Owner of Don Rickert Research and Design (DBA for Wiederholt & Rickert Partners, LLC) and Professional Industrial Designer (IDSA)--specialties acoustic and electronic musical instruments and adventure gear. <br /><br />I am a free-thinking designer, inventor, craftsman/maker, musician, Professional Industrial Designer/Design Researcher (IDSA...sort of a license) with an earned Ph.D. from the George Washington University School of Business (Information Systems/Ergonomics with a specialization in Consumer Research) with post-doctoral training in Ethnographic (Anthropology) research methods, which I occassionally teach in the Industrial Design Program at Georgia Tech. <br /><br />I specialize in design of new musical instruments and high-performance adventure gear, epecially rowing craft.