Dan Smith

Dan Smith is an accomplished Project Engineer II at Magpul Industries Corp. since April 2018, leading cross-functional teams in the development of outdoor products while managing budgets, schedules, and test plans to ensure successful product launches. Prior to this role, Dan served as a New Product Development Engineer at Bona AB, focusing on material research and technology breakthroughs, and as a Product Development Program Manager at World Kitchen, where leadership in project management fostered collaboration across multiple teams for new glass dinnerware. Earlier experience includes positions at Aero Products International, Life Fitness, Radius Product Development, Sanford Corp., SRAM, Double-Time Corp., and Lucent Technologies, accumulating extensive expertise in engineering and product development. Dan holds a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology and Bachelor's degrees in General Engineering and Physics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Illinois State University, respectively.