Portfolio
Selected work in WordPress, design, and the web. Built, shipped, and live in the world.
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Canadian Technology Human Resources Board — Bilingual Newsletter Platform, 2003
Bilingual landing-page and newsletter platform for the Canadian Technology Human Resources Board, 2003 — PHP + MySQL front end with custom spam-heuristics and Excel handoff to the internal newsletter tool.
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Natural Resources Canada Conference Plan — end-to-end internal workflow, 2003
Internal end-to-end conference-attendance workflow for Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), built in 2003 under the federal Government Online initiative. PHP web layer on a FileMaker Pro backend, connected through a custom PHP-to-FileMaker bridge, with one record carrying an employee from request through manager approval through registration through their auto-generated bilingual badge.
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Aboriginal Human Resources Development Canada — federal HR communications platform, 2003
Newsletter publication and distribution system for Aboriginal Human Resources Development Canada (AHRDC), 2003. Classic ASP + Microsoft Access + direct SMTP — federal-grade self-serve publishing for civil servants, predating the hosted email-marketing era.
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Bell Sympatico Order Bot — consumer ISP signup and equipment flow, 2003
The public-facing portal where Canadians signed up for Bell’s Sympatico internet service and ordered their modem — built directly with Bell in 2003.
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Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade — embassy webcams for trade shows, 2003
2003 project for the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade — web cameras installed on poles at two Canadian embassies under construction abroad, capturing one JPG per second and FTPing the frames home so trade show audiences in Canada could watch the buildings going up in something close to real time. A polling-and-refresh pattern…
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Environment Canada — OCR-to-HTML Pipeline for 2,500 Pages of Legacy Publications, 2002
Custom OCR-to-HTML batch pipeline for digitizing 2,500 pages of legacy Environment Canada publications to ec.gc.ca, 2002 — built to the Common Look and Feel Standards in force at the time.
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Algonquin College — searchable continuing-education catalogue, 2002
Interface design and ColdFusion back-end for Algonquin College’s continuing-education catalogue — 35,000 searchable course descriptions built for the registrar.
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The Authors Guild SiteBuilder — pre-WordPress hosted multi-tenant publishing platform, 2001
Rodonic Corporation built the PHP version of the Authors Guild SiteBuilder — a hosted multi-tenant website builder for members of one of America’s oldest literary nonprofits. Operational by November 2002 (before WordPress launched) and ran continuously through July 2017.
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CubaSource — bilingual Cuba research directory for FOCAL, 2001
FOCAL’s bilingual Cuba research directory — an online index of policy and research resources built for low-bandwidth access alongside the hemispheric think tank site.
