# Mark E. Garcia > Global External Innovation Manager, Inventor, Entrepreneur + Stanford GSB LEADer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/markegarcia INDUSTRIAL DESIGN LEADER, INVENTOR, and EDUCATOR Perpetually inspired concept ideation, development, direction, education, and realization. ## Work Experience ### External innovation x Inventor Relations Manager @ Hasbro Jan 2022 – Present | Los Angeles, California, United States Help drive innovation through external partnerships. ### VAPA Art Specialist @ Mount Diablo Unified School District Jan 2024 – Present | Concord, California, United States teach design drawing, thinking, and prototyping to 4th and 5th graders of an international baccalaureate school ### Industrial Design Faculty @ Academy of Art University Jan 2015 – Present | San Francisco Helping to advance our world by sharing my experiences, perspective, and techniques of industrial design with aspiring creative problem solvers and future game changers. Instructing junior and senior level industrial design majors in a course that I have evolved to become more invention/entrepreneurial in its problem solving and design approach. ### Advisory Board Member @ United Inventors Association Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area provide education, access, and advocacy for toy and game inventors around the globe. ### Founding Partner @ ROGUE Innovation + Design Jan 2021 – Present | Global + Virtual ### Director Of Product Design @ KID Group Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | san Francisco Oversee and grow innovation and development consultancy division ### Product Design Manager @ KID Group Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California Drive invention and licensing efforts. Manage national client relationships. Manage production team of junior designers and engineer. Run the gamut of creative service from biz dev and client acquisition, consultation and analysis, through development and licensing process. Market and sell design, facilitate licensing and sales. Started, marketed, and successfully acquired clients for company's new non-toy invention consultation and development initiative. ### Senior Designer @ KID Group Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California Generate new concepts and direct production team in order to bring ideas to reality. Lead design and principal invention role. Recruit, develop, mentor, and manage production/design team. ### Designer, Disney/Pixar Entertainment @ Mattel, Inc. Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | El Segundo, CA Generated and presented design concepts, and managed respective development for Disney boys and girls licensed consumer product lines. • Employed progressive and unique ideation processes to quickly produce 200+ inspired, disruptive, and unique concepts. • Developed rapid understanding of competitive landscape through competitive research and trend analysis to optimize innovation and effective design solutions. • Executed rapid visual ideation to enable communication for presentations, mechanical and aesthetic development, and cost reduction. • Pitched concepts to all levels of internal management, sales, marketing, and licensor teams and obtained all levels of concept feedback and approval. • Lead brainstorms with multi-disciplinary groups to achieve cross-pollination of concepts that resulted in high level of product innovation and refinement. • Collaborated with inventors, consultation groups, and third party vendors to develop external concepts into royalty products. • Managed team execution, licensor implementation, and milestone adherence by leveraging interpersonal skills and detail-focused project management. • Collaborated directly with packaging design and engineering teams to optimize solutions for consumer try-me execution and shelf presence. • Championed concepts that resulted in realization of several innovation, television-commercial, die cast, and customized segment concepts being brought to market. • Leveraged Solidworks 3-D and CAD modeling to quickly create mockup parts for presentation. ### Creative Consultant @ Korer Media / JKorer.com Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, CA Consulted with company principal to design, develop, and coordinate company brand, identity, marketing collateral, and associated assets. • Executed majority of meetings virtually to collaborate, present, and perform real-time design of illustrations, website, logo, and business cards. • Coordinated third party, webhosting, storage, and website administrator search and collaborated with client to oversee and develop execution. • Performed photo shoots to create assets for website. ### Graphic Design Consultant @ Keiretsu Forum Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area Consulted with Managing Director to develop, coordinate, and execute design of marketing campaign and collateral for all angel-investor/VC events. ### Creative Consultant: Marketing @ Cosmogia, Inc. Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Collaborated with Marketing department to create marketing collateral, develop brand logo and identity, corporate swag and products, corporate letterhead, and presentation templates. ### Industrial Design Intern: Understudy to President @ Marsh Design Office Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 Shadowed, assisted, and collaborated on new and existing projects with design company principle to learn the responsibilities, perspectives, and approaches of starting and running a boutique consultancy. Learned and executed client acquisition and service, operations, marketing, team recruitment, and branding. Successfully acquired and served several clients during tenure. ### Industrial Design Intern: Structural Team @ Makani Power Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Alameda, CA Worked with Google-backed startup to provide industrial design assistance to the Structural Team through prototype modification, creation, and assembly. Created and developed prototype assembly procedure documentation ### Financial Associate @ Citibank Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 | Pinole, Castro Valley, Hayward Provided exceptional customer service and product sales as a part-time financial associate. Top-ten sales in the three respective regions worked in. Helped management develop a new approach and technique of customer-centric selling of financial products. ### Industrial Design Counsultant / Intern @ Streetline Networks Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | San Francisco, CA Intern position that evolved into a full time job over the summer and into the school year. Assisted design manager with ideation and execution of installation hardware/kit design. Designed and coordinated manufacture of simple test equipment and oversaw field equipment installation. Created equipment field installation manuals and documentation. Consulted with design manager to develop a streamlined installation procedure. ### Project Manager / Technical Support Analyst @ Laidlaw Education Services Jan 2000 – Jan 2006 | Walnut Creek, CA Provided remote administration of company's WAN at corporate headquarters. Provided support, analysis, and coordination of LAN servers, workstations, VPN, and user accounts. Oversaw installation of new remote branches, hardware, network infrastructure, and security. Conducted implementation and training of proprietary software through out the offices of the western region (California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Montana, and Texas). ## Education ### Stanford LEAD: Professional certificate Executive Education in Business Administration and Management, General Stanford University Graduate School of Business ### BFA in Industrial Design, PRODUCT DESIGN Academy of Art University ### High school in College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program Pittsburg High School ### High school in College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program Alameda High School ### Stanford LEAD Professional Certificate in Executive Education, Business Administration and Management, General Stanford University Graduate School of Business ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mark-e-garcia-30600622 - Portfolio: https://www.rogue-id.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/markegarcia JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/markegarcia/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13