Web Site Design, System Architecture & Development

Site Name: NGA-Earth
Developed By: Team based Content Population, web mapping services, and geospatial viewer; the back end was built by me.
Technology Used: Flash, ActionScript, Java, WMS, JSP, Servlet, DHTML, HTML, CSS.
Architected: Architecture type - "Project/Services Model Representation".
Project Focus: Provide discoverability to services offered.
Role: Information Architect and Interface Developer.
Notes: This was a redesign of an existing site. After the release of the redesign the number of visits per month went from 1729 to 26224 within it’s first month.

Site Name: GeoTalk
Developed By: Team based Content Population, back end Content, Document Management, and Blog Systems were built by me.
Technology Used: DHTML, HTML, CSS, ASP, VB Script, J Script, SQL.
Architected: Architecture type - "Community of Practice". Information Architecture is dynamic and gets developed by the sites community members.
Project Focus: GeoTalk was a product developed for use at the GEOINT 2007 conference to embrace the intellectual assets of the entire GEOINT community to solve geospatially related problems.
Role: Information Architect, Content Management (CMS) and Document Management (DMS) developer, Interface Developer, Site Administrator and Database Developer.
Notes: This site provides a dynamic way for users to ask question and receive answers while providing greater context to the questions and replies. User can upload images and documents, associated web sites and URLs, and geographically tag their discussion over a certain location using a GUI. Users can rate responses to questions asked and the asker can close question once a response is achieved. The system allows for the propagation of Q&A to become FAQ’s. The entire system is Wiki based including the site administration.

Site Name: Chantilly Integration Center
Developed By: Content and site was built by me with the sites template being outsourced.
Technology Used: Flash, ActionScript, DHTML, HTML, CSS, ASP.
Architected: Architecture type - "Project/Services Model Representation".
Project Focus: Marketing for the Chantilly Integration Center.
Role: Web Developer and Site Administrator.
Notes: Simple marketing site.

Site Name: USGS Home Page 2005
Developed By: USGS Enterprise Web Team and the USGS Office of Communications.
Technology Used: DHTML, HTML, CSS, J Script, ASP, VB Script, SQL.
Architected: Architecture type - "Portal Model". Moderate adherence to architecture and interface models developed.
Project Focus: Implementation of a User Centric Design Process.
Role: Phase 1 - Design new enterprise wide Visual identity Standards for web pages to make all new web projects compliant with Department of Interior and OMB "Best Practices". Develop and design new homepage in prototype following new specifications. Coordinate development activities. Phase 2 - Relinquish ownership of the project to the newly implemented support group.
Notes: After the prototype of the new homepage suite and after the rework of the new enterprise wide specification the bureau developed a management team to support all web activities at the Homepage level within the web architecture, enable this design to have a greater chance of success.