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Director of Industrial Design and Innovation

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I have passion and expertise in developing creative solutions for a wide variety of products and services. As a “Design Thinking Evangelist”, I lead teams to apply human empathy and motivations to innovate new products, features, and business solutions. Success is qualified in financial metrics as well as in the ability to enhance the lives of our customers. My capabilities include creative leadership of people and processes, design and innovation strategies, and high quality, hands-on design execution. Specialties: Creative team leadership, award-winning product design, appropriate application of technology, innovation, visual brand language development, UI/UX, and visual storytelling.