Electrofans.com

Online community, music discovery, search engine, and news portal for electronic music fans.

Developed complete front-to-back end, integrated web platform that includes: content management system (data entry, editing, and publishing), online community (user profile creation, customizable playlists, chat, messaging and instant notifications, extensible asynchronous posting and commenting system), multi-category internal search engine, inclusion of data from several different API sources, and internal analytics reporting. Responsive design for desktop/mobile-based browsers.

PHP/MySQL, JavaScript, HTML5, XML, CSS, multiple API (Facebook, SoundCloud, YouTube, Songkick)

• Date: September 2013 - February 2015, February 2016 - May 2018
• Client: Electrofans.com
• Category: Web Development/Software Engineering


• Achievements: Created a full functioning, all-in-one, combination web community, portal, search engine, CMS, and hand-built analytics system, along with multiple iterations of customized HTML 5/JavaScript music players.

Four Qualities of Happiness

original WordPress theme

A lightweight four-category, minimalist WordPress theme

• Date: June 2017
• Category: WordPress

Cloud4Wi

Guest WIFI analytics software platform

Developed/improved features for admin control panel as well as customer-facing splash portal websites. Handled essential integration of code (HTML/CSS, JavaScript, PHP) from other developers into CakePHP-based application.

PHP/MySQL, CakePHP, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, jQuery, Bootstrap, Angular, Less.js, Google Charts/Maps, Oracle VirtualBox, CentOS (Linux), Ubuntu server, Subversion

• Date: February 2015 - February 2016
• Client: Cloud4Wi, Inc
• Category: Web Development/Software Engineering


• Achievements: Led a major responsive UI re-design & re-structuring of control panel, involving both front and back-end.

Embee Mobile

Facebook application-based, virtual currency/redemption platform providing prepaid cellphone customers in nearly 100 countries with free airtime, giftcards, and other incentives for participating in sponsored surveys and other crowdsourcing tasks.

Developed and enhanced several MVC application features and admin tools, resolved bugs, wrote database queries, dealt with security and user fraud-related issues. Maintained rigorous adherence to coding standards, testing/test-case writing, and bug reporting.

PHP/MySQL, JavaScript, Facebook API, HTML5, CSS, Subversion

• Date: November 2010 - February 2013
• Client: Embee Mobile
• Category: Software Engineering/Web Development


• Achievements: #3 technical person in company (liaison between CTO and QA team). Handled issues such as: region- and phone carrier-specific requirements (international phone number validation, integration of Spanish and Thai-language branches of the application), "Birthday Bonus" feature awarded to Facebook app users on their birthday, and many others. Edited and updated corporate website. Produced all graphics needed by company.

Jpopexpress

Japanese entertainment portal site featuring shopping, news, and interactive Web community. Focused on all aspects of Japanese pop-culture, including pop/rock music, animation, games, toys, movies, and more

Highly-customized WordPress theme

• Date: 2001-2010
• