Work

Vision/Scope Strategy, User Experience, UI Design and Webflow Enterprise Development with Content Management and multiple integrations.

I was the project manager on every phase of this complex custom e-commerce project.  We started with strategy, moved into UX/UI Design, then into development, test and launch.

I was the project manager on the re-design for the Student Aid website for the state of Oregon.  This included full new UI Design System, UX Architecture, UX Wireframes and Individual UI Designs for desktop and mobile.

Eminence has a large and complicated platform to support their e-commerce, content management and ERP infrastructure.  Action was engaged to perform a full audit on the platform and make a series of recommendations on a go forward platform strategy to support the next 5-10 years of business growth. We started by reviewing all their relevant systems and collecting and prioritize requirements across all their business units. This information drove our search for the best possible new technologies to support their marketing and e-commerce business units. Many CMC and E-Com vendor platforms were evaluated and clear winners emerged. The results were collated and presented to Eminence in consolidated content management and e-commerce strategic recommendations.

The Barrett Jackson family of companies is the largest classic car auctioneer in the world. Throughout their 50 years of operation and across their portfolio of brands, they have produced and accumulated an immense amount of traditional and digital media content and assets. This includes video, photography, and accompanying written content and assorted data.

Action was engaged to perform a full audit on the asset types, locations and company requirements, and make a series of recommendations on a go forward DAM (Digital Asset Management) platform strategy to support their ongoing and future business needs. We started by reviewing all their relevant assets and systems and collecting and prioritize requirements across all their business units. This information drove our search for the best possible new technologies to support their media, marketing and e-commerce business units. Many DAM vendor platforms were evaluated and clear winners emerged. The results were collated and presented to Barrett-Jackson in consolidated DAM platform strategic recommendations.

AGi Grow is a full farm management product platform project.  My role was the project manager at Apply Digital, the design and development agency hired by the client to bring this product to life.

This project was a re-design of a marketing site for a software company.  Multiple template pages that went through first UX/Wireframing, then design, then development on the Hubspot CMS.

Eva's Wild is dedicated to saving the Wild Salmon of Bristol Bay, Alaska, the largest remaining wild salmon run threatened by the approval of the Pebble open pit mine at it's headwaters.  They combine activism with supportive commerce, putting all their energey into the cause through documentary films, activist activities and the sale of products and services to support their mission.

I was engaged by a direct client to plan a complete online education platform for Bar Mitzvah education.  I advised the client on scope, ran strategy and planning sessions, then planned the entire application with Axure Wireframes.  I then engaged top freelance design and development talent to design and build the responsive front-end of the application.  The platform is currently in the development phase.

Custom Wordpress site with advanced interaction and animation elements.

Custom website with very advanced mobile responsive interactions and animation transitions. 

Project Planning, Copywriting, User Interface, Wireframing, Graphic Design, Front-End Coding.

The Coverall Crew was asked by Adobe Youth Voices to pitch 3 large new projects to support their members. We landed all 3 projects and they were run in unison over 6 months for a total budget of over 1 million dollars. The Essentials site is an online community with complex functionality to support all of Adobe Youth Foundation's Educators around the world. The Aspire Awards site is a yearly online content where members submit entries which are judged and the winners displayed. The Submissions Digital Asset Management site allows members to submit, store and view multimedia in various formats. As part of the Submissions project, a custom uploading component was developed by Coverall Crew to enable large simultaneous file submissions to the AYV servers by worldwide members with large variances in bandwidth and connection reliability. 

My role was sales, strategy, project manager and information architect, meeting with the client to initially sell the engagement, then establish strategy, scope and project plans, running the Coverall Crew Development team and coordinating with Adobe throughout the project. I also completed the information architecture (wireframes) on some of the public facing sites and all the client facing administrations systems that Coverall developed for the project. 

*Note - The Coverall Crew has since completed a design facelift on all Adobe Youth Foundation public facing sites. 

This project was a responsive single-page website for a Vancouver real estate development.

Planning and detailed custom interactive Axure wireframe prototype for an online design application.

Responsive website for a financial service company.

Noise Digital took on the Vancouver Public Library Foundation's website re-design as a pro-bono community project.  I was the information architect on the project, gathering requirements and then developing a responsive Axure interactive prototype for an innovative tile-site content delivery model.

Pernod Ricard USA was planning a nationwide bartender engagement program in 35 cities for its Jameson brand. Unfortunately, there was no system in place supporting these events. Pernod Ricard needed a centralized place to set up and manage these events and collect participant registration data and event photos. 

Cypress (now Ratio Interactive) created a cloud-based event registration and management system for Pernod Ricard. Built using Microsoft’s Azure platform, this toolset gives Pernod Ricard complete control of the event creation and management process, without additional stress being placed on internal systems. And while this toolset was built for a specific series of events for the Jameson brand, the solution can be easily extended to support events across Pernod Ricard’s family of brands.
Using this new toolset, Pernod Ricard can now:

• Create and manage its set of nationwide events
• Collect attendee data and establish direct communication with attendees
• Limit the number of attendees allowed to register, and feature event photos
• Conduct reporting and analytics on event data on multiple levels
• Extend event data to multiple third-parties involved in onsite event management

SoftwareKing is a local Vancouver software reseller with quite impressive sales figures.  Their site was very old and outdated and so they approached Noise to bid on the re-design project.  I led the sales effort at Noise that resulted in winning the project over a few other local agencies.  I then ran the project as the PM and Information Architect, which emcompassed branding, information architecture, e-commerce platform review and template implementation on the Magento E-Commerce Platform.  

