A web developer living in sunny Portland, OR
My wife Christy quit her job as an Interior Designer and went full-time freelance in 2013. This is her (beautiful) portfolio. She's extremely talented. You should hire her for your photography needs.
This is a custom Rails 3 application, designed and developed by me.
Went Hiking is a tool for logging your experiences and statistics from hiking and backpacking trips.
I love backpacking, finding every opportunity to go outside and run amuck. In 2010, I started keeping track of my trips to see what my cumulative statistics were for fun and fitness. But then I realized I could do better. So I whipped something together the site overnight and posted it to my local hiking forum, Portland Hikers, to see if anyone else had interest in using the tool. The response was fantastic. As of 2013, there's 300 users of the site and it's evolved into a complete social network around hiking trips around the Pacific Northwest.
This is a Rails 3 application, designed and developed in it's entirety by me. It's also open source.
GooseFeet Gear was founded in early 2010 by Ben Smith, who at the time was 20 years old and in his 3rd year of college at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. The company started out with down socks as the primary product, and quickly moved into other simple areas like waterproof over-booties, pillows, and now makes sleeping bags, bivies, hoods, and jackets. If something can be filled with down, odds are good Ben has made it.
I designed the website last year primarily for trade, and I love what he's made for me and my wife Christy. I can't more highly recommend his work.
The site is a custom Rails 3 application running Stripe. I did all of the design, development, e-commerce integration, and testing.
The website of a previous employer, Kittelson & Associates Inc.'s website was three years in the making, going through various evolutions, technology changes, design choices, and content updates. The result is one of the most modern sites in their sector that's simple to navigate and fun to read.
This is a custom Rails application. I designed and developed every inch of the site including the custom administrative interface that controls every piece of content, employee, and office.
Kittelson & Associates, Inc. is full of experts on a wide range of topics in the transportation engineering and planning industry. The goal was giving them a venue to share their latest successes, wins, and industry news in a timely manner. These things were achieved while keeping the blog mostly company-agnostic. Traffic and email subscriptions have grown nicely so far, and I'm excited to see where the blog will lead.
LittleGreenTree is a startup by myself and Adam Milgrom. We're building a tool to enable environmentally conscious websites and organizations to allow themselves and their customers easy access to quantified donations to charity. For instance, a website that ships iPad cases can place our widget on their confirmation page, which dynamically calculates a near approximation of actual carbon emissions resulting from that specific delivery, and enables you to offset it then and there.
Contact me if you want more information or you'd like to hop on the beta.
NOTE: I've since left this startup