Aero Studios / Thomas O’Brien

Lead designer and project manager responsible for product collections. Manufacturing partners included Visual Comfort Lighting, Waterworks Bath Hardware, Safavieh Carpet, Century Furniture and Reed & Barton Fine Dinnerware. Designed furniture, lighting, plumbing, tabletop, and accessories. Worked to collaborate with management to document, research and engineer concepts. Managed timelines and deliverables. Managed a team of industrial designers and architectural draftsman to work with cad tools to engineer design collections for bi-annual market introductions. Traveled to factories in North America to work on first samples.