Welcome to the velvetStar

Developer/Designer × dystrick design × Apr 09 - Present

Create and maintain websites for clients using XHTML, AJAX, CSS and PHP. Focus on frontend coding and design as well as custom WordPress templates with expanded functionality via plugins. Requires client interaction and collaboration. Clients include Prometheus and NCIRE.

Developer/Designer × Involution Studios × Jan 06 - Apr 09

Developed desktop and web-based prototypes and applications for clients using AJAX, XHTML, CSS, PHP, and Python. Collaborated with team members to build products for clients and for internal use.

Projects included, but were not limited to:

McAfee AntiVirus software front-end, coded in HTML 4 using CSS and JavaScript. Featured multi-language support and a simple, yet robust system for message passing between client software and the server.
Product life-cycle management software for Oracle, coded in XHTML, CSS, AJAX and PHP. Included the ability to split windows into multiple panes to accommodate the preferences of different users.

Worked with team to design and develop the Involution website. Maintained and updated website with news, press releases etc.

Developer/Designer × Maxim Integrated × Feb 05 - Jan 06

Designed new site layout and created plan to gradually morph current website into new design. Designed in CSS, JavaScript & HTML.

Assisted in tool creation to aid internationalization of the Maxim website. Written in Perl, tool accepted localized text (ex. Japanese), converted it to utf-8 and then placed it in a ColdFusion catalog.

Worked closely with business managers to achieve ideal web presence for their products.

Graphic Design Intern × CAPCOM USA × Aug 04 - Feb 05

Designed and coded the Shadow of Rome™ video game website using HTML, CSS, Javascript (DHTML) and Flash ActionScript. Created compositions in Photoshop and Illustrator using typography principles, texture effects and manipulated pictures. Designed other related materials such as HTML emails and banner ads.
http://www.capcom.com/shadow

Helped maintain and update corporate CAPCOM website.

Languages

AJAX
XHTML
CSS
PHP
C/C++
Python [intermediate]
MySQL [intermediate]
Cocoa [beginner]

Software

Flash
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Acrobat Pro
iWork
Microsoft Office

Platforms

Macintosh
Windows
Linux/UNIX

BA Computer Science
Smith College
Northampton, MA
2004

Agile

Agile's product life cycle management was complex and thus required similarly complex components. One such was a table widget. I transformed an existing javascript table to meet Agile's unique needs including redoing it to fit in with their re-imagined design. The table has one of a kind editing controls that handle different types of input as well as graphical, easy to use error warnings per row.

Agile's new PLM product also uses YUI to a great extent and includes the ability to multi-window.

Agile Table

Element Mobile

Element Mobile wanted an easily accessible and cleanly visual way for their customer to get readouts of their glucose readings. I created an interactive graph using XHTML, CSS and Javascript that would allow users to scroll through their daily readings plotted on a graph colored to indicate the level of the readings and to easily click to see the info and notes entered on that particular day.

Element Mobile Dynamic Graph

McAfee

How do you organize a form in a clean manner that will also allow the components of it to be templated in a simple way to fit all possible use cases? That was the task I was set with. Working closely with other designers, we concocted a simple yet elegant solution to fit McAfee's needs while redesigning with beauty and elegance in mind.

McAfee Form Example

Capcom

Capcom needed a new portal for a brand new game they were launching and left the details up to me. Based upon playing the game extensively, I created a site that invoked the drama, darkness in the time of the gladiators in Flash.