-starter. I can make decisions or follow instructions. I am a seasoned product development professional who can hit the ground running and is prepared to put in the hours required to deliver a quality product.
My vision
- Industrial Designers, above all, are problem solvers, 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional, sometimes 4th-dimensional, no matter the subject matter, no matter the circumstances. We are curious to a fault. We are critics, usually to the annoyance of others. We are starters. We are finishers. We are engineers, architects, philosophers, and anthropologists. We are humanists and seers. We are artisans of a special breed. And we know that if the point of contact between our designs and our users is a point of friction, we have failed. But if our art makes people more productive or even just happier, then we have succeeded. We are Renaissance people. We are interested in everything, and we can talk to anyone about anything. I have just described myself.