John Manoogian III
founder, hacker, designer, storyteller.
| Headline: | Inventor |
| Work status: | Living The Dream |
| Website: | http://jm3.net |
| Industries: | Entertainment, Internet |
| Skills: | Business, Design, Entrepreneurship, Guerrilla marketing, Product design, Public speaking, Software Engineering |
| Location: | San Francisco |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Helping friends, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Professional opportunities, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | University of Michigan System - Ann Arbor |
FEATURED STARTUP
Zivity
Zivity
a social application for discovering and interacting with your new favorite models and photographers.
- Startup type: Company
- Status: Active
- Stage: Beta
FULL BIO
I am the artist in the geek crowd and the geek in the design crowd. My power is seeing and creating the connections between technology and consumer psychology in ways that produce rabid excitement.
Style: I am a human non-sequitur; the answer to the question you didn’t ask. I’m more likely to remix and re-frame a problem than solve it the way you expected. This often unlocks new paths and new opportunities. It also makes some people nervous.
What’s next: I enjoy consulting to and collaborating with smart inventors and engineers. Feel free to contact me re: interesting projects that demand creative thinking.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Zivity |
| Position: | Founding Director, UX + Product Design |
| Time period: | July 2007 - Present |
| Description: | Connecting teams, remixing the business model, attempting to make both the product and the journey relevant, fun, and addictive.
Led user experience + product design, agile design process, and contributed to our company's brand design and direction. Pinch-hit as interim engineering lead during times of scarcity. Lead and core contributor to such revenue generators as: 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 our xserve music server. Email me for an invite, and start voting for hot models + photographers! |
| Employer: | 1821 Wine |
| Position: | Co-Founder, Chief User Experience Officer |
| Time period: | October 2006 - July 2007 |
| Description: | Business / team design and business plan development and pitching
Responsible for concept development, technical architecture, user experience design, and marketing |
| Employer: | Organic, Inc |
| Position: | Creative Director, Experience Design (created new team) |
| Time period: | December 2005 - October 2006 |
| Description: | Built a world-class, hybrid team of IAs and interface developers
Educated and sold $40m+ accounts to VP-level stakeholders and clients Unified multiple teams into one group focused on innovation and prototyping |
| Employer: | Organic, Inc |
| Position: | Director, Interface Engineering |
| Time period: | January 2004 - December 2005 |
| Description: | Led team of 20 architects, developers, and designers across two offices on a 20+ million dollar account
Grew and maintained successful partnerships with Interwoven, Akamai, WebSideStory, and iCrossing Provided wonderful services in London, New York, Toronto, Chicago, Detroit, and San Francisco. |
| Employer: | Feed Me Links |
| Position: | Mad Scientist / Chief Community Officer |
| Time period: | January 2002 - December 2006 |
| Description: | Social Bookmarking Community with a soul, a nice interface, 13,000+ users, and 300,000+ links.
Architected all user experience and LAMP back-end, plus accompanying AIM client & Firefox plugin. Interoperates with all major bookmark and syndication formats |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Michigan System - Ann Arbor |
| Time period: | 1995 - 1999 |
| Degree: | Digital Multimedia (invented new major), BA |
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Zivity
a social application for discovering and interacting with your new favorite models and photographers.
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YouNoodle
YouNoodle is a place to discover and support the hottest early-stage companies and university innovation.
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Caramel Lingerie (Hungry Scientist Cookbook)
A chapter of the controversial "Hungry Scientist's Cookbook," (forthcoming), was an experiment in edible, nay, *gourmet* underwear. Drawing on our pattern-making & french lace expertise, and utilising cutting-edge scientific techniques to create...
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Eric Kerr
19 year old in love with technology and startups. Moving to SF to play to take a stab at it myself.
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Richard White
Founder of UserVoice.com and focused on product design specifically UI and interaction. San Francisco
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Evan Cordes
British, 21, majoring in History at Stanford, Contributor to BASES and the Film society