I've been very fortunate to have had the opportunity to provide services for so many great organizations over the past 10 years. Below you will see a fairly detailed cross-section of the the work that I have done in the past. This list is in no way complete, and indeed I have produced many other pieces as well. I have selected these samples because I feel they are representive of my versitility in design and technical proficiency.
MUSCLE CONTENT —
I recently did this Flash splash page with FLV video for a commercial writer.
PREMIUMDISPOSAL.COM —
I collaborated with an associate on this web site for a Chicago based waste disposal company where I coded the XHTML/CSS pages and he provided the design.
HAGERTY.COM —
I currently work full time for Hagerty.com as a web designer / developer and am busy during the day working on many web site enhancements, as well as helping to re-define company and department web production processes, standards and best practices. Below are some of the projects I've worked on Hagerty. Our sites current interface is dictated, so I did the parts in the middle and on the right sidebar.
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I worked at
for just shy of a year during 2007 as a senior member of the marketing department's graphic design/ web development team. I was the lead designer/ coder on the recent re-design of the companys website and continued to lead the sites development throughout my employment. I am responsible for most of the graphic design and web page coding on that project which has changed a lot since. Some of my other work is showcased below:
BORGANIK.COM —
Of course, I designed and built every part of the site you are on now. It was built to showcase my previous work and at the same time be an example of my current work. It is still evolving, and I have plans to add some more bells and whistles soon, so tune in later to see what new features I have added.
DEEPTRONICS.COM —
I designed, built, and maintained DeepTronics, Inc. for 2 1/2 years. I was the owner, operator and webmaster all in one.
GREATLAKESRELOCATIONCENTER.COM —
Designed corporate identity package for emerging business. Package included business card, brochure, poster and website. Design and website built from ground up, no templates, according to client specifications. Created graphics in Photoshop and hand-coded site in Dreamweaver.
MELODYSTIRK.COM —
Designed and built Website utilizing Joomla CMS for Kalamazoo real estate team. Work included logo design, site design, custom forms programming, document management system, MLS integration and virtual tour integration.
APEXFINANCIAL.COM —
I built this very basic website for a Grand Rapids based mortgage brokerage. It has forms on every page and was designed to provide information and generate leads.
DIAMONDLAKEESTATE.COM —
I built this site for Kalamazoo REALTOR® Melody Stirk to showcase a 6 million dollar real easte listing.
TWIXWOOD.COM —
I was contracted to code this site based on an existing design from a Kalamazoo based IT company who provided web development services.
ESTA-USA.COM —
Like the site above, I was contracted to code this site based on an existing design from a Kalamazoo based IT company who provided web development services.
MOTOROLA/SURROUNDMOTO —
I coded this single web page as part of an employment test. The page was chosen because of it's particularly awkward layout angles. It was coded in HTML 4.0 with tables and should look the same in all browsers.
VENTURE INDUSTRIES —
I designed and coded this site for a website hosting company in 2001.
CYANGLOBAL.NET —
I designed and coded this site for a website hosting company in 2001.
HOUSE OF HALLOWEEN —
This is a template I co-designed and coded but never used.
ETOYS.COM —
During 1999-2000, I worked for eToys, Inc. in Los Angeles as a Web Producer during the last years of the big internet boom. During my time there, I was the project manager responsible for implementing what would later become eToys most successful shopping category "shop by age".
DRSTELMACH.COM —
In 1999, I was contracted to design and build this website for a Los Angeles based cosmetic dentist.
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"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
- Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult."
- C. A. R. Hoare