Projects seem a dime a dozen over the last 10 years I have had a lot of sites I have worked on close down and everything I did for them wiped out. Its hard to put them in a resume as the work doesn't exist, but the 'experience' and some of which 'archived' code still exists on my hard drives some place burried deep in the gigs of data I have. Most of which may or may not work out of the box, but the coding concepts are all there.
Here is a list of projects I have worked on some of which never made it to V1, and some made it past V1 but had an ill fate.
Adventureville
Concept was a site for a physical play place location in New Jersey. It allowed guests to schedule parties at their homes or at the Adventureville center. I built the following pieces for it:
- 3D Environment for people to explore and play in before going to the location.
- Included a Bouncing Ball to kick around.
- Slides
- Bounce Castle.
- Various other things to interact with.
- Online site was there for people to work on their party.
- RSVP system that guests could use to help plan who was attending their party.
- Planning system to select items they wanted for their party.
- Various other items that I have forgotten over the years.
Book of Merits
This site was a listing site of high end trophy horses. I can't explain it as I am not a "horse" person. But the data was considered "sensitive" and had to go through committees to even be released. This site was a rather large data import and had a rather confusing structure as horses had relationships with other horses giving a "family tree." Along with this it gave some level of editing system to it to allow others to go in and make changes.
Its ill fate came when the committees decided to release the real data and not make everyone jump hoops for it. They launched another site that made this one deprecated and therefore not needed.
GetMarried
I spent about 3 years working for this site. Countless hours working on features helping brides plan their wedding days. I am sure this list is much larger than what I have here but here is a generic list.
- Countless reskins (Some place in the ball park of 4-6 and maybe more...)
- 1 Code Redesign (Removed Smarty and went with custom.)
- Here is some sections I worked on that most of which went to waste or flopped.
- Matrimony ( Code Igniter ) a way for vendors to get lead lists to email brides.
- Contract Systems ( Custom ) a way for the sales teams to make contracts and send them off to vendors. One of which could actually take payments the other was a PDF contract creator.
- Member Statistics - A way to report on numbers and information about members in the system. (Email Optins, Regions, Wedding Dates, Offers, etc...)
- Created Polling System for Times Square event that incorporated 3rd Party API for uploading Video. Also incoprorated voting system for what will be in the wedding.
- Maintained Databases and performed several "normalizing" changes to it to make it more maintainable.
- Created batching scripts for Fashion week(s). Uploaded thousands of images and inserted meta data about images into the database.
- Created dozens of CMS modules to maintain the site.
- Developed Top Bride contest - "Which flooped heavily due to ability to vote over and over." This is a whole post on its own.
- Developed Vendor Portal - A place for vendors to go and edit/update/add listing information that they had purchased. (Shortly after finishing this I left the company and the section was closed.)
There was so much more here and a lot of stuff I could never be "proud" of. Projects were often rushed and never thought out fully because of timelines. We delt with a ton of code that was old and written by two different teams before I even showed up. Making tons of misalignments when trying to "Connect the dots."
Event Calendar
A church highered me a while back to make a event calendar system to replace their expensive monthly recuring cost of another tool. This tool got all the way to V1 and due to billing issues was canceled. It allowed people to go into a system and schedule usage of rooms, groups, and items that might be needed. Here is a list of features it had:
- Recuring/Repeating Events (Canceled because collisions could not be easily detected with other recuring items.)
- Room In Use at that date and time detection.
- Inheritance and complex rules for forms, ex what do you need for your event? Staffing, Costs, etc...
- Email System - This had a large set of rules to email lists of people / groups based on what event information was selected.
- System also included a approval system were one approver per campus could be setup to approve the event.
- Front End Calendar that church members could view for events about the church ex: Baptisms, service times etc...
- Back End Calendar that shows everything scheduled.
Eventually I would love to revamp this and recode parts of it as it had some neat parts to it that would be nice to add into my next project I am about to mention.
Project Management
Project Management tool that was presented to me that I would make roughly 30% of all profits made. Given that I developed it and put it together. The project as roughly about 50-60% completed and the backer disappeared. I have plans to "reuse" parts and maybe incorporate them into the calendar item above.
Feature List:
- System incorporated a lot of ajax calls to prevent tons of reloads.
- Dynamic Form system to give information about tasks.
- Extensive permission system for projects and tasks.
- Folder System to organize projects and tasks.
- Sorting and ordering tasks in line.
- Tons more features beyond this...
