Project Management

JONATHAN AUSTIN CARPENTER

www.jonathan-carpenter.com **@********-*********.*** 203-***-**** 8045-A South Lake Drive, Dublin, CA

Interactive Director and Designer with 10 years experience working for both start-ups and interactive agencies.

OVERVIEW

Individual experience in design, development and management that combined create a unique perspective in

connecting and invoking teams.

Management experience with Fortune 500 clients in the Retail, Travel, Healthcare and Utilities industries

Brand establishment and enhancement of social network based start-ups

Expertise in Mobile design for phones, tablets and kiosks

Director of Creative Delivery Symphony Teleca

EXPERIENCE

Mountain View, CA 2012 - Present

Acted as the primary liaison between internal teams and clients by processing incoming project requests, assessing client needs,

and exceeding client expectations. Managed the production of design projects for mobile and emerging interface technologies.

Oversaw the entire life cycle of these projects from concept to design, development and delivery. Created and managed project

plans and budgets for multiple concurrent projects, and allocated resources as needed.

Creative Director Copia Interactive

New York, NY 2011 - 2012

Enhanced and evolved a social brand to improve usability and increase customer conversions. Worked with Marketing,

Development and Executive teams to improve and establish new processes that maintained a consistent work ow of creative ideas

from conception through code push. Assembled external vendors and partners to create enhanced opportunities throughout the

site. This included working directly with Samsung, RIM and Intel among others.

Worked to improve and establish new designs for the web portal (thecopia.com), desktop applications (Mac and Windows), iPad,

Android tablets and Windows 7 tablets. Also created materials for promotional use internally and externally.

Enhanced an initially established brand to improve usability and brand outreach

Developed experiences for a collegiate audience to increase site usage by over 2 million users

Created and organized conference displays at the Consumer Electronics Show and BookExpo America

Expanded the brand to new markets including music, gaming and international sites

Creative Director Usablenet

New York, NY 2009 - 2011

Established, hired and managed a strong Creative Team that included the overseeing of User Interface (UI) and User Experience

(UX) designers as well as creating a connected work environment with marketing, development and executive teams. Documented

speci cations for best practices of mobile design with a focus on conversion of E-Commerce websites into mobile formats.

Extended these design principles to Mobile Web, Mobile Apps, Facebook Apps, Kiosks, and standard Web.

Acted as the main creative contact for over 50 Fortune 1000 companies, working directly with executive level contacts of these

companies. Individually created the main designs on projects for Macy s, Lowe s Tesco, Dell, Chanel, JCPenney, ASOS, KIA,

Kenneth Cole, Aetna, Staples and Target.

Hired, trained and built up the Creative Team to be involved in all 50+ active projects going on at one time

Effectively increased mobile traf c for client s by an average of 200%

Increased the on-the-go sales for clients by and average of $1million in their rst quarter

Managed the rebranding effort to enhance look and feel and global presence of Usablenet

Helped brand and market Usablenet to increase the companies' client base from 100 to 250 clients

Creative Lead Blue Fountain Media

EXPERIENCE

New York, NY 2009

Worked on project planning and budgeting, business strategy, User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) design, creative setup

and review, client management, and up-selling. Managed a team of designers, developers and marketers in a growing company,

developing and evolving processes and propositions.

Focus on creating well-designed websites that demonstrated highly effective SEO. Clients included the NFL, Procter & Gambel,

Smarties, Kaplan and Supersmile.

Member of the executive team, planning overall company strategy

Adapted client ideas into full functioning web portals

Increased pro ts and site exposure on average by 200%

Art Director Cyberworks Media Group

Chicago, IL 2008 - 2009

Worked with corporate clients to manage project details, design and develop under brand guidelines while adhering to strict

deadlines. Maintained a clean and timeless design aesthetic throughout all projects.

Worked within a small team on high pro le projects while catering to a restricted budget

Oversaw, planned and designed projects from fruition and development of wireframes to completion of fully integrated sites

Senior Graphic Designer and Client-Side Developer Interactive Contract Work

Chicago, IL 2008

Front-End Development work on carepages.com

Print and digital graphic editing for fashion marketing at Well Advertising

Enrichment of the web portal for the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

E-Commerce management and Art Direction at Midwest Pro Sound & Lighting

Technology Manager New York University

New York, NY 2006 - 2008

Supervised a technical team of approximately 20 employees. Experience in dividing tasks amongst workers, accomplishing

projects, attaining goals and sustaining a successful operation. Created new processes and improved work ows to increase

ef ciency and employee satisfaction.

President and Founder J2C Media

New York, NY 2002 - 2010

Started a multimedia company specializing in Web Development, Graphic Design and Sound Production Services. Gained

extensive experience in client acquisition, project management, account management and the details of running a small business.

Built out a team of designers and developers to take on projects of varying size. Created new processes and techniques to run the

business day to day. Clients included Sony/ATV Publishing, Hitachi, Toshiba, Castrol, Smith College, NYU and Columbia University.

EDUCATION

New York University

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music & Interactive Technology, 2008

Design Project Management

Fireworks, Illustrator, InDesign, Keynote, Photoshop, OmniGraf e, Basecamp, JIRA, OmniPlan, Quickbase

Powerpoint, Visio

Miscellaneous

Development Logic Studio, ProTools, Final Cut Studio, iWork, Of ce,

Coda, CSS3, Dreamweaver, HTML5, Javascript, MySQL, ScreenFlow

SwishMax, TextMate, Transmit

JONATHAN AUSTIN CARPENTER

www.jonathan-carpenter.com **@********-*********.*** 203-***-**** 8045-A South Lake Drive, Dublin, CA

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