A short-list of current proficiencies include HTML(5), CSS(3), Javascript, jQuery, C#,
ASP.Net MVC, User Interface design, new feature and enhancement generation, Adobe Photoshop, and a good eye for clean, simple design.
Besides 17+ years experience in software development in general,
I have worked in web development and design for the last 12.
User Interface is my passion.
I love building beautiful, usable, elegant things.
My ideal job is one where I have the chance to be creative as well as use my coding and development skills.
Several of my favorite projects below are small websites which allow me to do things on "both sides of the fence"
and that makes me happy.
- JoyLi.net for Studio Joy Li
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- Project Type
- Website
- Contributions
- Site design, all code, all graphic editing and design
- Skills/Tech
- HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Photoshop
This website is the primary online presence for the fashion designer Joy Li
to promote her clothing lines as well as her retail store.
Updated with each season's line, I do all the editing from the stock photos and redesign the
home page to best show off the new line's photos.
- AikidoOfScottsdale.com for Aikido of Scottsdale
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- Project Type
- Website
- Contributions
- Site design, all code, most photography, all graphic editing and design
- Skills/Tech
- HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Photoshop, photograpy
This website is the primary online presence for Aikido of Scottsdale, of which I
have been a member in training for more than 7 years. Besides building the site, I also had the opportunity
to provide almost all of the photography that is used on the site from my collection of photos taken during
seminars and other dojo events.
- Retail Solution for Microsoft Surface for Accenture and Avanade
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- Project Type
- Microsoft Surface application
- Contributions
- UX guidance, all graphic design and some code
- Skills/Tech
- Photoshop, Illustrator, C#, Expression Blend, XAML, Surface SDK, Windows Presentation Framework
This project was a joint venture as a proof of concept for ways a retail buisiness might
use the Microsoft Surface to enhance a shopper's experience in the store. I was brought in as the UX lead and graphic designer,
but I also did some code in XAML and WPF for implementation. It was a great experience before Microsoft Surface had officially
been released to public venues and I was able to work directly with the Microsoft UX teams to help refine some of the
UI conventions still in use today.
- ValleyOfTheSunDogRescue.org for Valley of the Sun Dog Rescue
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- Project Type
- Website
- Contributions
- Site design, some code, all graphic editing and design
- Skills/Tech
- ASP.Net MVC, C#, HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Photoshop
This website is the primary online presence for the dog rescue.
It was built as part of a team effort for
AZ Give Camp, a semi-annual event for technical people to
volunteer their skills to build websites for non-profits over the course of a weekend.
I am responsible for all design and graphic editing as well as a good bit of the client side code and some of the server side as well.
My team, Alec Ruderman, Jacob Page and Dominic Tuso, and I managed to pull all this together in
about 24 cumulative hours (I had a little head start with some of the graphics) and the site has attracted and
informed thousands of visitors and generated a significant increase in attendance at the rescue's
adoption events since release. It is a real win for the rescue!
- Blog.DiscoveringStyle.com for myself
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- Project Type
- Website
- Contributions
- Site design, all code, all graphic editing and design
- Skills/Tech
- WordPress, HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Photoshop
This site is a personal project for my interest in style and fashion.
It is built on WordPress and I have created a custom theme, plugins, filters and functions to
create a more interesting, organized and visually engaging site. All the graphics and photography
are also my creation.
- InstantPage for GoDaddy.com
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- Project Type
- Web application product offering
- Contributions
- Prototype on all tiers, then code for production.
- Skills/Tech
- ASP.Net MVC, C#, HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, jQuery Widget Factory, NewtonSoft JSON.Net
Please click on each thumbnail above to see an example of the
product in use with some of my own graphics and information. I developed the prototype for the application
including the database layer, the middle tier (in ASP.Net MVC) and the client side HTML, CSS and Javascript.
I was also worked closely with the UX team to come up with the visitor side layouts and admin side
design controls and functionality. Once the prototype was approved I was an integral member of the
team that brought the app to production. It is available as a free product when you buy any domain and
is currently used by more than half a million customers.
- StudioGurus.com for Studio Gurus
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- Project Type
- Website
- Contributions
- Site design, all code, graphic editing and design
- Skills/Tech
- HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Photoshop
This website is in the final stages of content approval before release. It will be the
primary online presence for Studio Gurus and their flagship product, Studio Martial Arts Manager.
- Fido Fun Walk Flyer for Valley of the Sun Dog Rescue
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- Project Type
- Flyer
- Contributions
- Graphic Design and Typography
- Skills/Tech
- Photoshop
I was asked to create a poster for the dog rescue to help promote their
upcoming fundraising event. They have printed thousands of the poster and it is being distributed
in every local-to-the-event PetSmart shopping bag.
- HTML5Today.info for myself
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- Project Type
- Demo Website
- Contributions
- Site design, all code
- Skills/Tech
- HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Modernizr
A companion demo website for a HTML5 technical presentation I gave at the 2011 Go Daddy TechFest,
a semi-annual one day conference for the development and technical employees of Go Daddy with sessions on a
variety of topics. This website, while not a great example of my design skills, is a useful tool to see quickly
the HTML5 capabilities in whatever browser it is run in. It is still in progress to provide samples for all the capabilities.
