User Experience Expertise

This is some of the design and development work I have done professionally, whether working as an independant contactor or as an employee of another company.

Wenner Media - Web Development Manager

• UsMagazine.com - High traffic celebrity news (gossip :P) site (in Alexa's top 1000). Traffic is booming. We've completed one reskinning and numerous other features In a fairly short time and are currently in the midst of a major site overhaul (cms,front-, and back-end) due out early fall.
• Men's Journal - Seems to be doing well even though people still don't want to put much time and energy into it yet. I've added some new sections and features to this also. Still has some interesting articles.
• Various other web properties, includeing Rollingstone soundingboard, Access Men's Journal, jannswenner.com, set up the mj and usmag development environments/development workflow, including an internal bug-tracking system, internal knowledge management system (wiki), etc

Condénet - Senior Front-End Web Developer

• Wired.com - worked with a team of super high-achieving web engineers here to take wired.com into the next generation of web apps.
• Webmonkey.com - lead the front-end dev team in this ultra high-pressure redesign of this web developers mainstay as a wiki.

Educational Institutions

• Grace and St Peter's School - GASP needed a good promotional site that gave people a better understanding of their educational mission and many qualities. They also needed it to act as a broadcasting point for time-sensitive school information for the greater GASP community. The site is based around a low-cost, easy-to-manage CMS solution. - information architecture, design, development
• Baltimore Freedom Academy - BFA wanted a site that did a better job of giving prospective students/parents insight into the character of the school while also being an information disemination point for school news and events. An easy-to-manage CMS solution was added which allows them to update all of the site's pages that have time-sensitive material. Also, with the addition of a student podcast section, it has also become a learning tool for students and multimedia promotional device for prospective students and media outlets. - ia, design, development
  • BFA podcast - over the semester, I met with a group of BFA students and taught them: 1) how to record their own podcasts 2) general media communications skills 3) how to use the new CMS to upoload the podcast and add text to it 4) basic internet concepts - greater involvement (volunteering)

Non-profit: arts

• Tour de Clay - development, production work
• Teaching Artists of Maryland - development, production work

Non-profit:other

• Philanthropic Ventures - design
• MICPEL - For this organization, I worked in a small team to come up with recommendations for a new site information architecture - ia
• Carrolltion Ridge - The neighborhood of Carrolton Ridge wanted a site for prospective home owners that touted the benefits of the community. - design, development, production
• CASA of Prince George's County- In this small project, I developed the database-utilizing volunteer application form - development

Commercial

• Drilling Technique, LTD - In this long-term relationship, the DTL website was taken from clunky, table-based brochure-ware to a sleeker website both graphically and in coding term. I also worked with their marketers to conceptualize additional marketing and "humanizing" pages to make their site a larger part of their business. - ia, design, development, web strategy
• Shorebest Chemical - basically an online catalog - ia, design, development
• George Glazer Gallery - for this large antique gallery's site I produced numerous item pages and sections (including graphics creation and stylesheets) as well as assisted in the maintenance, upkeep, and organization of this large site.- development, production
• HighShear new redesign (proposal)- design
• old version - design, development
• audiofix - This thouroughly dynamic site was built super-fast with a CMS that is used for updating any information on the site. - ia, design, development
• ahsodes - previous version - ia, design, development.
• usability improvement recommendations