Experience
Nate Phipps Designer/Maker: Cambridge, MA: 2013-Present
Freelance Industrial Designer
+Lead product design and development process.
+Create innovative user focused solutions for clients’ design challenges.
+Provide product ideating, visualization and prototyping to clients.
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD): Providence, RI: 2014-Present
Industrial Design Department Faculty
+Develop and teach a class about pattern making and sewing through the lens of tent design.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Cambridge, MA: 2013-Present
Mechanical Engineering Lab Instructor
+Guide 20+ undergraduates through product development processes.
+Consult with teams on user focused design, form language and prototyping.
+Lead drawing and brainstorming exercises.
+Coach soft skills such as effective team work and receiving criticism well.
NEMO Equipment, Inc.: Dover, NH: 2010-2013
Senior Product Designer
+Worked as part of a 3 person design/development team.
+Collaborated on design of new products.
+Developed over 60 products including tents, sleeping bags and other items.
+Helped transfer entire tent production to new factories.
+Conveyed design information regularly to 6 manufacturers in China, Taiwan, Korea and USA.
+Managed design, prototyping and development of hardware solutions.
+Built sales and display fixtures for sales reps, tradeshows and office.
+Trained sales representatives and store employees for all NEMO product lines.
SunPower Builders: Collegeville, PA: 2006-2008
Solar Installer/Carpenter
+Installed and plumbed solar hot water and photovoltaic systems.
+Built and renovated residences.
Education
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD): Providence, RI: 2006-2010
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Industrial Design
+Focused course selections on design thinking and innovation.
+Received Student Leadership Award for service and leadership in the student body.
Leadership
+Youth Mentor Volunteer in Cambridge, MA.
+Student Monitor for RISD Wood and Metal shops. Shops served around 200 students.
+Founded RISD Pink Rides, a bike sharing program for students. Hundreds of rides taken.
+Achieved rank of Eagle Scout from the Boy Scouts of America.
Outdoor
+Organize regular backpacking and camping trips in New England.
+Brave the cold, surfing through New England winters (I'm on my 5th season!).
+Enjoy Bicycle Touring trips on east and west coasts.
+Completed 200 mile solo backpack in High Sierras.