Portfolio Items
I've done far too many recent projects protected by NDA or clearances, so expect to see original, back-to-basics, self-projects at some point. In the interim, here are a few samples.
Travel Channel sandbox work. Development was buried under each new piece of development being treated as New! Interesting! Different! I wrote code to demonstrate dynamic lazy loading of content leveraging the commonalities of everything present and placed it in the beginnings of our responsive framework. Link: Click to view
(Warning - this is many years old, and Travel has retired the old image servers, so expect many, many broken images. This project was more about demonstrating the limited complexity of unifying the various data sources)
As part of the development improvement process at Travel, I sought to elminate the inconsistencies which hampered the development process. Starting with a conversation with the head of Design, this typography guide became the basis for a true styleguide unifying our design language with our development process. Link: Click to view.
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Bungie.Net: This site stands as a testament to what other video game companies could and should strive toward. Implemented designs in XHTML, cleaned up their source, pushed them just a little bit further on in their goal of global domination, and left my mark on the studio. Site has since undergone another redesign (after about 6 years of using the other site). Link: Click Here
American Brownie Company site: This proposed redesign removed all vestiges of table-based layout, while simplifying the look and feel. If you have the opportunity to try their brownies, I assure you that you will not regret it! (Note on page source - this was done in 2003 and doesn't utilize spritesheets for mouseovers as it wasn't 100% standard practice back then) Link: Click to view site.
Microsoft Vista ROI Calculator: This project was done in early 2007 while at Alinean. I worked with members of the Vista team in order to ensure the designs matched their banding guidelines, and handled all the actionscript and design of this tool. While the report generation is non-functional, we used a perl library along with Chart Director to dynamically generate the report based upon answers which used a PDF template to give a highly polished look. View the tool here.
Save And Invest: This site was done while at FINRA. XHTML that works with Oracle's Stellant CMS. Hand coding goodness throughout development. Makes extensive use of contextual secondary classes to permit 8 separate views (one column, 2 column, 3 column) to share an identical HTML framework. Since they didn't want a mobile or responsive site, I was limited in my options. Link: Click to view site. View original, minimal code.
Rotor Vector Art: This piece was done entirely in Adobe Illustrator® back in 2003, and is a vector reproduction of a photographed rotor from a Mazda 12A 1.1L Wankel Rotary Engine (mine).
Visual Dynamics website: This piece was done in the late 90s, and is the last table-based layout I ever created. While updating this portfolio, I got nostalgiac and decided to include it here. While I still like the minimalist design, I feel that the text treatment and markup leave something to be desired (must have been my lazy period because there's WYSIWYG code - and framesets?!? GAH!). Link: Click to view.
I have numerous code samples available upon request; I just generally spend far more time writing code than updating this site which seldom gets used.