Boston Casting came to me in the spring of 2021 looking for a local guy to complete a site build-out from them based on a mockup created by another agency. Within a few weeks, it turns out that agency had already been hard at work developing the site without being asked. While this modified our agreement, what Boston Casting ended up being handed by the agency was a steaming pile of @&^&!
I moved the site over from their hosting over to a fresh WPEngine environment where we were able to clean up the mess and can successfully run updates once a month without having to worry about the site breaking like it used to.
Being involved in the local music scene has its benefits. I love working on logos for my friends and their various projects. One of them being a new progressive thrash band out of Beverly, MA, featuring members of My Pet Demon, Froggy & The Friendship/MOTHERTON, and Salem Metallica tribute band Master of Beers.
I have done logos, album art, and t-shirt designs for Kenny for almost 20 years. When I was asked to work on a logo designed by the mighty Christophe Szpajdel (aka Lord of the Logos), I couldn’t be more excited. I mean, look at that thing.
They wanted me to take the logo and “play with it” and give it various design treatments. To be possibly used on t-shirts, an album cover, or social pages. I went nuts with this one and gave them way more options than necessary, but that’s what I tend to do; underpromise and overdeliver ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
pivotCloud has been an ongoing project for the past few months. A startup out of Western Massachusetts founded by an old bandmate of mine from when I was in a band out of Southwick, MA. We partenered together on this project and I was left in charge of branding and overall web presence. We started the build using a pre-built WPBakery theme for the sake of prototyping a site quickly, and has since been rebuilt using Beaver Builder as that’s what the client was most comfortable with using.
The site is currently in Phase 2 development where we are integrating a payment processing flow to sign up new customers and give them a login portal for creating tickets and managing their subscription preferences.
When my colleague Mazen reached out to me saying he needed a good WordPress guy to develop a new website for medical gaming simulation company Level Ex, I couldn’t say no. The products they make are fascinating and I knew it would make for an entertaining buildout.
They were also in need of some HTML templates for a newsletter blast, which I gladly provided for them as well, using Litmus and EmailOnAcid for testing on various platforms before releasing to the public.
Overall I enjoyed the futuristic, dark vibe of the site. I love to work on projects that aren’t your standard corporate blue-on-white art direction.
Please note the current iteration of their live website was not built by me. I did however keep a backup of the version that I built for them that stood from 2019 to 2021, which I have linked in the sidebar.
While freelancing for real-estate centric digital agency Keenability in Boca Raton, FL, I had the privilege of designing and building out the front-end for the Old Palm Golf & Country Club. This proved to be a unique project for me, as the client wanted a custom solution that was fast and easily maintained.
We opted for a Ruby on Rails back-end, so I worked alongside another contractor who came on to build a fully customized solution for the multi-million dollar real estate company. I handled all of the design, layout, and UI/UX across the site, working with SASS, which was a nice break away from standard CSS I usually utilize on WordPress builds.
My friend Kyle at New England Computer Techs in Beverly came to me saying one of his clients needed a quick and effective WordPress site for their restaurant. I grew up going to Brodie’s in Peabody as it was one of my late fathers’ favorite local spots. I was stoked to be able to refresh their site for them.
With no real direction to go on other than a logo that was sent to me, I had to wing it. We figured out our page layout and mostly knew that they just needed a place to display their menu for patrons on their phones, so the responsive experience was important.
While freelancing for my friend Heather at LoveLocalDesign, she needed me to code up a single-page website for her client, Ifficient. This was a fun page to build as we made a point of using SVG graphics as much as we could. For some reason, we even encoded their logo into Base64!
The page has some fun interactivity and animations that follow, and the mobile experience was a bit of a nightmare, but we got it done.
After relocating back to Boston from living in Florida for 10 years and being picked up as a freelancer for Sir Issac LLC, I had the privilege of building out a fresh iteration of Salem.org – the main website for the Tourism Board of the City of Salem, Massachusetts.
I built this website using the theme builder Pro by ThemeCo. The build went quickly and served us well for some years before eventually being rebuilt. At launch, it had a robust filtering system for showing various tourist spots, restaurants, and hotels in the Salem area. It also had a sister site – HauntedHappenings.org which I also built using the same technology.
One unique feature of the site was that any Location could be added to an itinerary builder that could then be emailed to the user on the fly, with no signup necessary. This required the buildout of a custom plugin that I hooked into Pro and Formidable Forms. The Haunted Happenings website also used this same functionality, so maintaining a single plugin across the sites was the right approach for me.
Please note the current iteration of the website was built by another agency at a later date. I built the version that ran from 2018-2021 depicted in the screenshots above.
After relocating back to Boston from living in Florida for 10 years and being picked up as a freelancer for Sir Issac LLC, I had the privilege of building out a fresh iteration of Salem.org – the main website for the Tourism Board of the City of Salem, Massachusetts along with it’s sister website Salem.org.
I built this website using the theme builder Pro by ThemeCo. The build went quickly and served us well for some years before eventually being rebuilt. At launch, it had a robust filtering system for showing various tourist spots, restaurants, and hotels in the Salem area.
One unique feature of the site was that any Location could be added to an itinerary builder that could then be emailed to the user on the fly, with no signup necessary. This required the buildout of a custom plugin that I hooked into Pro and Formidable Forms. The Haunted Happenings website also used this same functionality, so maintaining a single plugin across the sites was the right approach for me.
Please note the current iteration of the website was built by another agency at a later date. I built the version that ran from 2018-2021 depicted in the screenshots above.
This was a project for the Fortune 500 company Parallels. Part their Application Package Support campaign refresh in 2014. I was tasked with taking a design and carving it up into an efficient, easy to manage ExpressionEngine website.
One of the things that made this project special was that was an early application of a RESTful API that we used on the Apps Catalog. We worked along side a team in Russia to develop a fast, efficient, and equally powerful application sorting system on a custom built API.