Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Exhibitions
Publications
Lectures and Speaking
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Peter Allen

Brooklyn,United States

Summary

Student-centered Professor with expertise in product development and ideation. Offers eighteen years background supporting students, developing instructional plans and organizing and grading exams and tests. Effective learning environment through prepared classes and relevant assignments, and consistently achieving classroom management and academic goals.

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience

Work History

Period House Renovation and Remodeling

Self Employed
06.2013 - Current
  • Identified issues, analyzed information, and provided solutions to problems.
  • Participated in team-building activities to enhance working relationships.
  • Learned new skills and applied them to daily tasks to improve efficiency and productivity.
  • evaluated structural and construction issues.
  • Versed in masonry, plumbing, electrical, plastering, metal fabrication, and high-end woodworking.
  • Sourced a variety of materials and construction techniques.
  • Carried out day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently.
  • Saved budget costs by implementing cost-saving initiatives that addressed long-standing problems.
  • Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions, and make decisions.

Part-time Assistant Professor

The New School Parsons
09.2004 - Current
  • Evaluated and supervised student activities and performance levels to provide reports on academic progress.
  • Mentored students and communicated internship and employment opportunities.
  • Applied innovative teaching methods to encourage student learning objectives.
  • Built strong rapport with students through class discussions and academic advisement.
  • Evaluated student progress through analysis of test scores and homework completion.
  • Created materials and exercises to illustrate application of course concepts.
  • Helped struggling students by providing support outside of classrooms and consistently checking in on progress.
  • Used variety of learning modalities and support materials to facilitate learning process and accentuate presentations.
  • Collaborated with colleagues on evaluation of course syllabi and lesson plans for thesis preparation.
  • Took attendance, graded assignments and maintained student records to assist teachers with administrative tasks and maintain smooth daily operations.
  • Contributed to planning appropriate and engaging lessons for both classroom and distance learning applications.
  • Revised course objectives, course materials, instructional and assessment strategies for courses.
  • Communicated with students about classroom, lab and study session expectations to help professors maintain order in classes.
  • Supported weekly class sessions, contributing to student engagement, comprehension and learning objectives.
  • Stood in for professors and teachers in absences, lecturing or providing course material for foundation year based on lesson plans.
  • Graded over assignments each week and entered grades into university website.

Designer and Prototype Development

AXYZ Design
06.2000 - 08.2004
  • Maintained tight tolerances with design specifications.
  • Senior designer working with the owner in a multidisciplinary design environment.
  • prototyping manufactured products ranging from furniture to toys.
  • Expert in creating parts tooled in the Far East and small in-house tooling.
  • Project responsibilities ranged from product concept, form development, CAD, sketching, CNC coding and machining, mechanism development, mold making, casting, painting, vacuum forming, and hand sculpting.
  • Completed work orders on time and under budget by closely monitoring machine production efficiency.
  • Oversight of blueprints for accurate machine programming.
  • Ran heavy-duty, boring machines, mills, planers, and grinders to craft products.
  • Studied daily work instructions, sketches, drawings, blueprints, and manuals to determine dimensions and tolerances accurately.
  • Used CNC and manual equipment to perform both initial and final machining for mass production tooling.
  • Interpreted and corrected blueprints and support materials from suppliers and engineers.
  • Planned work in proper operational sequence on multi-cut jobs.
  • Closely monitored equipment to detect and report malfunctions and prevent accidents.
  • Created and assembled parts to be 3D scanned and manufactured.
  • Calibrated machines to maintain required productivity levels and adherence to quality standards.

KnoWear Design Projects

Various Clients. Competitions And Grants
05.2000 - Current
  • 2-D and 3-D concepts created for exhibition, publication, grants, and competitions.
  • Designs range from 2D design proposals rendered as objects, fashion, and architectural Installation work.
  • Fashion concentration creates soft goods that incorporate nomadic technology.
  • Through material research and experimentation,
  • The development of three-dimensional fabrics using vacuum forming.
  • Coordinate with pattern makers and seamstresses to create final real-world samples of designs.
  • Participated in speaking engagements about work as well as acted as a visiting critic.

Designer and Fabrication Coordinator

Cranbrook Art Museum
09.1996 - 11.1996
  • Messengers of Modernism exhibit design and fabrication.
  • Exhibit designer for Messengers of Modernism and Signals Jewelry exhibitions at the Cranbrook Art Museum.
  • Design duties included conceptualizing and designing an installation for the exhibition, sketching, CAD layout, material specification, and fabrication.
  • Installation and oversight of exhibit installation.

Junior Designer

Virtual Studios
09.1996 - 05.1999
  • Junior Designer who worked with a principal designer.
  • projects ranged from a line of outdoor furniture to retail signage.
  • Responsibilities: research, project development, form development, sketching, CAD, and full-scale model prototypes.
  • Streamlined design processes, developing templates for recurring projects to save time and resources.
  • Boosted client satisfaction by producing high-quality visual assets for marketing materials.
  • Innovated new design concepts, presenting fresh ideas during brainstorming sessions with the team.
  • Supported senior designers in executing client projects, ensuring timely delivery without compromising quality.
  • Identified design requirements for each project.

