Wesley Bauer
Outdoor Gear Designer · FORMSTUDY
Denver, CO
In My Own Words
I want to empower people to have new enriching experiences in the outdoors to greater humanity's appreciation of nature and everything it has to offer, through my continual pursuits as a designer, volunteer, and an outdoor enthusiast.
Work Experience
Industrial Designer
Fishpond2021 – 2023
- Design and development for soft good products in the vest, pack, submersible, and luggage categories in the fly fishing industry for the 2022 season onward. - Design and implemented 3D model to tool for fly storage hard goods. - Created and implemented development schedule for 2022 season, 2023 development season. - Design and created new packaging for a variety of products. - Created new costing BOM template for better transparency of cost of materials within factory. - Vetted and coordinated the on-boarding of a new factory. - Created a centralized product information management system. -Manage and coordinate with warranty department on a variety of repairs and defects to be adjusted in production.
Product Developer - Equipment
Marmot2018 – 2021
-Served as designer for multiple down sleeping bags, synthetic sleeping bags, packs, gloves and accessories. -Technical developer for sleeping bags, packs, gloves, and tents. -Staged, shot and edited photography of products in development for internal and consumer facing channels. -Design and create presentations for specific key customers and retailers. -Managed the production of many of the packs, sleeping bags, tents, and gloves for the Fall 2019 season onward. -Coordinated testing and timeline for sleeping bag ISO Temperature testing. -Managed the technical and material information of all current and new equipment products. -Worked with the PLM system developers on implementing a new internal data system. -Organized product test trips for technical insight into current and new outdoor product categories. -Constantly communicating and adjusting designs with oversea factories to achieve on-time delivery, high quality products, and hit forecasted price margins. -Managed costing BOM's for new developed products to be 100% accurate to the samples and projected production. -Communicated with brand athletes and advocates on new insights and testing opportunities for new and existing product. -Assisted in the design, creation and implementation of packaging on a global retail scale.
Freelance Industrial Designer
Self Employed2016 – 2018
Have worked on creating graphics, tech packs, and new designs for various outdoor brands like Carhartt, Kush Climbing, Green Guru, MHM, CO.ALITION, GRAYL, and Mountainsmith.
Education
International Exchange Program
Tama Art University2016 – 2017
-Was the first student from the University of Cincinnati to do an exchange with Tama Art University. -Focused my studies on material innovation and artistic representation of design (Studio 3). -Learned basic Japanese language for design presentations. -Aided creating English to Japanese design terminology encyclopedia for future exchange students. -Studied under a traditional japanese indigo dyer for 3 weeks.
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Magna Cum Laude
University of Cincinnati2013 – 2018
Skills: Design Drawings
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