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Concept art

The great outdoors.

Minimalist design

Industrial Designer

Engineering & Production



My name is Gino Romano and I am an Industrial designer with seven years of work experience focusing on adventure/technical soft goods. Some of my previous experience includes Ballistic Case in Florida, Hazard 4 in Long Beach CA, Innovate Product Design in San Francisco/UK and Cannae Pro Gear in CA.

My name is Gino Romano and I am an Industrial designer with seven years of work experience. I want to work for you because you have an impressive product portfolio and most of my experience is in line with what you make and what you're looking for.

I am responsible for market research for bags, accessories and apparel. Rough sketches for concept ideation, renderings (Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, SolidWorks CAD) tech packs for the factory, prototype testing/revisions, analyzing B.O.M sheets to see how materials and manufacturing time affect the pricing and make changes accordingly directly with the factory overseas to reach our target, attending trade shows to stay informed of new materials and market trends and traveling to factories  to establish a new relationships.

I also do product photography and graphic design for marketing and web.

- Produced photographic material for website, web ads and magazine ads.
- Designed web and magazine (Recoil mag, Doomsday mag) ads with original 
  photography. 
- Worked directly with overseas factories to make revisions on pre-existing
   and new products.
- Analyzed BOM to meet specific price goals.
- Created tech packs for factory.
- Attended trade shows to stay relevant with materials and trends
- Traveled overseas to maintain and create new relationships with factories.
- Created CAD models and drawings using Adobe Illustrator and SolidWorks.
- Worked alongside social media employee to produce original daily content. 
- Created artwork for apparel.
- Produced concept sketches for new products. 
- Joined the company when it was still a start-up..
- Multitasking and prioritizing projects for marketing, social media, sales and 
   web. 

- worked directly with clients to get information about
their invention.
- concept ideation, CAD models and renderings were
produced in a two week timeline.
- concepts had to be highly developed and functional
at initial stages of design.
- concepts had to be manufacturable at initial
stages of design for design feasibility and pricing.
- worked on a wide array of inventions for clients.
- did all the research and sourcing for internal
components.
- sourced adhesives, material samples and prototyping.

- worked closely with marketing and graphic designer
 - routinely communicated with factory in Asia
 - composed sheets for product revisions/factory
 - product market research for upcoming products
 - concept sketching for new products/newer revisions
 - took product photographs for website/catalogue
 - spec’d materials for new design concepts/pricing
 - solidworks/photoshop models for concept vizualisation
 - solidworks models for store booth POP’s.
 - built and worked booth at shot-show for two years
 - worked a watch from concept stage to factory
 solidworks model
 - modeled/acted products for company’s YouTube

- Sketched rugged phone case concepts
 - Modeled phone cases in Solidworks
 - Rendered packaging and phone case concepts
 - Worked with Engineers, marketing and other designers
 - Collected client data and produced concepts
 - Learned different types of molding and manufacturing
 - Researched different types of finishes and textures

- redesigned the DB2 fitness bike
 - used Solidworks to Model
 - concept sketching for the new design
 - photoshop and illustrator to produce quick product renderings

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Gino Romano

Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale