Thought Sparks

CURRENT RESUME

ETS-Lindgren

ETS-Lindgren is a world-wide company with offices in several locations in the US, Europe and Asia. The site needed to be scalable and agile for growth including multi-lingual support in the future, accomodate a diverse product offering, User-friendly URLs, RSS for news feeds and a CMS for distributed editing. Visit ets-lindgren.com to see more.

 One Day Academy

One Day Academy was completely overhauled and rebuilt in WordPress. The site has some nice custom features including drop-down navigation and a nifty schedule feature that is queried from a spreadsheet. This enables management of the site with very little training.

This site will very soon be expanding to encompass four major regions: the U.S., Latin America, Europe and Asia. What started out as a small event last year is growing in size and scope. This year I had the opportunity to rework the site to better accommodate this new ongoing series of workshops. Check out techtoursite.com to see more.

Probably one of the best uses for Flash is for tours and touch-screen kiosks. I revamped and developed a series of flash product tours for the website and trade shows. Check out some of the tours at ets-lindgren.com/producttours.

CedarRidgeChurch.net

 The site is initially clean and simple in its design, but it was a fairly quick way to get up and running with a functional site that the church needed. I used a WordPress install and tweaked the site to suite. Check out cedarridgechurch.net to learn more.

The following are screenshots of a few of the websites I have designed and developed in the past. Websites are always in development so the sites may look a bit different from when I was working on them, but here are shots late in the game when I was doing work on them.

AMTA 2006

This was a special event site for a conference here in Austin this past Fall. It was fun to develop because it involved taking a limited site and reworking it to be more full-featured for the event. The site is no longer active on the web.

Concordia University at Austin

I worked for five and a half years at Concordia University at Austin. Concordia was a great place to work and experiment with new technology. While there I developed a Content Management System for the School, did a good amount of Flash development and had the opportunity to take photos to fuel the design work. This site concordia.edu was developed as a home-grown CMS in Coldfusion. 

Probably my most prestigious work to-date. I worked with an assistant and the admissions department to really improve the quality of the admissions site. The NRCCUA, The National Research Center for College University Admissions ranked the site in the top 3% out of 3,000 sites nationally. The site was awarded a top ranking again this year. Pictured here is a groovey flip book of a tour of Austin. Check out discover.concordia.edu especially if you are looking for a good place to go to school!