This is a look at a selection of the portfolio of work I have done in the past.
It will be added to as I do new things and learn new things. It this portfolio of work intruiges you, or sparks some creative ideas, and you need help with such a project, don’t be afraid to contact me to discuss your needs.
Noteable Accomplishments from Past Work
Improving performance and stability while decreasing costs.
I developed the next generation of a web-based risk analysis tool for lenders to more carefully monitor their lending practices. It consumes financial data from multiple reporting services to provide customers with the ability to monitor their customers for creditworthiness. As a result of this new system, hosting costs dropped by 70%, stability improved to nearly 100% and speed increased by triple on the simplest reports, over ten times faster on more complex reports. Streamlining the systems involved, removing redundant data, and optimizing database queries improved performance and decreased costs. Because of these improvements clients are getting faster and more stable use from the application.
More accurate targeting of email campaigns for more effective use of an advertisers budget.
I created an email broadcasting system that queues and sends emails to predetermined demographics from a user database that is millions of rows of users. Demographic choices based on location, age, gender and known personal interests. Because of the intelligence behind this system users are more accurately targetting their chosen audience and getting better ROI on the spending.
Increased speed and accuracy of scoring leaderboards.
After a couple seasons of under-performing scoring leaderboards for a high school sports league, I rewrote the leaderboards. The leaderboards created too much of a load on the servers with inefficient and nested queries that slowed down the system. Because of these issues, optimizing the queries and removing nested queries were required. The query optimization vastly increased speed and reliability of the boards. As a result there has been far less user frustration, faster display and less load on the servers.
Creating a faster ad system with real time ROI reporting for the advertiser.
Designed and developed a very high traffic advertisement publishing system for a large online news publisher. This supported hundreds of thousands of impressions a day with full impression and click analytics through logging and reporting. Because of this advertisers can accurately see the effectiveness of their ads, perform A/B tests beween adifferent ads and more.
Better training, and reporting, for staff, attorneys, and partners, of legal research tools for more effective litigation.
Design and developed a video training system for one of the largest legal publishing firms on earth. It included user management, in full hierarchy from those assigning the lessons, to those taking them, including the grading of post lesson quizzes. As a result of these improvements users are learning how to use the research tools quicker and more effectively.
Creating Weather Reports for a Large Airline Carrier.
I created an interactive graphical reporting display to show a large airline what the weather was like at the various hubs they operated within. These reports used satellite METAR data to determine the safety of flying to or from each hub. It did this by showing the flight rules in place or whether grounding planes was necessary. Because of these reports they could maintain safety by faster access directly to this weather data. As a result, safer flights through faster action for fliers.