Jonathan Martinez

Jonathan Martinez

Systems Strategy in New York City

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About

I turn fragmented public data into investigations, evidence, and interactive tools that help people understand risk and make better decisions.

Work Experience

Incoming · 2026
NYCHA — IT Service Management, Program Development Member

Incoming through NYC Civic Corps · Program development within NYCHA’s IT Service Management department

2021 — 2023
Founding Designer at Driveline AI

Product strategy and UX for an automotive data platform serving dealership marketing workflows

2020 — 2021
UX / Product Designer at Echelon Fitness

Product experiences across a connected fitness hardware-software ecosystem

2016 — 2017
UX Designer at Concepta

Designed mobile-app experiences with an agency team for Orlando-area clients, including Universal Studios and Disney

Projects

2026
Resilience Atlas

Climate resilience · QCC Green Energy Program · New York City

Resilience Atlas

The Invisible Bill public-housing utility analysis dashboard

The Invisible Bill

The Aging-Out Effect youth-systems analysis dashboard

The Aging-Out Effect

2024
Black UX Labs

Strategy and AI-powered design support for a 25-person BIPOC-led cohort · personas, journey mapping, ideation, and storytelling flows

Black UX Labs career-transition journey map and impact–effort prioritization workshop.

Research and prioritization1 / 3

Design for Impact2 / 3

Helpful Hand AI3 / 3

2021 — 2023
Driveline AI

Product strategy and UX for an automotive location-intelligence platform supporting dealership marketing workflows

Driveline point-of-interest manager shown across mobile and desktop map interfaces.

Point-of-interest manager1 / 3

Driveline geofencing interface outlining a retail location on a map.

Geofencing2 / 3

Driveline location heatmap with a date and time playback control.

Location heatmap3 / 3

Writing

2026
Context Is Everything

A practitioner's guide to context engineering · Three parts, twenty chapters, one complete system

Context Is Everything book cover and interior chapter page titled The Parrot Problem.

Context Is Everything

2026
Designing Collaboration

How Repeated AI Conversations Became a Persistent Design Practice · Working White Paper, Editorial Prototype 0.2

Designing Collaboration white paper cover and editorial page spread.

Designing Collaboration

Speaking

2026
Data Analytics Capstone Presentation at Civic Hall

LaGuardia Community College Data Analytics Program · New York City

Jonathan Martinez presenting his data analytics capstone project at Civic Hall

Civic Hall capstone presentation

Jonathan Martinez presenting AI-assisted analysis during the Empowering Diverse Talent in UX webinar

Empowering Diverse Talent webinar

Systems

Ongoing
Context OS

A personal context system organizing reusable Agentic Skills, Base Architectures, and Context Workshops

Context OS workspace showing its Agentic Skills library.

Context OS

2026
Orient UI

A human-directed conversational interaction system for keeping complex AI collaboration legible, stateful, and adaptive

Orient UI Notion page showing the conversational interaction system specification.

Orient UI

Education

Expected 2027
B.S., Business, Management & Economics

SUNY Empire State University · Information Systems

2026
Data Analytics Pre-Apprenticeship

LaGuardia Community College · SQL, Python, Tableau, regression analysis, and capstone

2026
Smart Energy Data Analysis & Visualization

Queensborough Community College · Con Edison-funded program