Cinema 4D, Flash, Java, XML

You wake up. Head pounding. Eyes stinging. As you regain your focus and the vertigo fades, you attempt to stand up. Having no memory of how you got here (aside from the nasty hit you took to the back of the head), you find yourself in a dimly lit concrete cell littered with curious, mechanical looking objects, and a fortress-grade door.

The Cell is a multi-user interactive experiential narrative that focuses on three main concepts: cooperation of users, exploration of the story, and puzzle solving. More specifically, the Cell is strictly dual-user: based on two side-by-side, nearly identical cells, each user must discover (through exploration alone) that the other user is trapped in the similar adjoining cell.

Two main faculties of the multi-user application are the ability to communicate between users through the chat interface, and the ability to trade objects between rooms. Each of these abilities (as with most of interface) requires some degree of mastery or familiarity from the users in order to be used effectively. This steep learning curve is afforded by the nature of the narrative: disorientation, confusion, mystery.

Enter your cell…

This is the fourth iteration of my online portfolio, and the first one done entirely in Flash. I was pretty happy with it at the time, because I had just learned about XML and all its wondrous powers, so one of my main goals to to be able to update this site through XML. Scope this bad boy out.

OK, now we are starting to get somewhere. This is the third iteration of my online portfolio, and it is finally getting easier to navigate and doesn’t look like a 5 year old vomited construction paper all over the place. Check it out, if you dare.

Flash

An experimental microsite developed to sample the tracks of Percussion Group Cincinnati’s latest CD.

ASP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript

Cooperative education (co-op) is the practice of alternating students’ studies with paid, professional work related to their major. This site was designed to meet the needs of the important constituents of the co-op triad (the student, the employer and the university).

I created this site while working for the University of Cincinnati. There is also a second section of this site, only accessible to current students unfortunately, which contains educational materials to enhance student’s on-the-job experiences. Upon login, required objectives, projects and reports are available.

This is an archived version of the site that I built.

ASP, CSS, HTML

A simple front end site put together for a small freelance group I was working with at the time. I also helped with the back end of the site, which included a file manager and tech desk for our clients.

Ok, another not so great example of web design, but at least it is better than my first attempt.

This one takes a lot of the content from the first portfolio and packages it up a little nicer. This was created in 2002, I was a sophomore in college. I had just begun to learn Flash and I remember being ecstatic that I was able to create the rotating menu at the top of the page (completely key-framed, I had no idea was actionScript was at the time beyond the stop() command).

Anyways, on with the show!

Wow!

Talk about awesome!

Frames! Tiled wallpaper! Boring Flash navigation! Yellow text!

This was my first stab at creating a digital portfolio. It was 2002. I was a sophomore in college at the time. Not really sure what I was going for here, but I don’t think I kept it for very long.

I am including this not because I think it is good work, but because I think it is interesting to see a progression of skill over time. Hope you enjoy it!

View the masterpiece.