Tread Global

Out of college I worked for Tread Global, a small Denver based product sourcing and development firm. There I became the Head of Design and specialized in child resistant packaging for the medical marijuana industry that was exploding in Colorado. Companies were looking for creative packaging solutions that met stringent safety standards while being appealing, easy to use and representing of their unique brand identity.

Four of my packaging designs ended up getting patented and two of these took the industry by storm, each selling over 20 million units in a year. Designing these required extensive use of rapid prototyping and user testing to ensure that the packages were easy to open by adults, but impossible to open by young children. This was crucial, since after tooling and manufacturing was underway, the packages had to pass standardized child resistant testing, otherwise they would not be able to be sold.

While creating various packaging solutions I learned a lot about designing for injection molding, overseas manufacturing and utilizing 3D printing for rapid prototyping. These skills have been invaluable for me moving forward and can be put to use in any industry.