Jon Montenegro
Art Director/Interactive Designer and Developer

BIO
Jon Montenegro is an Art Director/Interactive Designer and Developer from Allentown, PA. Beginning his career after Temple University, Tyler School of Art, he worked in several companies such as Prolog Internet Service, Imirage, Allentown, PA, Daytimers, Allentown, PA, Digitalwave, Huntingdon Valley, PA, ZigZag, Philadelphia, PA and IGCN Inc., Easton PA Jon also works as Art Director and Interactive Designer for Variousways Inc., and continues to art direction, Flash design and application development and print.

Jon Montenegro has done work for clients such as:
American Express, Airgas, Inc., Art of Dhamma, AT&T Capital Analysts, Inc., Charter Partners, Checkpoint Systems, Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, Cooper Hospital, Covanta Energy Corporation, Datanomix, Defiance Testing, eFundDrive, Embrex, Inc., The Financials, Financial Security Holdings (FSA), General Chemical Corp., GenTek, Inc., Global Digital Media, Healthtrac, Houghton International, ICT Group, Inc., Iota, ImpactRx, K'NEX Industries, Inc., Lancaster General Hospital, Levine Funeral Home, Kulicke & Soffa, Inc., Martin Memorial Hospital, MedImmune, Mellon Bank, Motorola, National Community Capital Association, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, National Towelette Co., North Hampton County, Orasure Techonologies, Patriot Bomb Dogs, Pasteur Mérieux Connaught, Pegasus Communications, Pennsylvania Association of Realtors, PerkinElmer, Philadelphia Housing Authority, The Polk Company, Prestolite Wire, Price Waterhouse, Princeton Video Image, Printing Developments, Prolog Internet Service, Radnor Races, Reading Hospital, RavisentTechnologies, Right Management, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Spectra, School District of Philadelphia, Shared Medical Systems, Sumisho U.S., Sussex County Association of Realtors, Toledo Technologies, Unisys Corporation, U.S. Fleet Services, Victualic, Virginia Hospital, WAM Systems, Inc., West Corporation, Worldgate.

Jon has been involved in many collaborative art and design projects. He has been a web site critique contributor for Cre@te Online Magazine, a member of Rhizome.org, an online platform for the global new media art community. He has contributed collaborative work for Born Magazine an experimental venue marrying literary arts and interactive media. Jon has participated in The Mobile Phone Photo Show (MPPS), Where participants from around the world to send in photographs taken with their mobile phones. He is also involved in Gecko9, an experimental hub for visual inspiration, thoughts and resources. Jon is also curator of S19.Afflatus Project, a project that promotes visual and interactive art in mobile devices, such as cell phones, PDA, Pocket PC, Palm and convergence devices.

Outside of his professional work, Jon likes snowboarding, surfing, billiards, foosball, tae kwon do, kendo and iaido.

PERSONAL SITES
www.jonjon.tv
Jonjon.tv is a personal interactive design and development portfolio for Jon Montenegro.

www.gecko9.com
Gecko9 is an experimental hub for visual inspiration, thoughts and resources.

www.variousways.com
About Us
Variousways consists of a full multidisplinary team of interactive design and technology specialists. Obessed with creative thought and the ingenious - the Variousways team remains on the leading edge of design sensibilities and techonology. We strive to push the envelope using the latest in techonology to provide a superior experience and get your message to your customers.

Services
Strategy, Stratigic Information, Competitive Review,

Interactive
Interface Design, Identity Design, Flash Animation, Interactive Advertising, Dynamic E-mail, Kiosk Interface Design, Motion Design,

Technology
Web Application Development, Flash Development, CD-ROM Solutions , Online Game Development, Mobile Interactive Solutions, Content Management,

Products
Variousways SiteCare
Variousways SiteCare™ is a light website content management system capable of administrating regular websites and Flash sites.

Agora Mobile©
Agora Mobile© is a chat, video conference, news and weather aggregator application designed for PDA/Mobile devices that have Flash. Agora Mobile© for Palm and PocketPC Devices is an easy-to-use, chat, video conference, with real-time news and weather information. Because Agora Mobile was developed with Flash Communication Server, it can be displayed on any computer or PDA device with Flash Player 6 and above.

Agora Mobile Features
Easy application list interface
Large one-click launch buttons.
Real-time news from CNN, and other sources.
Real-time local weather report and two day forcast.
Integrated video conference program.
Integrated chat program.
Designed and developed using Macromedia FlashMX and Flash Communication Server techonologies.


FLV Player©
Variousways FLV Player is a web based video streaming application. Ideal for sales and marketing sites, entertainment purposes, rich internet advertising, such as interactive ads and web commercials, a Flash FLV Player offers technological and creative benefits that allow you to have engaging experiences that fuse video together with data, graphics, sound, and dynamic interactive control.

SPECIAL THANKS TO:
"JonJon.tv is, Jon Montenegro. Interactive Designer & Developer
What a gorgeous and well put together site. Jon cuts through the fluff to just show you loads of his talent." - Paul, D5ive, Newstoday
"nice, simple and blue" - strangefruits.nl
"Great interface, pixely yet deceivingly straightforward" - flashgeek.com
"Very interesting faux 3D navigation spotted at Various Ways - pretty amazing sense of depth in the work." - Mschmidt, K10K
some east coast link portal action for y'all - gecko9 - Mschmidt, K10K

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AWARDS/HONORS/EXHIBITIONS
Philly Gold Award of Excellence, American Design Award, Cre@te Online Magazine Web Design Critique Contributor, Netdiver Design Forte Award, Internetvibes Award, Media Inspiration Award, Born Magazine,