Ryan Bishop

Experience

1. Senior Industrial Designer

   Griffon Corporation

   Aug 2014 — Present · Ocala, FL, US

   Designing consumer focused products for the ClosetMaid brand (335M in annual Sales) under Emerson Commercial & Residential Solutions (5.6B) 4 years and Griffon Corp.(1.5B) up to current. Responsibilities include: Mentoring junior designers, facilitating Human Centered Design end user testing, forecasting design trends, creating packages to help our sourcing teams get more accurate estimates, working with marketing and engineering to balance user benefit, manufacturability, aesthetics, and cost, as well as creating product renderings to help sell our concepts in at our retailors. • Created a new product named one of the Top 100 Products by Professional Builder magazine. The Home Depot is interested in stocking it in all stores. Projected sales in commercial & retail 2-14M. • Designed a product that installs in 10 minutes vs 45 min, helping our customers make money faster.• Creating IP to re-secure a business segment with expiring IP.• Asked to refresh a line but was able to innovate a new product. See consumer reviews @

Skills

• Design Thinking
• Hypershot
• Concept Development
• Sketching
• Rapid Prototyping
• Industrial Design
• Product Development
• Sketchbook Pro
• Design for Manufacturing
• Keyshot
• Product Innovation
• Design Management
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Packaging
• Product Design
• Design Strategy
• Model Making
• Concept Generation
• Consumer Products