Be gentle. It is still a work in progress. I have yet to represent all of the glorious work that I have accomplished. There are quite a few illustrations that I am happy displaying. Though, I am currently discussing amongst contemporaries whether or not those are best fit for another section. Any thoughts on that matter? I would love any feedback that you have.
Archive for March, 2007
21
Mar
Portfolio Is GO!
19
Mar
Portfolio Updates
Soon it will be done. Soon you will see. I’m wrapping up some finishing touches on my portfolio. It will obviously be a work in progress, but I want to represent at least a small portion of the work I accomplished. I’ll give everyone the head’s up when it is live. Surely you are all salivating with anticipation at the prospect of basking in my awesome glow.
Check it out in the main navigation, or click here to visit my portfolio. If you have any comments at all, or just want to say, “hello,” drop me a line on my contact page. Any feeback would surely be appreciated.
15
Mar
Portfolio
Leontine Linens
Incredible SEO turn around with a traffic has increased well over 90% and considerably more in page views since launch of a slimmer, well-organized site structure using best practices.
Dr. McGillicuddy’s
Concept design for the Dr. McGillicuddy’s line of liqueurs. While with The NetcomGroup LLC.
Morgan & Company
Website design, unique html typography, and programming for Morgan and Company website. While with The NetcomGroup LLC.
Malouf Construction
Site concept for Malouf Construction website.
The King Pin Bar
Short and sweet WordPress site for a local bar, including plug-ins for a robust newsletter and gallery management. A simple and effective solution allowing the owners to keep in touch with their patrons interested in activities at The King Pin.
Womans Hospital
Contributed a CSS-based navigation and basic AJAX to the web presence for the Woman’s Hospital in Baton Rouge: for The Netcom Group
Isleworth
Flash-based site featuring XML-driven home listings for Isleworth, an upscale golfing community and one of Tavistock’s primary real estate holdings: for The Netcom Group.
SOM
Early work pioneering WDDX packets for dynamic content population and UI interaction with images and text: for Thirdwave LLC.
MBHB
Flash Actionscript and Javascript menu interaction: for Thirdwave LLC.
Gerhardt & Clemons
Dynamic Actionscript and XML-driven menu system and content population for this design companies portfolio section: for Thirdwave LLC.
07
Mar
SXSW Pilgrimage
I am almost done packing my bags, I have secured most of the electronics I require to make it 5 days in a foreign city, and I have pressed and folded my most dapper of threads. Sometime Friday morning around 5 in the morning I will be on the first leg of my trip to SXSW. Waking up at 5′aught clock, securing my luggage and carry-ons, and heading to the airport. On the plane by 7, layover in Dallas/Fort Worth for an hour, back in the air by 9:30 and on the ground in Austin by 10:45. I’m traveling with a companion, the Multimedia Designer from Netcom, Nick. We will hit up Enterprise to pick up our economy sized Ford Micro-Spec or the next smallest car you can get for couch change. Fortunately we will both be rocking our own rooms; with king size beds at that. The best accomodations we could procure at the late date of our reservations slightly procludes us from walking. We will be lodge at the Holiday Inn - Town Lake which, thankfully, is only about 5 minutes from everything by car.
Questions that I still would like to answer before reaching the mecca:
- Should I bring my laptop everywhere?
- Is it ok to record audio/video?
- Is it ok to re-broadcast sed audio/video?
- How will I be able to see the 6 panels I want at the same time?
- What is/are the etiquette/morays of SXSW?
So that is the ultimate idea. Though, that is also just the beginning. It would be great to find some Sherpa or mystical guide to aide my way finding on this SXSW pilgrimage. I am open to the advice of any and all folks the have been there or know something I don’t.
The pre-SXSW excitement is nearing a climax. For the past two week I have been plotting and scheming like a savant with OCD. I have color coded and highlighted the panels in order of interest based on hierarchy, meticulously planed checked and mapped travel plans, and have a a solid foundation of when and where I’ll be boozing it up every night at the after parties. In fact like most people I have been paying much closer attention to the newest parties that have been announced than the newest speakers or panels.
Continue reading ‘The Best Laid SXSW Plans…’
Check out a very good friend of mine, Brian Turnbough, with his team on The Learning Channels as part of Sand Blasters 2007 competition.
Check him out for a moment in this music video about the Sand Blaster Competition. Here is an excerpt from the Learning Channel Web Site:
Ted introduced Brian to sand sculpting seven years ago, and they have been working together regularly ever since. As part of a larger team they won the People’s Choice Award at the World Championships in 2004, but this is their first time competing as a duo.
There is a picture of the team demolishing their sand sculpture in the gallery on the site.
