The mission of the Lake Merritt Conservancy is to act as a as a steward of Lake Merritt and the parkland around it, in partnership with the City and our fellow stakeholders, to revitalize our park and meaningfully address issues of ecology, pollution, crime, homelessness and social equity so that the Lake stands as a beacon to communities everywhere, for our children, our children's children, and many generations beyond…

To power the conservancy, we are exploring the creation of an impact fund to develop triple-bottom line greentech businesses to help Oakland meet its emissions goals under its 2030 Equitable Climate Action Plan. Collectively and over time, these businesses will generate not only an economic return to investors, positive environmental impact, and jobs for the community, but also, by turns, an endowment for the Conservancy. This endowment will fund, in perpetuity, the compassionate stewardship of Lake Merritt, home to our nation's oldest national wildlife refuge...

Jonathan is a principal user experience designer and systems architect who brings an uncommon level of business context to solving complex product design challenges.

He is adept at navigating the often-blurred lines between customer and user requirements, challenges that crop up frequently in B2B and B2B2C companies.

An active listener and an articulate speaker and facilitator, he excels at mining unique knowledge and building consensus among diverse stakeholders.

Jonathan’s product vision has yielded innovative design solutions at Accenture, Deloitte, Roche, StubHub, Kohl’s, Change Healthcare, Ford Motors, Dolby Labs & Lucasfilm. He has worked closely with product and innovation teams at GE and Ford to develop and codify agile, customer-centric methodologies.

Qualifications & Highlights:

• A first-principles UX designer who excels in complex contexts

• An end-to-end designer who can take a product from inception to delivery

• Adept at developing and operationalizing product strategy

• A skilled advocate for design with leadership, customers & users

• An entrepreneurial player/coach who leads by example and mentors with empathy

Jonathan has spoken on the subject of industrial application design at the Augmented World Expo, the Internet of Things Conference, the McGraw Hill Construction Technology Conference and at the US Navy’s Strategic Warfare Command.

Led product and design for a sales enablement startup that facilitates proof of success throughout the sales and customer lifecycle.

Futuredraft's mission is to make the world a better place through the impact of design.

I served as a Sr. UX Designer at Futuredraft on enterprise design projects for McAfee, Change Healthcare, and GE, alongside a number of colleagues with whom I still collaborate.

Led the design of a clinical collaboration platform for improving communication between patients, doctors, and radiologists. Conducted a service design review of GEHC's analytics business and provided recommendations on how to scale the product line and the business at large.