“From soup to nuts.”
- Charles Watkinson, Director
Purdue University Press
I designed and developed a feature rich, data-driven, robust, web presence for the university press. I accomplished this by creating a custom Drupal content management system installation to replace Purdue’s outdated book management software, integrated Google powered services, a third party shopping cart, and even social networking. The design I coded was CSS-based and complied with the university’s web standards and web presence.
“Simple to use.”
- Tim Fye, 1st Vice President
ISUSBCYA
My client wanted an easily maintainable and simple-to-use website which would allow participants to fill out applications for bowling tournaments and be capable of accepting payments through PayPal. I completed this by designing and developing a Wordpress-powered website.
A Computer Graphics Technology group was researching printed booklets and was interested in the possibility of creating a system that would allow the content writers to dynamically update the information in the booklets without programming skills or obtaining expensive software. I designed and programmed this proof of concept using ASP.Net, C#, LINQ, XML, and the iTextSharp library. The iTextSharp library allows the users to update the booklet’s content online and export it as a template based Adobe PDF document where it could then be saved, printed, and distributed.
I designed this web interface for a colleague who needed one quickly for a project he was developing. I created both main pages in Adobe Photoshop as well as the subpage interfaces. This allowed my colleague to efficiently “cut up” the design and implement it into his website.
“Badass.”
- Various Testers
Puffy is a Rambo-like fish who must wipe out all of the evil mutated fish he encounters during this side-scrolling shooter I programmed. The Adventures of Puffy is a one-level Adobe Flash videogame. I completed the programming in Actionscript 2.0 and some of the features include: Artificial Intelligence, power- ups, health, ammo depletion, injury, super weapons, audio, special effects, points and treasures, and a score tracker. I also assisted this 2-person team with the design by illustrating most of the characters.
As part of my senior programming capstone course in CGT my group and I made a wiki using ASP.Net and C# as well as AJAX, JQuery, CSS, RSS, and XHTML. This wiki could cover any topic we wanted and we decided that it would be about different internet technologies and works much like the popular Yahoo! Answers but answers and questions can be modified and reverted by the users. Features include a full history reversion system, RSS feed subscriptions based on topic, a user system, IP logging, and a minimal number of pages. The entire site only uses four pages in total to do everything. There is also a mobile version that has limited functionality.
For my second project using Asp.Net and C# I was tasked with creating a playable sudoku game with different difficulty levels. The second version creates a puzzle where the hints are created with a mirror image of them across the fifth row. I was successful in doing this. Although it only creates a limited number of puzzles, the starting hints are randomly generated.
This 4-person team created a web application to aid livestock owners in locating hay stock beyond their usual geographic scope of transactions. If a farmer’s hay field is destroyed by natural catastrophes such as drought and floods, it is imperative to them to quickly find the necessary hay for their livestock. I was responsible for the front-end design as well as a majority of the back-end programming portion of this non-profit project and utilized XHTML, CSS, ASP, AJAX and XML in the development of the site.
This illustration was rendered in Adobe Illustrator with the assistance of the pen tool and a stock photograph. The image was traced manually (no filters) in order to create a highly stylized look. This vector illustration was voted Best in Class and is the most popular piece on merlin769.deviantart.com.
