Work Experience

FEIT
January 2016-Present
Assistant Designer - New York, NY: Collaborate with the lead designer on collections starting with Fall/Winter 2016. Experience designing footwear, bags, accessories, mailouts, lookbooks, and instagram campaigns. Involved in overall brand direction. Experience traveling to footwear and bag factories as well as material shows.

NIKE
June-August 2015
Footwear Design Intern - Beaverton, OR: Worked designing footwear for Nike Sportswear with the Special Projects, Elements, Innovation, Running, and Global Football divisions. Learned how to construct a shoe with my own two hands. Worked on a number of products now out on the market.

BRANDBLACK
August-December 2014
Freelance Footwear Designer - Los Angeles, CA: Worked designing performance footwear heavily influenced by lifestyle aesthetics as well as various logos and colorways for the brand.

SKECHERS PERFORMANCE
August-December 2014
Footwear Design Intern - Manhattan Beach, CA: Learned the full process of designing a shoe from conceptualization to production. Designed a performance golf shoe, the tooling for a work shoe, and multiple colorways that are soon to be released worldwide.

RANDA ACCESSORIES
January-May 2014
Design Intern - Chicago, IL: Designed leather accessories for companies such as Levi’s, Zara, Columbia, Dickies, Target, Gap, and Banana Republic with many designs now out on the market worldwide. Worked on a lot of trend research and analysis.

WALTER P. SAUER
Summer 2013
Design Intern - Brooklyn, NY: Worked in the fabrication and assembly of high end residential furniture. Learned all about construction and to keep the actual manufcturing of a product in mind at all times.

Education

UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
2012-2017
Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design
School of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning Co-op class of 2017

Skills

Multi-disciplinary design, branding, optimism, tech packs, collaboration, research, product development, sourcing, yo-yoing (circa 2008), patterning, brand direction, marketing campaigns, social media, retail merchandising, digital rendering

Tools

Decently wrinkly brain, Adobe suite, pen and paper, machine shop tools, 5’10” (can reach stuff others can’t sometimes), Shopify, Solidworks, Fusion 360, KeyShot, Microsoft Office, Keynote

Involvement

Design in Mind participant, FEIT Bowery Shoe Drive coordinator, First Friends NJ volunteer designer, DAAP Sneaker Camp teacher’s assistant, IDSA participant, Findlay Market urban farm volunteer, Achieve tutor

James Gall

Stuff I’ve designed FEIT Almanac Digitalanalogdigital Nike ACG What Lies Ahead

Other stuff: About Resume Contact

Stuff I’ve designed
FEIT
Almanac
Digitalanalogdigital
Nike ACG
What Lies Ahead

Other stuff:
About
Resume
Contact