Company Statement: Peachtree Playthings, founded in 1990, is a fast growing multi-category company known for an exciting array of affordable branded and licensed products.  Peachtree markets products in the Stationery, Art Material, Activity and Toy categories, targeting consumers ages 3 to 99.  Our high quality products capture the imaginations of children, expand the minds of students and stimulate the creativity of adults.  All of Peachtree's products provide high quality at an exceptional value.

Boris Bubble Lab Brand
Boris has been up all night working in his lab. Bubbles and sounds are what he had on his slab... He has created some nasty creatures that he thinks are a hoot... Dip em!

Mine to Color Brand
Mine to Color is a fashion-coloring brand. Purses, knapsacks, wallets, make up bags, belts and other fashion items, lots of ways to color and personalize your way.

Creative Innovator

• Design and Development: researched and reviewed new product categories: i.e. Inventor Submissions provide feasibility reports.
  
• Lead the development of Boris Bubbles Lab a line of Bubble Products with three different price points. Low-end price point products were wacky test tubes with uniquely shaped character bubble wands chicken, frog leg, a gross finger or a rat. Mid tier price point products were flasks filled with bubbles and eyeballs, brains, or intestine floating in the bubble solution. Each set came with a gross finger bubble wand. The high-end price point product was a line of motion activated sound bubble wand that included a deep-dish bubble tray and Boris’s bubble solution. Tagline: “Blow jumbo bubbles by holding the tongue
  and waving the wand to get a surprise sound…Burrrrpp!!

• Ideation and conceptualization of new products and product lines through drawing and presentation boards based on inventor concepts, internal company ideas or licensed product development.
  

Resourceful

• Independently coordinated product design work with both domestic and international locations.
  
• Made the introduction to Pucker Powder to set up possible candy licensing deal to further product development.
• Project Management: Effectively leveraged internal and external resources, managed multiple projects and assignments.

Goal Oriented

• Developed Mine to Color concept based on trend analysis in 2006, the line is on its 6th year.
• Skills used on the job at Peachtree Playthings: future thinking, “visioning”, leading creative people and teams towards common goals, creative problem solving, product design and development, talent sourcing.
• Hands-on leader with proven record directing diverse internal & external development teams.

Recommendations:

• "Tina is a hard working designer who is committed and dedicated to her job and passion of designing toys. She is very motivated, creative and innovative at any aspect of the toy design process. Tina understands the industry and process of toy design in and out, and that is what makes her so valuable to have on a project or team."
  -Dafna Mor, Staff Designer, Fisher Price
• "I had the privilege of working/presenting to Tina few of our toy ideas, and I found her insights regarding the toy industry to be very useful and educational." -Avi Cohen, Owner, Vertex Product Development Inc.