Focused on persistent interrogation and rapid iteration to distill and identify root problems, to create design-centric product solutions focused on identifying product market fit. Merging end-user needs, business goals, and stakeholder objectives.
06/2021-current
CEO / Founder
Lookout AM LLC DBA Addazu
Highlights
Early-stage startup focused on reconfigurable panelized modular housing. Built an early prototype and conducted full-scale ethnography experiments to prove technical feasibility. Conducted over 100+ customer discovery interviews. Negotiated partnership contracts, built an internal team, raised over $100k in pre-revenue investments, designed and engineered a novel building system, and developed, and negotiated customer contracts
08/2022-current
NREL West Gate Program Director - Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Colorado School of Mines
Highlights
Lead for the Colorado School of Mines NREL West Gate partnership program. The first cohort focused on commercializing four innovative ventures in the clean energy vertical. Personally responsible for developing an internal curriculum focused on incubating hardware product solutions in the deep tech and energy space.
08/2020-08/2022
Adjunct Instructor - Engineering, Design, & Society
Colorado School of Mines
Highlights
Optimized the online learning interface for the Cornerstone design curriculum, managed and expanded client engagement as project advisor for Capstone senior design. Mentored four Capstone senior design projects. One team won third place out of ~60+ teams; a second team raised over $750,000 post-graduation and is currently deploying their product for commercial customers.
01/2020-12/2022
Graduate Candidate - Advanced Manufacturing
Colorado School of Mines
Highlights
Navigated complex university approvals for facility access and funding as the team lead for Mines COVID-19 PPE response. Team lead for two multi-national Innov8x projects, Disaster relief housing (FEAM), and Alternative building materials (United Arab Emirates). Acquired a Master’s Degree in Advanced Manufacturing and a Professional Certificate in Finite Element Analysis.
01/2020-06/2020
Adjunct Instructor
Red Rocks Community College
Highlights
Designed and taught course curriculum for advanced Adobe skills and methodologies for learning design software.
02/2019-08/2020
Adjunct Professor
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design
Highlights
Developed original undergraduate curriculum for Environmental Design and Human Interactive Design courses. Focused on solving complex design problems through 5 stage design thinking: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test.
02/2019-07/2019
User Experience Director
gyro
Highlights
Managed a team of five UX designers and three UI designers across five consumer brands and three offices. Developed user studies to define product features, and functional optimizations.
03/2017-02/2019
Chief Creative Officer / Founder
Schoolyard Creative
Highlights
Built a product development focused agency focused on new and emerging brands. Launched two emerging brands from concept to 20+ state distribution within 24 months.
09/2016-4/2017
UX/UI Consultant
Tempus, Inc.
Highlights
Coordinated multiple SaaS product design efforts and multivariate testing for a cancer genomic sequencing company.
04/2015-09/2016
Senior User Experience Designer
mcgarrybowen
Highlights
Lead experiential designer/design strategist for all on and offline user engagement. Defined the organizational design workflow and built the corporate user-centric design curriculum.
Work history prior to 2015 is available upon request.
- PRODUCT DESIGN
- CUSTOMER DISCOVERY
- DESIGN FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
- STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT
- LEADERSHIP
- CRITICAL THINKING
- CAD MODELING
- CREATIVE EXECUTION
- COMMUNICATION
- TOPOLOGY DESIGN
- UX DESIGN
- DATA ANALYSIS
- WORDPRESS / CSS / HTML
– Business Owner and Entrepreneur
– User Experience Curriculum Development
mcgarrybowen, Chicago
– Level A improv training Second City Chicago
– Leadership Training LTFI
– Communication Style Training DiSC
– Solo Showing Artist
– Published Paleontologist
Denver Natural History Museum
– Colorado State Troopers Colonels Award
Alive at 25 Foundation
– Mentor Gold Crown Computer Club
Lakewood, CO
3-D Design | Social Entrepreneurship Design Experiential Engineering Sustainability | Sociology Population Studies | Micro Farming | Alternative Energy | Architecture | Fine Art | Creative Writing
MS – Advanced Manufacturing / Professional Certificate in Finite Element Analysis
Colorado School of Mines
Bachelor of Arts – Graphic Design
University of Northern Colorado