Portfolio

Web work



title WPT web site redesign (2007)
client Water & Power Technologies, Inc., WPT

type Website Redesign
position Senior Web Designer @ Earth Tech (in-house Creative Services Group)
project role
Project Management
+ Information Architecture
+ Art Direction 		+ Flash Design & Build
+ [HTML & CSS] Build
background Responsible for site's redesign, throughout its phases (Discovery, Design, Development and Deployment + Maintenance), working closely with WPT's sales director.

I implemented a new process for site development in the group, injecting Tyco's, WPT's and Earth Tech's brand elements.

Site's new professional look, along with showcasing WPT's products and services, helped market the company during its divestiture, eventually to Infilco Degremont Inc.
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Home page: before redesign
Home page: after redesign 		Working sample
Live site with Infilco Degremont Inc.


title Cook Inlet Energy Redesign (2003)
client Cook Inlet Energy

type Full Web Site Redesign
position Designer @ apollointeractive.com
project role (Art Direction/Design) Established look & feel (site/flash) initiated by creative director, collaborated with producer & flash designer and aided production (HTML & CSS).

background Branching off from existing branding, the redesign strengthens Cook's image, providing a professional reliable presence online. Cook Inlet provides energy and related financial services to customers and trading counter parties. Having 2000 sales of about $2.0 billion, Cook Inlet is the largest minority-owned company in the nation.

Home page
Landing page
Sub page


title Chicago: NATJA Conference & Marketplace (2004)
client North American Travel Journalists Association

type Chicago Conference Website Design
position Art Director @ apollointeractive.com
project role (Art Direction/Design) Established look & feel and site design parameters for print brochure cover and web site.

background Prior to designing the web site's look & feel, I designed the conference's brochure cover and collaborated with another art director for the internal pages of the brochure. The look of the cover branched out into the web, to reinforce the conference's branding. NATJA, a 300+ member organization, selected Chicago, Il. as the location for the 2nd Annual NATJA Conference & Marketplace at the Palmer House Hilton. This conference provided seminars and chance for fellow NATJA members to meet face-to-face, with a collective group of journalists, editors, broadcasters, and travel industry professionals.

Home page
Sub page


title L.A. Sports Council Website (2002)
client L.A. Sports Council/Perelman, Pioneer & Co.

type Full Website Design
position Designer @ apollointeractive.com
project role (Art Direction/Design) Established look & feel and set site's design specifications.

background This site has won "Outstanding Web Site" for 2004 by the National Association of Sports Commissions (NASC). View LASC Community Report.
The Los Angeles Sports Council came to Apollo Interactive to design their first resource oriented site. Knowing the dynamic driven needs of the site, I designed the look and feel accordingly with modularity in mind, keeping it clean and easy to navigate. The L.A. Sports Council is a non-profit civic organization, promoting the economic development of the Los Angeles/Orange County region, through sports.

L.A. Sports Council website (2002)
Live site


title Travelworld International Magazine (2002)
client North American Travel Journalists Association

type Online Magazine Redesign
position Designer @ apollointeractive.com
project role (Art Direction/Design) established look & feel and identity of site, set visual parameters and collaborated with producer & programmer.

background Visual identity of Travelworld Magazine was reexamined, including logo redesign. Redesign accomplished a sophisticated clean feel, with easy navigation and modularity (dynamically driven data). Collaborated with programmer for a feature that enabled writers to print out clean articles with intentions of using them as portfolio pieces. Travelworld International Magazine is a premier online travel magazine, featuring articles, columns and photos of NATJA members. NATJA is a 300+ member organization of writers, photographers and editors enthusiastic within the travel industry.

