Netta Dor Shalgi

NDS Design LLC is a vision and product studio specializing in strategy, product design, project management, and the implementation of industrial and market solutions across a wide spectrum of fields and technologies

• Lead Customer acquisition with deep understanding of client's needs
• Project planning and management followed by strategy and vision creation
• Market research, analysis, and road mapping
• Design process and execution supported
• Financial modeling and business planning.

A startup creating a modular premium furniture line for cats, focusing on quality, performance, and suitability

• A patent-pending system utilizes Lego-like modular structure to uplift indoor cats' capabilities and health, merges aesthetics and functionality
• Industry and market study, category envisioning
• Product design, DFM, financial planning
• Marketing strategy and planning
• Manufacturing and technologies sourcing, prototyping, product testing

• Consultant for creators and campaign owners to effectively build Kickstarter products
• Consult on crowdfunding process, project creating and managing, on manufacturing, sourcing, supply chain, budgets, and timelines for successful campaign fulfillment
• Advised over 200 projects that raised over $10M altogether, such as Paper-wallet, Bulbing, Limbo, Sumblox, Power-up, Terra Planter, Makeway, Hyfit, Freshflip and many others.

Venture emerged during the Covid-19 PPE crisis, utilizing intensive research to redesign N-95 masks, mitigating shortages and supply chain disruptions

• The innovative approach encompassed financial modeling and streamlined production, addressing design, manufacturing, and distribution challenges effectively
• Market, technologies, and supply chain studies
• Strategic mapping of sources of supply crisis and other industry issues
• Financial modeling and business strategy
• Product design and manufacturing process design for 2 billion masks/ year
• Creating storage and unique supply model

Product research and design of leading premium luggage brands, backed with extensive IP portfolio

• Lead and managed international teams in Israel, Hong-Kong, China, Vietnam, and California
• Development of new product lines, focusing on high quality with increased margins and cost reductions
• Testing and creating new concepts and components and utilizing new material and technologies
• Launch and market implementation of new products and concepts
• Management of annual budgets and financial forecasts

Product creation from ideation to the market:

• Concept creation and development
• R&D, engineering and manufacturing, sourcing, contractor overseeing
• Raised over $5M in crowdfunding, which was over 2600% of original funding goal and $6M in equity
• Recruited and managed four teams remotely in Israel, China, Florida, and California, overseeing teams, manufacturers and contractors
• Brand building, marketing strategy, and sales strategies, creating collaborations establishing retail channels, manufacturing and logistics
• Financial models, work plans, managing P & L, reports to B.O.D, and conducting investor communication.

Design studio providing turnkey and advanced solutions, creative and art direction, product design, design for manufacturing and product consultant for entities and individuals

• Customer acquisition and mapping of needs
• Vision and strategy creation
• Research, analysis, and road mapping
• Product design
• Prototyping, user testing
• Sourcing and manufacturing
• Financial modelling and business planing

Product designer and vision director for a research group

• Product director and mechanical design for Intel's future technologies
• Examining new hardware and software on different platforms
• Manufacturing of beta-trial divides, technology implementation and testing

Product management for municipal transportation projects in Israel (Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Kiryat-Ata)

• Breakdown of bid-winning concept to manufacturing, standard and certifiable design.
• Managing 3rd party engineers, designers, manufacturers, municipal regulation and construction representatives in numerous project for several municipalities
• Conducting DFM processes in various technologies, withstanding with standards and regulations

A startup offering diagnostic and solutions for male fertility with

patented, clinically tested insemination kits for OB-GYN practices, and infertility laboratories

• Managed the creation, validation, and testing of concepts for different grades of human semen selection for insemination
• Product concept and development, IP capturing and registration
• Prototyping and manufacturing of samples for clinical trials
• Mass production planning and tooling
• Production in clean rooms, medical grade standards and materials
• Packaging design, production of user manuals and process implementation

• Officer's course, Unit commanding
• Central command and administration, military law and judgment , Paratrooper training and certification.
• General Defense Service at Wingate Institute and General Security Academy Anti-terror Training Unit, Sdot-Yam, Israel
• 2004-2012- active reserve service