Portfolio

The Capital Group Private Client Services

Project Description

Large financial organization with a national presence. Client had high security requirements and we worked with them to ensure that the site we created for them pass regular Vulnerability Scans performed by third party security companies.

Platform & Features

Custom CMS, built with PHP; local video player compatible on IE7, IE8, FF, Chrome and iOS. Project management covers Maintenance, Repair and Operations including coordinating regular migrations between production, development and staging servers. Launch site

Road Stoves

Project Description

Client's objective was to advance and establish his presence as the premier food truck brand. With a fleet of popular and successful food trucks in Los Angeles, client intends to use this content-rich site to move onto the national scene by creating and celebrating food-truck life and culture.

Platform & Features

Custom CMS, built with PHP. Key customization was creating a Food Truck detail page for each food truck in the fleet -- each truck has its own Twitter feed, integration with Facebook for sharing food reviews, galleries, news and customized food menus. Admin can easily create an unlimited number of Truck Detail pages. Additional site features include multiple galleries, news, calendar, e-commerce, easy-to-use panels for promotion ads or his trucks. Launch site

Flower Muse

Project Description

An asset management company with international stakeholders and connections to international agricultural developments was interested in building a clean, attractive and functional site that offers US consumers a high-quality selection of flowers normally available only to wholesalers, fresh from the farm.

Platform & Features

Magento Enterprise. Custom programming for special shipping algorithm with FedEx for international shipments, custom delivery dates, a Flower Registry, multi-vendor admin panel and support, bulk processing. Launch site

Santa Barbara Design Studios: Gray Mouse

Project Description

Since 1976, client has been producing giftware products designed by a selection of artists. A very important portion of the initial Discovery phase was the Digital Communication Strategy during which our IA/UI lead consulted on benchmarking, positioning and branding, and facilitated discussions for the client's internal creative team to produce a logo, theme, and look & feel that matched their vision of fun, whimsical, cheery products.

Platform & Features

This Magento site has a single backend attached to two frontends: retail and wholesale. Customizations include: integration with 3rd party ERP software, migration of 1000+ products, different levels of wholesale user groups and permissions, hiding selected elements such as prices based on user group, views for best-selling by category, flexible sidebar nav menus. Launch site

Santa Barbara Design Studios: Wholesale

Project Description

See above.

Platform & Features

See above. Launch site

Nexiant, CA

Description

Nexiant is a Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 List company producing state-of-the-art point-of-use MRO dispensing technology -- in other words, vending machines that "automate the last 100 feet of the MRO supply chain" -- as well as hosted MRO inventory management software. Our work here included proposing and diagramming suggested user flow and interfaces for factory-floor vending machines, to meet Nexiant's Touch Screen Functional Specifications.

Crye Associates

Project Description & Summary

Very interesting research project commissioned by the Office of Naval Research, involving 3D graphics, modelling, raytracing and simulations. We designed and developed from scratch a desktop application with a GUI front end and a backend for heavy simulations, all using C++ and OpenGL, and with various libraries and frameworks including Qt, CGAL, boost, Rhino. We worked on this project full-time for 8 months with 2 physicists.

Bid4Spots.com

Project Description

LAPP programming at a tech startup building a web application for reverse auctions for online display advertising. Parent company is an advertising agency with deep connections to radio and tv and specializing in markets for unsold radio advertising. The goal was to create a platform that would make it possible to produce a new media market in 30 days, from terrestrial radio to satellite radio to online to cable tv.

Languages and Work

cakePHP, PHP5, javascript, jQuery, LAPP (Linux Apache PostGres PHP), SQL. On the team of 4 people, our programming work consisted of both frontend and backend development using best-in-class web technologies. Developed user management system, single sign-on; MVC for users and objects (buyers, sellers, auctions, markets, etc).

Summary

We used our experience in primary and secondary markets to help develop an auction market for a different type of instrument: display advertising. This php-based implementation was the rebuild of an existing .NET legacy version, and the objective was to replicate the existing featureset but using OOP and best-practices so that future markets could be easily built and deployed.