Alex Forestier: Design Manager in Phoenix, AZ

• Manage 3 brand identities serving 4 locations for evolving Crimson Partners concepts. • Coordinate and develop web, print, & photographic content for 3 businesses. • Implement consistent digital marketing strategy, expanding reach by up to 17 times. • Developed website & digital presence for restaurants that gross over $3.4 million annually. • Coordinated design of convenience store website that sees orders in excess of $150k a year.

• Worked remotely with sales & design team to create content for Positec family brands: Worx, HyperTough, Rockwell, and Gardenline. • Designed 3D branded product, sales, and presentation content for print and web. • Designed & Managed Amazon Sales modules for HyperTough & entire Worx tools family. • Created 3D graphic & packaging material for retailers like Lowe’s, Home Depot, and others.

• Designed 2 mobile coffee carts, modeled on 48” bicycle trailer, for 2 city farmer’s markets. • Adapted concept sketches to computer modeled prototypes for fabrication by weld. • Provided paintwork and finishing.

• 2016 Fall - Teaching Assistant for IND 242: Materials and Design. • Co-instructed manufacturing processes of polymers and metals to 76 students.

• Designed concept, signage, furnishings, and fabrications for clients like Whole Foods & CTCA. • Assisted fabrication, packaging, transport, installation, and pick up; learning material processes. • Photographed shop process and events for digital media promotion. • Developed a Tempe Whole Foods Market pitch brochure.

• 2016 Spring - Teaching Assistant for IND 317: 20th Century Design II. • Co-instructed history of industrial design in online hybrid course to 171 students.