Portfolio

Internet of Things project for homeowners with heating oil

Internet of Things project providing homeowners with better efficiency for oil heating

• Implemented a mobile-friendly responsive website design
• Integrated Stripe for payment processing
• Site is based on a REST API talkin…

Building a MOOC for the Best and Brightest

I spent two-and-a-half years working as both a front- and back-end developer on various parts of the upcoming MOOC offering from Harvard Business School. On the front-end I’m building various teaching resources in …

Internet of Things project optimizing ground source heat pumps for homeowners and businesses

Built and currently maintain (and extend) the Django codebase that powers Ground Energy. The system receives status reports from geothermal installs once per minute, logs them to the database and provides both …

What I’ve been up to since last I posted an entry

I’m coming to the end of another contract and realizing just how out-of-date this portfolio is. Rather than try to catch up with an endless series of posts …

Built the website and tools that helped a startup grow to a major New Hampshire health provider

Worked directly with the founders to create the front- and back-end of their original web site and then extend it to add more tools as the business took off. Added …

Django-based site for a print-based video game publication moving online. One of the most attractive and enjoyable projects I’ve worked on.

I used to work with Chris Dahlen at PixelMEDIA. I also like video games. Lest this summary turn into a third-grader …

Built a site for my own business that uses a large number of Django apps and tools to make our small business seem like a big one.

This is a strange one to talk about: Rivermill at Dover Landing is an …

A social website for viewers of the Frontline program “God in America” to come together and discuss their religious views.

God in America is a 2010 episode of PBS’ Frontline. As part of the reporting for the show, Frontline wanted a social networking …

Provided a Django CMS for the main website, a secured area for residents to manage their accounts and an engine to run individual sites for each property.

Starting out, Great North felt like a fairly typical project: content management …

CMS and Django tools for a Louisiana bank web site. Tools allow the bank to manage multiple product lines with different details from state to state.

Community Trust Bank is based in Louisiana but has expanded into Mississippi and Texas. In order …

Worked with Slim Kiwi to create a social media site for boat crews to track their friends on crews across the world.

In July 2009, I began working with Slim Kiwi on an exciting social media project. Usually when I see …

Private web site that brings encrypted XML data about funds into Expression Engine which displays the information in HTML and PDF formats.

A massive undertaking in three parts

This client has a large mutual fund business with a number of channels they sell …

Turned manual email order process into an online form.

Tired of accepting sometimes invalid orders over email, My Party Label came to me to create a form that contained all the information My Party Label needs to fulfill an order. The …

Helped Lightfin integrate a new site design with a Miva shopping cart.

Quincy Pond Printworks came to Lightfin and I with two requirements: a beautiful-looking new site and a shopping cart. Lightfin took care of the first with their usual aplomb. There were …

A site for Aetna health plan customers at Lockheed Martin

My first Django project and first work with Project Evolution was a site for Aetna health plan. The bulk of the site is driven by a Django-powered content management system with the rest …

A new website including integration with Bullhorn, a job search database.

Please note: I am not currently working on Bullhorn projects. Their API has changed since this project was completed in 2009.

thumb:1 New Age Software Services had a …

Social network for New England businesses built in PHP on Social Engine.

It pains me enough, at almost 35, to see athletes my age retiring. So it was a shock to the system to have a client more than a decade my junior. Ben Collins …

Design portfolio for a New Hampshire landscape design company

Working with a design company on a portfolio tool can be an intimidating process. I think Lightfin and I saw a design-savvy client as an opportunity to build something that stands out. After …

Sponsored by HP, I worked with the W3C to create tests so browser/ user-agent programmers can make sure their code conforms to CSS2.1 and CSS3 Print standards.

A long and ultimately very rewarding project that started out by teaching me some humility. Coming …

Updated an existing X-Cart-powered ecommerce site to improve usability, correct bugs on the front-end and add reporting to the administrative tools.

Denimrack came to me with a list of edits they wanted to make to their live web site. I added tracking of abandoned purchases …

Took an existing API concept written in PHP, converted it to C#, polished some of the rough edges and documented.

Progressive had a proof-of-concept API for insurance price quotes written in PHP. They wanted it converted to C# for better client compatibility; the Read the full piece