Way back in 1997 when i was finishing my MFA a friend asked me to come work with her at America Online. The rest is history and here are some highlights.
Visit Santa Cruz county was ready for a redesign. While not as challenging as moving them from DOT NET NUKE to Wordpress (as I did around 6 years ago), moving them from a PHP template based system to Gutenberg was no small feat.
A custom real-time monitoring and configuration application for remote cameras built with React and using AWS Amplify, AppSync, Lambda, & IoT Core.
A new project I am starting, an application built on AWS with Next/React. Functionality thus far includes creating Markdown documents, diagrams/flowcharts, and a chat interface with Anthropic’s Claude AI assistant.
An online searchable & sortable digital media archive for the Tsay Keh Dene First Nation built with AWS MediaConvert, Lambda and the Wordpress API.
What started as an learning experiment with designing and building an API is now a Rockets CMS.
A Wordpress Gutenberg site built for Boom, builders of a new generation of supersonic airplanes.
An animation heavy Wordpress website with an integrated Shopify Cart and Checkout for a tech start up.
Building a editable Wordpress site for the the web server company.
A plug in for use on a midi track in Ableton Live. Controls a Korg Monologue via midi cc. Allows for automation of Monologue by parameter name. Receives parameter values via sysex program dump.
A peer to peer bicycle marketplace and database in Symphony and Angular built for Bicycle Blue Book.
Zoetic Press is a small independent Book Publisher in Santa Cruz, I built a custom Shopify storefront for them that they could easily update an maintain.
Narrative Technologies was a startup based in Santa Cruz that built a non-linear electronic book format. I built a Wordpress site for them
Matlack/Van Every Design, Inc. is an Interior Design firm based in Santa Cruz specializing in Orthodontic and Dental office design. They had an existing Wordpress site and I was tasked with designing, building and implementing a modern theme for them.
From 2006-2015, I was Webmaster at Universal Audio which meant I was responsible for all things front end on the company website. This included product info pages, an online store running on Magento, support area, webzine, and email promotions. I also designed ads and promotional graphics. About half my time was in Adobe, the other half in HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP.
With the launch of the UAD-2 I did a redesign of the Universal Audio website. Updating the old tables and frames to CSS with some Flash here and there.
From 2001-2005 worked at URB Magazine where I designed, built and updated the website. My 1st version was built with Flash but read external text and photo files so could be updated easily. The 2nd version was a straight css and html site. Both versions were updated weekly with content, some original and some from the magazine.
PRO-Keds, a dormant shoe brand, decided to relaunch with a new product line. I designed and built a launch site for them with Flash that showed off the new shoes, told a little of their history, and promoted events.
Groove Radio is a Electronic Radio station based in Los Angeles, and was on of the 1st and most popular online streaming radio sites. I built a html and Flash based site for them.
It was 1999 and everyone wanted a website. I built a maintained a site for the Sunset Blvd nightclub that had a calendar and a pretty hefty archive of old images.
While working at iXL, I was on the team designing and building a web portal for Mountain Dew. This was in the very old days when the process was designing the page in photoshop, then cutting it up into pieces and reassembling with html. This was before CSS was a thing even.