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In 1998 I became a docent at the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Ennis house (called the Ennis-Brown house at the time) in Los Angeles, California. Apart from helping with tours of the house, I was responsible for building the first web site for the house. I was honored to have the opportunity to design a web site for a Frank Lloyd Wright structure, and I wanted to incorporate as many elements of the house’s style into the web site as I could, hence the extensive use of varied concrete block graphics. (The entire house is constructed of patterned concrete blocks.)

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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 Fund For Women Artists wanted a system that would allow artists to sign up for a free account, and create their own artist profile on the womenarts.org web site, searchable by name, location, or artistic interest. The system was build from scratch using PHP and MySQL, and currently supports more than 800 artist profiles at .

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In 1999, through my involvement at the Ennis house I also became a docent at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House. My chief interest was in designing a web site for the Barnsdall house, but all of the elements never quite came together, and my design was never fully implemented.

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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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