Virtual Chautauqua Performing Arts Center Web Site
The Performing Arts Center (http://onestop.colorado.edu/vchautauqua/index.html) is part of a state wide grant. It provides a large collection of performance art either video or audio clips which can be grouped into collections. It has a major focus on allowing teachers to create tours with individualized commentary for their classes. The site is built using cold fusion and a series of databases that describe the art, artists, collections (exhibits) etc. There is an extensive administrative site so that the content can be managed through the web.
City of Keller Web Site
I built the City of Keller site for my home town, at the time, Keller Texas, to demonstrate the feasibility of a small town using the Internet to communicate with current and potential residents. The focus was on minimal graphics and providing multiple paths to information.I spent about twenty hours interviewing department heads on the staff and then put the site together in another twenty hours using existing material wherever possible. It has about sixty pages including maps and official forms for downloading.
The experiment was successful in that the city decided to building an official web site. Even though my prototype site points to the official site, I still get e-mail at least once a month asking me questions about Keller which I forward on to City Hall.
Clear Systems
Clear Systems, a small software consulting firm was attempting to start a web consulting practice. The web site was intended to act as marketing collateral. It included examples of the overall process that the practice would use, reference account information, company information, and recruiting material. The site had about 75 pages and included half a dozen CGI scripts to capture input information from clients and potential hires.I put the site together in about thirty days while working with the various partners, each of whom had their own unique contribution to make.
One of the interesting features of this site was a web based soap opera, "The Young and the Webless". The intent was for the action to provide a gentle satire as a basis for management training on issues like fact based management, project management etc. I wrote the pilot episode which had our fearful heroine find out that she had just been put in charge of a project which everyone thinks is under control.
3M
This was a contracted feasibility demonstration project for a division of 3M that develops health care products. These have a strong regulatory requirement for documentation of development, testing, and complaint processing. The division already had a complex document control system which used proprietary methods to control and access documents on line and world wide. In addition there was a requirement to get complex and tailored sales information out to a large distributed sales force.What I demonstrated over the course of six weeks was that the World Wide Web could serve as a front end for all these systems with sales reports being either pre-built or query based using existing databases. The essential issues were whether HTML could provide sufficient flexibility compared to C++ based proprietary terminal display components or propriety systems like Powerbuilder. Again by putting together HTML samples and then working with the local subject matter experts, we could generate the sample reports directly from existing standard relational databases.
Sabre 2000
This was a long project to develop requirements and make technology recommendations for a follow on system to the Sabre Airline Reservations system. The over all project is described in my resume.From my first days on the Project, I pushed for awareness of the Internet in the strategy. The final prototype which took up about ten months was a complex distributed system which had parts on three different unix systems and produced HTML dynamically in response to user entries on HTML input forms. I did all the HTML and wrote the central application specific C++ code.
RentRoll
RentRoll is a company that sells multi-family rental property management software. This web site originally was intended to provide an application base for information archival and complex MIS reports. The site would integrate the geographically distributed apartment site desktops and allow headquarters management to get an integrated view of the overall operation.In addition the site served as a marketing resource providing industry information and collateral. Since all the customer data was centralized, there were very strong security and privacy requirements.
Buyers Club Catalog Order System
This was a new business proposal for a buyers club which would have a online catalog search and order management system. It was a business to business application. I put together a buying scenario, implemented it in HTML and then used the screens as input to the data model definition for the data base definitions for catalogs, users, orders etc.The screens were then used to demonstrate how the system would work to the CEO. In response he hired a division head and funded further investigation of the business proposal.