One of the two major content components that I had the pleasure of producing with 2D6.org, were video reviews. By adhering to a defined set of review criteria, our reviews attempted to very quickly cover board games from multiple perspectives. Unlike many of the other board game reviewing organizations out there, our goal was to not only provide opinions using a high quality visual medium, but also entertain when the opportunity arose.

As one of many team projects built during the summer of 2009, my developing cohorts and I were asked to put together a new site in order to replace the former INSIDE Magazine website. As a separate print publication distributed by the IDS News, INSIDE Magazine incorporates a very hip stylized look and feel that we wanted to reproduce in the digital medium. By in large, I believe the design and integrated JavaScript content controls did the magazine justice.

During the fall of 2010, I co-founded a video-based board gaming media organization called 2D6. As the executive producer, it was my job to design / develop the site, produce / market the content, write site copy, acquire / promote organizational sponsors, maintain a community presence, and manage a production team.

During Fall of 2009, I was given the task to help spearhead the design and development of what was to become the new website for the IDS News Weekend publication. As a special publication, it was our job to produce a site that was distinctly different from the organization’s standard newspaper publication, by infusing a dynamic web 2.0 look and feel.

On top of creating board game video reviews for 2D6.org, I’ve also had the opportunity to produce a few board game audio / video tutorials that focus on providing the bare essentials necessary for bringing new players up to speed. It was our hope that 2D6 tutorials would not only prove to be a source for teaching new players how to play games in under 5 minutes, but also help to supplement a basic understanding of the play incorporated in the games that we review.

During spring 2010, the editor in chief of the IDS News was interesting creating an internal story asset management and allocation tool. More over, he wanted the system to be date driven and built upon a blogging platform that most of the staff was already accustomed to using. Having been given a very simplistic design mock up to work from, I generated the XHTML and CSS based on image spec, and negotiated a wordpress system integration such that our code, regardless of future Wordpress updates, would still function for years to come.

Over the course of summer 2009, I had the opportunity to perform some freelance work for a women by the name of Mona Hoffman. She requested the design and development of a site that could provide e-commerce functionality, as well as serve as social networking and blogging hub for her organization.

While working at the IDS News during the summer of 2009, I was asked to mock up a new photo gallery page. With my initial mock up unselected, I went on to develop this version of the gallery page that incorporated many of the same JavaScript bells and whistles as the previous design. This version was better received by the staff and ultimately was selected for deployment.

While at Gencon 2009, a colleague and I were able to do a few interviews on behalf of outofmana.org. Specifically targeting gaming industry developers writers, and public relations managers, we were given an opportunity to sit down with Robert Mull (Warhammer Online), David Bass (Champions Online), and Dave gainer (Dragon Age).

While working for IDS News During the summer of 2009, I spent a good deal of time working with a few different javascript libraries as a means to liven up our multimedia content delivery methods. Using jquery in conjunction with our in house ASP.NET database components, I came up with a few designs that have been incorporated into our current websites.

While working at the IDS News during the summer of 2009, I was asked to mock up a new photo gallery page that resembled the layout of the New York Times gallery. Incorporating jquery menu animation and a custom share control, this was my initial mock up that ultimately didn’t make the the final cut. Even though a later design was chosen in it’s place, designing and ultimately developing this mock up forced me to learn how to work with ASP.NET and JavaScript in tandem.

While working at Eppley during 2007, I created several flash-based teaching activities for various e-learning courses offered by the institute. Although the activities varied greatly depending on the subject matter being taught, many of them adhered to a drag and drop question mechanic or incorporated video clips as a means to demonstrate course material.

Over the years, I’ve had a few opportunities to practice my graphic design skills when producing logos and application icons. Located below are just a few of the pieces that I’ve put together.

During the fall of 2008, a few colleagues and I started a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) themed video podcast series. Dubbed “OOMCast”, the series was outofmana.org’s first bi-weekly video podcast series that discussed news announcements, game alterations, forum threads, and game design / mechanics affiliated with massively multiplayer online games.

While working at the IDS News during the summer of 2008, I was asked to create a dynamic control for aggregating multimedia content. Being that, at the time, JavaScript libraries such as jquery and mootools hadn’t been around, I chose to integrate ASP.NET with Flash by way of interpreting XML output. Located below are a couple of the controls I created for displaying multimedia content. For each piece of media aggregated, both of the controls includes a method for navigation, image support, a description field, and a headline field.