Amazon Kindle R&D Website

As a contractor at Amazon Kindle Special Conversions group, I was tasked to create an informational site that would describe the group's current activities. Projects were to be described and available to upper management and stakeholders of Kindle publishing. HTML, CSS, and jQuery (including 'Lightbox' gallery plugin) were used to create this site.

Star Wars: The Old Republic Site

I earned a contract position at Ascentium in Bellevue, WA to help them convert BioWare's Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO marketing and informational HTML website into a better HTML5 website, that features current styling and design. Handcoded using Visual Studio 2010, it was great fun to construct new pages using existing content and provided graphic assets.

MediaLuna Agency Site

A pro bono project I worked on for a local business owner. She desperately needed SEO help and HTML/CSS streamlining for her marketing and informational website. I brought her page from nowhere up to first page Google organic search results for a few key business terms, and she now says her business is very busy.

High School 50th Reunion Site

The chairman of the Everett High School, Class of 1961, gave me a commission to incorporate some functional animations and slight redesign of their existing 45th Reunion website for their upcoming 50th Reunion website. Working with a digital graphic artist and designer, we gave the Seagulls a great, exciting, themed website. I also set up a Facebook Group for the class for additional exposure and social networking.

Bowling Shirts Webstore

My bowling-and-Hawaiian-shirt webstore, this ecommerce site operated for three and a half years with a fair amount of financial success. As a sole proprietor, I was the web developer, marketer, accounting, and customer service.

Poker Supply webstore

This webstore, selling premium grade home poker and gaming supplies, in a drop-ship business model, was built entirely by hand coded html and css on Notepad. Product images were edited and manipulated using Photoshop Elements. The webstore hosting and ordering system was done through Yahoo! ecommerce solutions. Jet City Poker Supply was constructed as a very easy to read, easy to navigate website with the customer in mind. Clean, plain product pages was the priority for this webstore.

Guitar Solo Flash AS3 Application

This is a self-directed project, begun after I saw a similar Flash project by Travis Roof, where the user is invited to play a set of virtual drums. I recorded the guitar notes myself using a clean, blues amp model and a heavily distorted metal-like amp model. This was a very fun project, and it turned out as cool as I hoped it would.

Motorcycle Slideshow & Music Player Application

Final project for the second Flash ActionScript course, featuring a custom mp3 player, two tile lists, loading external assets through XML, advanced tweening, and a beautiful reflection effect.

JavaScript Image Gallery

This is a self-directed project, actually continuing the final project of an introductory javascript class. I became very taken by the disciplined approach of Unobtrusive Javascript, separating Content (html) Presentation (css) and Behavior (javascript or client-side scripting).

Kindle Decision-making App

To aid others in producing ebooks, the Content Developer and I were asked to team up and create a scripted decision tree. This project asked the user a sequence of questions to help them determine the most appropriate form of ebook to produce. Link coming soon.

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