New Product Designers relocating to the Northwest back-country?

[william]

Needle in a haystack - but I'll give it a shot! I am looking for
an individual, practicing or retired, with the above skill-set, or
allied field - new product development, industrial design, etc., that
is either planning on or is interested in relocating to the rural
northwest. I have a rustic three-level log home on wooded acreage
near Sandpoint, Idaho that is available for lease to such a person
(creek, windmill, outbuilding, miles of horse back riding trails
through beautiful timberland). My family and I reside on the opposite
side of this 120 acre forested property. I am an entrepreneur,
inventor, and consultant with a home office on the property and several
product programs under my belt (both winners and losers). I've
consulted for several independent inventors; i.e. market research,
product commercialization, and licensing development. My objective
here is to creatively kill two birds with one stone in locating a
tenant with which I can potentially collaborate.

[Tim Bukoski]

William:

I am a product designer and inventor who's current
pushing three ideas to market each at various stages.
While I'm not interested at this time to live in a
remote location, I an interested in learning more
about your consulting resources and if any
collaboration in the future might be possible, either
with one of my ideas or another client of yours. If
you have a website or any info you can share about
your consulting and success cases I would like to read
about it. Thanks.

-Tim Bukoski

[Bob Huehn]

William:

Send your message to Pamela Riddle Bird, whose profile appears on the
following page.
http://www.uiausa.org/Services/AskExperts/MeetThePanel.htm

Pamela meets with inventive people all the time in her licensing business
which has a main office in Florida and a branch office in Sandpoint.

She may well be a good contact for your network.

Bob Huehn
Sauble Beach, ON
Canada

[william]

Thanks for your reply. You mentioned that you were curious about my
consulting. I would be pleased to discussed that with you. Email me
your phone contact details if you like and I'll contact you by phone.

Regarding my new product project experiences, my product development
and market development experience spans several industries/markets. I
hold U.S. Patents and am co-author of a nationally distributed book on
innovative education featuring a forward by one of this century's
greatest innovators, Buckminster Fuller.

In the eighties, I invented and developed Pastry Slicing machinery, an
automated commercial slicing machine for round-cake product
(incorporating automated placement of wax-paper separators). I founded
the company that introduced the innovation to market. The machinery and
brand remain the standard in the industry today. I continued my
development activity within the commercial food processing equipment
field, inventing a fully automated In-Pan Slicer in 1989, the first of
which was sold to Sara Lee International.

In 1984 I introduced the Kiddie Belt, the original child restraint
safety belt for use in supermarket shopping carts. Initially, I
introduced the Kiddie Belt as a juvenile products item through
placement in the Spencer Gifts Catalog. Following this initial release
to the parental market as a consumer item, I pioneered the sale of
these unique restraint devices directly to grocery retailers, as a
commercial item. Such restraint devices have now become the standard
in supermarket shopping cart child safety.

In the early nineties, I invented and introduced the innovative
Retractable Truck Shell, an automotive aftermarket truck accessory
product. The product was accepted by Sears and appeared in the Sears
Catalog as well as scores of national magazines and national
television.

In the mid-nineties, I worked with a team that pioneered and introduced
long-form infomercials (direct response television) to Australia,
operating as Australia's Home Shopping Store (HSS). At that time,
HSS was the largest buyer of long-form infomercial advertising media in
Australia. We went to air with such campaigns as Miracle Blade, Tony
Little Target Training, Flying Lure, Regal Cookware, and many more.

More recently I have worked on many new product projects(some winners
some losers) and several were released to market, through licensing or
alliance agreements, or in limited cases, direct release. Through the
direct marketing catalog medium I placed an innovative item in the
apparel accessory category, Cool N' Neat, an interior hat-band which
eliminates "Hat Hair"(client item). Also, through direct marketing
catalogs I placed Pivotal Security Devices' Hose Bibb Lockout, a
water conservation and safety device in the industrial safety category
(client item).

I licensed an innovative lawn and garden product, Border Solutions Snap
Together Flowerbeds, to an established New York based lawn and garden
company with tradition distribution channels to garden centers
nationally (client item).

Also, through the direct response television medium, with a
joint-venture partner, we placed Stain Buddy Carpet & Upholstery
Cleaner (client item) on QVC, the premiere home shopping channel Under
the brand name Spot Doctor we have placed a concentrated version of the
above formulation on the Home Shopping Network (HSN). Further, we very
recently signed a agreement with TimeLife to release commercial
television campaign for the formula under the brand Stain Pal.

Also, in the juvenile products category, I licensed the BirdNest Baby
Transport System (client item) to an established company that has
serviced the juvenile products market for 65 years. The BirdNest Baby
Transport System was taken on by K-Mart Stores, J.C. Penney's
Catalog, Toys R Us/Babies R Us, and several specialty juvenile products
catalogs, as well as scores of independent retailers across the
country.

[william]

Thanks. I know Pam and her husband Forrest - inventor of the
respirator. We have been meaning to get together but she travels so
much. She is a very nice and knowledgeable lady.

[Tim Bukoski]

William:

It was great talking to you this morning and I'm
looking forward to continuing our discussion tomorrow.

For the NDA between us I need your last name. Also,
I'm wondering if later tomorrow would be better. That
way I can get the NDA back and send you info about the
dice game and we can talk about everything at once, if
that's more convenient for you.

Thanks again.

-Tim Bukoski