Professional Work Experience:
2008 - Present Smart Design, New York, NY
- Senior Design Prototyper.
- Manage a Prototype Shop.
- Operate & maintain equipment (CNC, RP printers, industrial machinery.)
- Mold & Casting.
- Painting: color specifications to final look.
- Assisting and Adding to the Creative Thinking
2007- 2008 Freelance: Toy Designer / Illustrator.
- Designing Concepts to Fabrication.
1999 - 2007 Marvel Entertainment Inc. / Marvel Toys, New York, NY.
- Advanced R&D Shop Manager.
- Model Maker.
- Showroom / Exhibits.
- On location technician.
Skill Set:
- Develop creative & unique ideas though concept sketches, working drawings.
- Knowledgeable in the manufacturing processes of products.
- Experience on CAD programs. (Creo2, Rhino Fusion360)
- Design and make ‘Bread boards’ for testing and visualizing products.
- Knowledgeable in 3-D computer generated model rendering using 3D Max & Keyshot.
- Basic experience with Arduino programing and integration in projects.
- Create and design working testing rigs for quantitative research.
- Construct Models out of Acrylic, Styrene or Resins.
- Mill and Lathe various materials & with knowledge in CNC Programs.
- Paint products or figures according to specifications.
- Experienced in many illustration programs to assist in design.
- Render using: marker, ink, pencil, and paint.
- Sculpt out of numerous clays & waxes for figures and products.
- Create Toy / Statue Figures from drawings to finished castings.
- Use and understanding of many types of casting techniques and procedures
- Create Story-Boarding for digital, film and broadcasting.
- Showroom / Exhibit Display fabricator and designer.
- Understand what is needed to have sculpts casted in Bronze or Aluminum.
- On Location ‘Product’ rigging for Commercial Shooting ( Marvel /Toy Biz ).
- Create Cable and Remote controlled special effect Animatronic Creatures.
Patents:
- Bottle Stopper, Helen of Troy Ltd, USD835506S1
- Highchair w/adjustable Tray and Seat height, Helen of Troy Ltd, US8696055B2
- Adjustable hand net device and handle, Plano Molding Co., CA3096911A1 (app)