Currently

Sales and Design Service Specialist, Herman Miller, San Jose, CA | March 2023 -

Focus on customer education in speciality products and a positive retail experience

  • Salesforce and POS
  • Keyholder
  • Design concierge with custom 3D modeling and product rendering

Experience

Project Manager, Inform, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA | Jan - April 2023

Inform is a collective exhibition of 15 independent graduate theses, designed by and for the students themselves. Location and general framework was provided by the college, while everything within the exhibition was funded and built by the students.

  • Part of management team: coordinating full team meetings, establishing itineraries and developing action plans, and cross-disciplinary team communication
  • Financial manager: budget proposal and expense tracking
  • Primary vendor contact and material recipient

Graduate Teaching Assistant, History of Furniture Design, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA | Sept 2020 - Dec 2022

Managed 5 terms of classes for George Kordaris, teaching the history of furniture design and the development of the industry, at both Undergraduate and Graduate level.

  • Maintained presentations with up-to-date imagery and research
  • Managed contact with students through email and online portal
  • Managed distribution of learning materials and assignments
  • Established best-practices and filing system for hand-off to subsequent TAs
  • Terms: Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, two classes Fall 2022

Art Consultant, Danish Consulate General, Palo Alto, CA | Autumn 2019

A selection from the Rockwool Collection is installed at the newly opened Consulate, also home to the Ministry of Foreign Affair's Innovation Center Denmark Silicon Valley.

Color Consultant, Orchard Supply Hardware, San Jose, CA | July - Dec 2017

Pilot program between Benjamin Moore and Orchard to provide customers with free, in-store color consulting for their homes and businesses, narrowing down from the 3500 BM colors and working out the kinks of lighting and pigment.
  • Extended from original time frame of July-Sept to end of October, then again to end of December
  • Year over year sales increase in paint by +20% vs. 6% aggregate
  • Provided additional customer service within the Paint and Sundries and Housewares departments
  • Paint mixing on Instragram : "That's Mixed Up"

Project Lead, _Reimagine Space through Modern Danish Painting_, UC Santa Cruz | Spring 2014

Reimagine Space exhibits a selection of facsimiles from the Rockwool Danmark Group’s Painting of the Year program, 1962-2013.

  • Curated artwork selection
  • Managed budget proposal and grant applications (with full funding received)
  • Designed exhibition layout, artwork framing, and marketing material
  • Assembled and installed framed artwork
  • Advisors: Prof. Jennifer Gonzalez of HAVC dept; James Blaine, Porter Activites Coord.
  • Creative and Innovative Grant, from Porter College Provost
  • Patricia and Rowland Rebele Grant, from History of Art and Visual Culture department

Production Assistant, _Oceanic Scales_ by Gene A. Felice, UC Santa Cruz | Spring 2014

Contributed to the completion of MFA-thesis exhibit; see "OceanicScales.com" for more info

  • Design prototyping and laser cutting components
  • Assembly of parts and on site installations
  • Docent work at various community events

Recording Secretary, Porter College Student Senate, UC Santa Cruz | 2011 - 2013

Elected position held six quarters. Required keeping track of member attendance and voting status; taking notes on funding requests, allocations, and announcements; and maintaining recent institutional memory.


Information Systems Intern, Merced Systems, Ltd, UK | Autumn 2010

Assisted the local Finance Director (Inc. in the US and Ltd. in the UK) - Reviewed, digitized, and indexed nondisclosure agreements - Cross-referenced and verified purchase orders and their payments

Education

Master of Science, Environmental Design: Furniture & Lighting, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA | Sept 2018 - April 2023

The Environmental Design department became the Spatial Experience Design department in 2022

  • Furniture, lighting, and spatial design
  • Software: SolidWorks, Modo, Unreal Engine 5, ZBrush, Rhino, KeyShot, Adobe Suite
  • Focus on CMF, fabrication, and product management
  • Thesis research: "Sensation and Perception and Design," or how our full sensory array can be engaged by both art and design

International Association of Color Consultants, San Diego, CA

Seminar 1: Basics of Color (physics, history, biology, psychology), Oct 2016
Seminar 4: Psychological and Physical Effects/Synesthesia, Oct 2016
Seminar 2: Color Phenomenon, April 2017
Seminar 3: Architectural Spaces, October 2017
Exam passed Oct 2017.


Additional Courses

Glaze Calculation, Green & Bisque Clayhouse, Pasadena, CA | Fall 2021
CS 46 : Intro to Python, Stanford Continuing Studies | Spring 2018
Art 242: Lighting & Fine Art Photography, Stanford Continuing Studies | Summer 2017
DSN 102: Design Execution, Bringing Ideas to Life, Stanford Continuing Studies | Winter 2017
DSN 101: Inspiration, History, & Theory of Design, Stanford Continuing Studies | Fall 2016

Analog Photography, Vraa Højskole, Vrå, DK | June-July 2015
Object Modeling, Keramik Skolen, Copenhagen, DK | May 2015
DSLR Photography, Engelsholm Højskole, Bredsten, DK | April 2015
Billedværksted, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebæk, DK | Feb-April 2015
Introduction to Drawing, Community School of Music and Arts, Mountain View, CA | Oct-Dec 2014


One Year Product Design, Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milano, IT | 2015 - 2016

Pre-Masters program providing a foundation in theory and practical skills. More info at ScuolaDesign.com

  • General overview of sketching, drafting, design history, color theory, materials and manufacturing technology
  • Mac and PC : Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign; rendering with Keyshot and 3D Studio Max; modeling with AutoCAD, SketchUp, and Rhinoceros
  • Studio classes for industrial design (3) and interior design (2)

Bachelor of Arts, History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California at Santa Cruz | 2010 - 2014

The History of Art and Visual Culture covers everything from the pre-historical to the contemporary, from all corners of the globe.

  • Additional courses in Math, German, Physics, and various arts
  • MakerSpace Leader : founding member; maintain space and tools, student demos, 2013-14
  • Orientation Leader : volunteer position with Porter Activities Office, 2012-14
  • Porter College Student Senate : $15,000 annual budget; various elected positions 2010-14
  • Porter College Service Award : for “outstanding contributions” to the community

Precollege, Architecture, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA | 2009

Summer program for high school students

  • 3D card board models, and explorations of lines, planes, and space
  • Life-size structures converted to scaled plans and elevations

recognition

ArtCenter Student Gallery | 2021

Ceramic work selected to be exhibited for the duration of Fall term, 2021, to represent the Intro to Ceramics - Wheel class, from the Integrated Studies Department.


College Service Award | 2014

Awarded to seniors/fourth-years by the Porter College (UC Santa Cruz) Provost and the Administrative Officer in recognition of “outstanding contributions” to the Porter College community.



Patricia and Rowland Rebele Grant | 2014

Awarded by the History of Art and Visual Culture Department at UC Santa Cruz for the Reimagining Space exhibit.



Creative and Innovative Grant | 2014

Awarded by the Porter College (UC Santa Cruz) Provost, with recommendation from the Porter Student Senate (I recused myself from deliberations), for the Reimagining Space exhibit.

skills

Languages:

Danish and English (native); French and German (out of practice); Italian (random vocabulary)


software:

Mac + PC; SolidWorks, Modo, UnReal Engine 5, KeyShot, Rhinoceros, AutoCAD, ZBrush, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom, PremieirePro, Python


workshop:

3D printing (FMD, SLA), laser cutting, vacuum forming, router table, wood lathe, power saws, drivers and drills, circuit soldering, machine sewing, ceramics


additionally:

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