02
Mar
Oh The Shiny New Toys
Oh Yes, this will be mine! $499 for a digital video camera that with take 16:9 aspect ratio HD video and 7.1 mega pixel still shots. You just cant beat that with a stick. Unfortunately, I have to pre-order or it will disapear from the shelves faster than the Wii. Here are some specs from the Canon’s TX1 page:
With the PowerShot TX1, Canon takes a futuristic wish-list and makes it a reality. This is an ELPH-sized camera with a whopping 10x optical zoom that not only captures 7.1 megapixel images, but HD movies, too! The stylish vertical design in stainless steel houses plenty of premium advancements including Optical Image Stabilizer Technology, DIGIC III Image Processor, Face Detection Technology and Red-eye Correction. And because you’ll want to take this compact wonder everywhere, it’s equipped with a built-in lens cover and tough new scratch-resistant, anti-reflective coating on the LCD screen.
Putting up mad specifications:
- ISO 1600
- Face Detection Technology
- 1280×720 HD video at 30fps
- 1080i component video playback
Obviously, I will need some face time with this camera in person before actually pulling out the plastic. On first inspection this looks like exactly what I need for a price that I’m very pleased with. What I am hung up on, is the idea that I won’t be rocking this bad dog for SXSW.
01
Mar
Resumé
Professional Experience
THE WEEK Daily
Freelance: Webmaster
Content, Newsletter, Ad managment. Social networking design.
- CSS / XHTML
Wenner Media
Freelance: Interactive Design and Development
Customer Service back-end and subscription services integrating with Wenner Media’s fulfillment house.
- CSS / XHTML
- Javascript Interaction
COX Communication
Freelance: Interactive Design and Development
Creative design for email blasts to COX Communication subscribers. Updated email designed to work cross platform, attract attention, and create a more cohesive brand while creating mass email with as little flagging as possible.
- CSS / XHTML
- Richmedia
- Mass Marketing
Leontine Linens
Freelance: Interactive Design and Development
Incredible SEO turn around for a site that started as a table based layout. Now this site validating almost entirely site wide as XHTML 1.0 transitional. Site traffic has increased by 19.5% and considerably more in page views since launch of a slimmer, well organized site structure and standards based coding.
- Information architecture redesign
- CSS / XHTML coding restructure
- SEO
- Analytics tracking
- Contact tracking
- Content updates
The King Pin Bar
Freelance: Interactive Design and Development
Short and sweet WordPress site for a local bar. The site includes plug-ins for a robust newsletter and gallery management. A simple and effective solution for the owners to keep in touch with their patrons, and for the patrons to keep up with the activities of The King Pin.
- Hosting and DNS transfer
- WordPress installation and SQL database management
- CSS Design
- Installation of Newsletter Management
The Netcom Group , New Orleans
Senior Interactive Designer
- Design of collateral for print, web, and interactive media.
- Programming for interactive applications
- Development of business standards on multiple platforms
- Coordination of multiple projects through the life cycle: design, programming, analysis
- Creative online advertising media including banner ads, bulk email, and interactive presentations.
Thirdwave LLC, Chicago
Interactive Designer / Programmer
- Business site design
- Creation of interactive interfaces and navigational hierarchy
- Flash Actionscript based interaction with dynamically managed content
- Creation of dynamic content, menu, and interaction for Flash web applications
- Wire frame design
- Logic flow design
Mindwave, Chicago
Pre-print / Design Assistant
- Pre-print tasks
- Design
- Director Lingo
Adobe Systems
Student Representative
Proficiencies
Current language capabilities and software aptitude
- Adobe Web Development Suite
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Open Office
- CSS 1.x, 2.x, 3; XHTML 1.strict, 1.1, 2; X/HTML 5; XML
- Actionscript 1
- Javascript
- jQuery
- Studying PHP & SQL
- Constant Contact
- WordPress
- Text Pattern
Achievements
- 2006 — Gold ADDY® Award: Louisiana Office of Culture, Recreation & Tourism - Multi Media Presentation
- 2006 — Silver ADDY® Award: Tavistock.com
- 2006 — Silver ADDY® Award: IsleWorth.com
- 2006 — Silver ADDY® Award: Womans.org
- 2003 — Featured Illustrator for Echo Magazine; 3 Published Illustrations (black and white, computer, and marker)
- 2003 — Columbia College Chicago Academic Computing Senior Art Show: Thread
- 2003 — Guest Speaker for Animation for the Web I: Flash Animation at Columbia College
Education
Bachelor of Art, Columbia College Chicago
Digital Media Technology Major
- Interface and Navigation
- Interaction Design
- Digital Imaging
- Flash Actionscript 1
- Desktop Publishing
Knowledge Base
- Standards compliance
- Device independence
- Interface and navigation
- Interaction design
- User experience
