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Sonar
As Widget Engineering Lead for Sonar, I leveraged my experience building Dashboard widgets to develop a platform for the delivery of simple, single-purpose applications to users of Android feature phones.
Sonar won rave reviews from the tech blog, Engadget, and the founders are currently in negotiations to bring the product to market.
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Travelbug.co.nz
When I was employed with Vianet, I was the lead front-end engineer on the team that launched Travelbug, Trade Me’s accommodation booking website.
In addition to producing semantic, valid HTML and CSS, I built several innovative UI elements to meet the requirements of the Trade Me design team.
Using the Prototype JavaScript library, I created a draggable price range selector for search results as well as a scrolling availability and booking calendar for product pages. -
HostNine Dashboard Widget
Web hosting company HostNine approached me to build them a network monitoring Dashboard widget.Using an XML feed of server statuses they provided, I quickly turned around a simple, but to them very helpful, widget that sits unobtrusively on the Dashboard.
The killer feature? When a service is down or a server is under heavy load, the widget sends a Growl message alerting the user.
I have built several other widgets for both fun and money and have presented talks and appeared on podcasts on the topic of widget development. I have also had multiple widgets in the top 50 on Apple.com as well as having one selected as a “staff pick.”
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Claim.com
UK designer, Matt Dempsey, can make even a mundane topic like insurance claims downright sexy.
When Matt approached me to build the HTML and CSS for Claim.com, I jumped at the chance to work with him.
Through painstaking attention to detail, we produced a site that is both beautiful and a dream to use.
