Interface

In addition to designing character bio pages for The Accuser, I was responsible for organizing a galleries of "behind the scenes" material; preliminary sketches, storyboards, and other materials used in the course of production. For The Accuser, I used a 3D-Rendered metallic frame around the content on each page.

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Notifications is a compenent of inResonance’s Portal Web Services, which allows students who have applied to a school to check the progress of their application via the web, and view their decision letter online on the day decisions are released.

As a way to learn some ColdFusion basics, in 2003 I decided to implement a project I had been meaning to do for a long time in PHP: A central Bookmark manager. I never envisioned some of the social possibilities that del.icio.us has implemented since, but I was thinking along those lines.

While any web browser worth its salt has a feature for saving favorite URLs, users of more than one computer or browser (Mozilla, MSIE, Lynx, Opera, Home, work, laptop, etc) often find themselves with several different bookmark lists, each one out of sync.

In addition to the design and upkeep of the Stanlee.net web site, the Stan Lee Media web department (known as "Squnkwurx" within the company) was also responsible for exploring new technologies and developing new concepts. The so-called Mobile Web was a hot topic at the time, and for a brief time the company toyed with the idea of publishing an AvantGo channel. The project was eventually shelved, but these are some of the concepts I put together.

Mobile Interface Concepts

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I developed both the interface and the back-end for this component of the Stanlee.net web site, which was the first practical application I wrote using PHP.

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Originally developed for Trinity Pawling School, WebGrades is a web application that allows student grades and comments to be exported from inResonance’s KEYSTONE SIS (Student Information System) to a PHP/MySQL web application via ODBC. Parents can log in and view their students’ grades, and administrators can log in and manage system settings. WebGrades was also deployed for The Harvey School.

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FLWFinder was a PQA (Palm Query Application, also known as "Web Clipping Application") for looking up the addresses of Frank Lloyd Wright-designed buildings from any PalmOS handheld with an internet connection. The backend consisted of a set of PHP scripts which in turn accessed a MySQL database.

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The most complex project I developed at the hospital was a PHP/PostgreSQL system for tracking skill competencies for the nursing staff, to replace the paper system that was in use at the time. For each nursing position in each department there’s a list of skills, or "Orientation Tool", that the employee must demonstrate they’re capable of performing. As new employees show they can perform their duties, the appropriate skills on each Orientation Tool are digitally signed by a preceptor.

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The producers realized that we would need more than a three minute flash animation every other week to retain an audience, and to that end a great deal of supplementary material was made available. I was charged with creating interfaces for The Drifter character biographies. Using copy provided by the writers and artwork provided by the animators, I incorporated everything into a Macromedia Flash-based interface, using ActionScript to handle the scrollbars and control transitions.

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One of the major uses of the hospital intranet is the organization of the many forms and documents used by the Nursing Staff. Documents are stored Adobe Acrobat PDF format and cataloged for keyword searches by the ht://Dig search engine. Documents are also browseable by category.

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