Home page
Article page


title Wolfgang Puck New Development (2001 - 2004)
client Wolfgang Puck

type Site Development & New Section Development
position Designer @ apollointeractive.com
project role (Art Direction/Design) Established look & feel for new sections, complimenting existing site's branding. In a designer role, built out front end pages (HTML and CSS), collaborating with programmers for database and user functionality.

background The people at Wolfgang Puck hired Apollo Interactive to develop and maintain their existing website in 2001. They launched a redesign to their site, including adding new sections and features.
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My Cookbooks Section
Express Dining Section
News & Events Section


title Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Site Development (2001 - 2004)
client Wolfgang Puck

type New Restaurant Site Addition
position Designer @ apollointeractive.com
project role (Design) Adhering to existing look & feel, created new templates & built out pages (HTML and CSS). Responsible for site maintenance.

background The people at Wolfgang Puck hired Apollo Interactive to develop and maintain their existing website in 2001, including their fine dining site(s). They wanted to add another restaurant to the fine dining site and also add DHTML to the restaurant's navigation.
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Home page
Very home page
Vert map


title KidsWB! TV Official Website (2000)
client Kids' WB! programming on The WB Television Network

type 2000 Web Site Facelift
position Designer @ apollointeractive.com
project role (Design/Production) HTML & CSS Build-out, part of team of producer, programmers, flash designer and other designers to revamp existing version.

background The folks at KidsWB! Programming designed a new home page look & feel. Apollo's art director provided sub page template looks. As a designer, built HTML and collaborated with other designers to create new shows pages and games, while maintaining the look of their current site and show branding.

Our team's goal was to accomplish the new changes in a specific time frame, while cleaning up code, making updates more coder friendly.

After the facelift, our team was responsible for maintaining the site, including contests, games and updates. Shows at KidsWB! include Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, X-Men Evolution and Batman Beyond.


title KidsWB! TV Official Website (2001)
client Kids' WB! programming on The WB Television Network

type 2001 Web Site Redesign
position Designer @ apollointeractive.com
project role (Design/Production) Produce homepage build (HTML and CSS); site maintenance;

background In 2001, the folks at KidsWB! wanted Apollo to come up with the creatives for their redesign. Shuwen Chiang art directed the site's look and feel.

I built the homepage and skeletal structure of the site (Front end build - HTML and CSS). Collaborated closely with programmers for interactive features.

After the redesign, responsible for maintaining the site, including contests, games and updates. Shows at KidsWB! include Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, X-Men Evolution and Batman Beyond.


title Poke Read-A-Rama Official Website (2000)
client Kids' WB! programming on The WB Television Network

type 2001 Web Site Design
position Designer @ apollointeractive.com
project role (Art Direction/Design) Created Look & Feel based on campaign's branding elements and produced site (HTML & CSS);

background KidsWB! launched a nationwide reading program, Poke Read-A-Rama, promoting reading and the latest season of Pokemon shows. One of the site's features, a kids friendly message board, was a positive interactive area where kids shared stories related to reading.

Created site's look and feel and produced the site (HTML & CSS), working closely with programmer for the message board feature. After the launch, maintained the site's updates.

Satisfaction with the relationship and redesign of this site, lead to the following year's redesign of kidswb.com.

Shows at KidsWB! include Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, X-Men Evolution and Batman Beyond.

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IMPLEMENTED REDESIGN DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

+ "Scope of Work" agreement

+ Site architecture and planning

+ initial look and feel art direction

+ collaboration with graphic designer for landing and detail page design templates

+ initial site build architecture

+ collaboration with web designer for site's production and content implementation

+ Over saw maintenance requests after redesign as well


REVAMP SITE'S LOOK AND TECHNOLOGY

Tyco owned Earth Tech. Earth Tech acquired WPT. WPT identified themselves as their own brand, but wanted to be associated with Tyco. To accomplish (1) identity association and (2) to revamp the out-dated site, Earth Tech's in-house group, Creative Services, redesigned the site's branding and technology.

More dynamically driven information and features were added within the new sections, adhering to the existing site's look.

On the creative end, I designed a general template for the new sections, using color as a section indicator, integrating within the existing site. With the site as a reference, each graphic, font and .psd were recreated or figured out, as not provided by the former developer. I cleaned up the code and renamed all related files fitting within a php environment, to accommodate programmers' new features.

The overall goal was to maintain/clean up the site's front (visual graphics) and back (HTML - globally adding PHP code), while integrating new features (a collaboration effort with programmers).
With the existing site as a reference, each graphic, font and .psd were recreated or figured out, as not provided by the former developer. I cleaned up the code and renamed all related files fitting within a php environment, to accommodate programmers' DHTML to site navigation.

The overall goal was to maintain/clean up the site's front (visual graphics) and back (HTML - globally adding PHP code), while integrating new features (a collaboration effort with programmers).
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