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George Z.

Full-cycle Product Designer & China Supply Chain Solution

🏆Designed & sold >$2M of my own product. Own 12+ patents all over the world. Been there, done that. 💯 3-month 100% Money-Back guarantee if project deliverable failed. 🔝Managing supply chain for Amazon top sellers. 10+ years of developing products for Amazon, B2B, retail, and Kickstarters. 💬Message me for links to my current Amazon/Shopify best seller products, past kickstarter projects, and references. 💲Commercialized products from toys, kitchenware to electronics. 🏭Relationships with tier 1 factories across the industry (Ikea, Lululemon, viewsonic, Walmart, Home Depot, Cosco, etc). No more sourcing from agents on Alibaba. ♾️Full solution in-and-out: new product design, sourcing, mass production, quality control, logistics, tariff optimization, etc. 🧪Familiar with various materials: silicone rubber, plastics, metal, EVA, foam, wood, fabric, glasses, PCBs, batteries, glass fiber, carbon fiber, granite, and optical lenses. 🛠️Experienced in rapid prototyping: 3D printing, silicone casting, CNC, laser cutting, factory sampling. 📐Repertoire of robust manufacturing contracts, bilingual NNNs, and other contracts. Discounted pricing from top China intellectual property and corporate law firms. 🚧Why choose me as your product designer or professional sourcing contact?🚧 🔺Want to launch succesful products on Amazon, Etsy, or Shopify? 🔺Had bad experience with Alibaba sellers and need consistent quality? 🔺Are you worried about having to keep hiring different people for different phases of the product development cycle (design, prototyping, sourcing, sampling, DVT, EVT, PVT, quality control, MP)? 🔺Do you feel overwhelmed by the whole process from an idea to delivering a finished product to the customer's doorstep? 🔺Need intellectual property protection help along the way? Shoot me a message and I would be happy to hop on a call to discuss further! I am an experienced product full solution provider. I can walk a client from the initial product formulation stage, to the prototyping stage, and all the way through sourcing, factory sampling, and mass production stage. I think in many dimensions - cost, durability, ease of manufacturing, ease of prototyping, material availability, aesthetics, ease of use, etc.

🇺🇸Houston, United States$115/hr100% JSS4.90 (79)Since Aug 2019

Earnings and projects

MRR
$18k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#283 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#155 / 62.1k
Revenue, last 30 days
$20k

Last 6 months: $107k

World#281 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#153 / 62.1k
Total earnings
$554k

Billed in all: $585k

World#2,211 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#789 / 62.1k
Per project
$2.6k

$2.6k in the last 6 months

World#63,459 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#10,626 / 62.1k
Projects, last 6 months
42

Across 46 contracts

13% fixed87% hourly
World#1,388 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#267 / 62.1k
Projects in all
216

Across 236 contracts

47% fixed53% hourly
World#8,768 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#1,549 / 62.1k

Earnings, last 30 days

$585k+$19.8k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$560k$570k$580k$590kOct 9Oct 24Nov 8

Skill rankings: #1 in 5 skills of 15

Rarest: top 0.04% in 3D Rendering, of 7,060. Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

  1. 1Quality Control1,307 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.08%
  2. 1Design for Manufacturing1,107 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.09%
  3. 1Material Design451 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.22%
  4. 1Rapid Prototyping448 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.22%
  5. 1Injection Mold Design250 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.40%
  6. 2SolidWorks2,691 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.07%
  7. 2Sourcing2,354 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #2Top 0.08%
  8. 23D Printing1,922 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #2Top 0.10%