Industrial/Designer
Zachary/Elder
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Career/Summary An experienced Industrial Designer of consumer products in the outdoor sporting goods and
green technology industries. Successfully creating products that need to hold a presence of
their own, convey brand language, address human factors, interface/coexist with a wide
range of unrelated products, while performing technically and remaining unobtrusive. This
experience has provided me an extensive tool kit for the design process and a true passion
for the creation of great things.
Specialized/Skills • Solid Works • Concept generation • Silicone mold making
• Qualitative research • Illustrator - Photoshop • Rapid prototyping - SLS, FDM
Experience Veranda Solar. Portland, OR
Industrial Designer : 01/ 2009 - Present
Industrial design / Research
• Concept generation, brand language development (sketching, brainstorming)
• ID surface and conceptual mechanical CAD modeling (Solid Works)
• Contributed to in progress research study with out side source
• Conducted final analysis and reports on research findings
Yakima Products. Arcata, CA - Portland, OR
Sr. Model Maker / Design Researcher (Advanced Development Team) : 2004 - 11/ 2008
Research
• Drove front end product development research.
• Successfully created/implemented new research strategies for product innovation.
• Conducted research activities, providing detailed reports and insight on results.
• Focused on the analysis of consumer values for the extraction of latent insights.
• Applied research findings directly to develop tangible solutions for successful products.
Industrial design
• Concept generation, brand language development (sketching, brainstorming, mockups).
• ID surface and production CAD modeling (Solid Works)
• Worked hand in hand with engineering designing for manufacturability.
• Created and contributed to successful products on the market.
Model Design
• Managed/expanded internal rapid prototyping capabilities. (SLS, FDM, Silicone Molding)
• Introduced new technologies, tailoring them specifically to our needs. (SLS)
• Significantly increased quality and productivity while continually lowering RP costs.
• Generated/explored functional design concepts.
• Created photo quality prototypes.

Industrial/Designer
Zachary/Elder
3 2 11 S W 1 0 t h AV E # 4 0 6 P o r t l a n d , O R 9 7 2 3 9
TEL 5 0 3 . 3 1 2 . 3 8 3 4 MAIL z a c h a r y. e l d e r @ m e . c o m
W e b w w w. z e d e s i g n . m e
Experience/Cont Viscom Technology Group. Chaska, MN
Logistics Manager : 2001 - 2004
logistics
• EDI processing, vendor coordination and shipping.
Minnefex. Minneapolis, MN
Intern : summer 2000
Model Maker
• Created photo quality display models and special effects for commercial print
advertisements and exhibit displays.
Education Bemidji State University
Bemidji, Minnesota : September 1995 - 2001
• Bachelor of Science in Design Technology with an emphasis in Model Design
Design Management Institute.
• Design Research for Product and Service Innovation (Seminar)