Projects
There are many of them, and some did not make the cut. Some of them I simply forgot. Some of them I barely worked on. Some sit inside tightly-secure corporate networks. But among all of those, here are the ones that rocked!
Client: Waggener Edstrom Worldwide
Launched: November 2009
twendz pro was created as a follow-up to the successful Twitter analysis app twendz. It provides a historical perspective of Twitter conversations
in order to give you insight on product and brand perception using sentiment analysis over time. By identifying key influencers, and using a variety of
analytics metrics, it enables you to pair perception with impact, so that you can make educated decisions of when to engage to further enhance your brand
or product's Twitter presence in a positive light.
I developed this application as a side project, and had the opportunity to personally gain buy-in for the project from a variety of internal stakeholders
including presentations to the executive board, as well as at an all-company meeting. For more about how twendz pro came to life, please see my
blog post.
Client: Myself
Launched: September 2009
Robotvision helped pave the way for the mobile augmented reality industries, which Gartner called one of the most disruptive technologies of 2008-2012.
It was one of the first mobile augmented reality applications to be released on any mobile platform (second only to Yelp in the US), and took the mobile
technology market by storm selling thousands of copies in its first few weeks on the App Store. It was featured on the App Store by Apple, and was covered
by noteworthy publications such as ReadWriteWeb.
TechCrunch, Gizmodo and the Associated Press.
I created Robotvision based on my desire to learn the iPhone development platform paired with my excitement for the emerging Augmented Reality industry. Being one of the first
out of the gate gave me the opportunity to apply my love for interactive design and user experience to help pave the way for how we interpret AR experiences.
Client: Waggener Edstrom Worldwide
Launched: March 2009
twendz is a measuring and monitoring tool for twitter which uses automated real-time sentiment analysis against Twitter. It is used by fortune 100 companies
and ivy league universities every day, and has been featured in top publications like CNET,
ZDNET, and TechCrunch.
I created twendz as a side project, and after showing it to my employer, we released it as a free product. It has won several awards, including
an International Business Award for the Best New Product or Service of the Year (2009, Computer Software and Services).
Client: Myself.
Launched: December 2008
Happytweets was a personal project created in a weekend on a whim that spread virally through the Twitter community for a brief period of time.
The service analyzes the content of the Tweets for a particular username, and returns a score reflecting their overall happiness.
Client: My Current Employer.
Launched: November 2008
My employer, Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, one of the world's most prominent voices in technology public relations, needed a graphical and technological facelift in conjunction
with the company's 25th anniversary celebration.
I had the opportunity to join forces with WaggEd's best and brightest in creative and web strategy to provide a website integration
with Microsoft Sharepoint that is easy to maintain and is flexible for future expansion.
Client: Me. For: Kicks.
Launched: October 2007
Picktastic brings the excitement of sports betting to casual and avid sports fans by challenging them to prove that they know their sports. Members of the site, aptly referred to as “Pickrs,” pick which professional and collegiate teams will win for upcoming games, and score points based on their accuracy. These points are used to help boost their rankings against their friends and other Pickrs. Points can also be wagered against opposing Pickrs prior to a game beginning.
I've always wanted to create a sports community, and in October 2007, it came to life with my buddy Brando. It took everything we could throw at it - sweat, tears and many lost football games I could have been watching - to get it out the door,
but now I can say that sports addicts like myself have a place to congregate and do what we do best; talk trash!
Client: WizKids Games. For: ISITE Design.
Launched: September 2007
What could possibly go better with the highest-grossing media launch event of all-time? How about WizKids' awesome Halo ActionClix tabletop game?
Following our work with Star Wars, our team was brought back to do the Halo ActionClix site and we had to work quickly! The new website needed to launch right before Halo 3 came out for
XBOX 360 in late September. This project really was a lot like Star Wars, but the gallery had it's own separate requirements. The game is also really fun to play.
Client: WizKids Games. For: ISITE Design.
Launched: August 2007
WizKids created an awesome Star Wars card game with punch out ships you could play against your friends, and I had the pleasure of building their website. You can imagine how thrilled I was, as I love Star Wars!
My favorite feature is by far the gallery. You can find any type of card or unit you might need to complete your collection, and the search utility helps you get there faster.
I am particularly partial to this project, as it was my first ASP.NET AJAX site to go out the door.
Client: Judson University. For: ISITE Design.
Launched: August 2007
Judson College grew quite a bit during their 40 years of preparing growing minds for new challenges in suburban Chicago. That all changed in August 2007 when Judson College became
Judson University, and launched a sleek new website to support their identity change.
I got to take the reins and run with this project under a firm deadline and with lots of work to be completed on our team of three. We instituted a variation of Scrum, an Agile
development practice, to make quick sprints, gain feedback, and deliver rapidly and consistently. It worked so well, we finished a day early, and still use many of our processes on
new projects.
Client: InFocus. For: ISITE Design.
Launched: April 2007
You may have heard of their projectors. You might even own one. I was brought in for development late in the cycle to assist our project lead with some .NET and SiteCore work in the Support section of the site, as well as to finish building out the Where To Buy feature.
This became a remarkable launch with a massive content base. Our development lead did a phenomenal job pulling this one together under an extremely tight deadline.
Client: The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. For: ISITE Design.
Launched: January 2007
This small site utilized our strong partners Ektron and their .NET Content Management System to deliver a highly informative marketing piece to inform the community of how The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde is giving back.
I took the lead developer role on this one, which features a blog-like news feature to keep visitors up to date, and detailed itemization of individual grants given by the organization.
Client: Solano County Library. For: ISITE Design.
Launched: December 2006
This site is actually written in ColdFusion, and anyone who knows me well knows that.. well.. I don't really do CF. I actually built the AJAX calendar for this site, and it's sister site StaffNet, their intranet.
What was so cool about it was that we were able to run CF and .NET side by side so that the CF pages could consume the .NET calendar. Kind of like little buddies, only with calendars. Yeah...
I also remained involved with this project in that I got to head down to Cali to train some librarians on the Content Management System, and to handle their whole server configuration business. Believe it or not, librarians are incredibly cool. They're also very funny people. Funny like they make people laugh funny.
Client: Ringor. For: ISITE Design.
Launched: November 2006
Ringor.com is simply a beautiful site. It is probably the most beautiful site on the web that sells shoes.
Beyond the surface of this Classic ASP shopping cart is a lot more, though. I won't get into too much detail, but it involves payment processors, .NET Windows Services, external accounting systems, and dynamic team portals. This giant was really like three projects. The best part was that I was lead dev on it and I didn't screw it up. Hooray!
Client: The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. For: ISITE Design.
Launched: August 2006
This was my first lead project at ISITE, and it turned out to not only be a huge learning experience, but it was also a big success. I had a chance to do some creative development work with a .NET Content Management System, as well as plenty of custom integration with some of the cleint's proprietary membership data.
The site originally launched in conjunction with a massive multimedia museum application written in Flash for the organization.
Oh yeah, we also won a Webby Honoree Award for this as well. Sweet!