FCB Health NY
Build and update compliant websites and emails for large pharmaceutical companies on multidisciplinary teams using software like Veeva, Drupal, WordPress, HTML, CSS, JS, SASS, and Bootstrap.
Geekhive
Worked on various projects on multi-disciplinary teams building custom themes and more from the ground up off very specific design documents for companies like Intrarosa, First Abu Dhabi Bank and Chase Bank.
Lendal North America
Built a fully modular custom WordPress theme and woocommerce site based on a detailed visual mockup from a designer.
Association of Consulting Chemists & Chemical Engineers
Redid the styles on multiple pages to allow them to update the theme and plugins, and modernized some of the style choices.
Andrea McFarland
Converted the website from a straight HTML site to a WordPress site that could be updated, and managed without a web developer.
Various Freelance Work
Basic maintenance done on various sites to update, debug problems, and improve them.
Geekhive
I was hired as a co-op at Geekhive for 7 months. Within a week I was working on client projects and often I was the main developer on them. I worked on multi-disciplinary teams with a Project Manager, QA, and often times with other developers or developer co-ops.
Here are some of the bigger projects that I worked on:
Intrarosa
Geekhive was hired to develop a the website of a big pharmaceutical company. We were given very specific design documents down to font, colors, layout and font size. I worked on this project with a PM, QA team, and another developer co-op. I mainly used HTML, CSS, SASS and JavaScript. Below is a link to the version of the site that I worked on.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180411162518/http://us.intrarosa.com/#
First Abu Dhabi Bank
Geekhive was hired to build and style a contact form using web forms for sitecore. We were given a specific design for the form. I was the only developer on this project, and I worked with a PM and QA team.
The project itself was simple, but we ran into an interesting problem when the form displayed fine on our stock version of sitecore, but it did not display properly on their multi-site version. Due to their IT policy we could not get access to their instance of sitecore, or interact with it live. They would only sent us screenshots of it not displaying properly.
After a lot of back and forth, we finally got them on a screen share call and I was able to have them pull up the web inspector so I could see the html and how the CSS was interacting with it. Turns out someone working on their other site had modified the stock code of the web forms module so that the forms had a completely different html layout, and therefore the styles didn’t get applied. With a screen shot of the html layout of the form I was able to fix it and send them working styles.
Chase Bank
Geekhive had a continuing contract to make dynamic slideshows for explaining Chase’s products on iPads at expos. They gave us the text, images and types of movement they wanted on the new slideshows that utilized the previously created dynamic slideshow system. Slideshows were made with Vue.js and SASS. I was the lead developer and I worked on it with a couple of different developer co-ops that came and went, a PM and a QA team.
The developer who had built the original code no longer worked at Geekhive, and there was very little documentation on how it worked. I was tasked with tackling this huge body of code, understanding it and expanding it with the new features that the new slideshows required. The other developers on this project mostly just worked on the easy slides that required no modification.
Geekhive’s Website
During the down time between other client projects I also did some work on Geekhive’s website. I mainly focused on the blog posts section. I updated the search function, and re-styled the search and blog posts pages. This project used PHP, HTML, CSS, SASS and the WordPress API. I was the only developer and I worked with the QA Team. Unfortunately, the website has since been totally remodeled, and wayback machine does not have the blog pages stored.
Lendal North America
I was hired by Lendal to build them a new WordPress website from the ground up that supported e-commerce, had a heavy presence of the images from their ambassadors and was capable of being expanded and updated without the need for a full web developer. They already had a designer with a plan for what they wanted it to look like, and I was hired to make it a reality.
I accomplished the e-commerce through woocommerce.
I accomplished the customizability through a complex use of Advanced Custom Fields that were linked to specific types of content. For example, a block of text with an image, a video, header or a product. Then in the admin side of the site the blocks could be ordered, added and copied. That allowed them to use existing blocks to create new pages and products all with the proper styling and also rearrange and edit existing pages without having to know how to code.
The following images are from the site a couple of years later and in the time I have not been working there some of the content has been poorly managed and has lead to bugs and inconsistencies. Unfortunately I do not have full screen grabs of the site while it was at its peak.
Chem Consult
I was hired by Chem Consult to update their theme and plugins, and to update the styles to match pre update with moderizing style choices. The way their original theme was created, a whole new child theme was needed to created from the ground up. The old theme was a hard copy of the parent theme, and so it was impossible to update the theme without losing all of their custom styles.
Additionally, to update the plugin they were using to show a list of consultants, any pages that relied on it had to be restyled from scratch. That plugin had changed the base HTML that they used to display information so it broke all of the existing styles.
Andrea McFarland
I was hired by Andrea to take a pure HTML site that required the developer to add any new content and turn it into a WordPress site that she could manage and add content to on her own. She wanted it to match the old site as closely as possible as well.
