Industrial Design Intern at Dell
Austin, Texas Area
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- Industrial Design Intern at Dell
- Past
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- Multimedia Specialist at NCSU DELTA
- Industrial Design Consultant at Studio Hagler
- Industrial Design Intern at Philips Solid State Lighting Solutions
- Industrial Design Intern at Tackle Design
- Industrial Design Intern at MeadWestvaco
- Engineering Assistant at Valassis Communications
- Education
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- North Carolina State University
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Chris Owens’s Summary
A recently gradate from the Industrial Design / Product Design program at the North Carolina State University College of Design, with a secondary concentration in Graphic Design. I have also had two years of undergraduate Mechanical Engineering courses at NC State University. I am looking for employment opportunities in the field of Industrial Design.
I also do photography, web development, and multimedia design.
Chris Owens’s Specialties:
Concept Development, Sketching, 3D Modeling, CAD Mechanical drawings, Engineering, Electronics, extensive experience on Windows/Mac/Linux computer systems and related software packages, web technologies, photography and digital imaging, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Rhino3D, 3D Studio Max, Maya, Alias Studio, HTML, CSS, MySQL, PHP.
Chris Owens’s Experience
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Industrial Design Intern
Dell
(Design industry)
April 2009 — Present (4 months)
Industrial Design Intern in the Enterprise Team.
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Multimedia Specialist
NCSU DELTA
(Design industry)
December 2005 — December 2008 (3 years 1 month)
Photography, graphic design, document design, web technologies development and web design, multimedia, online community development.
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Industrial Design Consultant
Studio Hagler
(Design industry)
August 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 3 months)
Product design work for various companies through this start-up design studio.
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Industrial Design Intern
Philips Solid State Lighting Solutions
(Consumer Electronics industry)
May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)
Developing new LED lighting concepts from problem statement to prototype.
Collaborating with Mechanical, Electrical, and Optical Engineers.
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Industrial Design Intern
Tackle Design
(Design industry)
August 2007 — December 2007 (5 months)
Developing concepts through direct interaction with clients.
Ideation and rendering of concepts, building working prototypes. -
Industrial Design Intern
MeadWestvaco
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Packaging and Containers industry)
May 2007 — August 2007 (4 months)
Design and implementation of structural packaging solutions using new proprietary technologies and techniques. Serving as a support resource for Junior and Senior level Designers in the role of design intern. CAD modeling as well as prototype production.
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Engineering Assistant
Valassis Communications
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Printing industry)
May 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 4 months)
This was a mechanical engineering internship. In this position I worked in AutoCad and Inventor designing parts and systems for the plant and offset lithography printing presses. I designed documents for the company such as brochures, instructions for employees, and reference maps. I built and managed databases and spreadsheets to analyze plant data.
Chris Owens’s Education
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North Carolina State University
BA , Industrial Design , 2003 — 2008
My first two years were spent in the Mechanical Engineering program, in which I nearly reached a junior level of classes, so my Math and Physics backgrounds are relatively strong. This experience has been directed integrated into my approach in Industrial Design.
3.796 GPA / 4.0 Major GPA- Activities and Societies:
- Student IDSA Officer - Web Guru
Student SIGGRAPH NCSU Chapter
Additional Information
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Chris Owens’s Interests:
social media, software, technology industry, automotive industry, video game industry, consumer goods, marketing, graphic design, photography
Chris Owens’s Groups:
IDSA
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Geek Austin -
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NCSU College of Design Industrial Design Alumni -
College of Design - NC State University : NCSU -
Austin PHP Programmers
Chris Owens’s Honors:
2009 IDSA Southern District Student Merit Award Winner
Chris Owens’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
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