Resume, Jon Phillips
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Personal details:
Date of birth: 1979-05-28
Nationality: American
Languages: English, Basic Chinese
E-Mail: jon@rejon.org
Website: http://rejon.org
Bio: http://rejon.org/bio
Full CV: http://rejon.org/bio/cv
Address: Jon Phillips
917 Grant Ave Ste 2
San Francisco, CA, USA 94108
Bio:
Jon Phillips is founder and developer of Fabricatorz, a global production
company fabricating total creative and commercial projects primarily in
San Francisco, Beijing, and on the Web with clients such as Google,
Mozilla, Creative Commons, Modern Media, and F2 Gallery. With Bassel
Safadi in 2010 he co-founded Aiki Lab in Singapore, the Aiki Lab Cultural
Center in Damascus and the Aiki Framework Open Source Web Software. Back
in 2002 he helped launch the open source drawing tool, Inkscape, founded
the Open Clip Art Library (2004), taught design+technology at San
Francisco Art Institute, built Creative Commons community and business
development from 2005 until 2009 and directed the community for the social
network company, Status.Net. In 2009, he built Qi Hardware (is Copyleft
Hardware) with Wolfgang Spraul, the Laoban Soundsystem with artist Matt
Hope.
Competences:
* Leadership
* Management
* Global Public Relations
* Persuasive Public Speaking
* Engineering + Problem Solving
* Business Development
* Sales & Development
* Free and Open Source Software
* Free and Open Source Culture
Professional experience:
08/2010 – Present Fabricatorz, LLC, Founder and Developer.
A production company specializing in Free
and Open Source Software, Creative Commons
technology, growing on-line and off-line
communities in San Francisco, China and the Arab
World. Our core focus is in developing software
using Aiki Framework, hardware using Qi Hardware,
and community- building around the philosophies
of Sharism. Fabricatorz client list includes
Google, Mozilla, Creative Commons, Modern Media,
and F2 Gallery. Manage 10+ People + growing.
08/2010 – 05/2012 Aiki Lab Pte Ltd, Co-founder and CEO.
Singaporean company co-founded with Bassel
Safadi to build the software, Aiki Framework,
and provide services around this free network
service building application, globally. Part of
Joi Ito Neoteny Labs incubator in Singapore. Aiki
installations include Open Clip Art Library,
Open Font Library, Creative Commons Asia,
Creative Commons Arab World, and Sharism.org.
06/2010 – 12/2010 StatusNet, Inc, Community Director.
Grow and build international community for
Identi.ca and the startup's open source software
for making distributed messaging clients. Pushed
Identi.ca over 1 million users, tens of thousands
of global instances of StatusNet software,
and successfully built outreach and growth
business development strategies.
01/2004 – 05/2009 Creative Commons, Community + Business Manager.
Worked with Creative Commons 50+ International
Affiliates, handled relations for hundreds of
companies including, Google, Apple, Mozilla,
Disney, Microsoft and other major International
companies. Managed teams of remotely and on-site,
released and launched many successful and award
winning projects including
09/2005 – 05/2006 San Francisco Art Institute, Lecturer.
Curriculum developer for new Design + Technology
program. Taught courses in community and open
source software development.
10/2004 – 05/2005 GoPets, Ltd, Software Engineer.
Developed open source software, chat systems
based upon jabber to handle millions of
concurrent users, company acquired by Zynga
in 2009.
09/2002 – 06/2004 Center for Research in Computing and the Arts.
Developed websites, coordinated special projects
and handled creative services.
09/1997 – 07/2001 UMKC, New Media Designer + Programmer.
Self-taught programming to automate design and
creative workflows for University clients.
09/1999 – 05/2001 Cyber-Site New Media, New Media Designer.
Designed look and feel, website and conceptual
+ structural elements for the project for
this research center akin to V2, ZKM, and
Eyebeam. Projet funded by Langlois Foundation
Grant and Creative Capital Grants.
Professional references:
* Joi Ito, joi@media.mit.edu, Executive Director, MIT Media Lab,
Founder of Neoteny Labs Singapore, Co-founder, Digital Garage, Japan.
* Lawrence Lessig, lessig@pobox.com, Founder, Creative Commons,
Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University,
and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
* Evan Prodromou, evan@status.net, Founder and CTO, StatusNet,
Inc.
* Mike Linksvayer, ml@creativecommons.org, Vice President,
Creative Commons.
* Patrick Clancy, pat@patrickclancy.org, Artist,
Professor and Chair at KCAI.