Jake Zukowski**** **th Ave NE

Seattle, WA abqmk6@r.postjobfree.com://jakezukowski.com

Objective

I look for those who enjoy solving hard problems (over drinks), for a place where we all are

compensated in karma as well as cash, and connecting with those who wish to improve this planet

through art, design, and technology.

SpecialtiesMulti-context (TV, desktop, mobile, tablet) designSocial media and community integrationPatents

Awarded on December 16, 2008 as the

primary inventor of a "method and system for organizing projects in an integral user environment". This patent

reflects interaction and user experience I did at Microsoft, working on Microsoft Works 7 in 2003.

Work History

The arc of my career over these last ten years has taken me from a pure computer scientist to digital designer,

allowing me to utilize the cold logical, controlled, and subdued parts of my brain in tandem with the hotter

emotional, chaotic, and energetic parts. This allows my work to embody both precision and emotion.

Associate Creative Director at October 2011 Present

As a frog Associate Creative Director, I am the chief hands-dirtier and rabble-rouser for the clients I dedicate

myself to. I simultaneously lead teams and work through the muck on programs both large and small. I have worked

on retail / digital convergence experience, brand design, mobile and tablet app design, and enterprise system

optimization. I speak with my head and my heart to net the best work from the teams I lead and the clients I partner with.

Roles & responsibilities include creative ownership; creative group facilitation; contextual inquiry, trend, and

strategy research leadership; collaborative, lateral, and original thinking facilitation; authorship and delivery of

business development pitches; and being the proverbial mortar between the proverbial bricks wherever needed

Activities include being provocative; design mentorship; career coaching; assisting my teams to create frameworks to

achieve amazing results; smoothing out rough situations as needed; communicating to the client where they need to go

even if it's not what they want to hear.

Senior Interaction Designer at July 2008 September 2011

Reporting to the Creative Director as a Senior Interaction Designer working on a wide range of

tough innovation problems, from enterprise applications to consumer devices. Worked with large

clients such as AT&T, CA, Nokia, and Microsoft and smaller enterprise clients such

as Lawson and Qwest.

Roles & responsibilities include creative leadership; project ownership; user experience design;

information architecture and interaction design; ethnographic and contextual inquiry executions;

collaborative, lateral, and original thinking facilitation; and business development pitches.

Activities include being provocative; transforming the client / consultant relationship into a

partnership; framing design challenges and guiding teams to an effective solution; building stories to

illustrate future-thinking design; developing interaction models; creating and documenting robust, scalable,

and innovative design systems; designing illustrative wireframes; and prototyping solutions.

I have plenty of work from my many years at frog, but most of it is protected by client confidentiality.

My work on Nokia's Ovi Store and

has been released. Other work, such as a and an

have not.

Senior User Experience Designer at January 2008 July 2008

Reporting to the Creative Director as a Senior User Experience Designer working on and product design challenges for a range of clients.

Roles & responsibilities include designing user experiences, developing information architectures,

authoring content strategies, participating in client-facing communication, and assisting with business

development and sales of creative solutions.

Activities include developing user journeys, task flows, conceptual maps,

content inventories, content strategies, site maps, and wireframes.

User Experience Design Lead at

October 2006 January 2008

Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer as a User Experience Designer Lead heading-up a core design

team through planning, designing, and iterating on various web properties from version 1 on.

Roles & responsibilities include building vision for user experience on disparate web properties while

maintaining a tight schedule and strict budget constraints; design strategy planning and development; staffing,

contract negotiation, and management of a 4-person creative team; authoring of design-focused deliverables,

such as task flows, content strategies, content taxonomies, site maps, wireframes, and functional

specifications to communicate direction to the cross-discipline team; and usability testing execution,

including task-based focal assessments and open-ended, contextual-inquiry-based evaluations.

Online properties include and

Older work history can be found on my .Education

My degree reflected my desire to be a hot-shit developer when I grew up. This is before I learned a designer

wasn't someone who just pushed pixels around a screen.

University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignBachelors of Science in Computer Science

BS in CS/Engineering from a top-ranked, world-class Computer Science school. Concentration in software

engineering, including software process and software design techniques. Minor in Philosophy, focusing

on logic and semantics. Co-developed "CourseGuide", a LAMP application to provide and view feedback on

professors and courses in the CS curriculum.

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