Brand Statement: Over the past 10 years developed licensing presentations for Hasbro, CDI Toys, New Adventures, LLC, NSI Toys, MSRF, Inc., Grupo Bimbo, and Brand New Products, LLC.

Creative Innovator

• Developed new and unique ways to translate existing properties into interesting, unusual and fun toys.
  
• Designed toys through various development stages including initial concept sketches, color presentation art, and product deco.
• Researched and studied continuing trends within the toy, fashion, home goods and game industries. Affectively developed and targeted timely product concepts to win licenses thru innovation.
  
  

Resourceful

• Independently managed multiple projects, changed prioritied and prioritize work to meet critical deadlines.
  
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with people at all levels within a team environment.
• Passionate and driven individual who loves presenting, creating and problem solving. Uses the ability to defend a point of view with intelligence, passion and imagination.
  
  

Goal Oriented

• Worked on dozens of high-profile licenses such as General Mills, M&M Mars, Star Wars, Nickelodeon, Universal Studios Monsters, Disney, Black & Decker, Build a Bear Workshop, Hershey Brands, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream and Just Born Peeps.
• Managed all aspects of an independent toy design company including, client relations, company promotion, project management, financial management, and project billing.
• Worked on products for the Toy, Health & Beauty, Stationary, and Confectionary industry.

Recommendations:

• "Tina is a Star! She has a keen eye for innovation and consistently looks to develop new products, improve upon existing products or build on inventor ideas to add value across many domains. While her creativity is boundless, her true value-add is that all of her creative direction is soundly grounded in her many years of industry experience in working with consumers, designers, sales, marketing, engineering, manufacturing and more. She's been through the development cycle countless times and knows how to strike that ever-critical balance to create a compelling product that can be manufactured profitably, packaged, positioned and sold effectively. What's more, she's extremely disciplined and has a work ethic and personal ethic second to none. I strongly recommend Tina to any company that is truly invested in creating amazing product!"
  -Tom Flaherty, Brand Manager, OddzOn, a division of Hasbro
• "Tina stepped into a difficult project at the last minute. Not only did she quickly evaluate the concept, product outstanding concepts and toy design, she was a pleasure to work with. Tina is a talented designer with an intuitive sense of the market."
  -Diane Burlando, Product Development, Master Replicas