PepsiCo Global R&D

Industrial Design Engineering & Facility Manager | PLANO, TEXAS | 07/2024 - PRESENT

Prototype Specialist | PLANO, TEXAS | 05/2024 - 07/2026

WovenWorks Global — Embedded Contractor

  • Maintain a close, working relationship with Frito-Lay leadership. Assess requested project deliverables, timing, and resources.

  • Lead and manage efforts to produce high quality, design-validation prototypes and unique, small-order requests.

  • Interact with multiple PepsiCo departments on long-lead, NPD programs. Distill ideas, research, feedback, reviews, and manufacturing capabilities to develop sketches, prototypes, renders, and production CAD.

  • Evaluate existing manufacturing methods and processes, emerging technologies, machines, and materials to provide recommendations for hard and software acquisition proposals, and material exploration plans.

  • Responsible for maintaining, repairing, calibrating, and the overall, optimal/safe working condition of the facility, and all on-site machinery. Maintain consumable levels, safety documentation, and vendor lists.

  • Develop, implement, and maintain PepsiCo Global EHS and OSHA safety SOP’s.

  • Redevelop our project management platform to facilitate regular tracking reports, capturing timing, resources, consumables, and cost centers.

    Jeff by Design

INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER / ENGINEER | CONSULTANT | 07/2021 - PRESENT

MECCA Design and Production | DALLAS, TEXAS | 1 year

  • Concept Ideation, in order to bring the clients ideas and needs to life, in regard to full scale set builds for permanent, semi-permanent, and temporary set pieces. Industries include film and television, trade shows, sport venues, etc.

  • 3D CAD Specialist charged with DFM/A, production of shop drawings, and all relevant production file types.

GSM Outdoors | HENDERSON, NEVADA | 9 months

  • 3D CAD Specialist charged with engineering mass-production items and systems for the hunting, fishing, and spot shooting industries, across 50+ brands.

  • Managed, both, design and engineering tasks for both domestic and international manufacturing.

MODUS Applied Innovations Group | DALLAS, TEXAS | 1 year

  • Offering mechanical engineering support for a multi-disciplinary team of

  • designers and engineers to brainstorm concepts, evaluate solutions,

  • research, and source materials, parts, and processes applying DFM

  • principles to develop innovative design concepts and creative prototypes.

  • Principal prototype engineer, 3D printing manager.

ELEMENT PACKAGING, LLC

PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENGINEER | BOCA RATON, FL | 07/2019 - 07/2021

  • Principal Industrial Designer, Engineer, and Fabricator

  • Manage, Design, and engineer all aspects of creating visual, tactile, and environmentally conscious directions for cosmetic and skincare product packaging. Validate engineering and manufacturing samples from various global vendors.

  • Brands include: MOB Beauty, P&G, Colgate, Sephora, Ulta, CREDO,

  • Makeup-by-Mario, Juvias Place, RMS Beauty, Harry’s, Bite Toothpaste, Milk, and Urban Decay.

VIRA INSIGHT, LLC

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENGINEER | COPPELL, TEXAS | 03/2018 - 07/2019

  • Develop feasible designs, leading the charge for Value Added engineering, while maintaining client brand fidelity.

  • Minimize cost impacts through material and finish choice, manufacturing methods, assembly procedures, production locations, and logistics.

  • Lean manufacturing, in respect to material yield, machine time and man-hours of assembly

  • Maintain proper document revisions, ECMs, ECRs, and BOMs for engaging manufacturers, both foreign and domestic

  • Work with prototype engineers throughout prototype development to ensure first article quality

POINT INNOVATION, LLC

INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER   |   LEWISVILLE, TEXAS | 09/2016 - 02/2018

  • Consult on all industrial and mechanical design projects in various capacities

  • Project Manager | Function as the point of contact for all active clients while managing resources and man-power through all aspects of the development process

  • Client Advocate | Work with clients to best understand their wants and desires, then use that insight to ensure the fidelity the final deliverable is maintained

  • Writing, revising, finalizing, and releasing statements of work (SOW) and quote documentation

  • Blue-sky development | brainstorming, sketching, model mockups

  • Class-A and mechanical CAD development | Solidworks and Rhino3D

  • Rendering | Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and KeyShot

FREELANCE/CONTRACTOR

INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER | CONSULTANT | 11/2014 - 09/2016

REVIVAL SUPPLY, CO. | DALLAS, TEXAS | 4 months

  • Design and fabricate custom furniture pieces for commercial and residential clientele

  • Driving design language of the company included raw steel and reclaimed lumber, sourced from Louisiana, Texas, and surrounding states

  • Methods of fabrication included carpentry and MIG welding

FOSSIL GROUP   |   RICHARDSON, TEXAS | 3 months

  • Design metallic hardware and other components for all Fossil Brand bags and accessories.

  • Assist and consult on the redevelopment of the hardware brand language strategy for the Summit line under the direction of the Men’s Leather Accessories division

  • Develop and curate technical specification documentation for quality control from design through manufacturing stage

KARMA AUTOMOTIVE   |   COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA | 9 months

  • Develop concepts for aftermarket components for the re-release of the Karma hybrid automobile

  • Ideate and develop new lighting strategies for immediate and future integration into to the Karma platform

  • Track the release of interior engineering changes, in order to ensure correct documentation for accurate and up-to-date internal document referencing

  • Organize and curate the best practices library pertaining to Interior Engineering department

  • Support the Design Release Engineers with mock-up and prototype fabrication, as performing root

  • cause analysis

AVENUE OF THE ARTS HOTEL

GUEST RELATIONS MANAGER  | COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA | 06/2011 - 11/2014

Former positions held:

  • Food and Beverage, Supervisor

  • Front Desk, Supervisor

  • Guest Services, Representative

  • Bellman/Shuttle Driver

 

EDUCATION

SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN |   SAVANNAH, GEORGIA

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN |   B.F.A.