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Coleman
The focus of this project was to redesign the existing site highlighting Coleman's 100 year anniversary. It was my responsibility to get input from the client, bring our Creative Director up to speed on the project and start exploring ideas. I worked jointly with the Creative Director's ideas along with producing several ideas that were my own vision. I presented all the ideas to the client and managed the creative process of making revisions in our approach to ensure consistency with Coleman branding. It was then my responsibility to produce all the needed graphics and coordinate the implementation with our programmers.
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SCA Consulting
The focus of this project was to redesign the existing site while trying to establish the forward thinking of the company. There was also a direct mail campaign using the compass illustration which was to be incorporated into the site either literally or conceptually.

My responsibility was to manage the two outside design firms that had already been contacted prior to my position with the company. I participated in all client meetings, worked as the liaison between the client and the other design firms and initiated several design looks myself. It was my responsibility to manage and produce all the graphics along with a Flash intro. I worked closely with the programmers ensuring that the site was Dreamweaver compatible as many portions of the site would be maintained by the client. I also assisted in training the client in Dreamweaver.
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LaidlawSchultzArchitects
This project is scheduled for completion at the end of April 2002. My role with this project was to secure the domain name, set-up hosting of the site along with handling administration of employee e-mail. In addition to that I helped the client translate what they have been successful in doing with traditional mediums into a site that promotes the kind of work they are interested in capturing more of.

I was in charge of walking the client through the discovery and concept phase of the graphic look, building the Flash movie and production of all the inside pages. I will also produce a monthly html newsletter for the client to distribute.
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ShareMtb
This project was a re-design of an existing site. My role was to come up with a professional presentation for this association, administrate all e-mail functions and develop the site from the ground up. This site will have some pages that are dynamically generated which are being authored in UltraDev. I am also responsible for the development of the database.
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ProspectWorks
For this project I am part of a development team of several Sr. level developers. The product is a web-based contact management application that could also be run locally. My role in this project is to set the graphic theme and build all the html pages for the other developers to amend with dynamic calls to the database.
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Bottomline Utility Solutions
This project is the companies first web presence. We used as a starting point for content the company's existing Power Point presentation. From this and meetings with the client we developed a site goal and strategy to achieve that goal. We were responsible for the navigational flow of the site, Domain name registration and hosting. We presented three look and feels and are currently in the process of building out the site. At this point it is a static HTML site with plans for version two to have area's that are database populated.

We are very good with from the ground-up, first-timers. We know how to walk the client through key decision processes along the way and what to suggest for functionality in a simple phase one site.
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Crossing Online
This is a project for a church that includes an inter and extra-net. This project is also a site redesign with accompanying SQL database from the ground up. I am in charge of project management, graphics, content production, and training for this volunteer effort.

I worked with key leaders identifying, organizing and translating the mission statement of the church into a user demographic driven site. The typical user for this site is, 25-45, Orange County resident, single or young family that is driven by a edgy presentation of traditional values.
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Coto Financial
This is the first web presence for Coto Financial. My role has been to inform and educate the client with regards to the practical web applications that are available to them. To apply web technology in the area's of customer service and meet the demands of affiliate's to present a united image to the end consumer. To transition their business model from exclusively brick and mortar to click and mortar. My responsibility was also to develop the plan for phase one and two of the sites release.
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Newport Mesa Travel
This project is a redesign of an existing site. My role was to work with the company executives to provide a graphic theme that would act as a launching site to travel providers that the firm partners with. My role was to research the competition and document a norm for the industry. This then would be used to guide the content that would be integrated for my clients site.
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CSC
This is a redesign of an existing site. I was sought out because of my background in corporate sites that have a conservative style with an amount of "safe edge". Also my ability to create low bandwidth site's while giving them the appearance of graphic rich solutions. This is an e-commerce site where I will work very closely with the back end programmers to present the shopping experience as, organized, intuitive, and in keeping with the overall graphic theme. I worked as part of a team with direct contact with the client.
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Urban Cool
The focus of this project was to create a "intro" movie with Flash technology. The UrbanCool user demographic is 14-24, inner city, 70/30 male/female. One of the requirements of this intro movie was to introduce the new UrbanCool logo. My job was to meet with the client and get a feel for what they wanted. Research the the marketplace, produce and present three look and feels. Manage the client through this process while directing the Flash programmer.
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The Hunter Partnership Alliance
The goal of this redesigned site is to aid potential clients in understanding what The Hunter Partnership Alliance offers in the way of building productive working relationships in the business arena. The site offers access to audio from past workshops and an introduction video to who Scott Hunter is. My role in this project was to meet with the client, and help them to discover and organize what their old site was missing and guide them through the process of structuring the new site to accomplish those goals. Once I had accomplished that initial discovery process I built several comp home pages to help them "see" what we had been talking about. I then made revisions to the style they liked until it provided the image they were after. I then built all the graphics and pages in accordance with that vision.
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HealthMoney
This was a project where I was brought in as a Creative Director to work directly with the client and existing team of, copy writer and web master. As usual I was asked to research the field of competitors and present several "look and feels". There were some specific requirements for the home page. One was to show either actual money or at least have the feel of a financial institution. I then managed the process of refining the selected look along with producing and optimizing all the graphics for the site. Stock photography is an area where I have expertise which enabled me to present and manage the visual part of this site. It was then my responsibility to build all the pages which utilize DHTML, Cascading Style Sheets and Server Side Include files for navigation.
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Casanova Pendrill
This was a site for one of the leading Latin advertising and marketing agencies in the nation. While quite experienced in broadcast and print, they were looking for guidance with their first internet venture. I met with their Creative Director, Art Director's, Designer's and Sr. Copy Writer to both educate and offer a look and feel for their first corporate site. Once I spent time researching their competitors I came up with these three looks based on their criteria. My job then was to walk them through the production of their site.
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