Dennis Veatch Industrial Designer offering 13 years of strength in each step of the product design life cycle from Industrial Designer clear ideation sketches to complex designed for manufacture CAD production documentation. Experienced market researcher and team leader with a diverse portfolio of award winning products in the medical and technology cart, cutlery, tool, point of purchase display, and audio industry. Expertise also includes wordless assembly instructions, project management, complex CAD surface modeling, rendering and hands on prototyping.

Software Expertise SolidWorks 2013, KeyShot, Adobe C5 Suite: Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop , MS Office, MCAM 9/Xv. Tool Proficiency Machine lathe, hot wire, 3 Axis CNC router, mill, numerous wood and manual metal fabrication tools.

Manufacturing Numerous rapid proto techniques, 5 & 3 axis manual and CNC machining, plastic injection & RIM/ Experience rotational/rubber molding, hydroforming, sand & die casting, vacuum and pressure forming, metal/ steel/plastic fabrication and extrusion.

Ongoing Education - Toyota Production System and Lean Manufacturing Principals - www.nwhpec.org : Lean Principals, Value Stream, Lean Leadership, Kaizen, Level Pull, 5S, and A3 mapping. - MCAD Technologies SolidWorks Training - www.shounco.com: Essentials, Advanced Part, Advanced Assembly, Drawings, Sheet Metal, and Advanced Surfacing.

Industrial Designer creatID, LLC Design Consultancy www.creatid.com Principal Provide market analysis, conceptual ideation, sketching, mechanical study, process research, and 11 yrs. (June ‘02 - Current) design presentation. Create manufacturing ready solid models and production documentation, and wordless end user assembly instructions. - Clients: Think Fiction, Kershaw , Fuse Product Development, Engineering Design Consultants, Wendie Siverts Studio, CRKT, Coast Cutlery, SoMA, and Taylormade. - Workbench 2004 Top Ten Tools Innovative Tool Design Award - ‘VersaSaw’

Lead Industrial Designer Triad Speakers, Inc. High End Custom Home Audio www.triadspeakers.com 6.3 yrs. (Nov. ‘04 - Feb. ’11) Responsible for the aesthetics of product families through design topology. Performed new product family execution from definition, sketching, ideation, prototyping, sales presentations, and design for manufacture into product launch and support. Created conceptual designs, prototypes, production engineered CAD/CAM programs, and managed multidisciplinary teams (offshore/domestic) through each project. Wrote and published wordless end user assembly instructions for electronics use and speaker installation. Established new vendor relations, part quotation/manufacture as well as implemented new internal material usage and manufacturing processes. Responsible for proper manufacturing drawing documentation both internal and external for 2D and 3D fabricated parts. - CES 2008 Editors Choice Award - ‘InWall Silver Omni Sconce’ - CEA 2007 Best of Category Home Theater - ‘OnWall Mini LCR 3.0 Loudspeaker’ - CEA 2006 Best of Category Custom Installation - ‘InCorner Silver Omni Loudspeaker’

Industrial Designer/ NIR, Inc. POP Display/Tradeshow now: www.bboxpro.com Design Engineer Worked with the Creative Director and Lead Industrial Designer performing design engineering 1.6 yrs. (Nov. ‘02 - June ‘04) and design for manufacture. Entrusted with maintaining design intent through manufacture by balancing aesthetic, cost, and manufacturability constraints with solid communication, approvals, and careful production documentation. Responsible for the end-users out of box experience through wordless assembly instructions, RTA design, and packaging design. Managed BOM and production documentation for purchase of multi-million dollar projects. - Clients: , TaylorMade, HighGear, Burton, Virgin Mobile, Dragon Optical, Adidas.

[email protected] www.creatID.com 503.860.2095 portland or, usa pg 1 of 2 Industrial Designer Modo, Inc. Medical and Technology Carts www.modocarts.com 2.7 yrs. (Dec. ‘99 - June ‘02) Product design, concept development and presentation, sketching, mechanical engineering, product management, design for manufacture, production/BOM documentation, quotation, wordless end-user assembly instructions, and packaging design/production and testing. - Clients: Herman Miller, Tektronix, GE, Epson, Planar, Vitalsys, Physio Control, Quinton, HP. - IDEAs 2001 Silver Award - Terabeam Optical Transceiver - IDEAs 2001 Silver Award - Arrow Rollstand - IDEAs 2001 Bronze Award and ID Magazine Annual Design Review - Richmar (Rosie) Rollstand

Industrial Designer Goldsmith Yamasaki Specht Design Consultancy 2.8 yrs. (Sep. ‘97 - June ‘99) Conceptual development and sketch presentations, mechanical design and illustration, graphic design, digital photo imaging, network administration. - Clients: Xacto, Hoppy Mfg., Capacity Auto, GE, and Armour All.

Franchise Owner College Pro Painters 2 yrs. (summer ‘95, ‘96) Lead sixteen painters for two summers producing $350,000. Full business management, marketing research and planning, estimating, training, proposal generation and negotiating, and developed organization and project/employee management skills to meet numerous simultaneous deadlines. - 1995 Customer Satisfaction Award for highest customer rating in the nation - 1995 & 1996 Manager of the Year Award for highest production in division - 1996 Quality Assurance Award (120 satisfied customers)

BFA, Industrial Design The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts Minor Furniture Design Human factors engineering, product design, manufacturing processes and materials, design methodology, rapid prototyping, furniture manufacture and model making.

Interests & Affiliations - IDSA - www.idsa.org - NWTA Northwest Trail Alliance Mountain Biking Club Director- www.nw-trail.org: Web Development, Mountain biking instructor, and youth education - IMBA International Mountain Biking Association Member - www.imba.com - AMA American Motorcycling Association Member and adventure motorcyclist - Backpacking, camping, woodworking, and outdoor enthusiast.

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Update locking mechanism

Soft touch side profile for increased wet weather grip

Considerable attention given to reducing assembly cost and maintaining design intent

www.creatID.com industrial designer CAD modeling portland or, usa Kershaw Whisper II Modeling Clients needs: -Create a new knife design that incorporates the clients proprietary ‘Speedsafe’ technology -Develop and design a co-molded grip. -Develop and design an updated and improved blade locking mechanism

Previous Version

‘Speedsafe’ assisted opening spring mechanism

Update locking mechanism

www.creatID.com industrial designer CAD modeling portland or, usa Electric - Designed to capture clients signature while creating a new identity for a new user group and market.

Electric Knife Sharpener Packaging development containing proprietary knife sharpening and honing mechanism, study focused on end user perception and instinctual use

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