JONATHAN KOSHI

Phone: 415-8462665
Email: jkoshi@jkoshi.com
URL: http://jkoshi.com
Flickr Photostream: http://flickr.com/photos/koshi/


OBJECTIVE

"establish conditions where persons could become united with a firm spirit of teamwork and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity...to pursue dynamic activities in technology...to apply advanced technology to the life of the general public and thus bring untold pleasures and untold benefits..." - Masaru Ibuka, Sony Founder


EDUCATION

Brown University 1994-1998
Rhode Island School of Design 1997-1998
BFA Visual Arts, BA Political Science
GPA: 3.6


EXPERIENCE

Pioneers of the Inevitable Inc. Jun.2005 - Current

    * Founding member of the Songbird project started in 2005
    * Responsible for all interaction and visual design architecture for the website and desktop application
    * Created the brand and illustrated the company's corporate and consumer symbols including the Songbird character
    * Organized and fostered the Songbird community in forums and on GetSatisfaction
    * Designed and produced t-shirts, stickers, bags, and other viral marketing merchandise
    * Designed and produced Mozilla and Songbird environmental graphics for conferences
    * Project and Product managed releases for the website
    * Facilitated hiring and interviewing new candidates
    * Blogger for design and company news 


Visual Designer, Yahoo! Inc. Jun.2003 - Jun.2005

    * Acted as design manager and facilitated hiring of new design manager and team
    * Interaction and Visual Design for Yahoo! Shopping
    * Yahoo! Shopping Holiday 2003 Architecture and Visual Design
    * Interaction and Visual Design for Smartsort
    * Yahoo! Media Player Architecture and Interaction Design.
    * Yahoo! Travel 2004 Architecture, Interaction and Visual Design 

URL: http://shopping.yahoo.com
URL: http://shopping.yahoo.com/smartsort


Contract Designer, Muse.Net Dec.2002 - Jun.2003

    * Re-designed Muse.Net Agent Installer, Options, and System UI.
    * Re-designed and branded My.Muse.Net web client.
    * Designed Winamp2.9 and 3 Muse.Net component
    * Designed banner ads
    * Diagrammed Muse.Net services 

URL: http://Muse.Net


Senior User Interface and Graphic Design Lead, Abilizer Solutions, Inc. Apr.2000 - Oct.2002

    * Designed web/desktop application console for enterprise-class presentation layer software.
    * Designed product documentation, both written and visual (diagramming).
    * Headed in-house marketing design; created typography, print, web, and messaging standards.
    * Directed design resources and art-directed corporate site.
    * Created print collateral, brochures, and promotional items.
    * Designed merchandising/advertising for the subscription offering.
    * Created product demonstrations with our web software and in Flash.
    * Coordinated and lead design and engineering resources during design and development.
    * Created process workflows, user workflows, interaction diagrams, architecture diagrams.
    * Facilitated user testing, usability testing, and focus groups.
    * Designed and produced client site on the Abilizer software platform. 

URL: http://www.abilizer.com


Graphic Design, User Interface Design, Web Application Developer, Everything-eCommerce Inc. Feb.-Apr.2000

    * Designed corporate identity, logo, typeface selection, and colors for subsidiary company.
    * Worked on branding scheme and designed user interface for e-tail web applications (includes both coding html/dhtml/javascript and doing production level web graphics)
    * Developed process standards for quality assurance (QA). 


Director of Graphic and User Interface Design, Creative Code Solutions Inc. Aug.1999-Feb.2000

    * 1 of 5 principals in a start-up Internet company specializing in web application development.
    * Developed the business plan.
    * Fundraised, procured real estate, set-up facilities, and worked on financial model.
    * Designed corporate identity (typeface selection, color), marketing, and client service.
    * Contract work was done for Continental airlines and mp3Player.com.
    * The company was acquired in 2000 by Everything-eCommerce. 


Lead Web Application Developer, Continental Airlines Advanced Technology Division Aug.1998-Feb.2000

    * Designed the Continental Airlines and Continental Micronesia intranet sites.
    * Designed, from concept to production, Continental's Featured Fares.
    * Other infrastructure applications include: Sales Insight, Time Track, Intranet Res, and the developer knowledge base.
    * Developed the basic workflows for Continental's ticket engine prototype.
    * Worked closely with developers to create graphical web user interfaces in a software development environment.
    * Worked with both client-side and server-side applications, using COM, DCOM, and ASP.
    * Instituted design process standards for user interface/interaction design within the Advanced Technology Division.
    * Lead creative sessions for the in-house design team. 

URL: www.continental.com


Web Designer, Web Production Artist, Dynamic Diagrams 1997-1998

    * Information design and interface design through web served SGML sites.
    * Html and web graphics production.
    * Information design.
    * Web interface design. 

URL: www.harrisonsonline.com

MISCELLANEOUS

    * Published photographer in San Francisco Magazine and The Owl Mag
    * Photographer and editor for SF Jukebox
    * Art Director, University Food Services 1996-1998
    * Art Direction intern, Milici Valenti Ng Pack Advertising Inc. 1996 & 1997
    * Senior Graphics Editor, for the Brown Daily Herald 1995-1997
    * Staff Graphic Artist/Illustrator, for the Brown Daily Herald 1994-1995
    * Graphic Designer, Sierra Student Coalition 1994-1995
    * Brown University Environmental mug design 1995
    * Poster design: United Way goal chart for GE Capital Hawaii 1996
    * Poster designs: 15 original designs for Continental Micronesia Airlines 1995
    * Brown University Hawaii Club advertising chairperson 1994-1998
    * Scholastic Arts Exhibition National Gold Key Award in graphic communication 1994 


OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE

    * University Food Services, student management supervisor 1995-1997
    * University Food Services, student worker 1994-1995
    * The GAP, sales associate 1994-1995
    * The Nature Company, sales associate at 1992-1994 


COMPUTER SKILLS

    * Adobe: Illustrator, Photoshop, Pagemaker, Premiere, In Design, Acrobat
    * SVN, CVS, Visual Studio, Msys
    * Technologies: html, css, xul, javascript


References available upon request.
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