1. Resume

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Adam O’Hern
Designer

Education

Undergraduate:

Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD.edu):
BFA in Industrial Design

Experience

Employment:

• Independent Design Consultant (2009-present)
• Owner, Hicks-Gibbon Studios (2007-present)
• Bose Corporation: Innovation Industrial Designer (2007-2009)
• Black & Decker: Industrial Designer (2005-2007)
• Hewlett-Packard: Industrial Design Intern (2004)
• MTS Systems Designer/IT Support (1999-2002)

Freelance Clients:

• Remfish: Industrial Design (2009…)
• Thomas Swyst: Industrial Design (2009…)
• Farm Design: Industrial Design (2009)
• A-Team Collaborative: Industrial Design (2009)
• Proteus Design: Industrial Design (2009)
• Black & Decker: Industrial Design (2009)
• The Coleman Company, Inc: Graphic & Industrial (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)

Professional Training:

• Bose Corporation: Hearing & Listening (basic acoustics course, 2008)
• Bose Corporation: Communication Lab (effective professional communication, 2008)
• Bose Corporation: UGNX 5 training (80 hours, 2008)
• Black & Decker: Presentation Techniques (verbal presentation course, 2007)
• Black & Decker: CATIA V5 training (40 hours, 2006)

Recognition

Awards:

• Winner “Cut & Paste” Boston digital design tournament
• Member 2008 Red Dot® “Design Team of the Year,” Bose Corp.
• 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 (not bad)
• Modo (strong)

• Adobe CS Suite (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:

• The Art of the Slide Rule
• Reading
• Electronics tinkering
• Musician (drums, guitar);interested in all types of music
• Figure drawing/painting and photography
• Breakdancing, Motorcycling, Spitwad-marksmanship
• Cooking, canning, gardening
• Running, Cycling, Hiking/Backpacking, Climbing
• Reading, Writing [& 'Rithmatic]