HipNumber.com

HipNumber is being developed as an equine enthuasist portal and e-auction site. I did not do the initial design work for this site and I am afraid all my work is hidden inside the investor access area which is password controled.

 

DestinationMedia.com

DestinationMedia is a content aggregator and syndicator of rich media to the travel industry. I designed the corporate site and am consulting with the owners regarding the video compression codecs, streaming and delivery issues faced when one aggregates such content from multiple sources.

 

WeTeachSports.com

Created as an e- commerce site for the sale of sports related books and videos in April 2000 the site is now maintained by the owner of the company.

 

Applied Magnetics Corporation

Created as an HR. and Investor Relations site AMC had me update the I.R. text every quarter and the HR. material as needed. The site was last redesigned by me in Spring of 1999. AMC filed for chapter 11 in December of 1999.

 

Komag, Incorporated

Created as an HR. and Investor Relations site Komag has me update this site regularly. My last major revision to the site before they took the site updates in-house was the "Investor Relations Corner."

 

ABC-Clio's Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War

Created in February of 1998 as an advertising vehicle for an ABC-Clio reference work. I was responsible for the HTML coding here, the art work is the product of another design group in Santa Barbara, California.

 

ProLytiX Corporation

Originally created in 1994 this site received my last face-lift in early 1997. Included here for completeness, ProLytiX has been updating the site in-house since 1998 and has made extensive changes in that time.

• Designed parts of internal corporate financial pages for Hewlett-Packard, Apple, and Compaq Computer (under contract with ProLytiX Corporation)
  
  
• Other projects are currently in development.

• See DejaViews page for portfolio examples
  
  
• Broad background in authoring printed and electronic technical manuals and training course materials
  
  
• Multimedia projects including computer based video editing, storyboard development for mixed media, direct to tape and CD based interactive computer based training and advertising
  
  
• Planned, designed and illustrated brochures, fliers, corporate presentations, classroom & production training aids, bulk mailing programs and other textual and graphic sales materials
  
  
• Developed advertising materials and have years of experience at copy writing, paste-up, graphics, technical illustrations, photography & architectural renderings.
  
  
• Experienced in print shop mechanical work including scanning, type setting, layout & paste up, desk top publishing, spot color, and slide show development
  
  
• Coordinated design of high tech and gourmet foods trade show booths for specialty foods, and data processing industry and have worked and attended many related trade shows throughout the country
  
  
• Created numerous newspaper display ads for real estate, restaurant and gourmet food industries

Hardware & Software Support

• Over ten years consulting experience in all facets of computer support including system setup, networking, and hardware/software troubleshooting, and Web development
  
  
• Computer training experience includes PC literacy classes on Apple and Windows operating systems and software in ongoing scheduled classes & private tutoring sessions
  
  
• Responsible for hardware and software evaluation decisions for Department's NT network and company-wide Macintosh networks at Applied Magnetics Corp. and the Owner Managed Business Institute
  

Software Skills

• Skilled in the use of current versions of the Windows NT, Mac OS, Microsoft Office Products (including Outlook forms development), Adobe's Premier, Photoshop, Illustrator, FrameMaker, PageMaker, FileMaker Pro, and WorkGroup's ProductCenter (Product Data Management software)
  
  
• Six years experience developing highly graphic, HTML and Java based materials for business investor relations, marketing/advertising, and human resources sites using Flash, GoLive, QuickTime and PDF
  

Database and Systems Analysis

• Consultant to numerous companies developing data base management systems for administration and analysis of inventory, contacts, employee training, course and manufacturing instruction materials
  

Networking Experience

• Skilled at reconciling mixed networking protocols including Apple's OpenTransport, Novell, PathWorks, FTP, TCP/IP, NT (in an Exchange Server environment), and UNIX delivery over the Internet
  
• Extensive background in networking various computer platforms to various printer types for digital printing including: Xerox Firey DocuColor, OCE plotters, Apple, and HP LaserPrinters
  

• Regular speaker at various computer user groups, business organizations, and investor groups
  
  
• Designed and directed purchasing system for an eight-site gourmet foods retail chain with gross daily sales to $70,000.00 (Cocolat, Inc.)
  
  
• Developed a computerized inventory control system that reduced inventory by 50% by making use of contract purchasing (Cocolat, Inc.)
  
  
• Coordinated payroll and bookkeeping functions including hiring, training, and supervision of staff up to 30 people (Torn Ranch Wholesale)
  
  
• Revised employee orientation and incentive systems to cut training costs and absentee rates by 50% (Cocolat, Inc.)
  
  
• Consultant to Santa Barbara City College as interim manager of campus bookstore during 8 weeks of spring 1990 book buyback and rush period
  
  
• Designed custom gift line packaging for upper end retail markets including Neiman-Marcus, Bloomingdales, Saks, Macy's, etc. Program grossed $70,000 in first 3 months (1979) (Torn Ranch Wholesale)
  
  
• Coordinated multidisciplinary design group of architect, physicist, and clerical staff to write proposals and grants for the design and retrofitting of energy conservation measures for privately funded institutions (Environmental Energy Associates)
  
  
• Conducted new product research, including analysis of pricing structures, distribution channels and customer purchasing patterns (Torn Ranch Wholesale & Cocolat, Inc.)