Tony Brown

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Jacksonville, Fl *2207

CELL 904-***-****

ad1yai@r.postjobfree.com

Capabilities

HVAC Service tech 12 years

HVAC wholesale counter sales - 3 years

Residential Home - Design Build Experience

Residential Lighting Sales - 10 years experience

Experienced project manager and team leader with the ability to guide teams through concept to commercialization via stage-gate processes. Education

UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI, BS IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, 1998 SONY VIDEOGRAPHY INSTITUTE, NORWOOD, GA., 1984

Experience

Avenues Lighting - Owner 2018 to 2020

Avenues Lighting - Sales 2010 to 2018

Responsibilities

Identify market opportunity and increase sales by growing our homebuilder and interior designer client base throughout the North Florida market. Results

• Created a Builder Advantage Program that increased our client base. Structured our internal abilities with a customer service focused approach, which enabled the company to become more profitable and serve more builders without adding significant costs to overhead. Sales grew from 2.5 million to 7 million in 7 years. HVAC Service Tech 1982 - 1994

Residential Service, heat pumps, A/C, Gas Packs, and commercial equipment of all types.

HVAC Wholesale Counter Sales 1978 - 1982

Wholesale counter sales with Brock McVey Co, in Bowling Green Ky. Home Construction 1982 - 2020

Designed and sub-contracted two homes; Sub divided and developed property; Renovated Multiple Homes, I understand every aspect of construction and building materials as well as all appliances in a residential home. Entrepreneur 2002 - 2011

Responsibilities

Concept creation, development, design, global sourcing and prototyping as well as all facets of commercialization including patent application, marketing presentations to senior management groups and contract negotiations. Results

Projects including patents with successful commercialization of designs

“EZ Catch™” and “EZ Flex Palm™” patent #61182289

· Created, designed and patented new ball glove & packaging

· Licensed to Wilson® Sporting Goods, commercializing in 2001. The line has since been expanded to more than 18 models selling millions of units per year.

· Successfully presented product concept to Wilson® senior management.

“EZ-DC” grill power system patent #7168363

· Developed and patented new DC power generator system for grills.

· Created, designed and prototyped several products utilizing technology.

· Marketed products and negotiated licensing agreement with Fiesta®, a major grill manufacturer.

· Out sourced components, domestic and overseas for manufacturing and costing. Hunter® Fan and Lighting Group / Kenroy Home –

Portable Lighting Group Lead Designer 1998 - 2002

Responsibilities...

Global sourcing point person for the portable lighting group responsible for stage-gate process of new products from concept to production including frequent travel to China to coordinate product development and to oversee initial production runs. Coordination of in-house catalog process with graphic designer and photography staff.

Results

Commercially successful, innovative product design and global project management

· Led Eddie Bauer project team which developed an exclusive product line that was their best selling lighting design for 3 years.

· Led a team that designed exclusive lines of lighting products for Bed Bath and Beyond™ and Linens and Things™ which enjoyed several years of strong sales.

· Developed and led a successful reorganization of global design communication procedures which vastly improved communication and coordination with China resulting in reduced lead-times, reduced product development costs and quicker commercialization of new designs. Fisher Price® - Children’s Design Dept. - Freelance Designer 1998 - 2001 Responsibilities

Provide support to team members while learning new skills through experience in each aspect of the product development and commercialization processes of Fisher Price®. Other job assignments included project work on baby monitors and strollers. Results

· Assisted in the development of a toddler’s portable play station and built many of the toy features for the play station. Generated draft of the costing drawings and assisted the creation of breadboards and prototype of the play station.

· Collaborated with the soft goods department and model makers on tubing bending for stroller models and other prototypes. Drafted on a Mac using Vellum and created marker renderings.

Hasbro Toy Group – Girls Toys Group - Freelance Designer 1999 - 2001 Responsibilities

Provide support to team members while learning new skills through experience in each aspect of product development and project management processes of Hasbro/Kenner. Results

• Designed, developed and managed My Little Pony™ and Wedding Chapel™ play set projects from concept to commercialization. Product went to production in 1998.

• Designed a package concept for “Girl Tech” toy line. Created etch art and other for toy line using Adobe Illustrator™

• Illustrated toy concepts for Star Wars© license using marker renderings of plush toy figures. Designed and built a presentation display for this project. Gibson Greetings – Freelance Designer 1999 - 2001

· Provided assistance to design team members as freelance contractor.

· Designed a dry erase board for the Star Trek© license. Freelance work for the licensed products division, included paste up and 2-d product design. Hill Rom Medical - Freelance Designer 1999 - 2001

· Created computer generated icon graphics and product signatures using Adobe Illustrator™ on a Macintosh. Collaborated with graphic and industrial designers, model makers and engineers on several projects for model work, including vacuum forming and drafting.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

The Project Managers Network, China Manufacturing Outsourcing Resource, DAAP Cincinnati, LinkedIn

COMPUTER SKILLS

Proficient in Macintosh and PC; Microsoft Word ™, Pages™, Microsoft Excel™, Numbers™, Microsoft PowerPoint, Keynote™, Ashlar Vellum, ADOBE Illustrator™ Familiar with Freehand™, Adobe Acrobat™, ADOBE Photoshop™, ADOBE Illustrator and basic Networking devices.

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