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Design Manager

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Are you looking for a motivated design leader who has proven creative problem solving and teamwork skills? If so, please consider me as a strong candidate for a leadership role to meet your creative needs.  

I bring creative thinking and project management to my work as a Product Designer. I offer a successful track record of providing innovative ideas, lead project teams through the design process and an understanding in user centered design. This experience has resulted in projects completed on-time, meeting financial constraints and successful commercialization.  
	
I have over 15 years of product development experience, has worked on projects for brands including: Halyard, Kimberly-Clark, Rubbermaid, Arm & Hammer, Cannondale, Alcatel, Sterilite, Baume & Mercier and Fossil.  Category experience in medical device, technology, furniture, transportation, fashion and housewares provide a foundation for innovative ideas resulting in being awarded multiple design awards and patents.

My professional experiences, from a fast paced entrepreneur to process driven design in medical device development have allowed me to develop the ability to adjust to unique work environments.  As an entrepreneur; I planned, recruited and managed three focus groups with a limited ($800) budget.  As a result, the findings discovered a more appropriate market (B2B) where a small company could successfully compete and gain financial security.  Previous roles have provided project experience in managing multiple R&D resources (global) including design, tooling, manufacturing and engineering functions.  My role at Halyard Health has provided me training in a highly regulated product development process and establishing design metrics to determine safe solutions designed for patients.

I enjoy the challenge of leading project teams in developing creative solutions.  I look forward to the opportunity to discuss how my skills and experience can help meet and exceed customer expectations.

(Formerly Kimberly-Clark Healthcare)

Manage Industrial Design function, strategy and resources for six business platforms.  Lead development of brand and category design vision for Halyard Healthcare:  
-- Help to tap into global business and innovation opportunities through consumer/user observations within working healthcare venues and procedures.  
-- Partner with project teams to develop research plans, design strategies and execution plans.  Created an “ID toolbox” which provided greater creative process monitoring and controls for a highly regulated healthcare market.  
-- Implement design strategies that inspire product initiatives and points of user/patient engagement.  Introduced new tools which provide measurable criteria to early concepts as they relate back to customer needs.  In addition, integrate user and business case needs into storyboard for early identification of conflicting design requirements.
-- Manage deployment of design processes, resources, tools, and best practices -- Direct and manage design agencies.  Integrated best practices in Industrial Design with PMI practices to allow for greater transparency and measurement of progress throughout design process.  Tools provide agencies and cross-functional resources with greater clarity on SOW and how deliverables ladder into other project work streams.
-- Design, build, ideate, and create new product designs, helping to develop product branding and attributes that create new to the world user experiences.  Managed effort to create new Halyard brand guidelines which provide high level direction while allowing business franchises ability to develop specific experiences/element for their target markets/users.   
-- Engage with the larger design community, demonstrating thought leadership in industrial and healthcare design.  Active participant in IDSA; selected as panel member to discuss early career development in front of students from SCAD, Georgia Tech and Auburn.

David McNamara is a Design Manager at Halyard Health in Cumming, GA. View their experience, skills and work history on Malakye — the professional network for…

David McNamara — Design Manager at Halyard Health

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