• Information Architecture, Project Management, and Documentation

  • Skills aquired over time and work history. Download

  • Hands on experience building 50 commercial websites, web 2.0 applications, and personal sites.

  • Web 2.0 commercial and personal sites for over 50 large and small customers.

  • Software developer

  • Web software draws upon skills, themes, and topics, from many disciplines

  • business cards, letterheads, brochures, annual reports, and posters

  • All business types: letterheads, brochures, reports, posters and Business cards.

  • Illustrated drawings, comics, and sketches

  • Character Designs, Logos, Comics, vector images, Blog Themes, Illustrations

  • Jeff Knooren

  • Hey, want to see what I've done in the past? Peek at the RESUME.
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  • Before

  • After

  • After

  • ATM Machines have smooth rounded corners, and I that is an interesting idea to bring to their website. Cool metallic blues, and dark backgrounds draw you in to the interface, and focus on the product they offer.

  • The rounded corners and reflective surfaces feel like star-trek like. It was a bit tricky not building this in flash.

  • Timeframe: 6 months

  • Price: $45,000

  • Development Issues Solved

  • Built using the CMS application designed over previous jobs.

  1. Good Customer Experience

  2. Architecture of software

  3. Naming conventions

  4. Wireframe and Prototypes.

  • Old site before the redesign

  • Before

  • This site needed a redesign, because the most important information throughout the site, was pushed to the bottom of the page.

  • For example, the "Why you need an ATM" is the whole purpose of the site. But the upper site real estate contains useless statistics.

  • Basic SEO optimization was needed for all the images and hyperlinks.

  • Navigation needed to make more sense. What is the difference between the Contact Us page, and the three links having to do with Support? There is also much wasted space with the yellow navigation pane. Better use could be for high-level overviews, sample reports, or customer testimonials.

  • The product features list seems a bit dated. ATMs are the "wave of the future?" maybe in 1963, but wouldn't mentioning how secure the systems are be more important? Why call this a "Product" why not Unit or System. These questions bring up issues that were not addressed earlier.

  • Custom Reports

  • Ocean application required customized reporting for commissions, and other such financial reports. These were run every 4 months, and that took weeks to figure out. I came up with a dynamic solution, which could be completed within an hour.

  • Here is a sample Revenue Disbursement Detail. It lets an accountant know how much to pay their ATM machine vendors.

  • These detailed reports are different for each vendor, and therefore require options, such as how much they get paid per transaction, need an intuitive interface.

  • Using a Web 2.0 interface, account settings are given visual cues . Such as, red icons for NOT active, and GREEN for active. This allows you scan long lists of data, looking for specific functions to enable, or disable.

  • Revenue Disbursement Detail
  • Web 2.0 interface

  • Development Issues Solved

  • Built using the CMS application Compugasm designed over previous jobs.

  1. Good Customer Experience was the top priority. The interface was designed specifically for easing the workload of employees. It was a great sales tool to potential customers, who were looking to take the drudgery out of report generation.

  2. Architect a complex piece of software through the planning, coding, launch phases.

  3. Scalable framework allows very heavy usage, running on UNIX and Windows systems simultaneously.

  4. Naming conventions on Hundreds of relational database tables needed to be mapped and quantified.

  5. Map application flow, and wireframe and prototypes of final application.

  6. Debugging and work around programming errors, or technological limitations. Linux did not have a great way to display dynamic reports, and with a financial application, reports and summaries were critical features to understand the mountains of data. Involved debugging and testing of thousands of files, and lines of code.