Terrence Mahlin

Experience

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  MSM Engineering

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2002

  Crew Foreman

  Crew Foreman in charge of small crew of equipment operators for a small excavation company. Experienced in the operation of backhoes, track hoes, skid loaders, road graders, and front end loaders. Projects included work in pipe fitting, site grading, light structural construction, excavation, land sculpting, and aggregate handling.

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  Monolithic Sculpture, Inc

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2009

  Lead Designer

  Responsible for the inception, development and execution of more than 70 unique climbing walls, playground sculptures, and architectural installations. Played a principal role in developing and documenting the core product design process. Acted as foreman and lead sculptor on numerous high profile projects. Performed client liaison duties and design development and project coordination with architecture and engineering firms.

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  ID Sculpture

  Jun 2011 - Mar 2015

  Principal, Designer

  My primary responsibilities at ID Sculpture included brand development and deployment, all things digital design, the fabrication of physical sculpture prototypes, CAD drafting, business development and strategy, and marketing strategy. Beginning in the summer of 2010, I refreshed the brand identity with a complete set of sparkling new digital and print assets which resulted in a significant, objective increase in the company's market exposure and both custom contracts and catalog sales.

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  Dutch Uncle Design

  May 2013 - now

  Director Of Design And Development

  As a design consultant and owner of Dutch Uncle Design, I have led UX and UI efforts in the design of applications for large companies and organizations including the USDA and SentricHR. From defining and executing Design Research protocols, through prototyping, creating polished UI mockups, and developing the application front end, I am comfortable ushering a project through every stage of the design process.

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  Sentric, Inc.

  May 2013 - Jul 2016

  Lead Visual and UX Designer (contract)

  As the sole designer on the Sentric team during my time with the company, I developed and executed the design strategy for the re-design of Sentric's flagship desktop HR application. From initial design research through final interface mockups and prototypes, I worked directly with the dev. team and primary stakeholders to completely re-imagine a very complex application with extensive functionality. Following the launch of the new desktop app, I spear-headed the design of a brand new Employee Self Service mobile application, which saw a successful launch in the 3rd quarter of 2016. Show less

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  Trnio Inc

  Jul 2013 - Jul 2015

  Visual and UX Designer | Brand Manager

  I joined the Trnio startup team in their pre-funding stage to design interactions and interfaces for their mobile 3D scanning technology. In addition to defining the initial physical approach to scanning a real-world object and designing the feedback generated by the application, I also developed the brand and identity for TRNIO.

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  USDA

  Oct 2014 - Sept 2015

  Lead UX/UI Designer, Front End Developer (contract)

  Engaged in complete interface and interaction re-design of open-source, data-driven web application built to stochastically model disease epidemics in livestock populations. Designed and conducted UX research protocols to collect user requirements, defined new interface paradigm through traditional UX methods, created final UI mockups, and wrote front-end HTML and CSS for final deployment of the project.

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  Wheelhouse College

  May 2016 - now

  Director of Design And Development
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  University of Colorado Denver

  Sept 2019 - Jan 2023

  Lecturer