Gino Romano: Industrial Designer in San Francisco, CA

- 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