Work/Experience

Industrial Designer & Product Owner
Saint Gobain - CertainTeed ‘Solutions Development’ ( February 2022 – Present)
Senior-level industrial designer leading a small group of designers. We are part of a cross-functional engineering team at Saint Gobain. Our team is focused on reducing the energy and material waste of construction; finding ways to build homes faster, more efficiently, and with fewer injuries or errors. Full-project ownership from user research and project conception through ideation, model making, looks-like and functional prototyping, strength and characterization testing, EHS and LCA analysis, DFM and manufacturing optimization, patent / IP protection, and post-launch voice-of-customer.

’Product Owner’ has recently been added to my title to reflect an expansion of my role, which now includes ownership, strategy, and management for our digital products. These include internal tools and optimizations for manufacturing, product development, and visualization, as well as developing customer-facing applications to support our BUs.

Lab Owner - Greentown Labs
Saint Gobain - CertainTeed Solutions Development ( February 2022 – Present)
An additional responsibility at Saint Gobain that I feel is worth it’s own blurb. Lab owner / safety manager of a ~1,500sqft lab space at Greentown Labs, a Climatech startup incubator in Somerville MA, for CertainTeed. This lab acts as an offsite, customer-facing prototyping area for Saint Gobain. We have opened our space as a resource to the startup community, allowing startups to use our tools, characterization equipment, rapid prototyping resources, and environmental chamber. I have updated the floorplan to improve access for Voice Of Customer testing, developed SOP’s and Safety guidelines for non-Saint Gobain users, led safety trainings, and managed resources and access for third-party users.

Industrial Designer
Sprout Studios ( March 2019 – August 2021­)
Mid/Senior-Level Industrial designer working alongside a team of designers, visualization specialists, and engineers on a wide variety of consumer projects to generate new concepts, guide brand development, create patentable IP, and produce high quality video and images. Project responsibility from conception through phase 3 delivery of manufacturable 3D model, supporting to manage design intent through product launch. Developed internal tools to automate high-volume image production & rendering workflow in Keyshot to optimize our highest-growth offering.

Industrial Design Contractor
Sprout Studios ( June 2018 – March 2019 ­)
Contractor working both collaboratively and independently on a wide range of technical projects including innovative healthcare systems, global wellness products, and consumer electronics. Generated new concepts, design and market research, high-fidelity prototypes, and visual presentation materials for clients and investors.

Virtual Reality Design Intern & Developer
Notre Dame Office of Information Technologies  (Summer 2017)
Intensive virtual reality coding and AR/VR development program. Lead designer of 10 member collaborative team alongside ND’s Chief Technology Officer. Designed cross-disciplinary, agile-driven software in Unity for history, psychology, and neuroscience faculty to visually express a variety of data ‑ and for psychology and neuroscience testing of prospective memory in Alzheimer’s patients

Manager On Duty, specializing in boat / building repair 
Longshore Sailing School  (May 2014 – August 2016)
Managed a team of 20 instructors to improve recreational product safety and lifespan.
Detail oriented to meet and exceed safety standards for 112 vessels in demanding, high-risk environment.

Education

BFA in Industrial Design
University Of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, 2018

Leadership

USCG Master Captains License (pending - 2023)
N.D. IDSA Student Chapter Board Member
Notre Dame Womens Club Hockey Assistant Coach
Notre Dame Sailing Team Captain
US Sailing Level 1: Teaching Certification

Awards

2017 William & Connie Greif Award
2017 Ganey Undergraduate Community-Based Research Award

Extra Curriculars

Freelance Graphic Design
Design For America: Developing extra-curricular skill-building courses
Notre Dame Club Hockey: Goalie, helped with recruiting new players
IDSA (Notre Dame Studio): Promoting design thinking on campus