Sales Design

**** *** *** *. **. Cloud, MN *****

phone: 952-***-****

email: ****.******@*****.***

portfolio: www.gabrieldoring.com

SUMMARY

As an Industrial Designer, I have improved and developed products that allow people to safely enjoy the outdoors, save others in peril, or

just have fun. With a unique combination of creativity and logic, I savor the opportunity to innovate products that perform for the user and

the business.

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Product Designer, Coleman North, formerly Stearns Inc, Sauk Rapids, MN, February 2007- October 2008

Designed new search and rescue products, inflatable and inherently buoyant life jackets for recreational and industrial markets. I used my

technical skills in designing soft goods and a creative user centered development process to concept and execute new designs. This

approach enabled me to further entice the user to buy and wear a product that could save their life or the life of another.

Responsibilities included:

Developed innovative aesthetics, and features for different market and user needs

Created concept sketches in Illustrator and manage sample creation for sales meetings

Designed new flotation product lines for Walmart, Bass Pro Shops, and West Marine ($1.5 million in sales for West Marine alone)

Designed patterns and assisted in assembly operations for life jackets

Designed products to satisfy cost requirements

Developed accurate and complete graphics, embroideries, specifications, and bill of materials

Achieved United States Coast Guard approval on all new life jacket designs by working closely with compliance team

Identified opportunities in the market place for new products, resulting in an additional feature driven product sold at Walmart

Notables:

Successfully designed revolutionary inflatable life jacket; given US Coast Guard approval Type V with Type II performance after satisfying

UL testing

15 day trip to Asia to tour over 10 factories in 9 cities and 5 countries; worked with over seas vendors to further innovate products

Technical Pattern Designer, Cutting Edge Creations, Eagan, MN, May 2005 - February 2007

Designed patterns and created manufacturing layouts for commercial children's amusement inflatable bouncers, slides, obstacle courses

and advertising

Worked with on-site and overseas manufacturing

Facilitated design changes and prepared product design for production

Applied new ideas and problem solving to product design increasing function, aesthetics, and ease of manufacturing

Freelance Designer, Outdoor Product Concepts, Savage, MN, September 2004

Developed sketches and Illustrator drawings for footwear concepts

Freelance Designer, EAC Design, Burnsville, MN, May 2004

Created sketches for hardware concepts

Designer, O.S. Design, Waconia, MN, May 2003 - April 2004

Developed product concept of the Lunar Bed and Skybike

Produced sketches, 3-D CAD models, and working prototypes

Managed multiple outside vendors

EDUCATION

1998 - 2003 University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, WI

BFA Industrial Design Concentration

Graduated Cum Laude

Present- projected May 2009 Hennepin Technical College, Brooklyn Park, MN

SolidWorks Expert Operator Certificate

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Comcast Communication Technician: Level 2, Comcast, St.Paul, MN, April 2004 - May 2005

Press Brake Assistant, Dalsin Industries, Bloomington, MN, Summer 2002

COMPUTER SKILLS

Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Rhino 3-D Modeling, Flamingo Raytracing and Radiosity, PatternSmith, Autometrix Pipes 3-D, Microsoft Word,

Microsoft Power Point, SDRC-IDEAS Solid Modeling, Quest PLM, Solidworks, Pro E, PC, and Macintosh

OTHER SKILLS

Knowledge of manufacturing processes with metal, plastic, soft goods, wood, and glass

Concept sketching, model making, patterning, and sewing skills

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