Industrial Design Engineer

Angelo LaBarbera

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INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENGINEER

Innovation & Design Concept to Prototype Testing through Production

Engaging strategic designer, highly analytical performance-driven professional with proven tactical and management expertise in the global marketplace creating product design solutions for entrepreneurial start-ups, commercial printing, medical diagnostic equipment, consumer electronics and enterprise data storage systems. An award winning performer who transitions easily from developing concepts through product launch to leading creative multidisciplinary teams in several global companies. Self-directed with strong communication, collaboration and relationship building skills that amplify purpose and create buy-in at all levels of the organization.

Design Engineering Strengths

* Dedicated Customer/Client Advocate

* Market Research & Trend Analysis

* Broad Range of Successful Products Developed & Manufactured Globally

* Extensive Materials, Manufacturing & Assembly Process Experience

* 2D Hand/Digital Sketching & Rendering

* 3D CAD Expertise

* Strategic Design Leadership

* Graphic Design & Usability Testing

* Global Design & Engineering Collaboration

* Excellent Project Management Skills

* Awarded Over Twenty-Five Design Patents

* Creative Problem Solver With A Passion For Creativity and Quality

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technology Transfer Department, Boise State University 5/2011 present

Industrial Design and Product Development Consultant

Invited to participate as product design/product development advocate for various inventions created by both students and professors which may target specific companies for interest to manufacture and in return, receive licensing fees to help fund future department research. Definition of my role is continuous while primarily adding design to the business economics and engineering expertise currently established.

Apriori, Boise, Idaho

1/2010 to present

Industrial Design Consultant

The basic engineering concept: “being able to engage in play with one’s pet(s) from any location in the world through pet-owner’s computer linking up with Apriori software and cameras at the pet site”. This product (prototype) is currently being beta tested at the Idaho Humane Society’s cat condo here in Boise.

* Created sketches for the “Pet Companion” product to communicate concepts that embraced aesthetic appeal, compactness, modularity and manufacturability.

* Participated in creative/brainstorming sessions to develop potential future market scenarios.

PowerCordz, Boise, Idaho 2/2009 – present

Industrial Design Consultant and Illustrator

Design Consultant on design, aesthetics, usability, materials and manufacturing considerations for current and future products. Their current line of high performance cycling cables not only reduces weight, but also improves reliability and longevity.

* Created illustrations for their current packaging/installation guide to improve customer experience by reducing image content (clutter) from previous photos thereby simplifying tasks.

* Design Consultant for future transmission product appearance.

Hewlett Packard Company, Boise, Idaho 8/1998–10/2008

Industrial Design Engineer

Designed and developed state-of-the-art color LaserJet printers, mfps/copiers and optional accessories for both consumer and enterprise applications by collaborating with foreign and domestic partners in scientific research, engineering, marketing, management and manufacturing.

* Managed product graphics, directed appearance mock-ups, prepared presentations to team members then initiated planned visits and regular video-conferencing design reviews with international team members to obtain design resolution and manufacturing agreements.

* Co-managed a new design language to strengthen the company’s most critical sub-brand (LaserJet) while simultaneously designing several new-generation printers and desk-top multi-function printers (mfps) that would be among the first to share the new appearance.

* Initiated and managed two creative design project collaborations between a top US design college and the company to investigate the future of personal printing to share with the research & development community and to stimulate creativity and innovation at all levels.

* Defined industrial design and customer experience for high-end color printer products in the LaserJet business to help position them as number one in the global marketplace.

* Played integral role with supply-chain management in determining potential product component cost reductions that saved the company $2.3M annually.

Johnson & Johnson Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, Rochester, New York 1/1995–12/1996

Project Industrial Designer/Product Design Coordination

Provided industrial design expertise and usability leadership for the organization during a critical period while the parent company was establishing organizational roles and research processes for this group.

* Managed external design consultants towards specific goals and collaborated with engineering, market planning and management to establish the organization’s first design guidelines that maximized family appearance, brand and reduced cost by sharing common parts.

* Managed all external industrial design resources in the U.S.A. and Europe to establish ground-breaking medical device aesthetics, usability and safety to secure a leadership position in the global marketplace and greatly increased revenue.

* Created and led design improvements on the IR-9500 Analyzer that greatly improved appearance, usability, and safety and won Best-of-Show at the Structural Plastics Conference.

* Awarded several design patents for blood analyzers that are still producing healthy revenues.

Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York 2/1982–12/1994

Staff Industrial Designer / Senior Industrial Designer / Project Industrial Designer

Created initial product concept sketches, mock-ups, appearance models and tooling release drawings for a wide range of products and equipment in professional photofinishing, commercial printing, office, consumer and clinical diagnostic markets. Coordinated all product graphics, human factors and packaging design for projects I was responsible for. I worked simultaneously on multiple projects.

* Managed and organized industrial design, human factors, graphic design and packaging groups’ input that resulted in the company’s first Worldwide Business and Imaging Equipment Guidelines to reduce development cost and greatly improve brand recognition.

* Industrial designer with a small skunk-works team which received an EMMY Award for creating the world’s first Still Video Digital Transceiver (SVDT) which transmitted worldwide in 1989, within minutes, the powerful image of a man halting Chinese army tanks at Tiananmen Square, China.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Industrial Design (BID) Degree,

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY - Syracuse, NY

Previous Design Education:

Five Terms of Transportation and Product Design

ART CENTER COLLEGE of DESIGN - Los Angeles, CA

ORGANIZATIONS / AFFILIATIONS

Idaho TechConnect-Advisory Council Boise & Meridian Professional Networking Groups LinkedIn

KickStand HP Alumni Syracuse University Alumni Art Center College of Design Alumni

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