Lee Fuhr

Border

Creative Principal

Cozy

I’m the Founder & CEO of Cozy, a small creative services agency based in San Diego, CA. At Cozy, we execute on my strange self-loathing around design, computers, and agencies in service of providing our clients all the creative they need and none they don’t. 

The goal is to alleviate worry — the creeping doubt that comes from needing design and content to convince the world you’re as good as you are. We got you.

Founder + Design boss

San Diego Digital Designers

SLACK ROOM + MEETUPS = COMMUNITY! 🙌
Discuss design, get feedback, land jobs, find tools, hire designers, commiserate, celebrate…

Introvert- and extrovert-friendly. Conversation, not networking. We are the low-maintenance hum of connection and energy between the big fancy-pants industry events. 

We’re here for lone rangers who miss humanity and big-teamers who need to connect beyond their clan. C’mon in (as long as you are, in fact, a digital designer in San Diego).

Founder

leefurdesign

Freelance designer

Teradata

Interface Designer

Eventful, Inc.

Define, develop, and defend visual consistency/sophistication, the brand, and simple interactions.

• Assimilated input from executive, product, and engineering teams to carefully design user flows for our signature Demand product, increasing user acquisition by 300%
• Initiated and led discussions around a comprehensive re-branding and championed a user-centric experience in a tech-centric organization
• Acted as a thought leader and voice of reason amidst myriad empassioned opinions and conflicts to deliver experiences that redefined the face of the company to the tune of over five million new users
• Managed and mentored design team in day-to-day activities and project work

Creative Director / Senior Interaction Designer

Sapient Corp

SONY
Collaborate with client experts to successfully market Sony and its prodcuts.
• Massive, full site refreshes
• Product showcase mini-sites
• Platform migration involving deep content and interaction audits
• Internal sales materials

NEXTEL
Brought the new Nextel brand "Done." to an exciting, effective, differentiating shopping experience.
• Owned the shopping path, which boiled down to shopping for phones, plans, and accessories
• Provided a universally well-received design that met the needs of the business, the designers, and the engineers

Senior Associate, User Experience (consultant)

America Online

Consistently helped clients define their vision for myriad consumer-focused initiatives.
• Lead interaction designer for AOL Instant Messenger
• Dedicated to the Research & Learn and Entertainment channels 
• "September 11th Remembered" mini-site

User Interface Designer

Sapient

Created site concepts, site architecture, page specifications, and nomenclature guidelines.
• Harcourt Health Sciences – owned search tool design, collaborated on site concept and nomenclature; managed interaction with engineering
• Global Risk Exchange – worked with small team to develop organizational model, site map, and detailed wireframes
• Various sales pursuits and internal initiatives

Information Architect (consultant)

MAYA Design

Developed site architecture and page specifications for Fortune 500 client
• Three person IA team eliciting requirements from clients, along with graphic designers and engineering.

Information Architect

Founder + CEO at Cozy

With 25 years of experience in digital design, I’ve had the privilege of helping countless businesses — from startup to Fortune 50 —  navigate their design and marketing challenges.

On the SaaS product side, as a UX & UI design specialist, I’m particularly jazzed about making complex screens feel simple — even for expert users. I believe good design gets out of the way (for the user), but can be a powerful weapon (for sales).

On the marketing side, I focus on streamlining design as a vehicle for the real important stuff: content marketing and demand generation. I’ve seen how the right design can amplify a brand’s message and drive significant growth.

I’m the Founder & CEO of Cozy, a small creative services agency based in San Diego, CA. At Cozy, we execute on my strange self-loathing around design, computers, and agencies to provide our clients all the creative they need and none they don’t. 

The goal is to alleviate worry — the creeping doubt that comes from needing design and content to convince the world you’re as good as you are. We got you.

If you're interested in discussing UX/UI design, content marketing, demand generation, or anything in between, feel free to reach out. I’m always open to a good conversation.

Founder + CEO

Jed Sundwall

Radiant Earth

Executive Director

Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs

Teaching a course called "Planetary-Scale Data Institutions: Maximizing Access to Environmental Data for the Public Interest" (GLBL 5085). Questions we will explore include: What does the democratization of technology and data access mean for institutions tasked with environmental governance? How do technological limitations, economics, and political systems influence what environmental data we gather, how data are made available, and how data are used to inform decision making? What are strategies to change these constraints? We will also explore how power has been accrued by large technology companies and if we can learn from them to design durable 21st century public interest institutions.

Lecturer

Flickr Foundation

Technical Advisor

Taylor Geospatial Engine

Industry Fellow

PLACE

Member of the Licensing & Pricing Working Group and Technical Working Group. Provide guidance on data governance, ethics, pricing, and product strategy.

Board Advisor

The Center for Open Data Enterprise

Strategic Advisor

NatureServe

Working to maximize the potential of NatureServe data to maintain species diversity and sustain healthy ecosystems.

Member Board Of Directors

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Created and managed operations for new global AWS sustainability business development team.

Technical Business Development Manager

Amazon

Developed data product strategy for Amazon's social responsibility team.

Senior Technical Product Manager

Amazon Web Services

Created and led the global open data program at Amazon Web Services, which researches ways the AWS cloud can make data easier to discover, access, and use. The AWS open data program has democratized access to over 100 petabytes of data, including satellite imagery, climate models, and cancer genomes.

- Created the Registry of Open Data on AWS, which makes 10s of petabytes of scientific data openly 
available on the AWS cloud. Data shared through the Registry of Open Data on AWS has led to 
publication of over 700 tutorials, publications, tools, and applications by AWS customers.
- Hired and managed a team of experts in genomics, Earth science, transportation, and meteorology.
- Created new patterns for efficient sharing of satellite imagery that have been adopted by USGS, NASA, Geosciences Australia, Esri, and the Brazilian Space Agency.
- Created the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative in collaboration with Amazon’s worldwide sustainability organization, which democratizes access to the data Amazon uses to meet its sustainability goals.
- Relocated to Munich from 2017-2020 to create partnerships with the European Space Agency, Group on Earth Observations, and several European meteorological agencies.

Open Data Global Lead

Technology executive working at the intersection of data, product development, cloud computing, economics, and policy. I’m a pragmatic (never dogmatic) technologist trying to use the Internet to improve human cooperation on global challenges.

If not now, when?

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