I'm Jeff. I'm a web developer, photographer, world traveler, movie lover, and baseball fanatic.
Web Development
CrowdStrike
Corporate marketing site for global cybersecurity leader. Website makes extensive use of WordPress custom post types and custom fields to manage heavy content and Bootstrap for responsive mobile design.
responsive layout, WordPress, Bootstrap, webpack | Sr. UI Developer
Ping Pong Rankings
A ranking system for office ping pong or any other competitive event. The system is built as a ladder, where players can challenge players above them and must win to move up. Email notifications for challenge matches and reminders of upcoming games are automatically sent out. Playing statistics including all-time records, streaks, and easiest/toughest opponents are calculated on the fly. Back-end tools allow admins to add and remove players.
responsive layout, Foundation
Ball Catchers
Catalogs the fans who have caught the most famous home run balls in Major League Baseball history. Features stories collected from news outlets, modals with videos showing each home run, and photos of the lucky fans.
custom PHP, Facebook comments
TDI Security
A showcase of a technology security company's products and service offerings. The WordPress site features a custom theme based on FoundationPress, a mobile responsive layout with breakpoints for phone, tablet, and desktop. JavaScript libraries like Isotope and D3.js enable dynamic filtering, interactive page elements, and subtle animations to data presentations. Sticky subnavigation and sidebars ensure that users never get lost in long, scrolling content. Page and browser caching ensures fast site performance. Social networking tools increase shareability. A comprehensive WordPress back-end allows for easy maintenance of site content by the client.
responsive layout, WordPress, FoundationPress, Isotope, D3.js | Developer
Loveline Tapes
A community effort to collect, organize, and share recordings of old Loveline radio shows. Loveline was a nationally syndicated radio call-in program featuring Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew that offered medical and relationship advice to listeners. Over three thousand recordings are stored, all of them indexed, searchable, and available to public for free. Features include a jQuery MP3 player, call tagging, integrated message board, and search functionality. Back-end tools allow admins to upload and archive new recordings, moderate content, and ban users. Cloudflare CDN delivers cached content for the best performance.
custom PHP, phpBB integration, CloudFlare
FosterPort
Collection of resources on issues impacting older foster youth transitioning out of foster care. Client requested that the resources be easily filterable and fully functional on mobile devices. Site features advanced filtering logic and dropdown panels showing all available filters. Preloaded content and dynamic animation quickly delivers results. Back-end tools allows the organization to easily add new resources and categorize them for proper filtering.
responsive layout, WordPress, Isotope | Lead Developer
DMI
Digital mobility company needed a site that showcased its newly acquired divisions and business capabilities. Content and image-heavy site features angled content areas, magazine-style transitions, multi-level horizontal navigation, and embedded video and PDF content. A government subsite with graceful degradation to IE7 was required.
responsive layout, WordPress, Foundation, Google Tag Manager integration | Tech Lead
Pitcher List
Baseball articles and statistics website. Responsibilities included managing small team of developers, maintaining a scrum-based agile workflow, organizing documentation, working closely with the data science team, and overseeing deployments to production. My primary development focus was the data-heavy player pages, which involve API data pulls, local data storage, on-the-fly processing, nightly cron jobs to get updates, and server-side caching.
WordPress, Foundation 6, REST API-driven data, Grunt | Web Team Manager
4-H
Global youth organization needed a refresh of their internationally recognized brand. An updated design was created, and a new back-end content management system allowed for easier organization and maintenance of their deep content. Structured page templates ensure that content is always cleanly presented. Section 508 rules for accessibility were respected.
responsive layout, WordPress Multisite, Foundation, Webdam integration | Tech Lead
MonkeyStats
There weren't any good, free web sites for managing the schedule and statistics for recreational baseball and softball teams, so I made this. Team managers can keep player rosters, post schedules, send game invites, and keep team statistics. Features advanced form functionality and data validation, intense baseball math. Also included is a physics simulator showing how far you can hit a ball under various conditions.
custom PHP, Mailgun integration
Photography
Colored Houses on the Canal
Burano, Italy
Burano rose in importance only in the 16th century, when women on the island began making lace with needles, being introduced to such a trade via Venetian-ruled Cyprus.
Wine Cellar at Bled Castle
Bled, Slovenia
Bled Castle is a medieval castle built on a precipice overlooking Lake Bled. The castle was first mentioned in a 22 May 1011 deed of donation issued by Emperor Henry II. In the servant building is a rustic-looking wine cellar.
McLeod's Table
North Skye, Scotland
Rock formations on the Isle of Skye in the Scottish Highlands. A scene from the film "Prometheus" was filmed here.
Sistine Chapel
Vatican City
Between 1508 and 1512, Michelangelo painted the chapel's ceiling, a project which changed the course of Western art and is regarded as one of the major artistic accomplishments of human civilization. No photography is allowed inside (oops) because Nippon Television Network Corporation of Japan, having funded renovations starting in 1980, has exclusive photography rights of the work.
Golden Room in Stockholm City Hall
Stockholm, Sweden
This is the hall used for the ball after Nobel Prize banquet every year. A location for festivities in the central building of Stockholm City Hall was ordered in 1908 by the city councillor. Initially, the Golden Hall was not golden but built with stone and granite. Thanks to a hefty donation by a someone who wished to remain anonymous, the Golden Hall was reworked with golden mosaics of events and persons from Swedish history.
A Message from Above
Jerusalem, Israel
The Old City as viewed from the Mount of Olives, named for the olive groves that once covered its slopes. The mount has been used as a Jewish cemetery for over 3,000 years and holds approximately 150,000 graves.
Shrimp & Zucchini Tagliatelle in a Garlic Butter Sauce
Rhodes, Greece
An absolutely fantastic lunch at Tamam, one of the greatest restaurants in Rhodes.
Outside Birkenau
Oświęcim, Poland
Birkenau was the site of imprisonment of hundreds of thousands and of the killing of over one million people, mainly Jews, but also large numbers of Poles, and Gypsies.
Walls of Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik, Croatia
A view back on the city from atop the city walls that run almost 2 km around the city. The walls run from 4 to 6 m thick on the landward side but are much thinner on the seaward side. The walls of Dubrovnik have been a popular filming location for the fictional city of King's Landing in the HBO television series, Game of Thrones.
Sunset Over Katapola
Katapola, Amorgos, Greece
Was treated to this scene after cresting a mountain range on Amorgos on a scooter. Katapola is the largest port village on the island.