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Hello.
I'm Bill Stephens, and I build things.
Colorado based, an occasional triathlete, and an extremely proud dad.
I've been drawing the future since I could hold a pen. I've now spent so much time in CAD that I dream in waves of curvature continuity.
I've personally designed products for over 150 brands in about every industry you can name. For clients of every size - multinational corporations, emerging stars, and hopeful startups. I've helped develop everything from an MRI machine to a tortilla chip.
An actual tortilla chip.
I've worked with dozens of materials and manufacturing processes, including some I can barely pronounce. I've lectured in Europe on 3D printing, written technical articles on surfacing software, and watched products I've designed in big-budget films.
I've spent most of my career as a consultant, with a few years in-house now and again. Most recently as Director of Product Development at LeMond Bicycles (a dream gig for me, being a bike racer in the 80's); now I'm back consulting in Colorado.
I've built a career on never overpromising and usually overdelivering. The fact I've got clients who've kept returning for decades must mean I'm doing something right.
You'll find me passionate about creativity, personal integrity, and being easy to work with. I request the same of my colleagues and clients.
If that's you, then reach out - let's build something together.
Alias - the right tool for the job.
Fluent in advanced surface modeling with Autodesk Alias CAD software.
25 years of experience creating automotive-level surfacing and concept visualization for every type of product.
Experience blending sculptural surface models with your engineering team's CAD to
create complex assemblies not possible with either tool alone.
Because no matter how good you are with Solidworks, it's not the appropriate tool for this:
Clients + Brands.
Some of the 150+ brands for which millions of dollars of product has been personally designed in 30 years:
Accolades and Reviews.
Named on 20 patents and 10 international design awards including an IDEA award, two Medical Design Excellence Awards, two Consumer Electronics Show awards including Best of CES, and 4 Eurobike Gold Awards.
Podium finishes at the Tour de France, World Enduro Series, and several national championships.
Bikes ridden by U.S. Presidents, world champions, and neighborhood kids across the country.
Niner Air 9 named one of the 25 most important bikes ever designed by MBA magazine.
But don't just take my word for it...
“The LeMond Prolog is a bike that we could almost run out of superlatives in describing, and it has easily made our list of bikes that are in the running for our Bike of the Year honors.”
- Electric Bike Action
“One of the most beautiful upright-style bikes, electrified or not, I’ve ever laid my eyes on.”
- Wall Street Journal
“The Prolog comes closer to being perfect than any ebike I’ve tried before.” “There is...one very good reason to buy this bike, and that’s if it makes your heart sing. The Prolog does this to every bike person I know, including me.”
- Wired
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