Challenge: Define Equity Estate’s (EE) digital and strategic roadmaps.• Oversee development of Voyager (EE’s investor reservation platform), wireless infrastructure and hardware strategy for smart home enablement and mobile/digital customer experience.• Architect internal/external APIs to enable integration across industries and devices.• Lead transformation projects to digitize in-home communications and automate maintenance tracking.Highlights• Leading effort to define EE’s long-term technology vision while leveraging mobile solutions to extend Voyager reservation platform, upgrade onboarding systems and deliver world-class customer experience.• Currently driving effort to standardize and centralize smart home technology and investor experience across entire $130M portfolio.

Challenge: Define “connected” technology strategy/roadmap for toy and home product categories.Key Leadership Roles• Oversaw efforts to introduce connectivity, mobility, IOT, materials, automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning and machine vision to the company’s product portfolio.• Partnered with Product Design, Marketing, Insights and Sales teams to create meaningful brand experiences• Directed global engineering/design team in developing AR/VR experiences, integrating security and encryption and producing cloud-based product designs• Architected 5-year comprehensive go-to-market strategy for IOT portfolio of connected products. Supported Be Curious Partners M&A due diligence.Highlights• Established technology vision to reposition 50-year-old manufacturer as a modern, innovative technology firm.• Championed culture of innovation and art-of-the-possible, advising C-suite, Board of Directors on potential for blending modern technologies with the company’s core product portfolio.• Built, led and inspired cross functional team (UI/UX design, AR/VR, firmware, HW/SW, cloud) to innovate and deliver scores of proof of concepts spanning entire product line.• Provided actionable product roadmap to customers, partners, clearly differentiating Kids II in the global toy market.• Created company’s first fully connected IOT device and AI-powered toy; launched first published Alexa skill resulting in Amazon invitation to Alexa early adopter program for Amazon Gadgets.

Challenge: Promoted to drive innovation for SAP Retail North America.Key Leadership Roles• Partnered with SAP's top retail customers to drive innovation around employee and customer experience.• Worked with customers to identify and resolve retail issues and develop business solutions (digital shelving, inventory and supply chain tracking, mobility, IoT).• Supported Sales teams through entire sales cycle.Highlights• Designed and prototyped software solutions that transformed stores through highly personalized services and unified digital experiences, including augmented reality, store experience, mobile and IOT.• Leveraged insights, design thinking and proof of concepts to support the SAP Smart Store strategy and turn customers into advocates, employees into ambassadors, and brands into obsessions.

Challenge: Lead newly formed Mobile Innovation Center and deliver on SAP’s vision of integrating mobility across its product portfolio.Key Leadership Roles• Oversaw application proof of concept development program, supported AR/IoT messaging and delivered solutions to smartphones, tablets, smart glasses and wearables.• Spearheaded customer relationships (up to Board-level) and directed strategic customer engagements across industries.• Managed store experience, in store analytics, point of sale, omni-channel customer engagement and other retail experiences and integrations.• Contributed to 20+ design thinking engagements and executed 300+ projects end-to-end.Highlights• Built and led a team of mobility UI, UX and ERP developers creating mobility proof of concepts and formulating/telling SAP’s story of mobility.• Early key contributor and inventor of BILT, a mobile platform for rendering 3D interactive product assembly instructions; product later incubated at SAP and spun off into new company in 2016.• Developed, demonstrated custom applications contributing to $100M in incremental revenue.• Delivered highly customized mobile application to a major US oil company, providing the precise tablet-based solution it needed to be more innovative, streamlined and efficient.• Partnered with the nation’s largest tire retailer to reimagine in-store experience, resulting in a fast, personal and mobile customer encounter; presented digital onboarding vision to Board, helped close multimillion-dollar deal and became first-ever vendor invited to operate a booth at the company’s annual event.

The Lifeclock One is the only officially licensed Snake Plissken replica countdown timer from John Carpenter’s 1981 film, Escape from New York™. Jonathan invented and created this timepiece and secured an official license from Studio Canal. The Lifeclock One is sold direct to consumer and also through Sideshow Collectibles, the premier retailer for movie inspired collectibles. The Lifeclock One is a feature-packed watch (timepiece, stopwatch, countdown timer, date, etc.) but it also comes packed with all sorts of smartwatch functions. Sync it with your iOS or Android device. Receive call, text and push notifications from your favorite apps. And much more.

See more at http://iconicbook.comWith a breathtaking collection of unique photography, Iconic: A Photographic Tribute to Apple Innovation takes the reader on a tour of the most visually stunning and important products produced by the world's most innovative company — Apple. Follow Apple's journey through a photographic collection of their most important desktops, portables, peripherals, prototypes, iDevices (iPad, iPod and iPhone) and packaging.Iconic uses vivid color and detail to document Apple's journey in design, form and function — and looks back at over 35 years of Apple innovation. Four years in the making, the author captured over 150,000 photos of nearly every product Apple has made, including rare prototypes and even packaging. Complementing the photography are forewords and essays from an impressive group of luminaries, commentators and influencers in the Apple community. See the progression of more than three decades of product design that has made Apple the brand it is today.Created as a tribute to the army of engineers, designers, product managers, and visionaries that navigated Apple through this incredible journey, Iconic is the ultimate coffee table book for every Apple fan, and the perfect gift for any Apple owner who ever wanted to explore and discover the true roots of their favorite iMac, iPod, iPad, or iPhone.In 2009, Jonathan conceived the idea of photographing every product ever made by Apple® and began showcasing his work on his website shrineofapple.com. Originally from Melbourne, Jonathan lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife Louisa and their two children. Jonathan’s first Apple product was an Apple IIc.

Challenge: Retained by Smith Micro post-acquisition (see busineSMS.com Software below) to build out and grow Media Products division.Key Leadership Roles• Spearheaded Verizon Wireless’s Media Manager platform development, collaborating with key stakeholders to define, deliver and align platform with Verizon’s user requirements and metrics.• Oversaw project lifecycles/QA process.Highlights• Set and engrained SMSI’s strategic vision by authoring product roadmaps, demos and C-level product overviews.• Generated revenue by creating white label media tools; drove significant new business as point person, SME and trusted advisor for Visual Voicemail and Network Monitoring carrier solutions.• Developed and delivered custom client software that helped telecoms control “Unlimited plan” data bottlenecks resulting from mobile hotspot over usage.

Highlights• Developed and brought to market a suite of developer API tools that enabled software developers to seamlessly integrate mobile messaging capability into their own applications. • Built customer base to 300 clients, including NSA and Sprint; sold company to Smith Micro, 2007.

Original inventor and developer of ActiveInbox - an enterprise ERP messaging platform based on corporate email. Grew company to 25 and raised AUD$6,000,000 institutional investment.