EDrop-Off is a client that I work with at Venturality, Inc. They are a Chicago-based eBay consigner for upscale fashion accessories. A major part of EDrop-Off's business strategy is their brochure site, shopedropoff.com. I am shopedropoff.com's Lead Developer, and am maintaining the site on an ongoing basis. Most of the design was done by Ken Ludeke of Osten Creative, although there were a number of pages that I had a degree of creative control over. For instance, the "Current Auctions" page, an AJAX-driven eBay querying tool, is entirely my own design and strategy.

I also developed an entirely new eBay template for EDrop-Off, examples of which can be found on the Current Auctions page of the site. This was a very interesting experience for me, as I had never made an eBay template before. It was exciting to have direct control over an entire company's primary revenue source and means of customer interaction.

This is my first Drupal site. For projects like this, a full-featured CMS is a great tool to have and know how to use. I really enjoy using Drupal, and I look forward to using it on other projects. Throughout the course of shopedropoff.com's development, I also learned and got very comfortable with jQuery, another fantastic tool. The entire project was an excellent learning experience for me. I not only got very comfortable with the tools of the trade, but I also learned what it really meant to be the Lead Developer on a client-facing site. Client interactions and customer service is something you can only get good at with professional experience, so I am very grateful for having had this opportunity. Take a look at what's going on with EDrop-Off.

The jQuery Canvas Kit is an open source project that I started to make HTML 5 canvas development easier. The canvas object has a lot of potential, and I felt there were some functionality possibilities that might be useful to myself and other developers. I created this toolkit to help fill in the gaps, and the landing page I made for it details what it does a little more specifically. I plan to actively develop this project, making it more robust and giving it more functionality. Check it out and play with some demos.

The Universal Blog Project is a social experiment. It's like a regular blog, but anybody can post to it and all posts are displayed anonymously. All of the posts on the site are contributed by users. This is the second version of this application, it is built on top of CodeIgniter and uses custom AJAX calls to load and send data. This project is available on Google Code along with all of the source code. See what's new on the blog.

At OgilvyOne, Chicago 2016 was one of our highest profile clients. Chicago 2016's goal was to bring the 2016 Olympic games to Chicago. For the site, I developed a web form that gets career history data from prospective Olympic contractors. Built on ASP.NET, the form interfaces with a Microsoft SQL back-end. Check out Chicago 2016.

World Sport Chicago is an organization that promotes athleticism and sportsmanship amongst youths in Chicago. This is another client that I work with at OgilvyOne. Most of the tasks I perform for this site are administrative, as well as helping to manage the CMS (DotNetNuke). Check out World Sport Chicago.

An artist and personal friend of mine, Courtney Wheaton, needed an online portfolio to show off her work. I offered to help her out, since I thought it might be a fun little side project. I also thought it would be a good reason to put the jQuery framework to use, which I had recently fallen in love with. Since the site was small, it only took me about a week in my off hours to make her a simple landing page and gallery. She asked for a modal dialogue box to show off the enlarged images in a way that was convenient for the user, so I implemented ColorBox onto the page. I felt that ColorBox was the most tasteful Lightbox derivative, and it fit well with the page. See what Courtney's making now.