dreamgear
Senior Industrial Designer
Torrance, CA
10/2021 - Present
Senior Industrial Designer responsible for concept development for gaming equipment for the MY ARCADE, dreamGEAR and Bionik product lines. Responsibilities include making construction documents, creating Keyshot renderings, Solidworks 3D modeling and concept development with Adobe Illustrator.
sachin mistry design
Freelance Industrial Designer
Irvine, CA
09/2018 - Present
I’m open to freelance work. I work with Gembah, Grayhill Electronics, Big Green Egg, Flameboss, castAway, Circle Brewing and other clients. I specialize in ideation sketching, storyboarding, Solidworks 3D modeling, Keyshot rendering and research.
Mixer Design Group
Senior Industrial Designer - Contract
Austin, TX
08/2019 - 11/2019
Helped out an exciting multi-disciplinary design consultancy. Worked with engineers, UX/UI designers with designing various products primarily in the consumer electronics space. Clients include Garrett Metal Detectors, Intel, TMGCore and Dell. Responsibilities include digital sketching, Solidworks 3D modeling and Keyshot rendering in design concept development. Collaborated with various prototypers and vendors in delivering labels and badges in a timely manner.
Assisted with various research, as well as creating and conducting surveys to understand new markets. Worked with UI/UX designers to gather a basic understanding of creating prototypes with AdobeXD and Figma.
Fahrenheit Design
Senior Industrial Designer - Contract
Round Rock, TX
11/2018 - 6/2019
I assisted Fahrenheit design with concept ideation, Creo 3D modeling and Keyshot rendering work. We primarily focused on consumer electronics. Our clients include Dell, Connectrac, Spec, Sunpower and Biamp.
Dell
Industrial Designer/Sr. Engineer
Austin, TX
9/2016 - 9/2018
Lead designer for Wyse 5070 slim and wide thin client computers. Developed specialized wall mounts, dual VESA mounts, E-series fixed stand monitor mounts and expandable behind-the-monitor mounts for Wyse 5070 computers. Worked with marketing, engineering and manufacturing groups to bring the ideas into mass production.
Assisted with the development of the next generation Dell design language. Contributed many ideas for desktops, all-in-ones and patterns through rapid ideation, Adobe creative suite, Creo 3D modeling and Keyshot rendering. Helped contribute to storytelling through digital storyboard sketching. Contributed to the development of the next generation of OptiPlex commercial desktops, Inspiron gaming desktops, and the XPS high end desktops.
Worked with user experience engineers and product managers with refining the Dell Canvas drawing display. Recorded my digital sketching to find bugs within the system, so that we can create the best sketching experience.
Made research decks documenting Dell commercial desktop computers vs competitors. Compared form factors, price, performance and features. Disassembled and reassembled Dell and competitor desktops to create research decks looking at mechanical features and manufacturing techniques.
Helped the operations team by creating a guide assessing all the prototype vendors we use. Sent out a survey to the industrial design leads to gather information on the various strengths and weaknesses of each vendor.
Axis Design
Industrial Designer
Round Rock, TX
4/2014 - 6/2016
Industrial designer working at a design consultancy developing innovative designs in the consumer electronics and housewares fields. Clients include Dell, Nextivity, Novatel, Jarden Consumer Solutions and Snap-On Tools. Responsibilities include rapid ideation of ideas, refinement theme sketching, presentation layout and some Solidworks 3D modeling. Helped with the development of the Urbanist Cycling brand with contributing ideas, packaging design and organizing photoshoots. Organized the LooLedge Kickstarter campaign, from initial ideation, to brand development, storyboarding and video. Assisted with Axis Design's business development by creating a thorough database of potential clients.
SoulCAKE CReative
Industrial Designer
San Clemente, CA
6/2010 - 2/2014
Instrumental in the growth of a Southern California boutique design firm by creating some very exciting designs for a variety of clients ranging from major corporations like ZAGG/iFrogz, Verifone, Baxter, Altec Lansing and many startups. Worked with Cobra-Puma Golf to help design the ZL Driver, the award winning 2012 AMP driver and the 2015 Fly-Z+ driver.
Fitch + SABIC Innovative Plastics
Industrial Designer
Pittsfield, MA
5/2007 - 12/2008
Industrial designer for SABIC Innovative plastics (formerly GE plastics). Responsible for creating designs for clients ranging from the healthcare, electronics and appliance fields. Design solutions often involved collaboration with engineers in the use of the teardown process to learn about assembly and how innovative materials can be utilized within a product.
Education
The Cleveland Institute of Art
2006 with a BFA in Industrial Design
Skills
3D Modeling: Creo, Solidworks, Alias Studiotools 12, Foundry Modo 8
3D Rendering: Keyshot
2D Development: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Corel Painter,
Sketchbook Pro, Procreate
Ideation: Wacom Cintiq, Dell Canvas, Wacom Intuos tablet, iPad, hand sketching
Storyboarding
Model Making/prototyping: foamcore board, clay, blue and yellow foam
Competitor/consumer research
Understanding of manufacturing processes
Awards
Golf Digest Gold Award for the 2012 AMP Driver and Irons
Golf Digest Gold Award for the 2015 Fly Z+ Driver