COMPANY: Tread Global
ROLE: Lead Industrial Designer
SCOPE: Designing child resistant packaging solutions, help inventors design products, create branding and promotional material

After college, I joined Tread Global, a Denver-based product development firm, where I became lead designer specializing in child-resistant packaging for the fast-growing medical marijuana industry.

I created solutions that were safe, user-friendly, visually appealing, and brand-aligned. Four of my designs were patented—two sold over 20 million units each in a year. Each design went through rapid prototyping and user testing to ensure adults could open them, but children could not. This was critical—the packaging had to pass child-resistant certification tests using the production molds to be legally sold.

One standout product—a low-plastic soda can topper—became the industry standard for over a year. Designed in collaboration with Ska Fab, it worked with automated canning lines and stacked efficiently for shipping.

Another key success, the “leaning jar,” won Best Packaging Design at ADCANN 2021. It improved product visibility in waist-level displays and was so popular, we became the largest producer of green-tinted glass during its run.

Patents: US20210403211A1, USD945159S1, USD945161S1, USD1035447S1