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About Design 1st : A passionate product designer and business executive, Kevin Bailey helps guide CEO’s, start-ups and established companies through the maze of hardware product development. Spending over 35 years in the detailed designing of hardware products, Kevin is now an expert at assessing risk and opportunity when making the hundreds of decisions required to move from a vision to a physical product that customers find useful and businesses can manufacture. STATEMENT OF ART:Since the early 1980’s Kevin has been on the ground floor of global hardware product innovation, cutting his teeth with National Research Council, General Motors, Shell, Bell Northern Research Labs and Nortel Networks where he worked on the first global smartphone development in 1994. After founding Design 1st in 1996, Kevin has emerged as one of the leaders at stickhandling hardware product development from concept to design including mechanical engineering and go-to-market manufacturing set-up. As CEO and president of Design 1st, clients and staff rely on Kevin’s strategic thinking to guide the full suite of development and manufacturing oriented product decisions. The company’s results with new product development speaks for itself. More than 1,000 start-ups and global enterprise corporations—such as Motorola, Acer, Stanley Tools, Ericsson and Christie Digital—have brought hardware product ideas to life under Kevin’s guidance. Kevin and his team of thirty creative experts bring up to 70 projects to market for a diversity of clients each year. Kevin is a Mechanical Engineer graduating top of class in 1984 from the University of Waterloo and has been a registered member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario since 1985. Kevin is also a VC and Angel Investor and one of Canada’s leading experts at bringing innovative new hardware product designs to market. Get outside of the office, get as far away from business development and designing and instead thinking about new product ideas as much as you can! There will always be new product needs and endless customers. Developing new products is incredibly immersive, almost a form of addiction, yet so rewarding at the time that it can consume every minute of your day, like video games to some people. ORGANIZATION: Design 1st NON-DESIGN OCCUPATION: Mechanical engineer Cars, mechanics, technicians, engineers EDUCATION: 1985, Mechanical Engineering, Queen's University, Canada EXPERIENCE: 1996 - 2021, CEO and Founder, Design 1st 2017 - 2021, CEO and Founder, Zumio 1988 - 1995, Product Designer, Nortel Networks EVENTS: CES 2010 - 2020 AWARDS: A'Design Award - 2019 Irish Laboratory Awards - 2020 PRESS APPEARANCES: 2021, Authority Magazine, https://medium.com/authority-magazine/kevin-bailey -of-design-1st-5-things-i-wish-someone-told-me-bef ore-i-began-leading-my-company-9e3553fe3982 ACCOLADES: 2012 Fastest Growing Company, Ottawa LANGUAGE SKILLS: English COMPUTER LITERACY: Solidworks, ProE MEMBERSHIPS & ASSOCIATIONS: IDSA, PEO (Professional Engineers Ontario) HOBBIES: VC and Angel Investor CLIENTELE: Over 1000+ physical products developed for global corporations, startups and entrepreneurs Cloud9, 2018, VOIP Investment Trading System Christie Digital, 2010, Designed Commerical Project Motorola, 2008, Designed Telephone Armstrong Technology, 2015, Industrial Pumping Equipment WEB SITE: www.myzumio.com PORTFOLIO URL: https://portfolio.design1st.com REGISTRATION DATE: 2021-01-14 15:11:18 COUNTRY/REGION: Canada ACCOUNT TYPE: Startup |
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