Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute

While running my own shop, American Made Web, I got to work on an interesting project. Using data from the FDA, ASMI wanted data and interactive maps illustrating government-purchased canned salmon. Really. I loved the off-beat nature of the project and using data from the Federal Government to show how industry is helped in a real tangible way by government purchases. The project is hosted on Github and you can view a video of it in action here.

Washington Examiner

At MediaDC I served as lead architect to a full redux of the http://washingtonexaminer.com website. Initially planned as a simple refresh of the site's design, I noticed significant room for improvement across both the backend framework and the frontend code. I rewrote the entire in-house framework to utilize more efficient database queries, establish a more logical and focused code structure allowing for faster development, and implemented modern frontend pre-processing and compilation using Gulp, SASS, Babel and a custom router to handle page-specific JavaScript tasks. The result was a site that loads nearly twice as fast, is more efficient to work on for our team and has seen nearly a jump of 200% in search engine referral traffic due to strict adherence to writing code that is clean, validates and loads quickly. The project was completed in it's entirety in roughly three months, with 90% of the coding performed by myself.