The majority of my publicly-available interactive work was created between 2002 and 2005. After this time I worked for Deloitte Consulting , and they retain the rights to distribute my work (which means I can’t show it to you).
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Brainchild of Jay Zeschin the site is a highly integrated utility application. It is the first project undertaken by Inkitecture a creative web group including Jay, Kunal and myself.
Jay originated the concept and acted as chief software architect, driving most of the application. I worked on mostly front-end programming and built the identity/layout. Kunal drove the business; creating the business model and developing the marketing plan.
This being a startup, we often switched roles to keep things fresh: for example, Jay taking on the front-end and design at times, while I worked on the bot.
Construction on the site is still on-going and is currently our most vested project.
My most recent work is an implementation of Johnny Lee’s Wiimote Whiteboard made popular as a fun and inexpensive solution to commercial electronic whiteboards. An assessment given the findings from the prototype were posted to YouTube . The video will be used to help leverage a grant to help Forest Hills 5-6 building in Ada, MI equip each classroom with the wiimote whiteboards.
The most notable interactive design contribution by myself was a competitive diamond price rich internet application for DiamondKnowledge.com while working for Red Diamond Design. It was created by Matt Erkkila (architecture php/mysql) and myself (flash/php integration). Please excuse the owner’s penchant for pop-ups; he’s very eager for cross-sell. The original diamond pricer was a tradional web app and rather difficult to use as the user had to go through the drang-und-sturm of waiting for the page to refresh with each adjustment to carat, color, etc. Instantanious results from the rich internet application translates to a wildly improved user experience.
- Published “Emerging Methods of Web Media” in 2005
Each Kalamazoo College student must complete a Senior individualized Project (SIP), which is essentially a senior thesis. With the help of Prof. Pamela Cutter I was able to earn an honors on my thesis, which made me quite happy.
My SIP was a study on the experimental web media methodologies employed while working with Red Diamond Design. Aptly titled, “Emerging Methods of Web Media”, it covered Rich Internet Applications (at the time a relatively new concept), agile deployment of shopping cart systems, search engine optimization and the comoditization of the web development.
During the SIP presentation I pulled out some Flash tricks with my powerpoint, which helped make the experience neat-o.
