I'm Jeff. I'm a web developer, photographer, world traveler, movie lover, and baseball fanatic.
Web Development
Tilted Kilt
National restaurant chain requested a new site to update their corporate brand and streamline the experience for franchise owners. Features menus and event calendars that can me managed at the corporate and franchise level. Franchise owners can offer unique menu items, drink specials, and integrate local social media accounts. A corporate approval system manages content before it is published to the live site. Geolocation services find the nearest locations for users. A new Kilt Girl is featured on the calendar every month.
responsive layout, WordPress, Foundation, Facebook/Instagram feeds | Tech Lead
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
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
Professional Athletes Foundation
Organization works with the NFLPA to collect articles and resources for former NFL players. Features dynamically filtered content, social media sharing tools, and an accordion-driven FAQ section.
responsive layout, WordPress, Isotope | Lead 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
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
Jaybridge Robotics
Autonomous vehicle and industrial robotics software company requested a site which showcased the technology. A hero carousel with content transitions and scroll-driven parallax interactions were added to make the browsing experience more dynamic.
responsive layout, WordPress, Foundation | Lead Developer
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
Super Bowl Squared
Pick numbers before the big game, and win big if the scores at the end of each quarter matches your numbers. Site features secure logins for each user and email notifications using an external SMTP service.
responsive layout, WordPress, Mailgun integration
Photography
La Conciergerie
Paris, France
The view from Pont au Change, one of the many bridges connecting Île de la Cité with the mainland. Hundreds of prisoners during the French Revolution, including Marie Antoinette, were imprisoned and executed with guillotines at La Conciergerie.
Octopi on a Stick
Naxos, Greece
These guys were hanging out right in front of a restaurant. The Greeks love to eat octopus.
Bačvice Beach
Split, Croatia
Sandy Bačvice is Split's most popular beach. Locals come here during the day to swim, sunbathe, drink coffee and play picigin. But in the morning, you'll have no problem finding a deck chair.
Medieval Souvenirs
Rhodes, Greece
The old city of Rhodes is surrounded by medieval walls with seven gates. To enter any of these gates is to enter another world. Though many of the alleys are now filled with tourist shops, restaurants, cafes, some of them retain that old world feel.
War Requiem at Oslo Opera House
Oslo, Norway
War Requiem is a staged opera about a congregation trapped inside a church during a bomb attack on their village. To mark the occasion, the word "WAR" was tagged in huge yellow letters on the glass exterior of the Oslo Opera House. The angled exterior surfaces of the building are covered with marble from Carrara, Italy and white granite and make it appear to rise from the water.
Green Waterfalls of Plitviče
Plitviče Lakes National Park, Croatia
Plitviče Lakes National Park is known for a chain of 16 terraced lakes, joined by waterfalls, that extend into a limestone canyon.
Astronomical Clock in Old Town Square
Prague, Czech Republic
The Astronomical Clock, or Orloj, is mounted on the southern wall of Old Town City Hall in the Old Town Square. The clock was first installed in 1410, making it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world and the oldest one still operating.
Fire Twirler
Koh Phangan, Thailand
In the spirit of Koh Phangan's full moon parties, this New Year's Eve party on a beach called Haad Rin was filled with with tens of thousands of people drinking and dancing and hallucinating and vomiting and having sex. There were performers and dancers everywhere. This long exposure of a fire twirler was the best of the bunch.
Mount Rushmore
Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota
A wider look showing which part of the mountain it was carved out of as well as the pile of debris left from its construction.
Purple Shells & Orange Rocks
Ushuaia, Argentina
Near South America's southern tip, looking towards Antarctica. Beagle Channel forms part of the border between Chile and Argentina and is one of the three navigable passages around South America between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
From the Blogs
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
August 10, 2020 | reviews
Fun. Surprisingly good effects.
Game 7 of the 2019 World Series: A Live Blog
October 31, 2019 | blog
We’re here. Game 7 of the World Series. The Washington Nationals have defied all odds to get here. They weren’t even supposed to make it to the playoffs, let alone the World Series. Along the way, they trailed in and eventually won all 4 playoff elimination games they’ve been in,…
Odds of Winning the Division
August 16, 2019 | blog
We’re now in the home stretch of the my baseball simulation league season, and I thought it might be fun to try to run some numbers to see what the odds are for each team to win their division.