JONATHAN KOSHI Phone: 415-8462665 Email: jkoshi@jkoshi.com URL: http://jkoshi.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTIVE Infuse products and ideas with solid visual, informational, and structural design regardless of medium. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDUCATION Brown University 1994-1998 Rhode Island School of Design 1997-1998 BFA Visual Arts, BA Political Science GPA: 3.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESIGN EXPERIENCE Visual Designer, Y!Travel Design Manager, Yahoo! Inc. Jun.2003 - Current • 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, branded, and produced Muse.Net. • 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: http://featuredfares.continental.com, 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 URL: www.yale.edu/habitat Art Director, University Food Services 1996-1998 • In charge of food service advertising, event collateral, intranet site, menus, posters, and other printed materials. Art Direction intern, Milici Valenti Ng Pack Advertising Inc. 1996 & 1997 • Production work on print ads, Internet sites, and helped creative teams with other agency accounts. URL: http://www.tcmhi.org Senior Graphics Editor, for the Brown Daily Herald 1995-1997 • Supervised graphic editors and staff; responsible for coordinating graphic assignments, layout, content, Web graphics, and graphic work. Staff Graphic Artist/Illustrator, for the Brown Daily Herald 1994-1995 • Hand illustrated editorial pieces, strip comics, and general graphic illustration assignments. Graphic Designer, Sierra Student Coalition 1994-1995 • T-shirt designs, flyers, ads, and posters. MISCELLANEOUS • 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, Streamline, Acrobat • Maya 4.5 • Macromedia: Flash, Freehand, Dreamweaver, Director, Homesite • Microsoft: Visual Interdev, Front Page • Miscellaneous: Quark Xpress, Type Styler, GO LIVE Cyber Studio, Homesite, Visual Cafe, CVS, Visual Source Safe, Visual Cafe, Toad • Technologies: java, vb, javascript, vbscript, html, dhtml, asp, sql, xml References available upon request. 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