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Soft Goods Designer at PING Golf

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Atwood 40

The Atwood 40 honors a classic simplicity tradition in film photography. 
Rangefinder cameras are straightforward and easy film cameras. They should require a strap as easy as their function while keeping the aesthetic focus on the camera. 

The Atwood 40 easily disconnects via micro-buckles while Kevlar cords connect the strap without marring the camera body. 

passionate about connecting the dots between design, manufacturing, and end consumer. love to chat about soft goods design, the outdoors, and the stuff about design they don't tell you in school. assume positive intent + do good work.

Industrial Designer

RANGE creates goods that meet at the intersection of quality, aesthetic design, and wholehearted adventure.

Soft Goods Designer

Turning panic into relief. Leading design and development for protective technology cases and accessories for OEMs such as Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Apple under the Gumdrop brand for use in K-12, healthcare, and enterprise environments. Project load of 8-10 at a given time.

Product Developer

Never leave your "furriend" behind. - Gathered user research and developed product line for dog specific product category. Research, concept creation, tech pack development, BOM creation. - Product design and development with the outdoor recreation equipment team. - Assisted other designers in generating sketches and product visualizations through the use of CAD, Photoshop, and sketch mockups. - LEARNED: how to develop a financially viable product line with internal product managers, cultivating a feedback loop with design team, and communicating with overseas manufacturers.

Industrial Design Intern

- Developed a design process roadmap to establish consistent, efficient and robust new product development projects at SELECT. - LEARNED: how to optimize communication with engineering team, LEAN manufacturing, and growing in parametric design.

Product Design Intern

- Guiding customers toward their goals in cycling and beyond. - Trek Guide (formerly Ninja) status - Maintained knowledge of Trek and Specialized road, hybrid and mountain product categories. - Worked with tech service to schedule service requests and bike builds as well as offering mechanical service as needed.

Sales Staff

- Managed purchasing and inventory for backpacks, tents, and outdoor accessory products categories. - Taught and guided customers in details of technical outdoor clothing, backpacking, and water sports equipment. - Brought storewide inventory management to a fully digital, cloud-based system. - Responsible for company social media presence and creating marketing content for web and advertisement. Organically grew company Instagram account to +500 users at the time.

Sales/Purchasing

- Craftsman at New Holland Brewing Co.'s Barrel Works Project. - Designed and created art with spent bourbon barrels. - Extensive woodworking techniques, wood/metal finishes and paint, custom signage, metal fabrication, electrical processes, screen printing. - Operated venture social media and created content including various shoots of products, production processes, and features. Included photo/video assigned to me by NHB marketing team.

Craftsman

Ensured efficient production of veneer wrapped aluminum or steel. This included gluing, wrapping, trimming, and sanding for premium office furniture brands such as Steelcase, Knoll, and Allsteel.

Team Member

Class A Commercial Driver Michigan - Responsible for the safe transport of gear and materials required for ministry events across the United States and Canada. - Responsible for keeping daily drivers logs, truck and equipment inspection and load securing.

Team Manager/Truck Driver

Oversaw 20 person traveling ministry team and organized daily tasks. - Organized itineraries for travel across United States and Canada for up to 9 months at a time. - Worked with college students to create a quality work environment. - Reported to Team Director.

Team Manager

Drummer for traveling ministry road team. - Required to learn and practice new songs and drumming methods. - Proficient in live audio rigging, audio mixing and front-of-house tech. - Required to raise support for living expenses while on mission.

Drummer

Ski Instructor

Kyle Shields is a Soft Goods Designer at PING Golf in Phoenix, AZ. View their experience, skills and work history on Malakye — the professional network for…

Kyle Shields — Soft Goods Designer at PING Golf at PING

Kyle Shields

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St. Johnsbury Academy

Western Michigan University

Grand Rapids Community College