I'm Jeff. I'm a web developer, photographer, world traveler, movie lover, and baseball fanatic.
Web Development
Divvy It Up!
After growing tired of the complicated math involved in sharing costs when traveling with friends, I decided to make a tool to do the math for you. You can add events, friends, and costs, and it will tell you who owes money to each person in the end. Now, it's a site where people can split costs for travel, rent, or anything. Pie charts show how costs have been shared.
custom PHP
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
Juniper
Mediterranean-inspired restaurant in Wellesley, Massachusetts. One-page site features navigation with animated scrolling, an online menu populated by SinglePlatform, gift card and cookbook ordering integration with PayPal, and a photo gallery.
responsive layout, WordPress, Foundation, PayPal integration | Lead Developer
FlikPik
We only have so much time left, so why waste your time watching bad movies? What if there was a way to pick your next movie to watch from a list of the best movies ever? And what if you could filter that list to reflect your personal preferences? Using data from IMDB and some proprietary algorithms to come up with final rankings, a list of the best movies ever is presented. Daily cron jobs keep the data fresh. Dynamic filtering allows you to find hidden gems, mark movies as seen, and add them to a watchlist. Movies on your favorite streaming services are a click away.
responsive layout, Foundation, Isotope, TMDb/OMDb/Guidebox API, Google AdSense integration
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
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
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
Weekly Resourcing Summary
Web app that uses the ResourceGuru API to determine appropriate resource allocation for our team of account managers, project managers, strategists, copywriters, UX, designers, and developers. Visual charting of the data helps determine at a glance if resources are appropriately allocated for the week. A detail view shows specific clients and projects assigned to each resource. Filters may be used to display resource from specific departments.
responsive layout, Foundation, ResourceGuru API | 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
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
Photography
Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Located in the historic district of Old Montreal, the church is built in the Gothic Revival style. Construction work took place between 1824 and 1829. On its completion, the church was the largest in North America. Definitely worth the $4 to go inside!
View of Koronos
Koronos, Naxos, Greece
Koronos is one of the oldest settlements in northeastern Naxos, first appearing in written records around the year 1200. The quaint mountain village is set on the slopes of a ravine with two distinct halves facing each other between Mt. Amomaxis and Mt. Koronos. The valley in the middle is full of vineyards.
Four Men in Halki
Halki, Naxos, Greece
These four guys were relaxing and chatting in the midday heat. I was pretty close and didn't want to disrupt the scene with my giant camera, so I shot from the hip on this one.
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.
Birds on Sticks
Milford Sound, New Zealand
Was waiting to board a boat to tour around Milford Sound when I turned around and saw this scene. Wooden pillars rising out of the water provide a perfect perch. The fog was quickly rolling out so I snapped it real quick. A moment later, the fog and all of the magic was gone.
Quiraing
Skye, Scotland
The Quiraing is a landslip on the eastern face of Meall na Suiramach, the northernmost summit of the Trotternish Ridge on the Isle of Skye. The unique landscape was formed by a great series of landslips, and the road at its base near Flodigarry requires repairs each year.
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.
Doonagore Castle
County Clare, Ireland
Doonagore Castle is a round 16th-century tower house with a small walled enclosure located about 1 km above the coastal village of Doolin in County Clare, Ireland. Its name may mean "the fort of the rounded hills" or the "fort of the goats"; it sits on a hill overlooking Doolin Point and, along with a nearby higher radio mast, is used as a navigational point by boats approaching Doolin Pier.
Kuang Si Falls
Luang Prabang, Laos
A three tier waterfall about 29 kilometers south of Luang Prabang.
From the Blogs
In Bruges
November 1, 2022 | reviews
Things feel a little weird in the beginning, with loosely edited dialogue and light comedy that doesn’t really work. But as the story deepened and the characters developed and the beauty of Bruges slowly revealed itself, it all grew on me. By the end, we have a cleanly told, symbolism-filled…
Matanuska Glacier & A Yak Burger
May 15, 2022 | travel
The jack-ass sitting in front of me decided to fire up Lord of the Rings on his phone’s tinny speakers. Of course, when the flight attendant came by and insisted that he put on headphones, he put them on, fell right asleep, and started obnoxiously snoring. Meanwhile, the woman to…
Alaska Bound!
May 13, 2022 | travel
Mostly thanks to COVID, it’s been a while since I’ve done any real traveling. So it was with great jubilation when I learned my work would be flying me and our whole department to a fancy resort in Alaska for our off-site team event this year. It’s nice to work…