Product Designer/Project Leader
Jun 5, 2026
- Senior Packaging Design and Project Engineering Leader with 20+ years of experience developing custom thermoformed packaging solutions across food, medical, consumer, agricultural, and industrial markets. She brings a unique combination of product design expertise, project leadership, customer collaboration, and innovation experience developed through an entire career focused primarily on thin-gauge thermoforming.
- Her background spans the full product development lifecycle—from concept creation and package design through prototyping, validation, customer approvals, manufacturing trials, and commercial launch. Over the years, she evolved from a hands-on Designer into customer-facing project leadership roles, while also mentoring and leading design teams.
- She is a recognized innovator with two granted U.S. patents and extensive experience translating customer needs into manufacturable, market-ready packaging solutions. Whether collaborating with sales teams, supporting product trials, troubleshooting technical challenges, or leading cross-functional project teams, she consistently brings a practical and customer-focused approach to new product development.
- Key strengths include:
- Thin-gauge thermoformed packaging design and new product development expertise
- Product commercialization from concept through production launch
- Customer-facing collaboration across sales, operations, quality, and manufacturing
- Innovation, prototyping, validation, product trials, and technical problem solving
- Team leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional project coordination
- Why Now? Following a shift in the business, her position was eliminated, and she is now exploring new opportunities where she can continue contributing her design, engineering, and project leadership expertise.
- She is seeking a role that blends product design, customer interaction, innovation, and project leadership responsibilities. While based in the Midwest, relocation is not an option at this time, making local, remote, or hybrid opportunities the ideal fit.
- Titles such as Project Engineer, Product Manager, Senior Designer, or similar roles align well with her background and experience.
- If you need a thin gauge (up to about 60 mil thickness), please reach out! I’d love to put you together!