Contact: Jonathan AT jonathancousins.com

Not long after college, I moved to New York to play music, but my first job was as the stage manager of an off-Broadway comedy show. During this time I gathered contacts, freelanced as a sound designer and worked in public relations for performing arts and entertainment organizations. In 1999 I took a position in the National Booking Office of Columbia Artists where a variety of classical, jazz, pop, and dance artists are booked for U.S. tours. During the last three of my six years with Columbia I took art and design classes at CUNY and worked toward a second bachelors degree (2003-2005). CUNY is where I received an introduction to the Mac and to design software (my sound and MIDI editing were PC-based projects).

The more I learned about design, the more I understood how powerfully it can address the challenges introduced by advancements in technology. Specifically, I became interested in what new behaviors we internalize as a result of these advancements and how to recognize positive and productive design opportunities. In researching Human Computer Interaction and Experience Design I discovered NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, started by Red Burns in 1979.

My time at ITP has been a tremendous success. Upon arrival in September of 2005, I could not write simple HTML code, but have since learned a great deal about web development and object-oriented programming. In addition to these new technical skills. I have studied interaction design and user-centered research. My interests for the future are primarily Information Architecture for traditional and mobile platforms, experimental interface design and Computational Information Design (data visualization).

Actionscript 2.0, PHP, Processing, HTML, CSS, Javascript, MySQL, XML, AJAX, Perl, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Flash, FlashLite 2.0, ProTools, SONAR and Quark.

Full CV available upon request.