Website Developer for CBM of Maryland's Website (2015)
CBM of Maryland has provided a range of children's ministry services, including Summer camp, since 1935. The webmaster wanted to convert a Dreamweaver static page website, seeking advice and assistance building an Avada-themed WordPress site. The organization has several paid staff and volunteers who plan to be content contributors to the site.
My role involved discovery and design, building wireframes, graphic design of site icons, a sitemap, building the image sliders, menu navigation, online donation form integrated with PayPal, and page layout. Additionally, I built a full web administrator guide and a Google Analytics dashboard to display website statistics.
Project Manager for Volunteer Management Web App (2014)
Harvesters food bank, a hunger-relief organization with 120 employees, serving 1000 food assistance agencies in the Kansas-Missouri area, outgrew a Microsoft Access application to track volunteers. Essentially the old application lacked the capability for volunteers to register for volunteer events using a website, a common trait of volunteer services for many large non-profit organizations.
As project manager at Harvesters I was assigned to coordinate an effort to deploy a new solution to serve the organization. I served as both overall project manager, as well as lead technical resource on the project, overseeing a core project team with seven employees.
- Read the FULL REPORT on this web application development project
Website Developer for After the Harvest's New Website (2014)
After the Harvest is a small startup organization devoted to distributing donated farm produce to area food pantries to feed hungry people in the Missouri-Kansas area. They formed the organization after breaking ties with a national organization, and they needed to set up shop quick. The organization with two paid staff needed an efficient way to communicate with volunteers, farmers, pantries and donors. Facebook and Twitter helped, but a website was crucial for After the Harvest to build their organization's following.
My role involved organizing a discovery session, gathering photos and text from staff members, selecting the WordPress site theme (Themefusion's Avada) and plugins (Timely's All-in-One Event Calendar, Mailchimp, others), building the image sliders, menu navigation and page layout. The project took about 1 month and 30 hours for two people.
- Read the FULL REPORT on this website development project
Project Coordinator for Revised Website (2013)
My role involved gathering requests, communicating with content contributors, developers, artists and on-air programmers to validate function and style changes, and communicating with listeners and supporters about the upcoming change. The project took about 6 months.
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Consultant for Harvesters' new Website (2013)
Harvesters--The Community Food Network is working on a complete overhaul of their public website, eight years since the last revision. One of the cornerstones of the site is an interactive "virtual food drive" for financial donations, as well as information to engage and influence website visitors to "give time, give money, give food or give voice."
My role on the project thus far has been to provide feedback and insight on the selection of a content management system and a focus on mobile website design. See slideshows -
My role on the project thus far has been to provide feedback and insight on the selection of a content management system and a focus on mobile website design. See slideshows -
Project Coordinator for New Website (2011-12)
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new, interactive website provides a "second signal" of web content for KKFI 90.1
FM, a full-power community radio station serving a 60-mile radius around
Kansas City. My role on the project includes coordinating and guiding
the project through the station, discovering the station's needs and
requirements, developing the request for proposal, reviewing candidates,
and building a content team to contribute to the site, among other responsibilities. The site went live on July 13, 2012.
- Read a FULL REPORT of the website development
- Read a report on custom Donation Form development and graphic design for the October 4-14, 2012 radio station on-air pledge drive.
- See the Content Contributors training guide that I developed
- I also create "slider images" for display on the KKFI home page - see the collection here:
KKFI Website - Home Page Slider Rotation Images (2012-present)
Website Editor for community health center (2012 - 2014)
I update the Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center website for the Director of Health Education and Programs. Using a proprietary content management system developed by SilverTech, I post news releases, change menu structure, and consult with the organization on website technology.
Website Developer for national radio producers conference (2011)
The website was for a national radio producers' conference held in August 2011. I built a custom site using a fully-functioning "conference organizing distribution" of Drupal, the largest open-source content management system. The distribution has a feature that allows conference schedules, registration, and sponsorships to be built from items submitted directly by those audiences. The cost of the site is nominal: hosting cost $80, while my labor to design and build the site was donated to the conference. My participation on the publicity team includes branding, designing and building a website; creating a conference flier; and building a following in Facebook and Twitter. Alexis B, a volunteer with KKFI, developed the banner image.
Conference Website - Home Page Slider Rotation Image
Employee website for Harvesters (2009)
- Case Study on website: Food Bank Implements Sharepoint to Solve Information Woes
- Harvesters chose the site name of CORE -- Collaboration Resource for Employees -- to represent an internal employee site.
- Each of the 10 departments maintains their own site as shown in the menu below. The site is interactive, allowing upload and editing of documents and lists of information. It was built using Sharepoint technology.
Website for Kansas City conference
The site from 2006 also used standard HTML managed by Microsoft Frontpage web editing software. The site allowed conference attendees to register and follow the news of the conference, which drew over 300 people over two days.
