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Jonathan Berger loves to build things, especially 1) digital products, and 2) the teams that build them. With almost 20(!) years experience as a designer, developer, entrepreneur and coach, he works with executives and individual contributors to Build Awesome Things Together.
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Jonathan Berger is a designer, developer and technologist who has been active in the NYC technology scene since around 2005, helping to organize events like the Agile Experience Design Meetup, the Pivotal Labs Tech Talk series in NY, Startup Weekend, Barcamp, Fashioncamp, and IgniteNYC. He's led and worked shoulder-to-shoulder with over 70(!) startup-, scale-up-, and enterprise-teams in the last odd decade-and-change, most recently leading product at a web3 music company. Previous to that, he helped build an innovation lab inside an enterprise bank and before that, kept busy building 1) software and 2) an agile design practice at Pivotal Labs. As a startup founder he helped build Market Publique, an online vintage fashion marketplace and community. Prior to that, he earned a Bachelors in Philosophy at Vassar College and a Masters in Media Studies at the New School (where he also spent quite a bit of time at Parson's Design + Technology program). He has worked as a designer, developer, video editor, animator, and technology consultant for institutions as diverse as Eyebeam, MTV Networks, Yahoo!, Ogilvy, and the American Museum of Natural History.
Jonathan is an internationally-sought speaker who talks about startups, design, and technology at events like the Mobile Central Europe Conference, LeanUX NYC, Agile UX NYC, Agile 2013, Future of Web Design, O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Expo, New York Tech Meetup, Fashion 2.0 Startup Showcase, Startup Weekend, North Brooklyn Breakfast Club, The Product Group, and others.
He makes it a point of honor to include Comic Sans in every design project.
Find him on twitter, github, flickr, etc. as @jonathanpberger.