Richard Crisp

Director - ISG Industrial Design

Austin, Texas, United States

About

Visionary designer who has extensive experience leading strategic product development. Rich is adept at developing innovative products within the corporate environment. He has a particular ability to motivate and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of Industrial design, UX, and Mechanical in global locations. Over 20 years of industry experience in high volume manufactured products.

Experience

  • Dell Technologies (21 yrs 1 mo)
    • Director - ISG Industrial Design
      Mar 2026 - Present · 4 mos

    • Distinguished Engineer - Industrial Design
      Sep 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 10 mos

    • Technical Staff - Industrial Design
      Sep 2016 - Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Lead designer for PowerEdge servers. Responsible for all aspects of product development from conception through to production. Highly effective at collaborating with cross functional teams and managing external design resources. Extensive abilities working with overseas manufacturers (ODM's). Lengthy track record of delivering best in class products - M1000e, PowerEdge 9th generation through to 14th Gen systems. Uses design research tools to drive new product experiences and segments (such as PowerEdge VRTX). Holds 36 design and utility patents in this role.

  • IDEA design award jury member at Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)
    Jan 2022 - Jun 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Jury member of the IDEA International design award judging panel - 2022 and 2023.

  • IBM (6 yrs 6 mos)
    • Industrial Designer - eServer
      Jan 2001 - Jun 2005 · 4 yrs 6 mos

      Industrial Desinger working on iSeries & pSeries servers.

    • Industrial Designer - Displays
      1999 - 2001 · 2 yrs

      Staff Industrial designer working on flat panel displays, and CRT monitors. Collaborated with company technologists, engineers and marketing to deliver pioneering flat panel displays, and gained experience working on high volume manufactured electronic goods with ODM's throughout Asia.

  • Industrial Designer at PIDC, University of Liverpool
    Jan 1996 - Dec 1998 · 3 yrs

  • Designer at Terry Lifts
    1994 - 1995 · 1 yr