Tonso Trail · A journey across the four nations

Jonathan Ton

Operations, systems and automation, and a person with a camera. This portfolio is a made-up journey across the four nations, climbing from water to air: five camps for the jobs that got me here, four temples for the things I built along the way.

Trailhead
Austin · 2020
Current camp
Worldly · 2026
Checkpoints
10
Start the climb
Tonso Trail · Sheet 1 of 1Scale 1:25,000Contour interval 50 m

Leg I · The ascent

Career

Every traveller crossing the four nations stops to rest, train and resupply. Each camp on this trail is a job, climbing from water through earth to fire.

I

Camp I · TrailheadClass of 2020

UT Austin

B.S. Corporate Communications · minor in Business

Where the trail starts. A communications degree with a business minor, which turned out to be the base layer for everything after: explaining how systems work to the people who have to use them.

  • Communications
  • Business
  • Hook 'em
II

Camp IISept 2020 – July 2022

Titanium Consulting

Partner / Business Operations Manager

Built client acquisition from nothing, then used funnel analysis to find where leads were dropping off and fixed those steps.

Client acquisition
Built from 0
Client growth
+467%
Lead conversion
+60%
III

Camp IIIJan 2022 – Apr 2026

MillerKnoll

UX Operations Coordinator

Ran operations for Miro, Figma and Airtable across a 1,000+ person organization: licensing, governance, onboarding and support.

  • Replaced outsourced manual work with workflow automation.
  • Ran vendor security reviews and negotiations for new AI tools.
  • Led enterprise AI adoption from inside the org.
Org supported
1,000+ people
Costs eliminated
$125K / yr
Platforms owned
3
  • Miro
  • Figma
  • Airtable
  • Jira
  • Wrike
IV

Camp IVJan 2026 – Present

Independent Ops Consultant

Beauty & Cosmetics clients

Designed the full operations backbone for an independent beauty team, from the client pipeline to payouts.

Pipeline
7 stages
Payout disputes
0
Manual data entry
−100%
  • HoneyBook
  • Zapier
  • Make.com
  • Google Sheets
V

Camp VMay 2026 – PresentCurrent camp

Worldly

Business Operations · Access & Systems

I own enterprise access management and IT systems provisioning. I went from shadowing to full ownership of the access request lifecycle, onboarding and offboarding, and SaaS governance within a 12-week ramp.

  • Access request intake, approval routing and provisioning across 100+ internal platforms, from standard to executive-approval tiers.
  • Employee and contractor onboarding and offboarding, coordinated with People, IT and Security so access is granted and revoked on schedule (SOC 2-aligned).
  • System of record for 100+ SaaS contracts and renewals, with sign-off across app owners, finance and legal.
  • Bi-annual privileged access review, reconciling identity provider exports, admin lists and HR records.
  • AI & Security Champion for responsible AI tool adoption.
Ramp to ownership
12 weeks
Platforms governed
100+
SaaS contracts
100+
  • Access governance
  • Jira Service Mgmt
  • MDM
  • GRC tooling
  • SOC 2

Leg II · The ridge

Projects

The old air temples sit on the highest peaks, built one stone at a time. Each one here is something I built.

VI

Temple VIWorldly · 2026

Access Request Redesign

Intake form & workflow

Usage data showed most access requests landing in an unstructured "Other" category. I led a phased redesign that turned about 30 options into 100+ categories organized by department, and proposed automation to cut manual routing.

Options
~30 → 100+
Organized by
Department
Status
Rolling out
VII

Temple VIIIndie makeup client · 2026

Digital Ops Rework

Seven-stage client pipeline

A HoneyBook pipeline built from scratch, with automation connecting Google Sheets, Zapier and Make.com. The payout logic removes ambiguity before it can turn into a dispute.

Payout disputes
0
Manual entry
−100%
Read the case study ↗
VIII

Temple VIII2026

The Heat Tax

Running data analysis

My easy runs in Houston kept hitting race-level heart rates, so I pulled every run off my COROS watch to find out why. Between 65°F and 80°F, my heart rate ran 27 bpm higher even at a slower pace. The heat, not my fitness, was setting the effort.

Runs analyzed
175
Heart-rate cost
+27 bpm
Heat band
65–80°F
  • COROS
  • Data analysis
  • Claude
IX

Temple IX2025

Apartment Comparison Tool

Weighted scoring for every place I toured

When it was time to move, I built the decision tool instead of a spreadsheet. It found the apartment, and it left me with a habit: when a problem repeats, build the tool.

  • HTML
  • Claude API
Try the tool ↗
UT AustinDrag to climb