“Skwerls are the people who make the internet useful.” -Joel Stein, TIME Magazine (9/7/08)
Client: Rey Interactive / SCEA
Role: Systems Administrator
When: 2010
For their big E3 2010 PlayStation press conference, SCEA wanted to send live video feeds to a production house to not only get the press conference quickly edited and sent to G4 TV for broadcasting and online viewing, but to also produce “highlight” PR clips to be sent out to media.
The only problem was they didn’t have a production house close enough.
Client: David J.P. Kaloyanides, APLC
Role: Designer, Developer (Front/Back)
When: 2010
David Kaloyanides, certified specialist in criminal law and defender of alleged federal criminals, is one of the most badass people I’ve ever met. When I did meet him, however, his website just didn’t do him justice. We fixed that.
Client: Conspiracy / Svedka Vodka
Role: Creative & Technical Lead
When: 2010
For Svedka Vodka, I led the design and development of a Facebook application (which I installed to their fan page) promoting a dance competition in LA hosted by Kim and Kourtney (yes, spell checker, you’re right, that is spelled wrong) Kardashian.
The ability to handle significant amounts of burst traffic generated by the “celebrity” endorsements was a key concern of everyone involved, but the VPS I provisioned and configured held strong.
The app featured a custom-built AJAX voting system, Flash video, and the ability for users to share through their news feed.
Client: Enjoy Human
Role: Designer, Developer (Front/Back, Flash)
When: 2009
I am so proud of this project. When the video production company Enjoy Human decided they wanted to radically revamp their site for 2010, we sat down together and planned everything out thoroughly. They knew they wanted something sleek, clean, and designed for widescreen monitors. But beyond that, they didn’t get too hung up on the trivial aesthetics like a lot of clients do (“Can we get the icons in cornflower blue?”), and instead focused on how to effectively present their impressive body of work. There were no last minute direction changes, no jumping from a horse to an elephant in mid-stride so to speak. The clear focus of all parties resulted in a clean, intuitively usable design, and some of the most beautifully efficient code I’ve ever produced.
Client: Butler Sourcing
Role: Backend Developer
When: 2009
So it’s not the prettiest site to look at, but it’s got some of my best code under the hood.
Butler Sourcing, a manufacturer in China, approached me through recommendation in December of 2009. They had a very complex vision that they were having trouble realizing with their outsource teams. They wanted to create a template for a series of websites for specific products. The template would need to be tweaked visually for each site of course, but it also needed to feature an interactive quote wizard that a user could use to “build” a customized product.
I don’t think any of my favorite memories of John are appropriate for public display. Suffice to say that everything noteworthy discovered between the ages of 15 and 18, I discovered with John. From the third Led Zeppelin album, to casual substance abuse, to Girls.
Which, like Led Zeppelin, must be capitalized.
Client: 42 West / Charlize Theron
Role: Flash Developer
When: 2009
I built a combination video player / image scroller for Charlize Theron’s Africa Outreach Project homepage. It was built from scratch in Flash AS3, and communicates with the existing audio player using Flash LocalConnection.
Check out the live version here!
Client: Justin Dettle
Role: Designer / Developer
When: 2009
Justin Dettle reviews extreme heavy metal music for Antiquiet. He’s got so much to say, we decided to give him his own blog dedicated to metal. I threw this together one weekend, after commissioning a badass logo from the very talented Wes DeSoto. Designing this site was so fun. The stone texture is a photograph I took in my backyard.
