EXPERIENCE

Smart Design: Industrial Designer

June 2010-. (Intern Jan-Mar 2010) Designing consumer goods like kitchen tools through concept drawings, color studies, foam models, and digital modeling. Contributing to the office knowledge on tangible interaction design.

IDEO: Product Design Intern

Summer 2008. Researched and developed concepts for richer ways of interacting with computers. Collaborated on ethnographic research, business development and medical instruction design.

Bright Innovation: Design Intern

Summer 2007. Assembled a materials library by ordering samples and designing an organizational system. Contributed to client projects through presentations and drawings.

Design Drawing I: Teaching Assistant

Fall 2006. Instructed first-year design students in mastering perspective and communicative drawing as well as organized extracurriculur critiques and drawing activities.

EDUCATION

Carnegie Mellon University

BFA in Industrial Design, May 2009

GPA: 3.9/4.0; College & University Honors

 

RECOGNITION

Data Flow 2

Spring 2010. In-Formed and The Food of Art published in a book surveying information design.

I.D. Magazine Design Distinction

Summer 2009. Recieved in the Student Work category for In-Formed.

IDSA Student Merit Award

Spring 2009. Selected to represent CMU at the Mideast District Conference.

SURG Grant

Spring 2009. Received funding with a peer for a self-driven project to craft objects that encourage global cultural awareness in children.

SKILLS

Technical

Sketching & Rendering

Physical Prototyping

Rapid Prototyping

Ethnographic Research

Electronics Prototyping

Digital

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

Solidworks

Rhino

Hypershot

Maxwell Render

Java/Processing/Arduino

HTML/CSS