http://www.carbonoffcast.com. My first green website. Use calculators to figure how much Co2 you give off when you drive your car, fly or everyday activity around your home.

Work done:
• Using ZenCart e-commerce as backend. Previous developer stalled. I completed.
• Modified ZenCart to accept metric tons of Co2 w/ 3 decimal places.
• Integrated shopping cart, order/payment system.
• Redesigned poorly-designed calculators. Made efficient, easy-to-use, visually appealing.
• Special values used by both PHP & Javascript kept in PHP & printed out as javascript.
• Special values may change, so recorded values with each transaction.
• Cleaned up unindented, inefficient, messy code.
• Fixed look-and-feel issues, set up dropdown menu system.
• PHP, Javascript, prototype.js, zencart, AJAX, JSON

http://www.saveoncrafts.com. One of the biggest Crafts site on the web. Client needed shipping/tax back-end redesigned to handle heavy traffic. New algorithm increased efficiency of the process.

Work done:
• Modified custom PHP back-end.
• Algorithm to place items into 1+ boxes from a set of boxes.
• Updated sales tax calculation to accomodate new laws.
• Wrote code to convert California Tax tables to internal database.
• PHP

http://www.beverlys.com. One of the biggest Crafts site on the web. Client using Magento E-Commerce for the first time in a pilot program for their fabrics division.

Work done:
• Created module to include local sales tax for California orders.
• Wrote program to convert California tax tables for database.
• PHP, Zend Framework, OOP, Magento E-Commerce

http://www.windyapps.com. A new source for Adobe Air desktop apps. Revamped layout and made code more SEO friendly.

Work done:
• Solved RSS Feed issue.
• Added Meta Keyword and Description for each Category.
• Meta tags generated on Category pages for Yahoo.
• Printed out description on Category pages for Google.
• Suggested Feedburner for RSS, and OnlyWire.com for Social bookmarking.
• Dynamically-generated category menu and complete category pages.
• PHP, RSS

http://www.goodnessindex.com/chps/drupal. In conjunction with SCS Certified, The Collaborative for High Performing Schools initiated this ambitious Website. A database registry for environmentally certified construction materials to be used by schools across the nation in their rebuilding projects. Manufacturers post their products and environmental-safe building claims along with supporting documentation. CHPS corroborates the claims and upon approval, make the product visible to a search page used by School builders and architects.

This is a demo version of the site, which is live and in production.

Work done:
• Technical lead and principal developer.
• Decided on Drupal 5 as platform, and modules used.
• Built 95% of Manufacturer section.
• Customized Registration process to create Company spaces.
• Manufacturers enter additional sales/technical contacts, mfg facilities.
• Manufacturers enter multiple product with multiple claims.
• Manufacturers enter type of claim and certifier used.
• Multiple roles for Manufacturers and Admin.
• Customized Ubercart E-commerce to automatically charge assessment fees for product and/or claims, to be renewed annually.
• Certificates have limited life, Manufacturers and admin notified when Certificates need to be renewed.
• Created system of statuses and flags that occur during a product and claim's lifecycle.
• Created rule-based system of advisories, or caution flags, automatically assigned to product claims on number of factors such as country of manufacture, or type of claim, or combination.
• Created sophisticated Caution Flag mgmt where people who do not know databases can create data-based rules and combine them into advisories.
• Rules can be combined, changed. Rules can be negated when being combined (country not in 'US, Canada, Great Britain').
• Set up system of automated email notifications and email forms. One email comes up when you change a caution flag to notify people who would be affecdted
• Specified and monitored external groups involved with other aspects of the project.
• Rewritten Search Page, making it more efficient, smarter, flexible.
• Solved innumerable issues.
• Incorporated look-and-feel as required by Client.
• Specified, designed, coordinated with external group creating Admin section.
• PHP, Drupal, OG (Organic Groups), Ubercart, CCK, Views, Hierarchical Select, FAPI.