A week after finishing up my MFA I was designing pages for America Online. The rest is history and here are some highlights.
Custom-built tourism website showcasing Santa Cruz County’s attractions, events, and local businesses
Built with Next/React/Amplify, my ‘flagship’ site is now at rexreyes.com with some small updates.
Real-time monitoring platform that lets security teams manage their camera network through a centralized React dashboard.
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.
Digital media platform preserving Tsay Keh Dene First Nation’s cultural content through a searchable video archive powered by AWS and WordPress.
What started as an learning experiment with designing and building an API is now a Rockets CMS.
Custom WordPress Gutenberg site that delivers Boom Supersonic’s dynamic content with the polish of their original React design.
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
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.