Portfolio

sites I've worked on . . .

Adaptive Technology Information Center at MIT (ATIC)

November 2006 to present - Web Accessibility Consultant

Designer, Information Architect, and Developer.
Hand-coded ATIC website to highlight our services and illustrate the web accessibility techniques that we consider best practices and recommend to our customers and clients.
http://web.mit.edu/atic/www/index.html

Skyrope LLC

November 2001 - Present - co-partner /board member

Photographer, information designer.
http://skyrope.com
Skyrope's new business site: http://skyrope.net

WGBH INTERACTIVE

January 2001 - August 2004 - Full-time Project Oriented Work

Lead developer WGBH/PBS Evolution site. Programmed, animated and integrated many of the site's popular multimedia features in Flash. Wrote HTML, JavaScript, and ActionScript. Coordinated the technical team's deliverables with Clear Blue Sky Productions.
www.pbs.org/evolution/

Flash Programmer for the following Features on Evolution:

  • An Origin of a Species: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/darwin/origin/
  • Origins of Humankind: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/humans/humankind/
  • Riddle of the Bones: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/humans/riddle/
  • Coral Reef Connections: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/survival/coral/

    • Lead web developer for McLean Hospital's Virtual Tour. Developed interactive Quicktime VR content in the LiveStage authoring environment, wrote HTML and JavaScript. http://www.mcleanhospital.org/vr/intro.html

    Original Lead web developer for the Simply Ming website. Simply Ming, is Ming Tsai's -- the local celebrity chef's -- cooking show on WGBH Television. Wrote HTML and JavaScript. http://simplyming.org/index.html

    Lead web developer for the PBSKIDS ARTHUR web site. Responsible for HTML, collaborating interaction design for games, usability testing, and Flash production.. http://pbskids.org/arthur/

    Lead web developer for Wellesley Campaign Project web site for Wellesley college. Wrote HTML, JavaScript, managed junior developer, collaborated with designer, producer, and Wellesley webmaster. Performed QA and cross-browser testing. Trained Wellesley clients to update the site with Dreamweaver. http://www.wellesley.edu/Resources/

    Lead web developer for the WGBH 2002 Annual Report Online version. Wrote HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/annualreport2002/

    Project lead on Commanding Heights, 2002 winner of the coveted British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award in the UK. Engineered the delivery structure of dual versions of the site to address accessibility needs for all audiences. Wrote HTML, JavaScript, SMIL for QuickTime. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/

    Web developer and audio editor for the BBC's "The World" (summer 2003). Responsible for front page lead story image selection, writing headlines, updating main stories, and editing the daily program down into segments for streaming audio. http://www.theworld.org/

    HTML developer for PBS's PEEP in the Big Wide World http://www.peepandthebigwideworld.com/

    MIT ATIC Lab

    July 2002 - August 2004 - Web Accessibility Consultant
    (concurrent with WGBH interactive)

    Web Accessibility expert, evaluating MIT's websites and enterprise wide web applications for accessibility by users with physical and cognitive disabilities. Position involved writing, consulting, developing custom training and workshops and evangelizing to the MIT community. Re-entered this role in the fall of 2006 to revamp the Web Accessibility review process and incorporate usability practices and universal design methodologies. http://web.mit.edu/atic/www/



    Shelflink.com

    September 2000 - December 2000

    Lead web designer, information architect and usability specialist for Tom and Tom of Nantucket Nectars' online business to business start-up venture Shelflink.com. Launched initial online e-commerce presence. http://www.shelflink.com