About Intentionally
My name is Sean Johnson, and I’m a marketing/web/philosophy geek. I currently lead product development for Brill Street + Company, a Gen-Y recruiting and software company in Chicago. Prior to that, I spent five years at EducationDynamics, the premier higher education marketing company in the country. Most of that time was been spent as their Creative Director, where I was responsible for the aesthetic design for over 850 projects seen by over 6 million students. I also led strategy and design a number of online applications, including a social networking site called UPeers currently in use at over 150 universities.
I (very occasionally) take part in consulting projects for companies and organizations looking to improve their online presence. These projects can take many forms, but usually involve creative strategy, design and UI work, front-end coding, and the occasional dabbling in Rails.
I was born and raised in Colorado Springs and graduated from the University of Colorado in Boulder with a degree in marketing. After a year running a small web company in Colorado with two other guys and burning it into the ground, I moved to Seattle for six months where I spent my time trying to keep my business alive while waiting tables at a seafood restaurant and living in a grossly inequitable situation with two of my closest friends from college.
In August of 2004 I met a girl in Las Vegas at my buddy’s bachelor party. She was an economist in New York City, was infinitely more intelligent than I was, and for some insane reason decided I was worth her time. Three months later I moved to New York, and a year after that I asked her to marry me. She said yes, which was nice. We were married in September of 2007.
In the fall of 2007 I moved to Rogers Park in Chicago, and spent the next 6 months locked inside my house to prevent getting a) shot and b) frostbite. I’ve since become more acclimated, play basketball regularly, and am one of the co-dudes at Jelly Chicago, an informal co-working group.
About this site
Intentionally started in 2003 in an ironic attempt to rid myself of narcissism through the vehicle of blogging. I wrote about my character flaws, my vices, and the myriad ways in which I failed to live up to my faith and my expectations of myself. The site has since morphed into a collection of thoughts on business, marketing, design, the Internet, Christianity and personal philosophy.
This site runs on Wordpress, and is coded by hand using TextMate on a Macbook Pro. Graphics have been created with Photoshop, and pictures that I’ve taken have been with a Leica C-Lux 1.
