Kenny Krotzer

Experience

1. Footwear Innovation Developer Ii - Competition Shoes

   Brooks Running

   Aug 2021 — Present

   Lead development of world class racing spikes and shoes specifically for our Brooks sponsored athletes: Brooks Beasts, Hansons-Brooks Original Distance Project, and Brooks Mavericks • Created and implemented the concept to market process for all Brooks racing product • Developed racing spikes, Wire 8 and ELMN8 7 from concept to market in 10 months as seen on the feet of athletes at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon • Lead innovation development of new foams, upper technologies and constructions, and design geometry applications resulting in 200k units forecasted for the first intro year across multiple projects in new categories for the brand • Collaborate with novel external business partners to bring new, highly technical, and performance-driven technologies to footwear • Collaborate with the inline development, footwear engineering, footwear design, product line management, and sports marketing teams to pass knowledge and technology for proliferation across the brand

Education

• Stanford University

  Bachelor's Degree, Engineering - Product Design

  2010 — 2014

Skills

• Rendering
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Drawing
• Boy Scouts
• Industrial Design
• Cad
• 3d Studio Max
• Woodworking
• Photoshop
• Sketching
• Packaging
• Lathe
• Cooking
• Product Design
• Rapid Prototyping
• Music
• Concept Design
• Public Speaking
• Milling
• Illustrator
• Solidworks
• Songwriting
• Concept Development
• 3d Modeling
• Indesign
• Microsoft Office