Jewel Mari Mlnarik is a media project coach, planner and producer with a passion for crafting successful solutions, focusing on people (a.k.a. “user adoption” and effective interfaces) and processes for over 13 years.
When I’m Not Working? Tinkering with a new business idea, snowboarding, playing the guitar, taking photographs, hosting a dinner or cocktail party, printmaking, biking, running, or training for some new sporty event. My latest craze? I want to learn soccer, join a coed team and travel to the World Cup in South Africa. (Update: trip to South Africa did not happen.)
I’ve been blessed to have had the opportunity to work with a wide range of incredibly talented, passionate and visionary folks. Here’s what some had to say about those opportunities.
“I’ve contracted Jewel on a number of web application development projects, working with nonprofit and start-up clients. She’s incredibly talented at requirements gathering, information architecture, client communication, and project management. She understands and has managed all aspects of the software development process and bring veteran experience and earned depth to her work. She can communicate well with developers, creative teams, fellow project managers and clients. I strongly recommend her work.”
Sean Larkin – Founder, ThinkShout
“I only had the privilege of working with Jewel for a few short months, but I came away VERY impressed with her work ethic, level of understanding, technical knowledge and ability to communicate ideas across different work groups and companies, time zones and cultures.
Jewel came into a difficult situation and was able to take a fractured process and turn it into a streamlined and cohesive workflow, and then worked diligently and cheerfully to hand that off to another flawlessly.
I look forward to the day I am able to work with her again.”
Jim Duong – VP of Production, Devious Media
“Jewel is a rare breed of IT consultant that can span the multidisciplinary needs of a turnkey client project. She brings to bare great experience in development, html, design/composition, content and content strategies, graphic design, project management, collateral, and client communications. Jewel has a full tool belt of consultative skills that span client needs across the spectrum to help build a successful and complete project. Jewel is creative, confident in her knowledge, and I respect her judgment and input. I’d hire Jewel again.” Rob McDougald – Founder, GeoMeridian
“Jewel is a master at information architecture, with a great eye for design and a natural genius for project and people management. Superior intellect combined with a cooperative personality and a killer work ethic — unbeatable combination … she always gets the job done … and extremely well! We invited her to join our Board of Directors out of respect for her keen intelligence, enthusiasm, adaptability and exceptional results orientation.” Paulo O’Brien - Founder, Divination Foundation and Founder, Tarot.com
“I have worked with Jewel for many years. And there is a reason for this… she is amazing. Her approach to working with her clients is solution oriented. She thrives on innovation and it’s this passion that results in value-added solutions in everything she does. Jewel’s business integrity is unmatched. Jewel is excellent at high level specification, strategic planning and has the talent to produce at the detailed execution level.”
Jessica Abel – GM, Tarot.com and President, Beemix LLC
“Jewel is a brilliant software engineer and architect. She has an extraordinary understanding of business logic and client needs as well as programming logic. I enjoyed working with her and would love to work with her again.”
Fred Willmore - Software Engineer, Amazon Consulting
Contact Jewel
jewelm <at> gmail <dot> com
o: 503.389.0659
Portland, Oregon, USA
Profile + Resume
When I’m Not Working? Tinkering with a new business idea, snowboarding, playing the guitar, taking photographs, hosting a dinner or cocktail party, printmaking, biking, running, or training for some new sporty event. My latest craze? I want to learn soccer, join a coed team and travel to the World Cup in South Africa. (Update: trip to South Africa did not happen.)
Recommendations
I’ve been blessed to have had the opportunity to work with a wide range of incredibly talented, passionate and visionary folks. Here’s what some had to say about those opportunities.
“I’ve contracted Jewel on a number of web application development projects, working with nonprofit and start-up clients. She’s incredibly talented at requirements gathering, information architecture, client communication, and project management. She understands and has managed all aspects of the software development process and bring veteran experience and earned depth to her work. She can communicate well with developers, creative teams, fellow project managers and clients. I strongly recommend her work.”
Sean Larkin – Founder, ThinkShout
“I only had the privilege of working with Jewel for a few short months, but I came away VERY impressed with her work ethic, level of understanding, technical knowledge and ability to communicate ideas across different work groups and companies, time zones and cultures.
Jewel came into a difficult situation and was able to take a fractured process and turn it into a streamlined and cohesive workflow, and then worked diligently and cheerfully to hand that off to another flawlessly.
I look forward to the day I am able to work with her again.”
Jim Duong – VP of Production, Devious Media
“Jewel is a rare breed of IT consultant that can span the multidisciplinary needs of a turnkey client project. She brings to bare great experience in development, html, design/composition, content and content strategies, graphic design, project management, collateral, and client communications. Jewel has a full tool belt of consultative skills that span client needs across the spectrum to help build a successful and complete project. Jewel is creative, confident in her knowledge, and I respect her judgment and input. I’d hire Jewel again.”
Rob McDougald – Founder, GeoMeridian
“Jewel is a master at information architecture, with a great eye for design and a natural genius for project and people management. Superior intellect combined with a cooperative personality and a killer work ethic — unbeatable combination … she always gets the job done … and extremely well! We invited her to join our Board of Directors out of respect for her keen intelligence, enthusiasm, adaptability and exceptional results orientation.”
Paulo O’Brien - Founder, Divination Foundation and Founder, Tarot.com
“I have worked with Jewel for many years. And there is a reason for this… she is amazing. Her approach to working with her clients is solution oriented. She thrives on innovation and it’s this passion that results in value-added solutions in everything she does. Jewel’s business integrity is unmatched. Jewel is excellent at high level specification, strategic planning and has the talent to produce at the detailed execution level.”
Jessica Abel – GM, Tarot.com and President, Beemix LLC
“Jewel is a brilliant software engineer and architect. She has an extraordinary understanding of business logic and client needs as well as programming logic. I enjoyed working with her and would love to work with her again.”
Fred Willmore - Software Engineer, Amazon Consulting