Jamie Berard is Senior Design Manager and Creative Lead at The LEGO Company, where he is responsible for the LEGO Ideas and LEGO Architecture lines, as well as other products for adults, teens and super-fans. He is a life-long LEGO fan and has been an employee of The LEGO Company for more than 17 years.

Before joining LEGO, Berard was part of the local group New England LEGO Users Group (NELUG), where he worked on several larger-than-life projects, including a 100,000-piece LEGO mosaic of the Boston skyline. He served as a foreman on the Millyard Project, which, at its completion, was the largest permanent minifigure scale display in the world.

In 2004, Berard was a finalist to become the next Master Model Builder for LEGOLAND California and served as a Technical Judge for the FIRST LEGO League World Finals in Atlanta, GA. He was hired to work for the company in 2005, after displaying functional amusement park rides at a LEGO fan event in Washington, D.C.

Since joining The LEGO Company, he has contributed to “The LEGO Movie,” “A LEGO Brickumentary” and Master Builder Academy. He also was responsible for designing dozens of complex LEGO models, including the 4,000+ piece Big Ben and the 4,000+ piece Assembly Square Modular Building sets.