1. Resume
This is me with John Lasseter, acting like a teenage girl at an N’Sync concert.
Adam O’Hern
Designer
Education
Undergraduate:
Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD.edu):
BFA in Industrial Design
Experience
Full-Time Employment:
- Bose Corporation: Innovation Industrial Designer (2007…)
- Black & Decker: Industrial Designer (2005-2007)
- Hewlett-Packard: Industrial Design Intern (2004)
- MTS Systems Designer/IT Support (1999-2002)
Freelance:
- The Coleman Company, Inc: Graphic (2007…)
- Yummy Media: hybrid (2005…)
- The Buzz Group: Ad & Industrial Design (2005)
- Carbon: Industrial Design (2005)
- Teague: industrial Design (2005)
- Griffin Communications: Photoshop (2004)
- Strata-G: corporate identities, web, & press for parent and sub companies (2002)
- Not About You Records: press (2003)
Recognition
Awards:
- Many patents in a variety of product areas
- CCAD Trustee Scholarship, 4 years
- CCAD Foundation Excellence Award Scholarship
- CCAD John C Geupel Scholarship for Excellence in Industrial Design
- CCAD ID Dean’s List, 8 Semesters, President’s List, 6 Semesters
- First Place: Road Talk portable electronics design competition
- First Place*: Duck tape animal competition for “Lola”, 5′ tall Scarlet Maccaw (group of 3)
- High school “Most likely to get into an argument” superlative
Tools
Digital Tools:
- CATIA V5 (power user)
- SolidWorks (not bad)
- UGNX5 (not bad)
- Rhino (hack)
- Modo (not bad)
- Adobe CS (power user)
- CSS/PHP/MySQL/HTML (hack)
Physical Tools:
- 2D sketching: bic, felt tip, & 10% gray
- 3D sketching: 5lb. urethane & soft plasticine
Other
Life Experiences:
- Married (2006)
- Member Downtown Sailing Center, Baltimore (2006)
- Mosaic Church: weekly volunteer (2002-2005)
- CCAD Saturday Art Classes: weekly volunteer teacher (2004)
- YMCA of the Rockies K-3 day camp councilor (2003)
- YMCA hike-master (nature guide) training (2003)
- Weekly summer service projects in the Rockies (2003)
Other Interests:
- Musician (drums, guitar);interested in all types of music
- Figure drawing/painting and photography
- Breakdancing, Motorcycling, Hiking, Rock-climbing, Spitwad-marksmanship