• Westlaw
• Thomson Reuters
• Chipmark
• Kustom Joe's
• Realistic Taxidermy

Westlaw is a website used by legal experts and students to research legal material.

I worked on the user interface for Westlaw for about 1.5 years.

During that time I worked primarily with the following technologies

• ASP.Net (C#)
• XSLT 1.0
• CSS
• javascript

In the winter of 2007, I began working in New Product Technology for the Thomson Corporation who merged with Reuters in April of 2008 to form Thomson Reuters.

In this role, I am developing a new webservice using the following technologies:

• ASP.Net (C#)
• XSLT 1.0
• CSS
• javascript
• Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) framework
• Developing REST API's

My senior year of college, I joined a team of 11 (chipmark 05) other students to work on a bookmarks management system. The project has been sustained by a new group of students for the past 2 years.

Chipmark has a website as well as plugins for Internet Explorer and Firefox. Using either of the plugins, or the website, users can bookmark ("chipmark") webpages which will be stored on the chipmark servers at the University of Minnesota. With bookmarks stored in one location, now users can access their bookmarks from any location in the world that has access to the the internet.

The chipmark service is incredibly useful for me because I am able to use the same bookmarks from my laptop, desktop, work pc, and my parents' computers

In the summer of 2008, I created a website for Kustom Joe's paint and auto body shop. The site is hosted on Google's App Engine. My favorite thing about this site is its speed! There is only one html file that contains all the pages on the site. Javascript is used to transfer a user to a page without having to contact the server to download a new page. Consequently, when the user displays the home page all other pages are loaded as well, which allows quick navigation between pages.

Another unique feature is the gallery, which allows customers to view images of the work done by Kustom Joe's. The gallery uses Google's Picassa Web Albums to allow the owner of Kustom Joe's to control the images displayed on the website.

The website for Kustom Joe's also uses Yahoo's YUI javascript framework fairly extensively to manage browser history and interact with the DOM.

At the beginning of 2009, I created a website for Realistic Taxidermy. I was able to leverage much of the development I did for Kustom Joe's. Realistic Taxidermy is hosted by Google's App Engine. Yahoo's YUI javascript framework is used for the browser history mangament, DOM manipulation, and AJAX communication. In addition, Picassa Web albums are used to manage the gallery content.