Portfolio

While my official portfolio is being put together, have a look at some of the sites I’ve had the pleasure of working on:

OriginalPoetry.com – I did most of the Forum programming, as well as all of the engineering and design of the Poet, Poem, and Reading Room searches. I handled the backend database optimization. I designed and developed all three of their games. I designed and programmed the live chat system.

TeaserLeague.com – I designed and programmed the entire backend system, including weekly standings updates, live NFL feed automation, league creation and assignment automation, weekly newsletters, reminders system, and various parts of the front end system, such as the picks area, and part of the home area.

QuakerState.com – I programmed the country selector, entire warranty section, and various other changes to the CMS system. This site is built on Drupal.

Pennzoil.com – I have modified some of the JavaScript and HTML deployment code to adjust to various things requested by the Pennzoil team. This site is built on Drupal, with a custom publishing module to output an all HTML and Flash web site, while still providing a CMS.

PictSweet.com – I programmed the recipe printing and submission sections, have replaced various pieces of the front end display, and programmed parts of the back-end administration area. This site is built-in PHP, and has its own custom administration area.

CatsPride.com – We set out to create a whole new online experience for catspride.com, shifting from a large web site to a basic site that links you to facebook, youtube, and twitter. All pages are optimized for HTML5 and CSS3, with fall backs and IE HTC files to fill in for the gaps in IE7/8. I built the new CatsPride.com pages, as well as the Welcome, Coupons, and AHA pages inside their facebook.com/catspride fan page. This site is built with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, jQuery.

Doner Test Driver – Doner wanted to showcase their auto industry advertising in the hopes of drawing new auto industry business. I was approached by my boss one friday morning explaining to me that we were a week into a project, and still had no solution. I was given a WordPress theme that didn’t quite fit, and asked to make it work…in two hours! Up to the challenge, I said “OK, let me do my best.” After a bit of rewriting of the theme, some digging through the WordPress API docs, I had a working model. Two more weeks later, we have a portfolio rich with videos and profiles of our agency’s work, and profiles of some of the key people within the company that have worked close to or inside the auto industry. This site is built on WordPress with jQuery, VideoJS, prettyPhoto, and a lot of custom theme code.

CanisHosting.com – Canis Hosting is a web hosting provider. The site is built on WordPress with the F8 Child theme, designed by Graph Paper Press with photographers and artists in mind. Why did I choose this theme? The layout was mostly what they wanted, it was SEO optimized, and somewhat mobile optimized. After some adjustments, stripping, and re-writing of some theme code, the new CanisHosting.com was born. After that, we were able to take the header and footer styling and skin their WHMCS support/order/bililng software, found at www.canishosting.com/support.

Other applications I’ve worked on:

QMS v3, a Quote Manage System (Version 3) for a large car hauler. This system was built around an elaborate SOAP web service that allowed for pulling car hauling quotes, serving quotes out to eBay Motors, service quotes and user account information to our suite of “retail” car hauling web sites, and gave our sales team the ability to generate quotes, convert them to sales, and see visual maps and reports to assist them in their job. This was an enterprise level application that covered all the needs of our single car hauling unit. It was written in PHP, and powered by an MS-SQL 2005 database.

Mr Tickets, a trouble ticket system designed for our in-house Technical Support team at an Internet Service Provider I was with years ago. Mr Tickets was written first in ASP, then ported over to Perl, and was powered by a MySQL database. Mr Tickets had notifications, escalations, and a dashboard feature for management.

A payment collection system used by the internal staff at Chase Home Finance. This was a basic system that allowed a loan officer to accept a mortgage payment over the phone, process it immediately, and download daily reports. The payments were tied into a custom written credit card gateway through a secure tunnel to First Data. The application was written in PHP, the gateway was written in Perl, and MySQL was the database.

Other programming and administration type things:

• Facebook Applications
• Flash Game Design & Programming
• Proprietary IVR Applications
• BASH scripts to automate disk imaging
• Various PHP CLI scripts to automate data imports.
• Database design and engineering
• PSD to HTML/CSS conversions
• SVN Repository Management
• Code merges and deployments