Websites
eyeBuzz
Skills
ActionScript, Macromedia Flash
Summary
eyeBuzz is a foray into the exciting world of optical illusions. Intended as an educational piece, this bright and fun website brings not only illusions to light, but also the scientists who discovered or invented them. Information is presented with interactive maps, animated timelines, scrolling text areas, and interactive illusions that beckon, “play with me!”
This site is a work in progress.
Keystone Staffing
Skills
HTML, CSS, ASP, ActionScript, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Flash and Dreamweaver, Bradsoft TopStyle
Summary
Keystone Staffing is a wonderful freelance account. Over the years, we have worked together on HTML websites, Flash websites, a desktop application, and more.
Bayliner
Skills
HTML, CSS, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver
Summary
Bayliner went through three complete website build-outs, all of them my designs. US Marine liked Automark’s work, but the ad agency’s branding decisions continually evolved. At the time I finished, the site was a Flash-heavy experience, which I supervised during a corporate transition in which Automark spun off a boats-only entity, Boat Ventures (now Channel Blade). I also supervised the production of US Marine’s Trophy website during this time.
The current versions of US Marine websites are not handled by me.
Airtraveler.com
Skills
HTML, CSS, ActionScript, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash, Bradsoft TopStyle
Summary
Airtraveler.com was designed and originally built by another team at DSI. My role includes ongoing maintenance in addition to HTML, CSS, and Flash development as new sections are created.
anyauto.com Proposal
Skills
Adobe Photoshop
Summary
This project was a series of images intended to attract anyauto.com as a potential Automark client. I was tasked to create demo screen shots of what the full development might look like, which is always a challenge because the Photoshop results should not depict anything impossible to accomplish in HTML. I include it as an example because my assignment was to pick up existing artwork — the horizonal logo area — and embellish it in the same style.
info2eat.com
Skills
HTML, CSS, ActionScript, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash, Bradsoft TopStyle
Summary
No longer active, info2eat.com was a start-up that became the most diverse of my freelance accounts at the time. My work included everything from promotional brainstorming and games to the usual graphics and web development. Perhaps because of the logo mascot, certain playful visual aspects of info2eat.com comprise some of my favorite work.
Note: The info2eat.com domain no longer points to family friendly content.
Maxum
Skills
HTML, CSS, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash, Bradsoft TopStyle
Summary
US Marine’s Maxum website was a wonderful project from the get go. Their ad agency was amenable to compromise when technology proved it necessary. I visited US Marine headquarters in Seattle, WA, and spent weeks providing and discussing updates to the website as I progressed. Thanks to our prior success with US Marine’s Data Input System, dynamic connectivity was relatively easy — though in the case of Maxum, we went the extra mile and developed a custom hybrid solution of Flash and HTML to preserve the US Marine’s branding. This was in the early days of Flash (version 4), when the Rich Internet Application (RIA) experience wasn’t nearly as ubiquitous.
The current versions of US Marine websites are not handled by me.
MyHotrods.com
Skills
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Bradsoft TopStyle
Summary
One of my long standing freelance clients commissioned this website as a gift for her father. He and his son purchase hotrods, fix them up, then sell the ones they can part with. We were pleased to see the domain MyHotrods.com was available, so I put together the design and subcontracted a colleague with PHP expertise to write the back end. The website is configurable via an admin tool that allows for the creation and management of vehicles in the database.
Penske.com Preliminary Design
Skills
Adobe Photoshop
Summary
Automark’s largest account at the time, Penske was temporarily my full time job. I provided a number of design comps viewed by Roger Penske himself, completed a website build-out, then passed the baton to another developer and supervised his work until my complete attention was required for the US Marine sites.
DisasterPlanning.com
Skills
HTML, CSS, ActionScript, JavaScript, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash, Bradsoft TopStyle
Summary
Massey Enterprises was my first job out of college. My efforts there began with word processing and grew into a self-taught career in multimedia development, which began with the DisasterPlanning.com site and a CD-ROM sales tool. Massey’s Pre-fire / Disaster Plans set the standard for instructional manuals designed to assist firefighters in their duties. The Massey site has seen many revisions and continues to evolve. The current version features video vignettes encoded for Flash Player 7. Though I haven’t worked there in years, Mr. Massey still gives me a call whenever he needs updates.
VaBeachDems.com
Skills
HTML, CSS, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver
Summary
I feel obliged to state the typical caveat: “the views expressed by the Virginia Beach Democrats do not necessarily reflect my own.” This was my largest and longest-running freelance account, active for 6 years before closing shop (it is now maintained under a different domain name and logo by another company, effectively not the same site). The project was a delight from start to finish.