If you are thinking this portfolio is really anemic for someone with 12 years experience, you're right. As you can tell from my resume page, I don't have enough free time to build cool stuff for free. One reason my time is limited is because I've been a full-time Professional Services consultant for the last eight of those years. Thanks to the real estate and stock market melt-downs, I find myself in the need of some evening (E.S.T.) and weekend work right now. And, since web development is something that I enjoy enough where I can work extra hours without burn-out, I'm posting what I can here for your review in the hope you will hire or recommend me.
My early work was for publicly available sites which were very cutting-edge for their day. Their day is past, and all of them either went the way of the dot-bomb or prospered well enough to have been completely updated since I worked on them.
So, for now all I have to showcase are some low-budget sites I have done on the side over the last few years for folks with (no surprise) low budgets. Not really showcase material, but all that is readily available. They are:
| http://www.oneil4machinery.com (2006) | http://fuq.fywservices.com (2005) |
| http://carolsullivanre.com (2004) | http://www.convertingmachinerysales.com (2002) |
One of my earliest efforts was jonesco.com. The owner was my first client as an independent. He is memorialized on his current domain (http://www.jonesco.com/). I have the last archive version running on my server at http://www.fywservices.com/jonesco/, though some functionality will not work as it was integrated with several other services. We had lots of disagreements about the style of the site, but he with the checkbook is always right.
One really cool feature of the site is the custom Content Management I built for use by someone who has no technical skills. To keep from having my database filled up I will only demo that in person.
Another site written for someone who was technically challenged and who is also deceased (my second client). The site was written in classic ASP, and ranked really well in the search engines.
I've built lots of cool sites that are either on intranets or require an account to access (mostly portals). Even if I could point you to them, non-disclosures would prevent me from doing so. I will be adding scrubbed mocks ups here as time permits to demonstrate features of my better web development work in HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, and AJAX (I'm aware of the redundancies there, but the search engines aren't).
Another reason (yes, I know I'm making excuses, but please bear with me before making up your mind)it is hard for me to provide a public portfolio of my better work is that my specialty has been to integrate features that visual designers and Information Architects dream up with commercial portal frameworks. It's a non-trivial task to re-write it all in straight HTML or PHP, not to mention the license cost.
I'm in the midst of posting a full chronology of the web development work I have done at fywChronology.html.
The bottom-line is I have worn many hats in my IT consulting career (team lead, technical architect, client architect, and consulting manager to name a few). Yet, no matter what role I was assigned or despite any current title on my business card, I have been the go-to guy for anything that needs to be done in browser. Please ping me at portal.dude@yahoo.com if you need someone to go to for your web application solution.