Ebony J. Efird
Furniture Designer, Residential furniture manufacturing
Asheville, NC · (828) 555 0143 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/ebonyjefird
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Nine years designing case goods for domestic hardwood manufacturing
INDUSTRIES
Residential furniture manufacturing, hardwood millwork, specialty retail programs
SPECIALTIES
Case goods design, joinery detailing, prototyping, finish development
SYSTEMS
SolidWorks, Rhino, AutoCAD, KeyShot, Epicor
CREDENTIALS
Certified SolidWorks Professional, member of the Industrial Designers Society of America
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts in furniture design, Appalachian State University
Executive Summary
Furniture designer for a domestic hardwood manufacturer, working on case goods from first sketch through the shop floor. Nine years of practice that began at a bench, so drawings account for grain, movement and how a part is actually machined. Designs to the tooling the plant already owns.
Signature Achievements
- Designed a bedroom collection of eleven pieces that has sold about nine thousand units in three years.
- Cut the part count on a dresser case from sixty four to forty one and took eighteen dollars out of the factory cost.
- Moved a drawer box from doweled construction to a machined joint that halved assembly time on the line.
- Built and tested thirty one prototypes in one year and carried nine of them to production release.
- Developed a rubbed oil finish schedule that passed the plant durability tests and became the standard on four collections.
- Reduced lumber waste on a chair program by nine percent by nesting parts around the mill's board widths.
Professional Experience
Furniture Designer
Blue Ridge Hardwood Furniture, Asheville, NC 2021 to present
Domestic manufacturer of about four hundred people producing solid wood bedroom and dining collections.
- Design collections from sketch through solid models, drawings and cut lists for the plant.
- Build prototypes in the sample shop and revise details with machine operators before release.
- Write materials and finish schedules and confirm them against the finish line capability.
- Review costed bills of material with engineering and adjust design to hit the price point.
Furniture Design Associate
Catawba Bench Works, Hickory, NC 2017 to 2021
Small shop of twenty two making custom and short run furniture for designers and retailers.
- Produced shop drawings and templates for one of a kind and short run pieces.
- Selected lumber, veneers and hardware and tracked material cost on each job.
- Worked at the bench on joinery, assembly and finishing during production peaks.
Licensure and Certification
Certified SolidWorks Professional in mechanical design
Member, Industrial Designers Society of America
Member, Sustainable Furnishings Council
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts in furniture design, Appalachian State University, 2017
Core Skills
Case goods design · Joinery detailing · Prototyping · Finish development · Cut list preparation · Design for manufacture · Cost reduction · Solid modeling · Wood movement · Sample shop work