References

Colby Buddelmeyer

Director, Engineering, Mark Levinson Brand

I worked with Sean during my tenure at Apogee Electronics. Sean is an incredible industrial designer who understands how to create products that impassion the consumer. His talent at understanding the needs of the customer also made him a natural marketing leader. I learned a great deal from him as we worked to design iconic products such as the Duet2, Jam, MiC, and my personal favorite, the Quartet. His understanding of the flow of surfaces and design of tactile user interfaces were essential to the success of these products. Finally, the personal lessons I learned from Sean about how to work successfully in a very dynamic environment have been central to my growth as a leader. I can offer him my highest recommendation.

Ron Lutz

Technical Lead at Cisco

I first met Sean in 2007 at Apogee. Sean was the Industrial Designer and Head of Marketing at the time. Sean has a rare balance of generating artistic flare along with making a product practical and simple mechanically. He keeps an open mind to materials and processes to manufacture a product, and works great as a team player in optimizing the entire product. He has a great aptitude to starting concepts in the ID tools, and helping translate that to concise 3D modeling. Sean has a great basis of die casting, injection molding, sheet metal, painting and plating options, and artwork/labeling. He also has worked on small hand held products, up to full 3RU/19 inch rack products. I highly recommend Sean as a product designer.

Shane Koss

Core Audio Software Engineer at Apple

Sean was an absolute pleasure to work with. His feel for User Experience and sharp eye for Graphic Design were a pleasure to implement and helped to create an end product that we could all be proud of. His attention to detail in the design files saved tons of dev time. I’ve yet to receive graphic designs that were as complete and thoughtful. Perhaps even more important is his even keel demeanor – even when the seas get choppy. Sean is always up for collaborating on ideas and helping the team reach a consensus that meet all the requirements. Any organization would be lucky to have him and I can’t wait until we get the opportunity to work together again.

Doug Wille

CEO, Conger Solar Systems

I have worked with Sean in several different ways multiple times over the past 20+ years. My first experience was when Sean, as a member of an internal team that reported up to me, personally saved the web design of our talent finder website with a super creative, innovative artistic design that blew away the lame concepts we paid a ‘fancy’ outside web design agency >$1M.

Since then, Sean developed great retail packaging, marketing materials, campaign advertising and web sites for a consumer software product I developed. His multimedia development skills were invaluable in creating an engaging, entertaining and professional user experience.

Trusting his marketing and branding knowledge, IT and web development skills and design abilities, I recently hired Sean as a consultant to lead the rebrand of a unique commercial solar company. As with the previous collaborations, Sean utilized his entire suite of vast skills to develop a new brand image and identity for our company and also developed marketing materials and our website enhancing it with multi-media he edited and improved. As always, it was not only a pleasure to work with Sean on this critical project, but it was informative and he sprinkled in his great sense of humor to make the project fun!

Sean is a great all around marketing executive that brings unique hands on design, IT and marketing skills while leveraging his many experiences to provide valuable insights to any company’s marketing efforts!

Tony Cariddi

CMO, Appward

Sean brings together a rare combination of massive creative talent, ability to execute quickly under pressure, a collaborative mindset and a great disposition. He’s one of the top marketing pros I’ve met and someone I’d want by my side in the trenches of any product or marketing program. I look forward to the chance to work with Sean again and recommend him whole-heartedly to anyone looking for a strong leader across product design, creative, content, digital and programatic marketing.

Carl Himmelman

Channel Sales Manager, Americas at Audinate

I’ve had the good fortune of working with Sean for almost a decade and in that time I’ve benefited greatly from his guidance and leadership. Sean is able to see the big picture while at the same time getting his hands dirty and involving himself in any project that requires his attention. I’ve observed Sean, time and time again, effortlessly be the voice of reason and keep the team on track for success. It’s this focus that makes him not just a great leader but a fantastic designer as well. You find evidence of Sean’s attention to detail throughout his product design, development, and marketing. His personality and calm demeanor inspire those around him.

I have learned a great deal from Sean over the years and I credit him for my continued development as a professional.

David Podosek

Owner, Creative Director at Chase Fletcher Graphics

I have worked with and for Sean since 2012. First as his direct report and now as a vendor. Sean has been an inspiration, a confidant, and a mentor to me thru the years that I have known him. As a supervisor, he has always been fair, honest, and steadfast in every situation. As an inspiration and mentor, Sean always is the first person I know that hears about and learns the next new technology or technique and loves to share the knowledge. He is also a fantastic and creative designer as well as a writer and musician. For someone to have all of these traits is very rare. He always does what it takes to get projects over the line in time. We have spent a few late nights and weekends together launching amazing products and had a blast doing it. Sean not only knows how to build a successful brand, he knows how to negotiate all of the processes and details that go into it. I always look forward to working with Sean and consider him one of my dearest friends.

Chris Varosy

Partner, Creative at Primitive Spark

A true creative visionary and renaissance man, Sean can direct and execute brilliant creative projects in all manner of media, from branding, packaging, video, print, websites, physical and digital products. On a daily basis, I use several Apogee products that were thoughtfully and beautifully designed by Sean and his team. And collaborating with him is a joy, as he is a masterful leader who listens, empowers people and brings out the best in his team. I’ve learned a lot from him, and would jump at the chance to work with him.

Ulf Zick

CMO, Utopia Music

Sean McArthur is one of the greatest people I ever had the good fortune to work with. An intuitive, highly skilled visual designer, a top-notch marketer, an inspiring team-leader, a diplomat par excellence and a fantastic human being and friend to boot. I would jump at the chance to work with Sean again any time. He adds immense firepower to any project he is getting his hands on.

SEAN McARTHUR

Design. Marketing. Management.