Director UX+Product Design
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Founding Director, User Experience + Product Design at Zivity
- Past
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- Chief User Experience Officer at 1821 Wine
- Hired Gun at DaimlerChrysler
- Hired Gun at DaimlerChrysler
- Creative Director, Experience Design at Organic
- Tech Director, Interface Engineering at Organic
- Mad Scientist at Feed Me Links
- Multimedia-maker at Sigma6
- Education
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- University of Michigan
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John Manoogian III’s Summary
My specialty is pulling products toward simplicity & potency, AWAY from the gravity of complexity and irrelevance. Another word for this is "DESIGN" (see also: Product Design).
John Manoogian III’s Specialties:
Innovation, design thinking, product strategy, team dynamics, user analytics, public speaking (500+ people), writing, transparency.
John Manoogian III’s Experience
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Founding Director, User Experience + Product Design
Zivity
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
July 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Zivity is a funded startup creating a new model for digital content compensation. As sole lead of Product Design & User Experience, my contribution is creating the UX (users' experience) and leading product execution from concept, through private beta, to launch.
Specific core revenue generators I've contributed include: the notion of votes + fans, fan messages from models, profile-based voting, the royalty dashboard, the fan dashboard, magazine-style profiles, a heap of beautiful documentation, and some pretty good music on our xserve music server.
Email me for an invite, and start voting for hot models + photographers! -
Chief User Experience Officer
1821 Wine
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
January 2007 — March 2007 (3 months)
1821 was a San Francisco-based startup building a product for personalized, mobile wine recommendations. As CUXO, I created, connected, and continually improved how users experienced our brand & services.
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Hired Gun
DaimlerChrysler
(Internet industry)
2002 — 2006 (4 years)
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Hired Gun
DaimlerChrysler
(Internet industry)
2002 — 2006 (4 years)
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Creative Director, Experience Design
Organic
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; OMC; Internet industry)
December 2005 — October 2006 (11 months)
* Built a hybrid team of developers, designers, and IAs providing SWAT-team support on a 30+ million dollar account
* Combined analytics data, user studies, and persona research with technology to optimize, inform, and inspire our work.
* Provided billable R & D services back into account work in the form of such magical devices as Interactive Schematics, Data-powered Sitemaps, Widget Datasheets, and an internal Blog Federation -
Tech Director, Interface Engineering
Organic
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; OMC; Internet industry)
1999 — December 2005 (6 years)
managed a team of 25 engineers across US and Canada.
Organic: 100mm annually with 25 percent growth, ranked 7th interactive agency in the US.
* Director, Interface Engineering group, Detroit (flagship office). Responsible for technical architecture of Dodge.com, Chrysler.com, and Jeep.com, with architecture-review responsibility across all development.
Specific responsibilities included:
* hiring and team-building
* avoiding disaster by writing processes for documentation, code reviews, issue tracking, version-control, etc.
* strategic partner managemen w/Akamai, iCrossing, WebSideStory, and Interwoven -
Mad Scientist
Feed Me Links
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
August 2002 — December 2005 (3 years 5 months)
Feed Me Links - the first social bookmarking site, with 300,000+ links and 15,000+ users.
http://feedmelinks.com
Feed Me Links is traded on Yahoo's Buzz Market for Social Bookmarking. -
Multimedia-maker
Sigma6
(Internet industry)
January 1995 — January 1996 (1 year 1 month)
web-related activities, flash, CGIs, video projection, advocacy for detroit's digital techno agency.
John Manoogian III’s Education
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University of Michigan
BA, Digital Multimedia, 1995 — 1999
I designed my degree from a composite of grad-level courses in linguistics, computer science, and film.
- Activities and Societies:
- Campaign for a Multimedia Major, Entity digital arts group
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John Manoogian III’s Interests:
Leadership, people, design, code, teaching, bicycling, the emergence of useful frameworks, style as function, the art of sensation, the secret interconnectedness of all things
John Manoogian III’s Groups:
No heroes just teachers.
John Manoogian III’s Honors:
Contribution and achievement are their own rewards; pride obscures them.
John Manoogian III’s Contact Settings
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