Scott Melanson: Senior Industrial Designer at Innovative Design Labs in Maple Grove, Minnesota

Lead Designer and Business Developer Design, Review, and Execute Products for Production and Sale

Leading all Physical Product Design, Mechanical Engineering, Graphic Work, Visualization, and UX/UI wireframes and Initial Interactivity

Work with Varying Brands created under the umbrella of Big Appl Labs, including but not limited to: Monolith Clothing, Luxe Factor, Disrupt Knowledge, and WeeboSocial Developed Brand Strategies, Graphic and Web Design, and helped to Market and Shape the Company and its Strategies.

As a Senior, I'm responsible for designing and prototyping products and ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and meet the customer’s expectations. Additionally, effectively managing a wide range of clients and projects, both internally and externally, without the need for supervision. Main Responsibilities Include, but are not limited to: 1. Provide appropriate designs using artistic and learned skills in a manner which best communicates the design to meet the clients’ requirements. 2. Fabricate prototypes in a media best suited to communicate the design along with meeting the project requirements. 3. Establish budgets, monitor, schedule, and coordinate projects. 4. Possess a broad skill and knowledge base, enabling the designer to carry a project from beginning to end. 5. Recognize, prevent and/or resolve issues or conflicts that may arise during the course of a program. 6. Provide leadership and mentoring for fellow designers. 7. Initiate new client relationships, educating them and selling WhiteBoard services.

Assistant to Several Classes (Concept Sketch and Development, Creativity and Toy Design, etc.) as well as writing Syllabus' and Course Planning for numerous classes for the launch for the PDES Program at the University of Minnesota in Fall 2016

Product, Experience, and Graphic Designer; alongside developing Design Strategy and Operations

Transportation Design work for ATVs, UTVs, and Snowmobile alike; While also overseeing product of said items on-site

Brand Development for Various Clientele, ranging from Industrial Design and Engineering to Packaging, UI, and Graphics

Concept Generation, Presentation, CAD Modelling and Engineering

Certified Professional for Ski and Snowboard Mounting, Calibration, and Optomization

Game Design · Concept Development and Ideation for Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley Brands, along with several others · Brainstorming and Play Testing Various Emerging and Current Games to ensure or evaluate User Experience · Presentation illustration, Assembly, and Support

Managed a Professional Photography Studio and Edited All Incoming Work

Concept Creation and Analysis of current product, Presentation creation (from Powerpoint to PDF to Video Editing), Photogaphic Documentation of Competitor and Own Product

· Masking and Cropping of Photographs to meet client's needs for advertisement · Match color as closely as possible to original piece · Print test each piece in various color profiles to confirm and fix all color matching