Industrial Designer passionate about designing innovative and consumer conscious products from conception through production. Detail-oriented team player with strong market understanding, sketching, development, and mechanical skills, able to see projects through to realization.

Industrial design, product development, sketching, design engineering, mechanical design, production documentation, CAD, project managemenet, prototyping. Software: SolidWorks 2004, Rhino 3D, Pro/ENGINEER r19, Photoshop 7, Illustrator 10, PageMaker 7, Corel 10 package, MS Office suite, Windows/Mac O/S.

- Workbench 2004 Top Ten Tools Innovative Tool Design Award 'VersaSaw' - design, development
- ID Magazine Annual Design Review Richmar (Rosie) Rollstand - development engineer
- IDEAs 2001 Silver Award Terabeam Optical Transceiver - design, production engineering
- IDEAs 2001 Silver Award Arrow Rollstand - design, engineering, production
- IDEAs 2001 Bronze Award Richmar (Rosie) Rollstand - development engineering
- Honorable Mention 1997 National House wares Manufacturers Association Design Competition

Freelance Designer Spring 2002-Present
Conceptual ideation and product design though sketching and 2D CAD, mechanical studies, process research, and mechanical design and engineering. clients: Kershaw Knives, Fuse Product Development, Engineering Design Consultants, Wendie Siverts Studio, N.I.R. Fixtures, Coast Cutlery, Taylormade, and Benchmade.

NIR, Inc. Fall 2003-Spring 2004
Design and manufacturability development, wordless end-user assembly instructions, RTA design (responsible for end-users out of box experience), BOM and production documentation for purchase of multi-million dollar projects, engineering department timelines, delegation, and workload assessment; structural packaging design.

Modo, Inc. Spring 2000-Spring 2002
Product design, concept development and presentation, sketching, mechanical engineering, project/production management, CAD development and production/BOM documentation, quotation, wordless end-user assembly instructions, and packaging design/production and testing.

Goldsmith Yamasaki Specht Fall 1998-Summer 1999
Conceptual development and sketch CAD presentations, mechanical design and illustration, production drawings, Senior Designer support, graphic design, digital photo imaging, network administration.

College Pro Painters Spring and Fall 1996, 1997, 1998
Lead sixteen painters for three summers producing $350,000. Full business management, marketing research and planning, estimating, training, proposal generation and negotiating, and developed organization and project/employee management skills to meet simultaneous deadlines.
- Customer Satisfaction Award (highest rating from customers in the nation)
- Manager of the Year Award, 2 years (highest production in division)
- Quality Assurance Award (120 satisfied customers)

The University of Kansas Spring 1999
Studies: human factors engineering, product design, manufacturing processes and materials, design methods, rapid prototyping, model making, CNC milling program and operation.
- Industrial Designers Society of America, Vice-Chairman KU Chapter, 1998



dennis@creatid.com          503.860.2095           4925 se 79th ave           pdx or 97206