Bear Collins

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About Bear Collins

I am a creator, a thinker, a maker, a builder, a researcher, an animator, a developer. My work includes everything from creative concepting to running innovation workshops to building prototypes and scalable products on a variety of brands including Taco Bell, AT & T, Mars (Snickers, M & Ms, Dove), Foot Locker, Visa, Starbucks, Lowes, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Fanta, NFCU, Bacardi and many others. I love working new business, but I also love rethinking old business and breathing fresh life into stagnant brands. I stopped counting lions after 50. I have a passion for gaming and filmmaking. Specialties: conceptual thinking, innovation workshops, creative technology, innovation strategy, product r&d, post-production animation, front-end development and a enough back-end to get by (including C#, objective-C, swift, html, css, JavaScript (including p5, node and react), python.net, ruby, pascal, some php and assembly) Adobe Creative Suites, interpersonal communications (I can talk to a client, I can talk to staff, and I'm a great presenter/pitcher), rapid prototyping, user experience, and I'm exceptionally good at googling anything i dont know. In my spare time, I volunteer for 2 non=profit organizations, I play 12 instruments and I spin/juggle fire. I am also currently developing open-source event management/ticketing/gate software for fun