Jake Orak

Wore all the hats in product development as Senior Designer and Product Manager and was in charge of carrying all laptop bag, camera bag and luggage lines from napkin sketch to freight on board for North American, Central American, European, Middle Eastern and Asian markets. Designed all packaging, hang tags and directed ad-campaigns and photo-shoots.

Lived and worked in Vietnam & Switzerland as Junior Designer for German owned company Crumpler. Had a close relationship with in-house and out-house sample rooms, developers, pattern makers and sewing workers. Hands on learning of various softgoods manufacturing processes and how to balance and design several products to be sold in European, South African, Middle Eastern and South American Markets.

Research, design, and development for medical equipment, consumer and commercial cleaning tools, office supplies, home improvement, optical films and library systems. Learned various hard-good production processes. Hosted internal marketing brainstorm sessions and brand building exercises.

Product design, mechanical engineering, packaging design, graphic design, presentation techniques, 2D & 3D visualization, critical thinking & creative problem solving.