After losing his job as a technical product manager at IBM Watson in Squirrel Hill during the pandemic, Reggie Raye decided to go into business for himself and created TOMO in December 2020.
The design studio pairs his 10 years of experience with 3D printing with a master’s degree in product development from Carnegie Mellon University and an architecture background from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
“I said, ‘You know what, let me just see if I can make a go of this,’” Raye says. “Ever since then I’ve been developing products and refining printers and my abilities and software to make things that are really beautiful and really functional”
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