Category Archives: Development

Drupal and Philadelphia Cultural Alliance

Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
I am working with a great team of professionals in the areas of art, culture, and web software engineering to bring a fresh and flexible user experience to the Philadelphia Cultural Alliance who’s mission is to “lead, strengthen and give voice to a diverse cultural sector that’s making Philadelphia a world-class region to live, work, and play.” Since 1972, the PCA have played a key role in ensuring the health and vitality of arts and culture in Greater Philadelphia.

Featured image: Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Drupal 8 for Canada’s oldest public college

Lethbridge College
Lethbridge College

I am working with a distributed team of academics and top industry professionals to rebuild the Lethbridge College web presence and multi-user portal using open source solutions. We are designing and developing for a custom, device agnostic, mobile first, Drupal 8 experience. Lethbridge College, was opened in 1957 as the first public community college in Canada.

Feature image: Students in an outdoor classroom. Lethbridge College, Picassa.

Web Development at Canada’s #1 University

McGill University
McGill University

Over the past year I have been working with McGill University to improve their web user experience. This top-ranking Canadian institution is based in Montreal, Quebec, and recruits from all over the globe. Outreach events and interactive mapping play a big role in their effective device-agnostic, digital user experience.

Feature image: McGill University.

Theodore Roosevelt in 1887 to Today

North Studio
North Studio
I am working with North Studio in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada to rebuild the Boone and Crockett Club‘s historic wildlife trophy database as a modern, scaleable, and highly accessible web application. The team at North Studio is collaborating with B&C’s internal team based at their national headquarters in Missoula, Montana. It is a complex project with many moving parts including data migration of legacy trophy and hunter data, a contemporary Drupal build, and Solr search integration. My role is technical project manager and Drupal developer.

“The Boone and Crockett Club is a hunter-conservationist organization founded in the United States in 1887 by Theodore Roosevelt. In addition to authoring a famous “fair chase” statement of hunter ethics, the club worked for the expansion and protection of Yellowstone National Park and the establishment of American Conservation in general.” 2

Feature image: Wikipedia.

Drupal for Local & Global Environmental Science

NSF
National Science Foundation
I have been working for a couple of years on two research projects through the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State. The research falls under the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute within the university at University Park. One of the projects is called Shale Network and is a scientific collaboration space around water quality data in the U.S. Marcellus Shale Region in PA and NY. The second project is called Critical Zone Exploration Network and is a collaboration platform for 1,700 hydrochemists and other scientists working in this field around the world. Both projects are Drupal 7 migrations from older D6 sites, and we are working to make these primary hubs for scientific collaboration on environmental health both locally and around the globe. Both projects are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Feature image: Pixdaus.