A relational database management system
At a certain point, admins using the MasterCard Newsroom found themselves their own worst enemy by over-categorizing posts and abusing tags. They decided to approach from a new angle: to focus content by properly utilizing custom post types (News Briefs, Press Releases, Digital Press Kits, Images, and Videos), and to round it out by cross-categorizing using custom taxonomies.
MasterCard required ongoing maintenance to the existing Newsroom while developing their new project: The Engagement Bureau. I acted as release manager, overseeing several other developers all the while debugging and performing maintenance on other projects.
Our family recipe site began as a simple way to log our favorite recipes. It became much more. We can easily choose from recipes and tagged ingredients, or write-in what we need, to compile a grocery list that we can access from our phones in-store. The generated list doubles as a drag and drop interface where the app can learn how grocery items should be sorted in the future for a particular store, for a particular user.
MasterCard sought the ability to collect content from the diverse array of blogs they manage to create custom RSS feeds that group posts into similar foci. This would allow them to cross-pollinate content written by a number of separate entities worldwide by showcasing feeds from blogs of different origin.
Several of the data sources that Intel wanted to use to populate their Analytics Hub database did not have APIs available. For that reason, Kenshoo and Sprinklr data was to be provided by individual files. While Intel could have simply FTP’d those files directly onto the server itself, the web portal I programmed provided better management of this process and displayed the state of all files in real time.
Purdue Pharma needed a better way to feature advocates for pain management and therapies on the site. Prior to this scope of work being approved, existing meta such as Voices of Hope (audio interviews), Advocate Perspectives (videos), and Stories of Inspiration (interview transcripts) were spread across several pages. I collected the meta and associated it with its respective advocate. Custom WordPress back-end queries were fed via Ajax to mustache templates on the front-end.
I themed a mobile version of the MasterCard Newsroom optimized for iOS, Android, and BlackBerry devices using Foundation. This marked my first exposure to responsive design, media queries, and responsive images.
I build a custom WordPress plugin that collects and disseminates weather data from the National Weather Service API by cron and renders a local forecast for Fredericksburg, TX.
I save all of my expenses to my budget site. It boasts an easy-to-use interface and can import all expense activity from CSVs that I download from my bank. Overage tabs appear when I’m over budget for a category or subcategory for a given month. Graphs and charts can be plotted for any (sub)category over any range of dates. The admin area provides tools for editing purchases.
Auxogyn was in need of a site to show off it’s Early Embryo Viability Assessment (EEVA) test. I created a site that facilitated complete and intuitive client control over all content. They were able to add, delete, and modify every bit of it on their own, even down to the featured text within the carousel. By employing Gravity Forms, they were able to build and edit their own forms. I designed a widget to allow total control over sidebar images on a per-page basis. I created several custom post types to help them organize and feature news, events, and FAQs.
