Stephanie Chen
Industrial Designer
email: *********@*****.*** website: http://stephchendesigns.squarespace.com
Summary
- Highly self-motivated and goal -oriented industrial designer
- Ability to generate multiple concepts quickly
- Works well under tight time contrainsts, and under pressure
- Ability to follow through with projects from inception to completion
Education
California College of the Arts BFA Industrial Design, graduated in 2011.
Honors
Koizumi International Lighting Design Competition - Runner Up, 2009
Work Experience
Spark: Afterschool youth program, Volunteer (San Francisco) 2008 and 2009
- Worked with a middle school age child one-on-one on a transportation design project. Formulated
lesson plans, taught, and helped to encourage the student in his interest in the industrial design field.
Mark Lintott Designs, Intern (Taiwan) Summer 2010
- Worked with a team of interior designers to work out manufacturing issues with company designed
furniture such as lighting fixtures, tables, and chairs. Also designed the Mark Lintott Designs’ company
portfolio as well as company poker cards and assisted in legal translations for client contracts.
New Vision Integrated Marketing Communication Co., Ltd. - Unique Art Branch, Intern (Taiwan) Summer 2011
- Worked with a team of industrial designers and marketing teams to launch new product line as well as
improve and adjust existing products. Helped with many exhibition and expo set ups at numerous
venues around Taipei.
Steph Chen Designs (Taiwan) 2012 - 2014
-Worked as a freelance designer for a wide range of clients. Helped design logos, business cards,
product branding, packaging, product photography and advertisements.
Oliblock, Intern (San Francisco) August 2014
- Worked closely with the owners on a new product line of OliUclips and packaging design for upcoming
products. Designed presentation layout for clients and created 3D renderings of the products.
Shop Skills
- 3D Printer Eden 333 - Table saw - Band saw - Hand drill - Router
- Belt sander - Lathe - Planer - Bridgeport mill - Drill press
- Painting/Finishing - Laser cutter - Vacum-forming - Vacum-bagging
- CNC Router - Foam Modeling - Pen/Pencil Sketching - Marker Rendering
Computer Skills
- Adobe Photoshop - Adobe Illustrator - Adobe InDesign - Vellum Graphite
- SolidWorks - Rhino 3D and T-Splines - Microsoft Office - Google SktechUp
- AfterEffects -iMovie -iWeb
Languages
- English -Chinese