www.enterprisecounsel.com — Web Designer. I am very grateful to provide ECG's Web design services for the past 5 years. They are willing to send the check to wherever I might have moved to! (Irvine to Washington D.C., to San Jose, to Dallas)
www.taqueriadf.com — Web Designer. Simple site made for a restauranteur in exchange for free tacos! I continue to implement a targeted Internet marketing campaign that increases the taqueria‘s popularity among the many young urban professionals in the area. The owner and I remain very close friends and to this day feel welcomed to visit and stay for breakfast 'til dinner while visiting in D.C.
www.nicedigsdesign.com — When Tish got word that a review of her interior design work was to be featured in a Washington Post art/lifestyle story, she took action to get a Web site up to point readers to. She registered a domain, leased server space, composed her design in Quark, but was stuck when it came to actually getting the pages online.
Solution: Optimized the graphics for the Web, wrote HTML, Javascript, and CSS. The photo galleries were created in Flash, with back-end management so that Tish could add/remove photos, and re-arrange with a simple drag-and-drop AJAX interface.
www.nationalgeographic.com — Jr. Web Designer. I bought a one-way ticket to D.C. to see if I could find a job and got super lucky to work at the NG Headquarters as part of the Digital Media group. As part of a team of 5 other extremely talented designers, I got to learn the ropes for design production processes in a media-publications environment, design team structure, image color-correction, and the importance usability testing. As one of the jobs that came early in my career, I will always look back with an appreciation as I continue use a lot of what I learned in my everyday work.
www.nationalgeographic.com/pod — Jr. Web Designer. I was able to introduce an automated system to add watermarks and photographer credits within Photoshop.
bulletin.aarp.org — Trends indicate older Americans are embracing the Internet as a news outlet (Neilsen/NetRatings). Extending AARP's reach to 40 million seniors in the U.S., the organization revamped its Web site to deliver relevant news for its members on an hourly basis through its new Web outlet, AARP Bulletin Today.