Grubb: Resume

Jonathan Grubb

email [at] jonathangrubb [dot] com
415-722-9449

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For consulting services & speaking engagements please contact Rubyred Labs. Not currently seeking full-time opportunities.

Professional
Experience

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Los Angeles & San Francisco, CA
2005-present
www.rubyredlabs.com

Co-Founder & Strategic Advisor
San Francisco, CA
2006-present
www.getsatisfaction.com

Lead Interaction Designer, Mobile
Interim Design Manager, Mobile
Sunnyvale, CA
2003-2005
www.yahoo.com
mobile.yahoo.com

	-	Managed mobile design department, including operations, planning, reporting, and hiring.
	-	Designed Yahoo! Search for Mobile Devices, the world's #1 mobile search service.
	-	Led design on all major mobile initiatives, including Messenger, Photos, & WAP.
	-	Oversaw redesign of Yahoo! Mobile website, focusing on first-time user experience, registration, and personalization.
	-	Worked closely with carriers & manufacturers to integrate Yahoo! products and features into their devices. Partners included Sprint, Cingular, Verizon, T-Mobile, HP, Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola, RIM, Danger.
	-	Managed outsourcing of content production, graphic design, & usability testing projects.
	-	Worked with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to define long-term product roadmap.

User Experience Manager
Walnut Creek, CA & Dusseldorf, Germany
2001-2003
www.vodafone.com

	-	Designed and managed user experience for globally deployed mobile software products for corporate and consumer audiences.
	-	Led design team for Vodafone Messenger, a component of Vodafone Live!
	-	Managed production of visual design, visual style guides, and graphics.
	-	Created working HTML and WML prototypes.
	-	Authored user experience recommendations Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Sharp, and other mobile handset manufacturers.
	-	Worked closely with product managers, business analysts, quality control engineers, software engineers.
	-	Worked across language and culture barriers with colleagues, vendors, and clients throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Australia, including extended time on-site in Dusseldorf, Germany.

User Experience Engineer
(now Perfect Commerce) San Francisco, CA
2000-2001

	-	Managed user experience for hosted content management system.
	-	Authored user interface strategy and long term product development roadmap.
	-	Worked with agency to revamp corporate website.

Internet Strategist & Usability Designer
Philadelphia, PA
1998-2000
www.digitalwave.com

	-	Created information architecture, user flows, and target user profiles for corporate and consumer websites.
	-	Acted as user advocate during strategy, visual design, and production phases.
	-	Implemented usability design and testing standards, performed usability evaluation and testing on all projects.

Human Code Inc. (now Sapient)
Production Artist
Austin, TX
1997

	-	Designed and produced graphics for consumer CD-Rom products.
	-	Performed quality control testing.

Software

Graphics:	Development:	Business:
Photoshop/Imageready Illustrator Visio Fireworks	Dreamweaver Flash HTML, CSS, Javascript XHTML, WML	Microsoft Office Powerpoint Outlook Lotus Notes

Education

Bryn Athyn College
Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania
A.A. History & Social Science.
Dean’s List

Interests
& Activities

Art: Exibiting artist, mostly found/recycled object sculpture.
Burning Man: Contributing artist & Black Rock Ranger.
Travel: Avid traveller: US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Netherlands, Russia, Mexico, Peru, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, & India so far.

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