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I have been making ever since I’ve been able to pick up a hammer and a nail. As a 5 year old, I would take discarded pieces of wood and nail them together to make random creations. This creativity and desire to make continued into pinewood derby cars and all the way to my Eagle Scout and senior projects. I am one of the lucky few who has found their passion, and I am lucky enough to pursue this passion.
Eric Bottelsen
Resume
Work Experience
Boombah Inc. Industrial Designer | 9/16/2019 - Present
Designing sporting equipment from concept to production across a wide breath of sports. Focused mainly on the rebirth of the Boombah footwear line as all categories were being redesigned and manufacturing was moved to our in house factory. Other work includes the design from concept to production of bags and the guideline for new product storytelling on the website.
Blackjack Lighting Industrial Design Intern | 5/28/2019 - 9/13/2019
Summer internship working closely with the design team on various projects. Completed models, renders, and other components for the company website and catalog. Worked on models and production files for manufacturing as well as clients looking for custom fixtures, as well as concept generation for new lighting fixtures and systems.
Interactive Neurorehabilitation at Virginia Tech | 12/13/17 - 5/18/19 | Website http://vtinr.com/
In 2017 I joined a research team at Virginia Tech that has the goal to design and produce a low cost high impact system for at home stroke patient rehabilitation. This team combines insights from interaction design, medical rehabilitation, computer vision, and machine learning to create an advanced at home system. As a member of the physical design team I focused on the physical experience and journey the user had with this product as well as developing new objects for different phases of therapy.
Spaces by Apifni | 6/21/18 - 9/20/18 | https://www.apifni.com/
Contracted with two other designers to design a building blocks toy and create a kickstarter campaign to gain funding.
Kollmorgen | 8/1/18 - 10/25/18 | https://www.kollmorgen.com/en-us/products/drives/servo/akd2g/akd2g-servo-drive/
Contracted with one other designer to design the interactive interface for the new AKD2G servo driver. This was the first full color display for Kollmorgen.
Training
Basics of Knitting Technique-Manual Knitting - Hosted by Stoll North America
Learn fundamental knitting terms and techniques, develop a sample reference book, and work on antique manual knitting machines
CMS - Handling & Knitting Techniques - Hosted by Stoll North America
Machine maintenance, problem solving, and mechanical attributes
M1 Plus - Handling and Pattern Design - Hosted by Stoll North America
Knit programming training in M1 Plus, Basic training on pattern techniques
Accomplishments
Cooper Hewitt Access + Accessibility Exhibitor | 2018 - 2020
Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge Winner | 2018
Xingshi Cup Finalist | 2018
Eagle Scout | March 9, 2015
Publications
Aisling Kelliher, Andrew Gibson, Eric Bottelsen, and Edward Coe. 2019. Designing Modular Rehabilitation Objects for Interactive Therapy in the Home. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 251-257
Setor Zilevu, Thanassis Rikakis, Aisling Kelliher, Jinwoo Choi, Andrew Gibson, Eric Bottlesen, Jia-Bin Huang, Sarah Garrison, Steve Wolf, Aimee Reiss, Lois Wolf, Komal Sahu. 2018. A Machine Learning Approach for the Quantitative Assessment of the Upper Extremity Movement in Stroke Survivors, Conference on Progress in Clinical Motor Control: Neurorehabilitation, Penn State, July 23 – 25, 2018