Structural designer packaging, ArtiosCad Specialist folding carton

Guy Fortin Summary

**** ****** ** *****' experience in packaging design and product

Montreal, Qc development

514-***-**** Excellent analytic skill, problem solving and DFA

******@*******.*** (design for assembly)

[pic] Rigorous and meticulous

Folding carton specialist

Experience in vacuum form blister design and contract

packaging

Customer oriented and production friendly

Work experience

Structural designer, packaging

04/2013 - Today, Wooky Entertainment, Montreal, Qc

(Part time, contract)

Main structural designer for packaging in folding

carton and corrugate. I am also in charge of

maintaining databases for shipping and product

catalogues

Contributions:

Create packaging for the toy industry.

Improving process and tools

Create and maintain databases

Supervisor, product development

10/2006 - 06/2012, Transcontinental Ross-Ellis,

Lasalle, Qc

Head designer of the Creative department (structural),

I was in charge of the structural design department

(design, prototyping, technical expertise,

instruction, archiving, database, web site

maintenance,

Contributions:

Re-engineer the departmental structure as well as the

tools used by the department to improve productivity,

avoid repetition of existing products and thus reduce

tooling and production costs.

Create new generations of cd and dvd packaging that

today are the star products of the company

Train and direct structural designers

Winner of an AMERICAN PACKAGE DESIGN AWARD (in

collaboration with le Cirque du Soleil)

Create and maintain databases as well as updating the

company website

Structural designer

06/2000 - 10/2006, Alcan Packaging (Margo), Baie

d'Urf , Qc

Structural designer. Folding carton, Vacuum form

blisters and contract packaging.

Contributions:

Main designer for seasonal fragrance and

pharmaceutical.

Develop complex internal partitions for cosmetic and

pharmaceutical products to meet customer

specifications, their budgets, their needs and their

filling processes.

Programming and optimisation of the ArtiosCad

software.

Training of new designers

Participation in some patents.

Among the customers and packaging that I realized: the

shells of Reach toothbrushes, many fragrance from

Coty, Wrigley jr 5 gum, several pharmaceutical

products, ...

Structural designer

06/1998 - 04/2000, 3D Puzzle designer, Montr al, Qc

I was freelance and doing the creation of several 3D

puzzles which the majority were produced for

Ravensburger.

Contributions:

Creates more than two dozen 3D puzzle

Prepare templates for the graphic artists

Prepare the views in 3D for instructions

Prepare plans for tooling

Education

9/1994 - 5/1997: C gep du vieux Montr al, Montr al, Qc

Industrial design, Diploma of collegial studies

Aptitudes

Aptitude

Level

Experience

Packaging design

Expert

13 yrs

ArtiosCad

Expert

9 yrs

Autocad

Advanced

9 yrs

Microsoft Office

Advanced

13 yrs

Management

Advanced

6 yrs

Additional Information

Linkedin : http://ca.linkedin.com/in/fortinguy/en

Portfolio: www.behance.net/guyfortin

Blog: http://theanatomyofpackaging.blogspot.com/

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