2005 - 2008 »

Business 21 Publishing: Webmaster / Online Marketing Manager (June 2007 - present);

(example) Championed all aspects of creating a micro-site for B21's first live conference. Used as much CSS as possible in design to faciliate ease of redesign for future iterations: View Site 2007 & then, View Site 2008.

 

QVC.com as an Internet Developer (11/06 - 6/07);

Though no big design solutions, QVC is worth mentioning because it's QVC!! However, as a developer, actual "WORK" was more about how I thrived within soft-skill-buzz-phrases.

Like, how I: "interact[ed] with multiple departments and layers of management [with] high standards for quality, demonstrating creative thinking, critical analysis, problem solving, and crisis managment sills, along with flexability/ adaptability."

phx.com's "HomeWork" »

Phoenix Media/Communications Group was seeking a Site Producer in Boston, to oversee their five primary websites that mirrored the content of their print publications, and radio station.

Along the job hunt process, came a hoop to jump through, in the form of an email called "homework" — answer these questions in the next five days.

Rather than simply jump through the hoop (by hitting the REPLY button above the email), I took the hoop, made it smaller, and set it on fire.

I created a fully functional website, made of the questions asked. Hey, if they wanted someone who knew websites, what better way than to show them?

(Note: Question 1 is a good way to see how I assess current sites.)

View Site (circa late 2005)

Danné Salon & Day Spa »

Launched: December 2004; Redesign: April 2005; Using a PHP/MySQL based program osCommerce, I customized the PHP, CSS, and images used to fit Danné's branding.

Mere weeks before the end of the year, Danné Salon & Day Spa has no website. Worst of all, they have no idea why.

After I resolved their hosting issues (while saving them $83/month in hosting fees), and threw up some stop-gap pages of essential information, I took to task the inability to purchase gift certificates for the holidays.

Danné's unsecure, cash-certificates-only, unformatted, no-credit-cards-allowed <FORM> page, was turned into a full (cash and/or services), secure, e-commerce site that went live December 6, 2004.

By the end of the month, Danné's shopping cart site pulled in over $2,600 in just 3 weeks, and next December, made $5,200.

view site (updated July 2005)

Intercollegiate Studies Institute »

1999 - 2003; When ISI got their very first full-time Webmaster, it meant they were finally able to start creating sites they always wanted, but never had sufficient resources to achive.

As a niche publisher with an ever increasing list of books and authors to introduce, ISI Books allowed users to get information on titles, order them online, and even read the beginning of most books.

I designed the site to be relatively simple, while still being highly functional, thereby also keeping the site highly scalable, as new books were added.

View ISIBooks.org (c. 2000)

One of those books, Choosing the Right College, had an "e-arm" called collegeguide.org. As the idea was to capture the interest of college and college-bound students (& how easy is that?), I choose a bright color scheme and funky title font.

There was much repurposing of print material (in Quark & Acrobat) for web, requiring carefull consideration of usability and content management.

View collegeguide.org (c. 2002)

GE Capital Corporation »

1997 - 1999; Web / Project Manager for GE's internal design agency for intranets: Emerging Technology Solutions.

In my first week at my first real job, I happily took on a group of 3 sites: HR, Employee Services, & Community Relations. What I didn't know at the time, was that they were the 3 largest sites to date (thanks to 50,000 GE Capital employees worldwide).

Capital Times (upper right) is a quarterly publication that Employee Services wanted online. Rather than force a large .PDF download, I applied our design/ brand standards to recreated it out of mostly HTML & <TABLE>s, with limited use of images.

OPEN example (in new window)

HR's Relocation (bottom right) was a new HR sub-site, that I completed an internal prototype for. I guided the client through the total web design process, including information architecture, UI design, HTML, and image optimization (Photoshop).

View Site (c. 1999)

Software Specific Samples »
 
FLASH & ACTIONSCRIPT 2.0
 
So as a web designer, I find being a Flash Designer easy. Maybe it is all the years of animated GIFs, even before there was ImageReady. Anyone remember Ulead's Gif Animator?

While banner ads and floating animated text is fine, the power of ActionScript 2.0 is real challenge. So rather than just say "sure I know ActionScript 2.0" I wanted to try and prove it to you.

Besides the requisite animation on your right (NO 'timeline effects' were used, by the way!), I have included full Flash/AS2.0 examples.

• A fully functional game of Hangman.
• An (almost) fully dynamic slide show, made up of some of my previous work.