Design Drifter
Welcome to my portfolio
This site has been created to showcase some of my previous and current works. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me at .
Also feel free to download my resume in Word or PDF format.
Recent Work
Minted
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Minted is a online store offering printing for custom stationery and invitations. The site offers graphic designers a community to showcase and sell their designs, which are voted on by customers. The best designs are printed and sold. The store sells a mix of designer-submitted cards and cards from well established independent card companies.
With an extremely aggressive release date. I was brought in to produce html/css code based off designs that where prepared by the excellent design team at Cuban Council interactive agency.
Linux Mint Software Portal
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Another sub-project for Linux Mint, the Software Portal is an a web front-end for the mint Install application that runs on the Linux Mint Desktop and helps the user find applications for their version of the Operating System.
Linux Mint Forum
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The Linux Mint Forum is powered by phpBB, the most widely used Open Source forum solution on the net today. Another sub-project that I contributed free time to. Based off of the main website, I created the matching theme for phpBB 3.0. Which included some icon design and modification.
Linux Mint
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Linux Mint is a GNU/Linux desktop distribution that is based off of the Ubuntu Linux desktop. This project is close and dear to my heart and also it was the first project that I completely used only open source applications for the production of the site. I contribute and help maintain the the Linux Mint website in my free time.
Prior to my involvement, Linux Mint had a logo that was a derivative of the ubuntu logo. Mint was growing and changing so much that it needed to differentiate itself. After a long month of research and experimentation, I created a new logo and website design. The community eventually chose the logo you see now.
With the help of Clem, the maintainer of the distribution, coding the php backend and myself handling the front end code we were able to create a website that was much easier to use then the previous iteration. The website design is different from the original concept that I created, but it is a great design that stands out from the rest of the linux distributions.
Hallock and Cammarota, LLP
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Hallock and Cammarota, LLP is a complete re-design from their logo to the code of web site. One of the key points for the client was to be able to update the website with a no fuss and easy to use CMS. The solution? Symphony, an excellent and extremely flexible CMS, which uses XSLT as it's templating engine.
At the time there was very little documentation, (Halcamlaw.com is using the 1.0 version of Symphony) so learning how to use Symphony was a bit of a challenge, fortunately the developers of Symphony where always there to give a helping hand.
One of the biggest highlights of my time with symphony is that I was able to create a navigation system that generated custom sections. Making it easier for the client to add or remove nav links.
Alesca Video Productions
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This is one of my favorite projects. Alesca Video Productions is a small video consultancy that specializes in capturing beautiful weddings, Bar Mitzvahs or any special occasion.
On this project, I designed the website to have a visualy stunning look but be easy to use and find information.
Alesca has started writing small articles to help their clients get to know them better and to give a little bit of advice. With WordPress as a the site's content management system. Blogging and article management has been a breeze on their website.
All in all, good IA, semantic markup using CSS, wordpress and a great design has helped Alesca Video get noticed in a short amount of time.
Fat Rat Press
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Fat Rat press is a xhtml/css re-design of the original web site that features their printing services. The site includes a comprehensive catalogue of available products, contact information and price lists.
GOGO Worldwide Vacations Redesign
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GOGO Worldwide Vacations is Liberty Travel's sister company which caters to travel agents. The redesign involved major site enhancements using AJAX technology, new IA and an updated look to give the aging classic ASP system a second life.
Click here to see what it looks like. Picture 2 Picture 3 Picture 4
GOGO Receptive Services
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GOGO Receptive Services is a small application for international travel agents, based on GOGO's classic ASP vacation technology. Receptive Services is a small web application using AJAX technology, a super simplified IA with an uncluttered design. Its so easy to use, compared to its big sister site, that its been difficult for GOGO Travel to keep up with vacation package demand. This project is a great example of what good UX and a simple design can do to improve ROI for a company.
Click here to see what it looks like. Picture 2 Picture 3 Picture 4 Picture 5
Liberty Travel waiting pages
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A fun project. I was given the duty of designing a couple of different waiting page scenarios. These are a couple of samples from that project.
Click here to see what it looks like. Picture 2
The New York City Department of Education
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You wouldn't know it but under the hood NYCDOE site was completely revamped using CSS and webstandards. As part of the web team I designed and helped implement new standards based XHTML templates for the Microsoft CMS system. I've helped in maintaining and also improving on the original site design. I've spearheaded design standards to be used across the site, developed new site navigation to reflect new standards. The web site is always updated with new content, creation of new designs and artwork for sub-pages.
Unfortunately it seems that the website has changed its design dramatically so its present state visually is different, but under the hood it looks like my additions still live on. Viva CSS!
NYCDOE - Division of Instructional and Information Technology
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This is the website for the NYCDOE division that I worked for. Using the new html templates that I created for NYCBOE website, this internal web site was redesigned by my coworker. I assisted in production and style sheet creation and maintained artwork as needed.
View the NYCDOE - Division of Instructional and Information Technology website
NYCDOE - School Mapping System
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I redesigned this system to take advantage of new features available on the ArcIMS mapping system. It has replaced the old dynamic mapping system that has been available for more than two years. The GUI is more user friendly and the look is consistent to the NYCDOE web site.
NYCDOE - Driving Directions System
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A replacement for the old pop up driving directions, I redesigned it with the purpose of being a standalone application with a more user friendly GUI and a consistent look to the NYCDOE web site.
NYCDOE - Teach NYC
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The initial design was created by the advertising firm Agent 16. Taking their design, I recreated it in html to be plugged to a .Net back end system. Additional animated artwork that wasn't supplied by the design agency was added including a small flash animation.
Unfortunately the design has changed over time. Its present state isn't as bright and shiny as it once was.
Dr. Sanchez DDS
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A flash based web site for Dr. Sanchez, a New York City Prosthodontist. Wanting to expand his practice to the web. Design emphasis was on a clean, professional look incorporating Flash animation, a portfolio of his work, informational resources and much more. The site is nearing completion.
Dr. Barrillas Orthodontist
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Dr. Barrillas required a flash based web site that promoted her Orthodontic practice. The design emphasis was on visually representing the practice's professional image with a clean polished look based on pre-existing pamphlets letterheads and business cards.