Portfolio

You can find some examples of my work listed here. This is only selection that aims to showcase a varied range of what I do. Why put up a large amount of examples that all show off the same thing? Instead, here's a handpicked selection.

Click on any of the spotlights to expand them and read more about each project. You can read a small description of what each project encompassed, or click on the list icon to view some of the technologies used along with short explanations of each.

It was quite a challenge. It's not every day one gets a request for an upgrade to the website of a college newspaper considered by many (especially at Georgetown University, and more specifically at the paper’s headquarters) as a serious competitor to the New York Times. My job was to take the paper’s webpage to the next level so that even the Wall Street Journal would feel the heat. And that we have done. It’s been really fun working with such a committed group of people– The Hoya’s editors and staff- to make this site more responsive to the needs of a modern student publication.

Together we accomplished our objectives: The website has been vastly improved. Sure, we know that the NY Times and Wall Street Journal will survive a bit longer despite our threat. But they better watch out. We are on our way.

Content Migration: Customized content migration was necessary. Years of posting had accumulated into countless static HTML files with no particular structure. A script was developed to go through 9 years of content and extract the article, the author, and the date. To top it off, everything was run through an HTML checker to scrub the code squeaky clean.
Ranked Layouts: With their eclectic front page, The Hoya needed a system to rank articles not just in the front page, where they are all mixed together, but in their respective sections too. Using a system of weights, this was achieved with simplicity, letting the layout managers get as creative as they want.
Simple Advertisement: A custom advertisement solution was developed to make it easy for editors to upload new banners and add them to the rotation queue. Adding new regions is trivial and only one line of programming is required.

This is a great example of a mostly static site that helps give your company an online presence with relatively little maintenance or cost. Occasionally, an administrator can log on, add a couple of wood species or remove old species.

The advantages of using the All-in-One solution that SGA Websites offers is that they can forget about all the technical details. Hosting, domain registration, statistics and maintenance are all performed for them, letting them focus on their business.

Image Rotator: A JavaScript image rotator was installed to make it easy to cycle through pictures of different woods.
Product Uploader: Adding new wood products to the system is trivial and requires no programming, only a simple web form.
Google Maps: The Showroom page integrates Google maps to make it easy for clients to find their way using a system they’re already familiar with.

Georgetown’s International Relations Association needed a brand new website to handle their annual conference, the National Collegiate Security Conference. They had very specific requirements for their users, so a variety of custom solutions were implemented.

Any organization that wishes to participate in the NCSC can register, select the events they wish to participate in, and view their invoices. On the management side, administrators can view every organization’s preferences, see if they’ve paid, and change fees.

Low Maintenance: Because of the recurring nature of a conference, this site was designed to roll over each year easily. Only new preferences have to be provided. This means the same site can be used year after year.
Fee Scheduler: A fee scheduler was developed to allow administrators to designate when fees go up. These news fees apply retroactively to any organization that hasn’t paid their balance in full.
Simplified Coordination: Administrators can easily assign organizations new positions for their delegates, or change old positions. This makes coordinating the entire conference very easy.

The Columbia Spectator needed some drastic changes to their website; through some lengthy discussions and hard, these changes were realized. Although the base site was already complete, they needed to revamp some of their technologies.

The biggest hurdle was organizing their front page. With their daily publications, they needed something highly automated and reliable; so much time was spent creating a system to organize their front page. They also required reparations of a few broken features, including disappearing images and a result-less search feature.

Automation: Highly automated front page layout system, designed to handle the large volume of articles that the Spectator publishes daily.
Newsletter System: One-click newsletter system that can quickly mail new content to the thousands of subscribers that signed up for email updates.
Optimization: Heavy optimization of multiple bottlenecks in the site including a log table with 28,000,000 old entries.
Reparations: A wide variety of reparations were performed to bring the site back up to speed, including disappearing images, a faulty search system, and broken URLs.

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