COTY - Los Angeles, CA Jun '17 – Present
Senior Designer for Visual Merchandise & Store Design - Coty Brand
• Developed vis merch activations with Brand designers, influencer’s, & retailers. Enhanced FSS merchandising.
• Designed VM Units for Flagship, Pop-Up & Dept Stores.
Smashbox - Culver City, CA Nov '16 – Mar '17
Senior Designer for Store & Visual Merchandise - Estee Lauder Brand
• Developed Visual merchandise activations with Brand designers, influencer’s, & retailers. Enhanced FSS merchandising.
• Designed VM Units for Flagship, Pop-Up & Dept Stores.
Clinique - NY, NY Dec '15 – July '16
Lead Store Designer for Latin America & Global Visual Merchandise - Estee Lauder Brand
• Successfully lead design roll-out for over 40 stores in Clinique’s new global look opening in late ‘16/’17.
• Oversaw architectural design details, renderings, finishes/materials, customer experience & flow.
• Developed CAD drawings for all stores & 3D modeled various visual merchandising elements & products.
Johnson & Johnson - NY, NY Oct '13 – Nov '15
Senior Industrial Designer - Johnson & Johnson's Global Strategic Design Office
• Lead all visual merchandising efforts across all franchise brands globally.
• Worked with brand designers daily on enriching brand equity & user experience for different markets.
• Partnered with retailers directly on store design, category understanding, basket building, journey mapping
Print Facility - Jersey City, NJ Jul '12 – Dec '12
Industrial Designer
• Built up high-end design production capabilities for commercial print shop, providing 3D modeling rendering.
• Worked on camera production for television shows such as NBC’s Ellen & TLC’s Cake Boss holiday special.
United States Department of Defense / Stevens Institute of Technology Sponsored - Hoboken, NJ Mar '12 – Apr '12
Industrial Designer
• Designed field operational bullet-proof shelter, created sample capable of protecting soldiers from rifle fire. Concept based on my prior senior design final of disaster relief housing.
L+C Design Consultants PA - North Bergen, NJ Apr ’05 – Apr '12
Lead Renderer & Graphic Designer
• Worked on all aspects of design and engineering of many projects from groundbreaking to ribbon cutting in areas NY & NJ.
• Presented to and worked with several city counsels, meetings with private owners, and administrative aspects with several School Boards.
• From working on architectural and engineering details, I was also in charge of all graphic design, renderings and art work for all projects.
• Correspondence with contractors, manufacturing vendors and distributors.
Andrew White Jr. ll - Film - NY, NY Nov ’09 – Jun '11
Photographer, Website Designer, Artist, Post Production
• From returning to the NYC area after graduating, working as a production assistant on short film at the New School, Andrew White Jr. ll. Being a runner, driving production vans. Mainly I was in charge of was Photography throughout the shoot.
• In Post Production I was in charge of the Press Kits, DVD cases, imagery and original artwork, final edits on the film and trailer, DVD menus and creation, and creating the website for the film.
Computer Insight - Eatontown, NJ Oct ’10 – Mar '11
CAD Instructor
•Taught variety of software packages including Adobe Creative Suite, 3D Studio Max, AutoCAD, & Rhino 3D.
• Instructed students at various age levels, in fields such as planning, architecture, & civil engineering.
WRK design / build - NY, NY Apr 2011
Fabricator
• Designed & fabricated on-site True Religion Denim ‘11 Preview Show at the Bowery Hotel in Manhattan.
Liberty Realty LLC - Hoboken, NJ May ’10 – Oct ‘10
Assist to Transaction Manager
Maintained High-End listings in the New York City Area, correlating changes and renovations with contractors, buyers, and sellers. Worked on administrative duties with local city governments; permits, certificates.
Hewlett Packard & FreeScale / SCAD Sponsored - Savannah, GA Mar ’09 – Jun ‘09
Concept Designer / Researcher
• Brainstormed, modeled, & rendered concepts of a new category of electronic devices - eliminating “netbooks”.
• UX design elements of mine were taken back becoming the HP Spectre 13 X2 in 2013.
AT&T & CaseMate / SCAD Sponsored - Savannah, GA Jan ’09 – Mar ‘09
Designer / Fabricator / Renderer
• Designed mobile phone cases and UX accessories for mobile phones just prior to “smart phone revolution”.
THEM Architecture / Design - NY, NY Sept ’05 - Aug ‘08
Lead Renderer & Graphic Designer
• Abu Dhabi Main Bus Terminal: Provided virtual construction renderings of the Abu Dhabi Main Bus Terminal Renovation in the United Arab Emirates. Generating new details and inspiration taken from Italian train and bus terminals.
• Built and designed concepts for the Paterson Falls Amphitheater, in Paterson NJ, via 3D packages prior to blueprints to help with structural and engineering details.
Education
Stevens Institute of Technology - Hoboken, NJ - Audited
Graduate Courses in the School of Science & Engineering – Product Architecture & Engineering
Savannah College of Art & Design
Savannah, GA - Class of ‘09 Bachelor of Fine Art in School of Design - Industrial Design
Stevens Institute of Technology - Hoboken, NJ - '04-'06 - Art & Business Technology
Specialties
• Computer Modeling [Rhino 3D, 3Ds Max, V-Ray, Flamingo, Alias Design, Maya, AutoCAD, Drafting]
• Graphic Design - Adobe Suite (spec in Ps, Ai, Id) Publisher
• Experience Design / User Studies / PowerPoint / Layout
• Model Fabrication / Prototyping / Exhibition Design
• Rapid Visualization / Hand Rendering