Web Development

Directory designed for quick navigation, reading, and comparison of list of ~50 programs. Branding and layouts were designed in concert with the print team to create a unified look to all ISEP media. I created web assets to adapt to the widest possible range of screen sizes and browser types to accomodate international and academic clients using nonstandard hardware; and allow quick drop-in addition or removal of programs. User workflow was mapped and profiles developed using Analytics results to streamline consumer navigation and increase traffic by 40% to key ‘call to action’ pages.

Content-sensitive ASP template designed to apply to many hundreds of entries, developed to pull content from a central SQL database updated by program staff via a custom in-house CMS. Primary goals were to logically sort entries, visually break up long blocks of text, organize greatly varied data into coherent categories, and provide some flexibility in support for different quantities and types of information, while remaining as visually united and clean-looking as possible with the base content.

When Rare Conservation wanted to roll out a new Drupal-based site for the organization, built for their diverse international audience, they turned to me to oversee it. Social media integration, mobile-friendly design, and an ability to be updated and clearly read in multiple languages were key goals, and the content management architecture allows for the site to be maintained by minimally trained staff in remote locations.

The AGU maintains a massive scope and variety of web content, but has a small development team to build sites or perform technical work. To efficiently centrally manage their sites and their various assets they have leveraged a powerful WordPress suite with plugins meant to greatly increase the flexibility of the CMS and the speed with which content templates can be developed, to be populated by various staff. I became the primary frontend developer who created the content types and layouts to suit the varied needs of the organization.

WordPress-based corporate site based off PDF comps, for a client whose priorities were mobile compatibility and exact adherence to a design guide within a simple package.

For their 2016 Emerging Researchers National Conference, the AAAS planned to move much of their massive postsecondary-level science fair online, replacing their old paper-based system. Within a couple of weeks I developed mobile-friendly WordPress templates for their online abstracts; imported all their user-submitted content from raw spreadsheets; and developed systems for authors to edit their abstracts, judges to evaluate presentations, and officials to tabulate the results via their browsers.

Ads provide special challenges in terms of footprint and compatibility that prohibit some of the most common development shortcuts, so when The Godfrey’s marketing team required an animated, interactive ad series functional on the broadest possible range of platforms they turned to me to develop a set of HTML5 banners to their spec in the smallest possible download size.

With 20 staff and one fulltime web developer spread between two journals, an annual meeting, half a dozen semi-independent grants initiatives, and a widely varying number of community initiatives at any given time, the ASCB’s absolute priority is flexibility and ease of use in its online platforms. To this end I’ve bent the WordPress post system to generating maps, calendars, charts, job boards, and galleries; established a gated content management system both to create a membership incentive and automate the process of creating a curated web experience for different classes of user; and developed a series of generic Sage-based microsite themes that can be rapidly restyled and configured into different layouts with a minimum of technical savvy.