Hello and welcome to my web site. I'm a freelance programmer and designer - this web site showcases the project's I've worked on and the technologies I've mastered. I'm currently adding in more projects I've the following page contains just a small sampling of my past experience.
Lee Powers lee@powers1.net
559-474-5899
(contact me anytime)
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The Vidas Restaurants web site is Flash-designed with an amazing page flip effect. The site features a photo gallery, a PDF menu and contact information.
The VQ Fitness web site is implemented in Drupal - all site text and images are editable (including the Flash slideshow images) from the admin panel. A PHP contact form is used to solicit feedback from site visitors.
I setup and themed the New Mexico Society of Professional Engineers shopping cart and integrated the cart with the NMSPE payment processor. Users can pay membership dues, signup for conferences or make a donation via the shopping cart. The site is built in Wordpress and the cart is a Shopp implementation.
Judge, Fury and Executioner is a Flash game I built for Comedy Central's Root of All Evil program, hosted by comedian Lewis Black. It is a "whack-a-mole" style game, testing mouse agility and hand-eye coordination. I programmed all the game mechanics, the scoring system and hit detection.
This memorization and pattern matching game is branded for VH1's Miss Rap Supreme reality TV show. I was responsible for all game mechanics, the scoring system and score board to track high scores.
Triad is an audio-visual design, installation, sales and support company. Founded by the former owners of Invision Displays, Triad offers a wide range of services - and their web site reflects this fact. A custom PHP CMS system allows staff to update the site news with company info and industry facts. Each page has a unique design header.
The Olympus Games web site showcases the various projects engaged in by the company, not the least of which includes Gmod. The current site is Flash-based with an upgraded Wordpress version in the works.
This Flash web site feature a slick design with information about security and surveillance products and services offered by KCS Global. The site also feature screen casts with tutorials for configuring products and providing support for various surveillance devices.
The site has a Magento store that is under construction.
An email template for the Emanuel Medical Center Her Health informational newsletter. I took over this project from a previous programmer and converted it to a MailChimp compatible template which properly displays images in all email clients.
The Fresno Council of Governments (FCOG) is a non-partisan civic organization that engages in regional planning, business development, transportation projects and more.
The FCOG web site is built in Drupal 7 and contains a wide range of content - content from the old site was auto-imported into the Drupal database. An custom events and meetings calendar was programmed using Drupal Views. Weather conditions and air quality are reported in real-time on the site using public and private APIs.
I created these email templates for use in the MailChimp newsletter service - they are compatible with a wide range of email clients - including images in Outlook and other notoriously difficult to design for email clients.
The Crehan Research web site is simple, well-designed web site for a network consulting company. It contains a PHP contact form for potential clients. I built the HTML layout and the contact form.
AhearnElectric.com is a multi-page web site built in Drupal making it easy to update site content. The site includes an online form for getting a fast quote for electrical contracting.
The Tandalay Network includes several websites: tandalay.com which hosts and controls access to an online physical education curriculum, the mypescore.com student assessment tool, the Tandalay certification site and the Shop'n'Play online store. I was tasked with architecting and coding each of these sites in PHP/MySQL:
A site for a SF Giants fan looking to hook up other fans with great tickets for SF Giants games. The site is a contains standard static HTML pages with game pictures and testimonials for users who have gotten great ticket deals. I converted a Photoshop design file into the final layout with image gallery and testimonials.
Washington Interactive Network is an economic development organization tasked with promoting and growing the video game and interactive media industry Washington state. The WIN site has is dynamically animated with Flash with a PHP CMS backend built on the Zend framework. Communications between the Flash frontend and the custom backend use the AMF binary protocol. The site includes a modified WebCalendar for listing industry events. This site was developed in conjunction with Olympus Entertainment.
Portland Night & Day is run by Donna Richards and provides some of the top comic, variety, musical and speaker talent for corporate events, private parties and college shows. The Portland Night & Day web site is written in a custom PHP CMS that enables users to browse acts and get in contact with Donna to book acts.
I setup a promotional page for Tulare County Association of Governments "Annual Make A Difference in Air Quality" Art Contest 2011, where elementary school age children could upload posters containing suggestions and ideas for improving air quality in their communities. The contest entry page was custom coded in PHP, the entries stored on the web server and emailed to the contest administrator.
Setup the HTML page layout showcasing video, radio and print experience of Jeffery Scott Agency - used by the agency to attract and swoon potential clients. The layout acts as a template - allowing easy customizations for wide range of clients and the ability to display a wide range of sample work. A demo can be viewed at http://jsareel.ssl2.net/
I setup and installed Ubercart, a Drupal-based shopping cart solution for Rogers Jewelry to handle e-commerce online purchases, including single-page checkout. I created custom shipping and integration modules for Ubercart, integrated Ubercart with Roger's proprietary credit card processor and made major upgrades to the product search functionality. I piped the existing Roger's product management admin backend into Ubercart's product category - any changes to prices, products or images made in the existing infrastructure is automatically mirrored to the Ubercart data structures.
I've made exhaustive changes and security upgrades to the CTF members area. California Tomato Farmers is an industry group representing the interests of member tomato farmers and production facilities. The members area provides resources for maintaining USDA compliance, keeping up to date on local and state regulations, news articles and items, industry reports, and more.
This Flash-based presentation was designed to pack a visual punch - and at the same time highlight the green and environmentally-friendly features of Bonadelle homes. I was given a static design and converted it to a dynamic, interactive Flash movie, replete with animations, innovative navigation elements and transitions.
Bonadelle builds neighborhoods in central California. Their web site showcases the value and style of these homes. Built in Drupal 7 with an emphasis on style and available options. Every aspect of this multi-faceted site can be edited by administrative users: new home models, events, news items, and all text on the site can be edited. Detailed photo galleries for each model are exposed. A multi-purpose contact page routes requests to the appropriate department, for existing and prospective homeowners alike.
Setup a custom store using PHP to interface with the Barrels Unlimited proprietary payment processor. Modified add/remove to cart, enabled secure credit card transactions, real-time UPS shipping quotes and order fulfillment notifications.
Informational page for Community Regional Cares promotional campaign - used to spread awareness about the the medical programs offered by CRMC. Upgraded the site to use CSS sprites for navigation buttons, created a video selector for patient testimonials and applied a unique design to each page.
An interactive inforgraphic built in HTML5 for the SunTech BriteLease program showing the pricing and savings for using solar to power a home or business. Overview of environmental impact, cost-benefit analysis and more. Used by sales staff to promote the BriteLease product and to educate potential customers about the benefits and responsibilities of solar powers.
An HTML5 single page order form for Solar Universe advertising and promotional products sold to franchises by Solar Universe corporate. The order form sends an email with selected details to a Solar Universe promotional rep.
HTML5 page layout with CSS/JavaScript animations on the home page. A dynamic project selector to view the different solutions provided by VUE - plus a page for browsing bios for the main players in VUE.
Maintained the Panteek web site. Setup a productive workflow for photographing, scanning prints and publishing to the web. The name of the game with Panteek is production, production, production - getting prints on the web and shown to the world so users will start buying. EBay listing and store design. Copy writing of print descriptions, distilling the history of a work and it's author(s) into a few paragraphs. SEO helping Panteek maintain high rankings for antique prints, antique botanical prints and more.