Product Design & Dev Lead
In late 2008 & 2009, we built Emphasis Search as a powerful search engine for finding specialist doctors for top medical centers. The public site at ApexMD.com allows anyone to find the right doctor for their brain tumor!

UI Design & Engineering
In 2008, I took on a fairly technical project to improve the usability of administration for Wrigley's Candystand.com . This project introduced a number of AJAX interactions.

Visual Design & UI Prototyping
In 2007, I worked on several projects with The Princeton Revew, including one high profile one to redesign college guides which are the foundation of their online business.

Front End Development & UX Coaching
I helped Yahoo put together a website to raise awareness of climate change for Earth Day, 2007. We designed the site to motivate people to take action themselves to help reduce it.

Founder, CEO & Tech Lead
I founded Real Life Gifts in 2005 to make it easier to give activities as gifts. The business was modelled after Red Letter Days in the UK. I developed systems and hired a small team of 5 people to bring the product to market.

Creator, Head Product Management
Intra.Net was a collaborative platform for sharing information within a company. It was ahead of it's time when we designed it between 1999 and 2001. I led the product strategy, and oversaw development of this web based collaborative software system, from the conception through over two years of growth.

Information Architecture & User Interface Design
IHS Energy (NYSE:IHS) is the largest provider of data and information to the energy industry. As the lead consultant & designer for Rocket Communications, I helped IHS visualize and prototype their next generation of information services.

Online Strategy & Prototyping
Between 1997 & 1999 I led the design of a number of strategic technology initiatives for the HK Government This is one of the projects where I led an 8 person team to establish a vision that was presented to the public at the Hong Kong Information Technology Expo attended by 120,000 people.

UI Design & Specficiations
Think Dynamics, recently purchased by IBM, is a leader in data center automation and software for just-in-time provisioning of servers. I was brought in to improve usability, and prototyped numerous changes to the user interface.

UI Prototyping
Avokia is a Canadian start-up with an innovative technology to allow database clustering for high availability and increased performance. I was hired to design and develop a monitoring and management system for keeping track of system status in real time.

Front-End Engineering
Working with the Product manager of Trilliant's 'Unity' product line, we put together a prototype of the console interface for the engineering team to work from.

UI Prototyping
DDRnet enables companies to self-insure their employees with dental, vision and health benefits. Their automated claim processing is unique and likely to make a huge impact in corporate benefits. I designed the system.

Site Redesign
Each year IronPlanet sells hundreds of millions of dollars worth of used construction equipment to businesses all over the country through their online auction sites. I did a complete redesign of the marketing related pages and design templates

Simple Website Design
Robert Darr travelled through Afghanistan during the Soviet war. He's just published a book about his experiences, but also wanted to make it available online.

Website Design, Wordpress CMS
Racing Yacht Management do just that. If you have own a competetive sailboat and need to keep it in top form, this is the company to call! They helped me!

Interaction & Visual Design
Pandigital are the biggest manufacturer of digital photo frames. In 2008 I helped them design a touch screen interface to manage the functionality of the frame.

Requirements & UI Design
As part of a drive to improve accountability and transparency following the return to Chinese rule, The Hong Kong Government set about development of a Management Information System to track progress on all policy objectives. I designed it.

MLS in PHP/MySQL
Sharp Real Estate is a private real estate group. This is a brochure site with a small catalogue that can be updated by the client.

E-Commerce Website (PHP/MySQL)
Centurian Health distributes books to health care providers and large employers. This was a simple database driven site to let purchasers browse books, and place bulk orders.

Wordpress CMS
Tom is a friend of mine and needed a site that he could build out quickly and easily by himself.

Ecommerce Website (PHP/MySQL)
Prescription911 is a Seattle based online pharmacy selling low cost prescription drugs to elderly and uninsured customers. Designed and developed by me.

Rapid Prototyping (PHP/MySQL)
EcoSynergy is making it possible for individuals to understand the enviornmental impact of the products they buy. I've been advising them on their product strategy and am developing version 1.0 of the product in PHP/MySQL.

UI Design & CMS
In an effort to improve good government practices accross different departments, the Efficiency Unit of the Hong Kong Government contracted me to design an internal site that would be a central place for government employees to learn more and discuss good government.

Visual Design
A quick little site design and layout that I threw together in short order for a small business on a tight budget.

Website Design
The Arques School in Sausalito, CA provides apprenticeships and courses in wooden boatbuilding. I designed a simple website designed to attract new apprentices and keep interested public informed about progress on many of the historical boats being built at the school.

Ecommerce Website
Daisy Arts manufactures and sells high end leather bound items including photo albums, journals and accessories. I redesigned the website and set up an e-commerce solution.

Website Development
Carrie Sloat is a talented freelance designer and collegue. This is a nice simple site with some effective use of Javascript to display a large portfolio.