UX/IA Consultant
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- UX/IA Consultant at My Company
- Past
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- Director of User Experience at Salesgenie.com
- Senior Product Manager at Zinio LLC
- Product Manager at KeepMedia, Inc.
- User Experience Lead at KeepMedia, Inc.
- Information Architect at Travelocity
- Senior Designer at Oven Digital
- Interface Designer at Ethos Interactive
- Education
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- Miami University
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Jonathan Irwin’s Summary
Great products make happy consumers. Happy consumers make successful companies. I help facilitate the process.
Jonathan Irwin’s Specialties:
User Experience Design, Information Architecture, Agile Product Development Process, Graphic Design
Jonathan Irwin’s Experience
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UX/IA Consultant
My Company
(Internet industry)
May 2009 — Present (7 months)
Leveraging user experience & information architecture best-practices, with Agile process, I help innovative, consumer product start-ups understand and develop for their audience.
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Director of User Experience
Salesgenie.com
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; IUSA; Marketing and Advertising industry)
November 2008 — May 2009 (7 months)
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Senior Product Manager
Zinio LLC
(Internet industry)
June 2006 — October 2008 (2 years 5 months)
Zinio provides nearly 1 million global consumers with an easy and elegant way to buy and read magazines & books on their computers. For over 350 publishers, Zinio represents an infinitely scalable, digital circulation, distribution, and advertising platform.
I’m responsible for the reading user experience. My Agile product development process employs user research, analytics, stakeholder interviews, user stories, and paper-prototyping to build a framework for extraordinary development and design. -
Product Manager
KeepMedia, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
May 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 2 months)
Responsible for defining and managing the feature set of the product, leveraging user and competitive research to inform product decisions. I define and track metrics to support and prove enhancements to the site. Additionally, I am responsible for all aspects of the user experience; managing the visual design, information architecture, and front-end methodologies (HTML, CSS) employed on the site.
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User Experience Lead
KeepMedia, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
March 2003 — May 2005 (2 years 3 months)
KeepMedia.com provides on-line access to current and archived articles from over 200 publications (Forbes, Esquire, USA Today, etc.) for a monthly subscription of $4.95. My role is to serve as a user advocate in the product development team. I research and execute functional enhancements that will fit seamlessly into our platform, and create the best user experience possible.
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Information Architect
Travelocity
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; TSG; Internet industry)
January 2001 — February 2003 (2 years 2 months)
Travelocity's business is selling tickets. My role was to sell more tickets by making the process easier and faster to complete. Beyond this, I strove to create the most successful and compelling user experience. Because when prices are equal, the buying experience differentiates one brand from its competitors.
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Senior Designer
Oven Digital
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
March 1999 — November 2000 (1 year 9 months)
Led the creative relationships and design work for client projects, and participated in the project phases from discovery to implementation.
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Interface Designer
Ethos Interactive
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
December 1996 — August 1998 (1 year 9 months)
Responsible for design and planning of client project user interface.
Jonathan Irwin’s Education
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Miami University
BFA , Graphic Design , September 1992 — December 1996
- Activities and Societies:
- MUSF, Miami Flyers Cycling Team, Miami Triathlon Club
Additional Information
Jonathan Irwin’s Groups:
SF New Tech meetup, BayCHI, AIGA San Francisco, Golden Gate Triathlon Club
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Interaction Design Association -
User Experience -
Salesgenie Alumni
