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Filipe Bessa – portfolio site

2018

www.filipebessa.com/

Custom responsive wordpress theme developed too allow director to upload and categorize videos of his work, which automatically populate gallery views.

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Washington Square Park Eco Projects Website

November 2018


www.wspecoprojects.org/

Design and dev of basic wordpress site incorporating an existing ecomap app

08. May 2020 by admin
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SPARK Mobile App Contest

Q1 2016 – Q4 2018

Responsibilities: HTML CSS/SASS JS/jQuery PHP/MySQL AWS

Traditional wordpress site, I built a custom theme based off llorix. SPARK for Autism needed an accompanying website for the duration of the contest to handle contest registration, announcements, and community app voting. I worked on this during my time as an internal dev at the Simons Foundation.

Notable tasks: I opted for a kanban approach to development given that feature development needed to occur around events and announcements that comprised the contest. For registration I connected a CF7 form template to a Googlesheet, such that as users registered, their data would be entered into the spreadsheet, which was shared with stakeholders so they would always be up-to-date without me spending time on plebian tasks like pulling reports. Students were asked to register themselves and their teammates by entering their emails and setting a team password. Teammates would receive an invite email, as all participants had to register in order to be eligible for prize money. To set up voting I started with a general star-voting plugin, added some authentication which hit the SPARK api to determine voting status and access privileges, and modified the JS and PHP according to aesthetic/functional specifications.

05. February 2019 by admin
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Spectrum News

Q1 2016 – Q4 2018

Responsibilities: HTML CSS/SASS JS/jQuery PHP/MySQL AWS

Traditional wordpress site, with custom theme built by Madwell. I inherited the task of maintenance, bugfixes, new feature implementation during my time as an internal dev at the Simons Foundation.

Notable tasks: Migrating the site off WP Engine and onto AWS. Getting a team new to Agile to adopt a loosely SCRUM process. Shaving about .1 seconds from the pageload DB query duration with a 30% reduction in DB calls by converting some massive reqs to ajax calls when needed and replacing wp methods with cached vars where applicable.

05. February 2019 by admin
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Simons Foundation

Q1 2016 – Q4 2018

Responsibilities: HTML CSS/SASS JS/jQuery PHP/MySQL AWS

I inherited the task of maintenance, bugfixes, and new feature implementation during my time as an internal dev at the Simons Foundation. The bugs and tech debt that the initial vendor delivered with the project was a painful reminder of why waterfall development should be avoided at all costs.

Notable tasks: Getting a team new to Agile to adopt a SCRUM process running on 2-week sprints. Diving deeper in MySQL procedures to handle migrations of the alien information schema handed off to us. Migrating an Unfuddle ticket project to our Jira account in a jungle of chunked spreadsheets, field-remapping, and consolidation scripts to preserve ticket comment history. Migrating ACF field schema out of the PHP into which it had been distilled to prevent alteration by non-developer WP admins, back into the DB. Running a strategy-mapping workshop with the team to identify strategic solutions to obstacles (I am forever grateful to Rob Purdie from whom I learned this method). Writing a plugin that works with the arxiv.org api to provide a tool for helping content editors to sync arxiv’s publications authored by foundation scientists with our wordpress publications archive. Restructuring hundreds of daisy-chained SASS files into a more sane and manageable schema.

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Crossborders – custom cms with flash front-end

2009
crossborders.tv (now rain)
website/custom cms

PHP/MySQL backend w/custom DB, XML output for interpretation by flash front-end, Brightcove for video service, though the client insisted on implementing Brightcove in a way tha bypassed the API’s and was never intended (oh if I had a nickel…).

23. June 2014 by admin
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THINK Academy – IBM

Think Academy is a desktop and mobile MOOC application written in HTML/CSS/JS, using IBM Connections’ social API and Brightcove video. Monthly topic deployments to the global IBM community make it highly agile project Read more here.

Role: HTML/CSS/JS, PHP/MySQL, Grunt, Brightcove video, Dotsub closed captions, Accessibility standards




23. June 2014 by admin
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Lexus – The New IS microsite

2005
www.theNewIS.com
Venice Consulting Group
Developed using Adobe Flash & Zoomifier plug-in by Zoomify


This was a viral marketing campaign launched in September 2005 for Lexus’ latest luxury model, the IS. While providing users with product information via an interactive flash interface, the site offered users the opportunity to upload their own photos to be incorporated into a mosaic image of the IS. If desired, the images could also be displayed on the Reuter’s Jumbotron in Times Square, and a photo of the displayed image taken at the time of broadcast to be emailed to the user. Developed by a team of 6 developers.

23. June 2014 by admin
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THINK Exchange – IBM

think-exchange.com is IBM’s members-only community, events program and content portal for C-level executives. It began with THINK Marketing for CMO’s and has expanded to include Finance and Technology.

Responsive site using PHP/MySQL, HTML/CSS/JS, WordPress, Buddypress, Media element.

23. June 2014 by admin
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AT&T Network Transformation microsite

2011
AT&T Network Transformation
Atmosphere BBDO
Microsite: PHP/HTML/CSS/JS. JWPlayer serving up mp4/flv video depending on flash detection.

23. June 2014 by admin
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Martha Stewart – Products microsite

2008
products.marthastewart.com
Continuity Worldwide
Flash microsite

AS3, pureMVC framework, url routing with swfAddress, Omniture for tracking. Team of 3 developers


The most interesting aspect of this one was the initial animation populating the product pages, using Flash’s drawing API. Simply using trig equation easing on the tweening of the points that made up the corners of each white-outlined square resulted in a very elegant but simply achieved 3D effect.

23. June 2014 by admin
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kim dane painting portfolio

2012
www.kimdane.com
Wordpress framework, custom theme. HTML/CS/JS/PHP/MySQL

To get the main menu to break into user-determined rows, added a DB field for ‘line_break_after’ to the wp posts table, and altered the ‘My Page Order’ plugin to allow user to insert linebreaks where desired. Also a few Walker methods to the WP framework to grab this field and put in the appropriate linebreaks.

Custom JS Effect for the NextGen gallery to populate the scrollable thumbnail menu and incorporate deeplinking using swfAddress.

Social was also interesting. Buttons for FB, Twitter & Google+ pulled in w/JS. Discovered that JS content and FB Like do NOT play nice, mostly due to FB Like API ignoring JS and scraping the page for metatags when posting. So instead of telling FB to just share the page url, had to stitch together a url from the swfaddress deeplink such that it got passed in as a GET variable and the header.php could react appriopriately to return the appropriate metatags. It’s a shame that one should have to choose between smoothly swapping content around clientside and the keeping sharing simple & effective.

23. June 2014 by admin
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