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Senior Director, Design

P&G - Oral Care & Smart Products

Frankfurt, Germany & Cincinnati, OH | July 2014 - Present

Oral Care & Smart Products Innovation Design Leader - provide Design leadership to the P&G Oral Care & Smart Products Innovation Design organizations in Kronberg, Germany, Beijing, China, and Cincinnati, Ohio to deliver category re-platforming programs across multiple innovation verticals, including product, accessories, materials & finishes, and human computer interface.

• Responsible for career plans, budgets, and resource management for a team of 16 Designers, located in North America, China, and Europe
• Led Vision Development for multiple Oral Care & Smart Products Innovation Platforms - Power Oral Care, Manual Oral Care, Accessories, Interactivity, Chemistry - example = Oral-B iO
• Led development of first in P&G Digital Design Capability - from external resources to fully internalized capability deployed against our categories biggest Consumer Jobs-to-be-Done
• Programs either led or co-developed are responsible for $100's of millions in topline growth for the Oral Care Category over the past 13 years

Principal Design Manager

P&G - Oral Care

Cincinnati, OH | December 2010 - July 2014

Oral Care Design Front End Innovation - provide Design leadership to P&G Oral Care organization as part of the multi-functional FEI Leadership Team. Responsible for creating cross-functional relationships and portfolio management systems that ensure trends, consumer understanding, Lighthouse/Design Thinking, and technologies are holistically linked into Oral Care innovation portfolio and then delivered to go-to-market portfolio and initiative teams.

• Led visualization & development of portfolio management system used by Category Leadership Team
• Led strategic definition and development of category and company first Augmented Service Offering

Principal Design Manager

P&G - Hair Care

Cincinnati, OH | November 2008 - December 2010

HairCare Design Innovation - provide Design leadership to P&G Beauty and Grooming organization. Led multi-functional teams that delivered a leadership aligned cross-category packaging asset deployment strategy. This strategy re-imagines how HairCare as a category will go to market.

• $55 million cost savings year-on-year
• 30% reduction in 3D portfolio complexity
• 50% reduction in time to market for new packaging initiatives
• Highly flexible and highly scaleable manufacturing and development systems
• Responsible for brainstorming, sketch visualization, and building concept CAD for packaging inventions

Senior Design Manager

P&G - Hair Care

Cincinnati, OH & Kobe, Japan | October 2005 - November 2008

HairCare / Pantene - led 3D vision development for Pantene brand globally as part of a multi-functional team that restaged the brand, beginning with product technology and architecture re-inventions.

• 3D Design Lead on multi-functional team that designed and delivered 3D packaging assets as part of Pantene total brand re-stage to multiple countries and regions globally
• Collaborated on the delivery of multiple regional brand re-stages to Asia-Pacific region - including VS, Pantene, Pantene Clinicare, and H&S
• Created 10-year vision for Pantene Treatments and Styling packaging with first step on that path being delivered to market in above mentioned re-stage

Design Manager

P&G - Fem Care

Cincinnati, OH | November 2003 - October 2005

FemCare New Business Development - led the development of a new to the world brand aimed at a FemCare category whitespace. Owned the delivery and creation of conceptual territory definition, inspirational consumer definition, product and packaging design, as well as graphic tonality.

• Delivered the 3rd largest initiative for Fem Care in previous 10 years
• Design Leader for category whitespace expansion leading both brand identity and product innovation from upstream development all the way to go-to-market
• Initiated and cultivated first ever Design partnership with in-house prototypers to deliver 100's of product prototypes for consumer research

Senior Industrial Designer

LPK

Cincinnati, OH | 2000 - 2003

Responsible for product, package, brand, and environmental design. Involved in all areas of the product design and development process, including market research, product conception, sketching, client/vendor interface, data creation/transfer, mock-ups, and hand/computer renderings. Clients included P&G, Herman Miller, GE Lighting, Matsushita, Conair, Clorox, and Paxar/Monarch.

• IDSA/Businessweek IDEA Bronze Award for GE Buddy Lights

Industrial Designer

Philips Consumer Electronics

Knoxville, TN | 1999 - 2000

Responsible for product, graphic, cinemagraphic, and packaging design. Involved at all levels of this Design Thinking driven design group. Responsibilities included project oversight, client and consumer interface, conceptualization, surface data generation (using Alias/Wavefront), data transfer, rendering and animation.

Co-op Industrial Designer

Philips Consumer Electronics

Knoxville, TN | 1998

Responsible for product, graphic, and cinemagraphic design. Participated in all phases of product design cycle from initiation to manufacturing, including conceptualization, CAD creation, and engineering support.

Co-op Industrial Designer

Karrot Design Ltd

Hong Kong, China | 1997

Responsible for product, toy, graphic, and web design. Involved in all aspects of design process including project/team management, as well as communications with clients and vendors.

Co-op Industrial Designer

Philips Consumer Electronics

Knoxville, TN | 1996

Responsible for product, environment, and design. Assisted full-time designers in many areas of the product design process, including conceptualization, hand and computer rendering, component sourcing, and model shop support.