among designers, product managers, and engineers and increase efficiency of development in order to improve the user experience through coherent design.

As Senior User Experience Designer at MakerBot, I was responsible for overseeing the user experience and user interactions for the MakerBot® Replicator® 3D Platform, which includes MakerBot Desktop (MakerWare), MakerBot Mobile, MakerBot Thingiverse™, MakerBot PrintShop, and the integration with MakerBot Replicator 3D Printers and the MakerBot Digitizer™ Desktop 3D Scanner.

Upon joining MakerBot, I led the redesign of the company’s Thingiverse website, best known for being one of the largest global communities for exploring, making, and sharing 3D designs and models. Under my design leadership, the community grew from 27k members to 270k, and from 25k downloadable, 3D printable things to over a whopping 429k.

I was instrumental in architecting the MakerBot 3D Ecosystem of products and services.

Starting in early 2013, I served as user experience design lead on the award-winning MakerBot Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner, working closely with a cross-functional team to take MakerBot products to new levels of quality and professionalism.

Concurrent with the development and launch of the MakerBot Digitizer, I oversaw the user experience of the complete line of Fifth Generation MakerBot Replicator 3D Printers, the MakerBot Digital Store, native mobile applications, and professional services.

Following their unveiling at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show, I evangelized user experience in the creation of a New Product Development framework designed to drive the next generation of products.

Founded in 2009, Brooklyn-based MakerBot® (www.makerbot.com) has grown to be a

global leader in desktop 3D printing. MakerBot had 16% market share of all 3D printers

(industrial and personal) made from 2009 to the end of 2011. In 2011, MakerBot had

21.6% market share. There are over 13,000 MakerBot Desktop 3D Printers in use by

engineers, designers, researchers, and people who just like to make things.

The MakerBot Replicator™ 2 Desktop 3D Printer, MakerBot’s fourth-generation machine,

sets a new standard for the company in resolution, build volume, speed, ease of use,

and affordability. MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printers are available for sale

through www.makerbot.com/store, its worldwide network of distributors, as well as

through the company’s brand new flagship retail location.

Located at 298 Mulberry Street in the NoHo district of Manhattan, the MakerBot Store

offers people the chance to learn about desktop 3D printing, get demonstrations, and

buy all kinds of cool consumer products made on MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D

Printers.

At MakerBot’s Thingiverse website (www.thingiverse.com), MakerBot owners can

access and contribute to a “universe of things.” More than 28,000 projects, models, and

things are available that can be downloaded and made for free.

The first generation MakerBot Replicator Desktop 3D Printer was named “Best Emerging

Tech” at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The company has been

featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Wired, The

Colbert Report, Fast Company, Engadget, Make: Magazine, Rolling Stone, Time.com,

IEEE Spectrum, CNN, Financial Times, NPR, Vogue Italia and many others.

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