Development Work
The following is a listing of 9 development projects. The first two are the same featured projects as on the homepage. You may choose to skip those and read the remaining projects.
UC Berkeley Big Give
UC Berkeley’s 24-hour fund raising donor site and event
Front-End Developer
Once-a-year Berkeley hosts a 24-hour event for fundraising, giving donors a chance to directly support their favorite campus units. The event focuses on supporting campus initiatives in a fun and social media-friendly way.
- SPA design using Ember.js and JSON endpoints
- Responsive desktop and mobile friendly
- Site features pre- live- and post-event "phases"
- Running countdown clock for each phase
- Third party social media integration
UC Berkeley Giving 2.0
Berkeley’s primary online giving site
Front-End Developer
If you want a way to find your favorite program on campus and are feeling generous, Berkeley's Give website has got you covered. It was easy to search, select, and give your heart out.
- Pixel perfect design-to-code
- Coldfusion-based platform with jQuery
- Responsive desktop and mobile friendly
- Giving Widget to quickly choose category of giving
- Accessible Search
@cal Alumni Network
UC Berkeley's Alumni gateway. A networking tool.
Front-End Developer
Started nearly 10 years ago, the @cal alumni network is still going strong as the the best way to network with alumni and students.
- Clickable Wireframes
- User Experience testing support
- Responsive desktop and mobile friendly
- PHP-based image processing
Developer Productivity App
A Firebase Cloud Function hosted Node.js middleware app.
Developer
Development workflows are already very complicated. This middleware app made for speedy squashing of bugs without bouncing back-and-forth between development and productivity apps.
- Node server-side express app on Firebase Cloud Functions
- Captures GitLab/GitHub hook to update Teamwork project tasklists
- Saves hours of developer time
- Close tasks with simple git commit comment
Campaign for Berkeley
UC Berkeley’s campaign status update website.
Front-End Developer
The campaign for Berkeley site was to highlight that despite the bottom falling out of funding for universities in California by almost 75% that year, we still managed to keep the ball rolling.
- Adapted a parallax template and custom SVG artwork for interactivity
- Integration with izotope.js library
- Responsive desktop and mobile friendly
- Custom slide-scroll section and section animation
Berkeley Innovators & Founders Pledge
Two sites engaging entrepreneurs and Cal Alumni.
Developer
These sites were spawned enthusiastically from our former Silicon Valley lead fundraiser, and quickly rose to attract many alumni pledging to give back to Cal.
- Drupal 7 build and templating
- Responsive desktop and mobile friendly
- Cross-browser compatible
- Modified post deploy to update client needs
UC Berkeley Campus Initiatives
Custom built PHP/jQuery sites for campus events, clubs & societies.
Developer
I was often the sole developer on a number of campus sites supporting current events & life-long institutions on campus.
- Custom PHP sites
- Responsive desktop and mobile friendly
- Cross-browser compatible
- Pixel-accurate design-to-code
UC Berkeley Eureka Intranet
Re-styled Microsoft Sharepoint interface to match theme.
Front-End Developer
In Berkeley Advancement Services, there was a switch to Microsoft Sharepoint as a way to connect Advancement Services with the campus. It featured shared knowledge and documentation, fundraising guidelines, and much more.
- Re-styled a notoriously difficult backend admin collaborative Sharepoint CMS
- CSS using lots of descendent selection and overrides
- Styling was targeted so they were as modular as possible
- Prioritized search box as way of navigating
UC Berkeley E-Communications
Manager for the UC Berkeley campus-wide e-mail marketing tool.
E-Communications Manager & Developer
I was able to bring campus units together with training, central documentation, in-person consulting, and technical tools such as HTML E-mail templates to assist campus units to market donors effectively with enterprise e-mail.
- Developed Drupal portal for resource sharing
- Developed client-safe HTML E-mail templates for campus-wide use
- Hosted user-group meetings & customer service
- Crafted on-site and on-line training courses
- Created new documentation to address FAQs