John Leavitt

Education

Work Experience

Skills

Honors/Acheivments

Volunteer Experience

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

BFA in Industrial Design, 2014 GPA 3.68

Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY

Two years Graphic/Multimedia Design GPA 3.65

Center for Detectors | College of Science | RIT

- Reconcile monthly budget, monitoring multiple project accounts simultaneously

- Accept research grants from third party agencies.

- Place orders for necessary lab and office supplies

- Communicate with other RIT departments.

- Aid in the organization of the task list and project progress.

Hasbro Engineering Co-op | Technology Mining & Inventor Relations

- Communicated with external parties pursuing innovative technologies and toy concepts.

- Worked as a liaison between inventors and internal development teams.

- Documented and relayed confidential and proprietary intellectual property.

- Prepared and presented Inventor concepts in First Idea Reviews to development teams.

- Designed a new User Interface format for the First Idea Review presentations.

- Worked to design a user centered interface and system, for a development database, to increase usability while sharing data between external and internal development teams.

- Developed toy concepts, working as the sole designer on engineering teams.

Fedex Ground | Package Handler

- Worked as an efficient team member in an extremely fast paced, stressful environment.

- Developed leadership abilities to monitor teammate work flow while simultaneously working to maintain individual productivity aiding team members when needed.

- Worked as a part the Syracuse Hub Safety Team to encourage proper lifting techniques and plan better ergonomic practices and equipment.

Facilitating ideation SolidWorks Flash HTML5 jQuery
Visual Communication Photoshop Excel CSS3 Bootstrap
Sketching Illustrator Power Point Javascript
Model Making Indesign Oracle GitHub

Phi Theta Kappa, Academic Honors Society

Dean's list every quarter/semester of college.

Onondaga Community College art award for drawing 2010.

Onondaga Community College art award for graphic design 2010.

2nd Place in the Web category of RIT HackDay 2013: http://hack.ag.com

Thought at Work | Co-Coordinator/Marketing Manager
Industrial and New Media Design student confrence.

- Planning a conference marketing strategy including; students, professionals and sponsors.

- Managing a growing group of students, delegating responsibilities and tasks.

- Leading a team to establish student and professional contacts, to build a network.

- Learning to co-function with established design organizations.

Projects - Under Development

You will find projects I am currently working on.

On this page you will also be able to interact with my 3D CAD renderings utilizing webGL framework

Hello

I am an Industrial Design student at Rochester Institute of Technology, to learn the basics of creating compelling user experiences. How a design interfaces with users, on every level, is what defines the user experience. This takes a comprehensive approach to design. I have chosen to broaden my understanding of research methods, human behavior and environmental studies by minoring in both Psychology and Environmental Science. Pairing studies such as psychology, anthropology and sustainability with innovative technologies and aesthetics, gives us the opportunity to thoroughly improve people's everyday lives.

Overall, I am an Industrial Designer focused on user centered design, utilizing innovative technologies. All of the projects in my portfolio are rendered in 3D CAD mostly in SolidWorks, or one of the many Autodesk products, to take advantage of the increasingly powerful 3D analytic tools