Cypress Consulting worked with Women's Professional Soccer to launch an exciting new site for their new Soccer League launch in the USA. My job was to plan the Sitecore compatible full information architecture for both the main and the team sites.

The Talisman Centre is the largest multi-sport facility of its kind in Canada. To coincide with a renovation and new grand opening, Talisman required a completely re-designed web site with advanced content management capability. Fromson Consulting worked with Talisman staff to understand all the requirements and designed and developed the new site on the Joomla Content Management System. Advanced components were also utilized for Banner Management, Photo Galleries and Form creation.
This project started with planning and went through to design, development and staff administration training.

Partner Contribution
Toan Le: Design
David Rabsch: Development

Dinner Dally required a well thought out feature set and information architecture for their social dining concept. The result was a set of high fidelity mobile iPhone wireframes.

Total Training is a leading provider of software training videos. In keeping with the current trends, their business needed to transition from CD-Rom based delivery to online delivery of their video training products. Looking for a partner to help them develop this new online delivery system, Cypress Consulting was engaged to develop a Flash based video player that interfaces with thePlatform's Media Publishing System and their current e-commerce fulfillment system. The new Total Training Online is the result.

The client wanted to use the content from their entertainment business to power a new online portal. Working together we devloped an interactive site and broadband flash video player showcasing both user generated and exclusive hip hop content. We developed a flash video player that interfaces with The Platform's Media Publishing System using XML Web services and .Net 2.0. This project started with logo branding and went through to planning, design and implementation.

The Canadian Pacific Railway engages Habanero to perform a Hueristic evaluation of their new eChannel application.  Working on contract for Habanero's User Experience practice, my role was to critique the application and provide a hueristic evaluation on weaknesses and possible improvement paths. The final deliverable was a power point presentation with recommendations and annotated screenshots of the application wireframes.

CBS hired Cypress Consulting to plan, design and develope their new Silverlight based video on-demand system and integrate it with thePlatform's Media Publishing System and Doubleclick Advertising server. This became a Microsoft showcase project for their Silverlight technology. Not only is CBS using it on their main college sports web site, but we made it skinable and changeable so that it can be licensed and utilized by hundreds of college sports programs directly on their own sites, such as Notre Dame you see above. My job was to plan and develope the full information architecture and user interface feature set for the Silverlight application

The client needed a web-based broadband distribution system for their existing news network. We developed a flash video player that interfaces with The Platform's Media Publishing System using XML Web services and .Net 2.0. The results was this new industry leading digital video channel. This project started with logo branding and went through to planning, design and implementation.

This was a project encompassing branding, Web site planning, design, contruction, flash and content management for a nationwide medical consultant company.

Intelecom is a leading producer of educational videos that support college and university curriculum. As more and more college professors are using the Internet to deliver their course material, Intelecom needed to change from video tape and dvd based delivery to online delivery of their educational video products. Looking for a partner to help them develop this new online delivery system, Cypress Consulting was engaged to develop a Flash based video player that interfaces with thePlatform's Media Publishing System. The INTELECOM Online Resources Network is the result, a fully searchable online database and digital content repository designed to meet the growing demand for rich media in support of online, hybrid and web-enhanced courses. Universities and colleges can obtain accounts, and professors can then browse and view the library of videos and embed student video links into their course material.

This is a large project encompassing Site Re-Design and Re-Development. The platform is Filemaker Database, Lasso, Php and My SQL. There are many content management and administrative components.

This is a project to build a number of demo broadband video sites for Microsoft, on both the Web and Mobile Screens.

This is a project encompassing corporate branding, Web site planning,
design, contruction, corporate stationary and folder for Curriculign, an education management software company. 

Partner Contribution
Vince Burkhead: Web Design, Flash and Print Design

Cypress Consulting worked with Redken Professional Salon Group to launch an e-commerce enables video training site for their salon professionals. My job was initially Information Architecture and then Project Manager for the development phase

This is a project encompassing Web site planning, design,
contruction and Flash for a software company

This is a project encompassing Company logo, Web site planning, design,
contruction and Jobs database content management system for Premier 
Career Management in Vancouver, Canada.

Partner Contribution:
Azimuth Designs: Logo Design
Justin Fung: Programming for CMS

This is a project encompassing Web site planning,
design, flash, contruction and programming for Lamar, a large fitness equipment manufacturer. 

Partner Contribution
Gregor Moulton: Account Direction, Web Design and Flash. 
John Adair: Programming and Databaseental clinic. 

This was a project encompassing Web Site and Extranet planning, design, contruction and Flash for a Seattle real estate organization.

This is a project encompassing Web site planning, design, contruction, programming, database and full eCommerce for Wiggle Wireless, a wireless information provider. 
Partner Contribution

Gregor Moulton: Web Design and Flash

This is a project encompassing Web Site planning, design, contruction, flash, 
and a jobs content management system for NC Staffing. The platform 
is PHP & MY SQL.

Partner Contribution
Vince Burkhead: Design and Flash
Justin Fung: Programming for CMS

This was a solo project encompassing Web site planning, design
and development for a Pacific Northwest Office Interior Design company.