Cherry Logistics is a maintenence service subcontracting company. Cherry Logistics had an existing web portal to coordinate logistics between its customers and suppliers. The web portal integrated with a fleet routing application behind the scenes and made schedule information available 24/7.

Unfortunatly the web portal was a little dated and really lacked a lot of UI features that people have come to expect out of internet applications. When an opprotunity to upgrade the web portal presented itself Cherry Logistics decided to take it.

Its always a challenge working with a database schema and system thats not your own but I think the project is turning out really well. The site is programmed with C# and ASP.NET WebForms using the jQuery library for UI enhancements.

Brain-foods.info is a personal project that was inspired by the lack of clarity in the content of other health related websites. I've written this site in PHP using MySql as a database backend. The site isn't online at the moment. Writing all the content has not been an easy task.

Being somebody who relies on his brain so much I spent some time trying to research all the best and most healthy foods I could eat but was always disatisfied with the resources I found. With brain-foods.info I'm trying balance a mix of interesting details about the foods, the reasons why its good, and any "bonus" health benefits you get.

Hopefully I can make some change from affiliate links or google ads and expand the content to do weight loss foods or heart foods.

CarliCustomDesigns is a site I put together for Robert Carli a contractor / jack of all trades / tile specialist that works in the Hartford, CT area. The site is built around Php/MySql gallery application that isn't active at the moment. Besides some basic customizations and bug fixes I also designed the "lasor precision" design. The reason I chose a inactive open source project to run this site was because the user interface behind the scenes is really easy to work with and I'm confortable enough in Php to fix any bugs that bugs that up.

The #1 goal of the design was to keep things extremely simple and allow users to get right to the "meat", pictures of Rob's work. Too many site's put a lot of empty wordy garbage between you and what matters. He wanted a place for his potential customers to go and see his expertise and attention to detail and nothing says that better than a picture of his finished projects.

We've started working on the project again to try and squeeze some blog/social networking features into the website to make the site appear more active and improve search engine results. We want to maximize the chances that somebody searching for "tilework new britain, ct" will appear find Rob's website.

I've been doing Html/CSS and now Jqyery/Javascript work for Giarrano Design off an on since late 2006. Usually we get together for a project when they need some extra hands to get a Html/Css design up or the client asks for some dynamic javascript features.

Its always been interesting to work with another designers website templates. From experience when I design a site in I automatically think of the divs, css and programming code behind the scenes. When I get to writing Html/Css its always a breeze. Working with another designers template breaks you out of your mold. You learn new things by taking a fresh look at layout techniques and I always end the projects learning something new.

I worked for PageFad, LLC for about 6 months as a C# ASP.NET programmer. During this time I worked on two of their Facebook applications.

Working with Facebook applications was interesting and different becaue your essientially programming and setting up a site within a site with its own subset of rules and complications.

For Premier Football my primary responsibilities was optimizing an existing application that would get more than 13 million hits a month. Since 90% of your performance problems always come from the database I spent a lot of time optimizing individual queries as well as making sure the Sql Server 2005 server was tuned with the best possible settings. One of my proudest moment was finding fixing a performance problem which resulted in a 70% increase in performance. The actual fix was literally removing a 'N' from the code of the application. Finding the problem took 2 days, fixing took 2 seconds.

Pro League Basketball an existing application that the development team decided to re-write from the ground up. Certain design choices made during the initial build out of the application created a performance bottleneck that we just couldn't unravel using the existing applications code. Although I participated in all aspects of building this application my unique roll in this project was developing all the dynamic "flashy" UI functionality using Javascript and the JQuery library. JQuery quickly allows you to build that extra spice that you users come to expect these days and I've used it in all of my projects since.

Palm Classic Apparel is an ecommerce site for a “brick and mortar” Lilly Pulitzer clothing store right here in Connecticut.

Originally I was brought onto the project to help get an initial static HTML site up and running but quickly it became apparent that the owner would like more control over their line. Emailing me every time a product had to be changed just wouldn’t scale.

When I started this site I tried to break out of the boxed grid design that so many ecommerce sites rely on. I also tried to capture the relaxed and oceanic atmosphere of the clothing line’s brand. Lilly Pulitzer was originally from Palm Beach, Florida and the palm tree and waves of the design are a representation of that.

In addition to doing all the design and html/css work I also programmed this site using VB.NET with a Sql 2005 backend. The owners have a cms-like back end I developed where they can customize the product offerings and manage most of the site’s functionality.

As my first .NET project I’m quite pleased on how its turned out.