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Don is an award-winning designer with over 20 years of design and prototype experience since...
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Don is an award-winning designer with over 20 years of design and prototype experience since leaving the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1991. He has worked with such clients as Braun and Gillette, Lockheed Martin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Chessawonock Island Oyster Company, Eaton Corporation, EAW and contractors such as Haliburton and the United States
Department of Defense.
He has served as an adjunct faculty member at RISD's Industrial Design department, and currently serves on the faculty of New England Institute of Technology's (NEIT) Engineering department.
In 1992, Don founded Providence Machine and Tool Works with a focus on product development and design, fabrication and prototyping. In 2010, he founded WIT Design with interest in combining art and industry.
He is presently developing rugged touch screen computers that have been deployed in law enforcement vehicles including North Providence Police Department and the New York State Police.
Don is also an avid fisherman and lover of Narragansett Bay.