Education

Cranbrook Academy of Art
Bloomfield Hills, MI
05.1999

North Benett Street School
Boston, MA
05.1995

University of Hartford Art School
Hartford, CT
05.1990

Skills

  • Woodworking: expertise in machine and hand tools, wood turning, carving, marquetry and veneering, wood bending, and machine maintenance
  • CNC tooling
  • Prototyping
  • CAD CAM software: PTC Creo and Shapr3D
  • Illustration software: Illustrator, Photoshop, and Inkscape
  • Video editing software: Premier and After Effects
  • Microsoft Suite
  • I have been teaching at the university level for 19 years I understand people and how to communicate with students to accommodate their individual learning styles Evaluations and Assessments
  • Speaks Spanish

Accomplishments

  • Orange County Museum of Art,
  • National Museum of Australia.
  • Eyebeam, Bienal De Lisboa.
  • TKNY, New York.
  • Network Gallery at Cranbrook Art Museum.
  • National Museums of Scotland, Cooper Hewitt.
  • National Design Museum Taiwan.
  • National Gallery of Ireland.
  • Publication: Fashioning The Future, Bienal De Lisboa Catalog, Octangano, The New Yorker, Skin: Surface, Substance+Design, Italian Elle D_Cor, New Design Magazine, Wired Magazine, Dream Factory, Metropolis Magazine.


Exhibitions


  • Womanorial Ultra Sensory On Line Exhibition February 2014
  • Colombia Fashion Week Plataforma Evolución Moda futurista Bogota, Colombia May 2013
  • Modemuseum Hasselt Kenneth Ramaekers “The Future That Never Was” Hasselt, Belgium January- May 2011
  • Museum of Design Zurich Angeli Sachs “Global Design” Zürich, Switzerland February- May 2010
  • The Science Gallery Marie O’Mahony “Technothreads” Dublin, Ireland April- August 2008
  • Tyne & Wear Museums John Thackara , Andrew Chetty, and Sabine Seymour “Our Cyborg Future?” Newcastle upon Tyne, UK August- October 2007
  • Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Vitra Design Museum Ellen Lupton Second Skin Kaohsiung City, Taiwan June- August 2007
  • MOCA Taipa Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Vitra Design Museum Ellen Lupton Second Skin Taipei, Taiwan March- May 2007
  • Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Vitra Design Museum Second Skin Essen, Germany August- October 2006
  • Orange County Museum of Art KnoWear In Brandland Newport Beach, CA USA February 2006
  • Eyebeam Works in Process New York, NY USA January- March 2005
  • Bienal De Lisboa 1000 Plateaux The Future of Use/The Use of the Future Lisbon, Portugal September- October 2003
  • Cranbrook Art Museum Body Shop BloomField HIlls, MI USA May- September 2003
  • National Museums of Scotland Designing Ourselves Edinburgh, UK November- March 2003
  • Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Skin: Surface Substance + Design New York, NY USA June- September 2002
  • ICFF Jacob K. Javits Convention Center New York, NY USA May 2000


Publications

  • Useless Frederico Duarte 2011 Toward A New Interior Lois Weinthal 2011
  • Lapham’s Quarterly Timothy Don Fall 2011
  • BeautyStreams Anna Barr September 2011
  • John Haffner Layden September 2011
  • Made In-Code Jane Harris 2011
  • The Future That Never Was Tentoonstelling 2011
  • Design Anthropology Alison J.Clarke 2011
  • Jeux de sociétés Stéfan Golinski 2010
  • Global Design Angeli Sachs 2010
  • Fashionable Technology Sabine Seymour 2008
  • Three Layer Cake Kristina Gill January 2008
  • Second Skin Hsiang-Ling LAI and Chun-Hsien LEE 2007
  • XXmagazine Karen L Dunn and Katya Moorman January 2007
  • Entry Paradise Gerhard Seltmann and Werner Lippert 2006
  • O-Cube Creator’s Report: KnoWear- cover Yoshimi Matsuo March 2006
  • Getting Under the Skin Dr. Bernadette Wegenstein 2006
  • Fashioning the Future Suzanne Lee 2005
  • Octangano Surface. Dressed architecture August 2002
  • The New Yorker TechnoLust Illustration July 2002
  • Italian Elle Decor Shopping Virtuale January- February 2002
  • newdesign Magazine December 2001
  • Wired Magazine New and Improved September 2001
  • Skin: Surface,Substance+Design Ellen Lupton 2002 Dream Factory 2001
  • Metropolis Magazine TechnoLust- Cover October 2000


Lectures and Speaking

  • Colombia Fashion Week Plataforma Evolución Moda futurista Bogota, Colombia May 2013
  • V2 Wearables Seminar Rotterdam, NL April 2010
  • DOTT 07 Cafe Scientifique Newcastle, UK October 2007
  • Entry Campus Stars and Starlets - Fashion Show Essen, Germany August 2006
  • Stern College For Women Yeshiva University KnoWear: Works In Progress New York, NY USA 2006- 2009
  • Parsons School of Design New School University KnoWear: Works In Progress New York, NY USA 2005- 2007
  • Eyebeam Works in Process New York, NY USA January- March 2005
  • The UpGrade @ Eyebeam The Facade of the Synthetic New York, NY USA May 2005
  • Bienal De Lisboa 1000 Plateaux The Future of Use Lisbon, Portugal September 2003

AWARDS/ RESIDENCIES

  • Eyebeam Atelier: Moving Images Division Fall 2003 Residency Program
  • ID Annual Design Review: Design Distinction- Release 1 August 2002
  • ID Annual Design Review: Honorable Mention- Webster August 2001
  • Opus Award Design Competition: Honorable Mention- Ivibe September 2000
  • ICFF: Best of Show [student work] Spring 2000

Timeline

Period House Renovation and Remodeling

Self Employed
06.2013 - Current

Part-time Assistant Professor

The New School Parsons
09.2004 - Current

Designer and Prototype Development

AXYZ Design
06.2000 - 08.2004

KnoWear Design Projects

Various Clients. Competitions And Grants
05.2000 - Current

Designer and Fabrication Coordinator

Cranbrook Art Museum
09.1996 - 11.1996

Junior Designer

Virtual Studios
09.1996 - 05.1999

Cranbrook Academy of Art

North Benett Street School

University of Hartford Art School

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