Industrial Designer, Production Manager, Automotive Stylist

Rickey Martins B.I.D.

* **** **., **********, *** Jersey 078**-***-*** 9769

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Product, Display & Store Design Director

Creative and diverse team player with measurable results in the Display, Package and Product Design fields. Capable of initiating, engineering, prototyping, estimating and producing your programs. Simply put I can take you program and “Run-it”. Strong management skills with verifiable results in directing junior designer’s software to success with positive impact. Proven results in our industry have led to copyrights, patents and many POP accolades.

Skills

Marker and pencil sketching. I am proficient in Photoshop, Excel, PowerPoint, and Solid-Works.

Professional Experience

1981-2012

Professor, Design Delineation 31 years at Kean University

Structural Design Director, Riccarr Displays 1986-2008

$15 M Regional Company manufacturing POP displays, direct packaging and promotions for clients such as: AOL, EarthLink, Sony, Revlon, L’Oreal, Sebastian, Bic, Clairol, Dermablend, Hoffman La Roche.

Directed a design staff of 6 to complete 1279 programs with a PO success rate of 82%.

Initiated the integration of Solid Works and SLA prototyping in-house

Faced with rising polymer prices, I proactively engaged the mold maker to reduce part weights on all on all components of our largest clients floor stand display. Realized the elimination of 8 parts from the K.D. kit of 21 parts. We then saved the program from being overpriced and increased profits.

In compliance with the client’s demands for modular wall systems with no seams in the graphics areas, we employed all media. After 6 months of empathic sketches, dozens of foam core models, 78 Solid Works parts drawings and SLAs; we have a signed-off working prototype. This resulted in an $11M national launch and a 9-claim patent.

Senior Designer, Trans-World Manufacturing 1982-1985

$12 M Regional Company manufacturing POP displays, outdoor fixtures and lit signage for clients such as: Phillip Morris, Gillette, Paper Mate, Anheiser Bush, Coors, Anco and L’Oreal.

The outdoor cabinet holding automobile wiper blades with its top loading architecture allowed the paper packaging to get wet. By rotating the housing on an angle, a lift-up roof lid on side counter-balanced kept the roof up and netted PO and my first patent.

Create an SBS and molded cigarette gravity feed merchandiser. A tight budget, tooling almost impossible, sketched various folding PP concepts. The folding, “Living-Hinge” allowed for a flat tool which reduced mold costs. Resulting in budget compliance and a large PO.

Education

Bachelor of Industrial Design, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 1975-1979

Taught, “Design Delineation” at Kean University Union, NJ 1981-2015

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