BearingPoint, a technical consulting firm, contracted me to provide my interaction devlopment and user experience skills to help completely rebuild the Texas state portal, TexasOnline.com. The project had a 6 week timeframe from concept to go live. Working with a team of user experience developers, my interactive specialties were called into play as the website was to be judged for the honorable Best of the Web Award.

I created a number of cutting edge features including real-time webpage language translation utilizing the Google Translation API (Spanish, French, Germain, Korean, and Chinese all supported), client-side radial search on Google Maps mashups including live, streaming traffic cameras, map overlays for traffic conditions on interstates and freeways, and street-level views for certain state agency office locations. Moreover, I provided features such as gracefully degrading slideshows and a clean "fade-in/fade-out" subnavigation tabbing structure for additional page content. Accessibility was a top priority for this site as well, so all the code written was Section 508 compliant and consequently SEO-optimized. The website received first place for Best Fit Integrators award and fourth place for Best of the Web.

Project Scope:

• Complete Website Overhaul: Design and Implementation
• Google Web Services Integration (Maps and Translation APIs)
• Custom jQuery Plugin Development
• Graceful Degradation/Progressive Enchancement Techniques
• Website Optimization Techniques (JavaScript Compression, Low Page Weight)

Dr. Rajut Gupta is an accomplished, talented, and well respected Neurologist and owner of the Headache and Pain center in Austin, Texas. Dr. Gupta's former website, on the other hand, lacked the same professional characteristics that Dr. Gupta and his practice present. I created a website that was not only polished and professional, but standards compliant and helpful for the end user. The site utilizes the Google Maps API so patients can obtain driving directions to the Headache and Pain Center. Moreover, intelligent Apache rewrite rules were written to redirect old links to the new site and custom error pages were created as well.

Project Scope:

• Complete Website Overhaul: Design, Implementation, and Deployment
• Google Maps API
• Apache Server Configuration

Mottainai's original site had been completely built using Actionscript 3.0. To meet critical dealines, Mottainai contacted me to modify their home page, but most importantly enhance their collections galleries as the focus is clearly on the clothes.

Project Scope:

• Website Revision.
• Recoded the collections galleries in Actionscript to handle scalability and proper positioning.
• Quickly added a lightbox enabled "non-Flash" user gallery for the various collections.
• Created necessary Javascript popups within the Flash main site.
• Full featured users panel with the ability to search through page visitors.

SMB Capital, the leading proprietary equity trading firm in New York City, came to me looking for a simple and secure way to manage their traders and their respective trading data. Traders also needed their own accounts where they could view trading data and their contact information. *Please note that I did not design their website.

Project Scope:

• "TRM" (Trader Relationship Manager)
• UI Design

Mandy Lauderdale is as much as a performer as she is an icon. Her image, her look, and her style are truly unique and her Myspace profile needed to reflect this. Working around Myspace's infinitely embedded table-based design scheme, made this an interesting and challenging project as the rules of XHTML, CSS, and Javascript were completely ruled out.

Project Scope:

• Myspace Profile Design.
• Flash Animation.
• Embedded Video.