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Joshua Jonas

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About Me

Senior Product Manager with 11 years of experience in software product development, business development, entrepreneurship, game design, and marketing. Recently graduated with a certificate from the University of Washington Professional Education in full stack web technologies including JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and Node.js. My technical aptitude and leadership ability have lead to successful product launches as a Senior Product Manager, including Skype with Alexa and various XR applications including “The Nest.” I am incredibly passionate about delivering a great user experience that solves a critical need while remaining focused on the business goals.

Experience

Microsoft

Senior Product Manager (Vendor)

  • Product Management: Senior product manger for Skype with Alexa, drove product development from engineering engagement to a public launch for millions of Skype and Alexa users.

  • Beta Program: Executed and managed the Skype with Alexa internal Microsoft Beta program recruited over 800 participants, and authored the exit standard for public launch readiness.

  • Product planning: Managed product planning and development through day-to-day collaboration and decision making with a cross-functional teams including engineers, PMs, designers, business and legal.

  • Product Experience Design: Wrote crisp user stories for voice user interface and experience on communal communication devices such as smart speakers.

  • Data Analysis: Leveraged data to target cohorts for marketing campaigns and identify experiments to run to increase engagement and reduce churn.

Invrse Reality Limited

CEO / Co-founder

  • Business Development: Negotiated access to HTC proprietary technologies while residing in Beijing China to support the creation of our v.1 prototype.

  • Product Market Fit: Led customer research, validation and markets analysis then produced a go-tomarket strategy.

  • Roadmap Creation: Co-developed a 3-year technical product roadmap for a mobile input platform that delivered an enterprise XR solution.

  • Resource Management: Handled the budget, resource allocation, and financial projections.

  • Leadership: Led cross-functional team initiatives of engineering teams, SMEs, UX/UI, producers, artists and other product management collaborators to innovate and integrate XR capabilities.

  • Product Management: Stood-up an Agile development workflow with Github, defined requirements, wrote user stories and managed the sprint cycles.

  • Execution: Produced two VR gaming titles with the team, which generated six figures in revenue and 30,000+ downloads.

Jthree Consulting & Defense Group Inc.

Indepedent Consultant

  • Business Development:Curated conversations and business opportunities for clients in specific markets and then targeted communications for engagement.

  • Product Market Fit: Provided market research in collaboration with company Executives and Product Managers to support the development of strategic roadmaps for businesses the served enterprise and consumer markets.

  • Brand Management: Leveraged social media to create growth and brand recognition through thought leadership which direct impact on SynGlyphX becoming one of the top 20 most influential entities for Big Data.

  • Proposal: Co-Authored RFP’s for multinational corporations and Government Institutions.

  • Leadership: Managed a three-person team to test and validate the machine-learning (ML) algorithm for scoring data in multiple languages including Mandarin.

  • Analysis: Provided analysis and product feature recommendations for emotional behavioral analytics and data acquisition.

  • Customer Research: Completed customer journeys, feature specs and customer interviews for BehaviorMatrix LLC..

  • Data Collection: Used APIs to scrape big data to create the corpus for Behavioral Emotional analytics in a ML algorithm.

Open Source Works

Intelligence Analyst

  • Writing: Researched and wrote analysis that was distributed to the White House and to Other Government Agencies (OGA).

  • Analysis: Worked with industry experts on new approaches to solve difficult problems with incomplete data relating to US-China relations from industry to government.

  • Research: Cultural knowledge of China and Mandarin assisted in my ability to do deep research and prepare intelligence briefs on entity resolution, cyber, fin-tech and activity-based intelligence for US Government agencies.

Education

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

June 2006 - Dec 2007

Bachelor of Arts in Politcal Science

University of Nevada, Reno

Sept 2002 - June 2005

Undecided

Projects

Skype with Alexa

Skype integration into the Alexa ecosystem. With Skype you can connect hands-free with family and friends around the world just by saying, “Alexa, call Mom on Skype.”

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Glass

Invrse Reality is creating an immersive operating system that makes interaction between the real and virtual worlds as seamless as possible, while keeping users connected across multiple hardware platforms.

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The Nest

VR multiplayer first person shooter video game made for the HTC Vive and Oculus. The game included unique classes, maps, guns, and locomotion methods.

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BattleList

An easy to use productivity application that allows the user to set up a family account. The user can create todo lists for each family member and send their lists to them via email or sms message. This app is designed to keep the whole family up-to-date and staying productive.

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Study Room

Mobile responsive web app that empowers users to create and find local study groups in real time.

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Rock Paper Scissors - Mutliplayer

Web game that allows players to play their nemsi or friends the excitng game of Rock, Paper, or Scissors! Please be careful and remember Scissors always wins!

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Crystal Collector

Javascript, Jquery, & bootstrap mini game where a player tries to use the gems to match the mystic number!

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