Perq—SaaS Application to Manage Paid Time Off (circa 2009)
My greatest technical achievement is single-handedly writing the code for Perq—http://perqworks.com.Perq is a PHP5 application written with the Symfony Framework, using Doctrine ORM, and jQuery. Perq uses the PayPal API to collect credit card based recurring payments.
I chose the platforms, wrote the applications, and configured the infrastructure.
Perq has taught me that I can code anything.
Corporate Website Redesign (circa 2008)
SimplePhoto hired me as a UI Consultant to redesign their corporate website (the site has been redesigned since my engagement). The design goal was to increase new member sign ups—the design increased sign ups by 23% by clearly explaining the product’s value and simplifying the sign up process.I hand coded the entire site in XHTML, CSS, and Javascript.
Portal Redesigned (circa 2007)
I designed the user interface for the myEarthLink portal (with EarthLink's downsizing, the new portal project was canceled, this link displays the old portal). To see the design process I went through, click the links below.Screen Shots
0 - Old Portal
1 - Wireframe
2 - Detailed Wireframe
3 - Early Visual Design
4 - Finished Design
5 - Weather Feature
6 - RSS Editing
7 - Favorite Site Searching
Documentation & Prototypes
RSS Architecture Doc
Inline Reg Architecture Doc
RSS Prototype
Dock Editing Prototype
Designed Hyper-Local Content Portals
I lead the user experience design for the local content portal supporting the Municipal WiFi Access Product (since canceled). This product launched in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Anaheim, Corpus Christi, and Milpitas.Show Design Notes ›
eDOPT™ Online Application for the International Adoption Industry (circa 2005)
The goal of this redesign was to simplify the user interface by reducing the number to UI patterns, hiding non-critical controls, organizing data in 'at-a-glance' layouts, and differentiating new/old data.| New Main Menu Show Design Notes › | Original Main Menu |
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| New Add Child Form Show Design Notes › | Original Add Child Form |
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Amrex.org Web Site (circa 2005)—Redesigned to Improve Search Engines (Google) Results
After thinking and discussing how Google ranks search results in 2005 the idea of &lsqou;stickiness&rsqou; developed. Stickiness is the idea visitors will stay longer on pages with higher relevance. For example, a page viewed for two or three minutes is more relevant than a page a visitor navigates away in ten seconds. We debated how (and if) Google could track time spent on each page. I believed Google could collect this data through traceroutes, server log files, and the Google browser plugins.| New Amrex Web Site Show Design Notes › | Original Amrex Web Site |
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Rewrote Autotrader.com Search Form (circa 2006)
http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/index.jspAs a Front-end Engineer, I collaborated with an Information Architect to re-design the Autotrader.com search form. We introduced keyword searching and choose search options based on user personas. Once the design was completed, I wrote the XHTML, CSS, and Javascript from scratch. In the spirit of “semantic” code, I used <fieldsets>, <legend>, and <label> tags.
