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Jared Schmale
Vancouver BC
604 779 4488
jaretron@gmail.com
portfolio: www.jaredarthur.com


PROFILE
Over 10 years of experience in taking a product from conception through to production and into completion.


WORK
Anthropologie
Display Coordinator | 2011-Present
  • Hiring and management of up to 8 visual
    interns in the creation of all retail store
    displays and window displays
  • Display planning
  • Concept sketching
  • Colour testing
  • Construction
  • Sewing
  • Painting
  • Budget maintenance and reconciliation

Freelance Design
Designer | 2009-Present
  • Soft product, furniture, exhibit, and logo design for a wide range of clients
  • Client: Rick Hansen Institute
    Design and construction of a variety of pieces including
    custom kitchen counter with wheelchair access solution,
    ergonomically designed standing work station, custom
    wall hanging system for frame-less art pieces

Great Little Box Company
Packaging Designer | 2006-2009
  • Design of custom packaging for consumer products, following the process from concept to completion
  • Prototype creation
  • Providing detailed material and labour quotes on manufactured packaging
  • Supervision of the creation of tooling and dies
  • Creation of detailed manufacturing instructions as well as supervision of production team to ensure packaging is made to correct specifications.
  • Account management of one larger client

Aluglass
Industrial Designer | 2006
  • New product development in the high end cabinetry market
  • Modification and improvement of production tools
  • Design and construction of companies' collapsible trade show exhibit

Electronic Arts Canada
Software Quality Assurance | 1999-2001
  • Testing, reporting and recreation of problems in unreleased video game software
  • Participation in production meetings
  • Creation of feedback reports to improve video game software

Electronic Arts Canada
Technical Service Assistant Manager | 1998-1999
  • Management of twelve person team
  • Identification and correction of issues regarding data port locations of 700 workstations in new game studio

SCHOOL
Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Bachelor of Design, Industrial Design Major | 2003-2006
Design study, including furniture, interiors, soft products, medical assistive devices, ergonomic methodologies, and consumer electronics.

University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus
Fine Arts Diploma Program | 2002-2003
Life drawing, sculpture, colour theory, photography, and art history.

British Columbia Institute of Technology
Mechanical Drafting Certificate| 1997-1998
Study of AutoCAD and manual drafting techniques, focusing on mechanical and architectural drafting.



SKILLS
Software
  • Solidworks
  • AutoCAD
  • Illustrator
  • Photoshop
  • InDesign
Construct
  • wood working
  • metal working
  • sewing
  • CNC
  • manufacturing
Qualities
  • creative
  • collaborative
  • accurate
  • detailed
  • ambitious


AWARDS
  • Top 5 Finalist, $1000 prize recipient of the CORE77/Wavesport Kayaks International Graphics Competition
  • Silver Medal, PAC 2008 Sustainable Packaging Design Leadership Awards
  • Silver Medal, TAPPI 2008 CorrPak Design Awards