Resume — Alyssa Mellett

Senior Industrial Designer | 2021-present

hillman group

Currently leading research, strategy, and new product development for the Protective Solutions division, a leading soft goods supplier for big box hardware stores. Responsibilities include facilitation of workshops, identifying white space opportunities, generative and evaluative user research, communication with foreign suppliers, managing junior design staff, customer-facing presentations, and long-term innovation strategy.

Senior Industrial Designer - experience and Strategy lead | 2020-2021
Industrial designer | 2016-2020 \ Industrial Design intern | 2015-2016

Formation Design Group

Work directly with various clients from startups to large corporations to deliver user experiences that include hardware, software, and services. Roles include industrial designer, project manager, hiring manager, and most recently, user experience design and strategy lead. Responsibilities include developing innovation strategy, user research, following + identifying trends, creating marketing support, and generating visualizations. My work has contributed to design and utility patents and awards.

Industrial Design intern | 2014 + 2015

techtronic industries

During two internships, I supported designers, engineers, and product managers to develop product concepts and see them realized in production. Responsibilities included collecting competitive + tangential product research, conceptual sketches + renderings (analog + digital), CAD development, color and texture studies, preliminary mechanism development, prototyping, and creating final CFG documentation for manufacture.

Graphic designer | 2013-2015

southern regional education board

Created a graphic language and layout for a nationally distributed educational publication. I work closely with the lead designer and editors to ensure the information is clear, concise, and easy to read. In this fast-paced position, I juggled multiple projects while maintaining quality and consistency.

Bachelor of science | 2011-2015 | GPA 3.69

Georgia Institute of Technology

Recipient of the Zell Miller Scholarship. I was an active member in the IDSA student chapter at Georgia Tech which culminated in being elected the chapter president in 2014. I worked to connect with the students with the Atlanta design community. Also worked as a Resident Assistant for GT Housing where I guided students through their first year of college.

Skill Set

Affinity mapping, business development, CMF development, collaboration, competitive research, concept development, design thinking, ethnography and discovery, flow diagramming (journey maps, user flows, experience maps, etc.), leadership, problem-solving, service design, sketching, stakeholder management, storyboarding, strategy development, research (qualitative and quantitative), visual design, wireframing, workshop facilitation