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This full stack demo is a selected slice of the cloud stack used at Allianz Germany, featuring Jenkins, Selenium Hub, Artifactory and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. This demo uses a JavaScript stack to demonstrate CI and CD, the latter which can be coordinated via git workflows.
This proof-of-concept was created as a teaching tool to show developers how to upload 50 MB in chunks for a better user experience. The key is to use event driven architecture and a mix of REST, for fetching correlation IDs and Messaging for everything else. The project includes a working frontend served via a nginx server to a middleware connected to workers via RabbitMQ. The whole stack can be run locally with a simple docker-compose up --build and includes a walkthrough in the readme.
Developers spend a lot of time reading documentation. Well designed documentation lets developers find answers and deliver business value faster.
Speed up your email design and development workflow:
image_tag.Creating a grid for a responsive Email layouts without media is tough, but mostly tedious. Let this calculator do the math for you and generate the HTML for you.
Sometimes it is necessary to build your own solution. In the case of Boston Latin School, small UX hurdles multiplied by 120-155 students result in hours lost for a teacher on a regular basis. Let's change that and build a beautiful piece of software too.
This app features a Backbone.js app that lets users customize email signatures from a set of designs. The form fields for each design are dynamically generated. With this project, I also tackled VAT MOSS implementation.
Using Google Maps, the Janus Projekt website helps the Ancestry.com Deutschland content acquisition team illustrate their increasing catalogue and pursue new partners. The team independently manages website content and partners via an admin interface.
User experience is the whole package, not just information architecture, research, UI or design alone. In this project, I did user research and anaylsis, design and prototyping for a new user onboarding experience, tailored to the German market.
Gmail strips out media queries and included <style> tags. Thus current standard practice is to force Gmail on Android to load full-width email. Can we still create responsive layouts without media queries for Gmail? Yes we can.
Selected projects from my early years as a web designer
Sr. User Interaction Designer
2008 - 2011
Created a start your family tree wizard in Flash that integrates family name facts and basic search results.
Branded microsite for Bavarian War Rosters from WWI collection launch.
Localized a ca. 9MB U.S. video with a custom built Flash slideshow for four European markets.
Design and Wordpress template development for the Mundia blog.
Branded microsite for launch of Telephone books collection.
Small website about various groups that emigrated to the U.S.
Design, Developer
2000 - present
Wordpress design and template development.
A clean typography-based redesign of the Seevak Website Competition pages.
Design, Developer
2000 - 2007
Website for assignments, handouts, images, etc. of art history course at Boston Latin.
My friends and I created a Seevak project on Dorothy Day and placed first.
Website and Poster for the Student Symposium of the conference.