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Product design and development

Design Engineer

Product Designer, Developer & Engineer with hands-on experience managing a wide range of projects, clients and industries. Key strengths include leading teams in entire design cycle through post production quality control.  
Excellent in creativity, idea generation / solutions and visual communication.

Designed, developed, engineered and managed production of eye wear. 
• Integrated industrial design aesthetic with mechanical design solutions and plastic injection molding constraints.
• Designed robust mechanical solutions for consumer snow goggles.
• Designed mechanical design solutions and developed military ballistic eye wear.
• Created 3D model and FEA using Solidworks.
• Managed overall project schedule, budget, and scope.

design HORIZON: Long Beach, CA										2009-2014
Freelance Design and Development Services									2002-2004
Product Designer & Developer
Designed, developed, engineered and managed projects for clients including:
Transportation Projects:
Dux Automotive: bumpers, grill / headlights for Shelby Cobra Mustang, truck bed extender. 
Elnari International: After market automotive seat covers & steering wheel covers. 
Han Auto Trends: Acura RSX ground effects & Miata spoiler concepts.
Idea Mill: Scooters for multiple markets.
Kustom Fit: High end seats for Monaco Luxury Recreational Vehicles. 
Mooney Aircraft:  Interior for high end personal aircraft.
Vogue Motors: Luxury Limousine conversions; includes seats, headliners, doors, electronics, floors, windows & ground effects. Created Design Studio and company branding. 
Product Projects:
AirSpeak: Flair wireless remote hand-held computer.
Antex Electronics: Internet electronic appliances for commercial & consumer music & video applications.  Court recording electronic device.
Animavi: Furniture, fixtures & public furniture from design to manufacturing & production drawings.
Clinisync: Wireless medical laptop / tablet.
Clive: Backpacks from concept through preliminary technical packages. 
Dyna, LLC: Electronic home wireless communication device. 
Eagle Creek: Backpacks, briefcases and luggage projects for a variety of markets. 
Golden Pacific: Backpack technical packs for 4 separate lines.
Pelican Gaming Accessories: Wii Nerf toy & gaming hand console.
Seachrome: Bathroom accessories, equipment and a reversible shower seat design. 
TII Network Technologies: Externally mounted cable box.

Targus Group International: Anaheim, CA								2006-2009 
Best selling notebook case brand and leading provider of mobile accessory products. 
Senior Designer / Product Developer
Designed, developed, engineered and managed production of laptop accessories and cases. 
• Trained and mentored 3 junior designers, ramping up studio productivity in 5 months.  
• Streamlined overall product development time by 30% and increased company sales.  
• Developed 40 projects of soft and hard goods over 3 years and increased company revenue.  
• Developed mechanical requirements and specifications with product managers that increased quality and shortened development time by 20%.  
• Cut time-to-market by 40% by working with Asian suppliers early in development phase.  
• As liaison between Asian suppliers and product managers, evaluated options with factory providing expertise that decreased cost and production time, and increased quality.  
• Reviewed initial prototypes through final production identifying and resolving any issues prior to production which decreased product returns by 5%.  
• Designed & developed ruggedized case for iPad. Engineered various cases for iPhone.
• Designed an innovative laptop security device resulting in a pending utility patent. 
 
Currie Technologies: Chatsworth, CA									2004-2006 
Developer, manufacturer and distributor of high-performance electric powered personal transportation products with Asian manufacturing plants.
Director of Product Development
Directed, designed and engineered development of electric bicycles and scooters.  
• Explored and refined product designs. 
• Promoted to director of development with 3 people after 1 year of hire. 
• Managed over 30 products with on-time completion & increased company revenue 7%.  
• Increased department productivity 20% by developing policies and systems including job descriptions for all department personnel.  
• Streamlined development 40% by implementing ‘product development methodology’.
• Researched and defined new products and battery technologies to management team. 
• Decreased fabrication time of prototypes 30% by providing alternate solutions.  
• Met project criteria by developing and evaluating mechanical and electrical systems.  
• Decreased manufacture time 10% by creating production quality controls based on Sigma Six.  
• Improved quality & helped reduce returns 5% by continually testing production samples for quality assurance & reported findings with customer support department & factory.  
• Tracked Bill of Materials (BOM) of products with factory to maintain improved quality.  
• Received design patent on electric bike project. 
• Designed & developed pannier battery pack for electric bicycles.

Edge Industrial Design: Anaheim, CA									1997-2002 
Industrial design consultancy with engineering, modeling / prototype and casting shop. 
Designer 
Designed, engineered and managed projects from design concept to manufacturing.
• Worked with diverse companies including Schwinn, StairMaster, Motorola, Mattel, Currie Technologies, Canoga Perkins, Rain Bird, Zymed Medical and Diamond Audio. 
• Designated lead designer on projects ranging from $120,000 to $300,000 including: telecommunications, fitness equipment, an electric scooter, and a mountain bike.
• Assisted in developing models, prototypes and castings that met budget and deadlines.
• Coordinated progress of projects with vendors and presented final products to clients.

Work Experience

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Joe Del Rosario: Design Engineer in Long Beach, CA

Joe Del Rosario

Oakley Eyewear

Various

Art Center College of Design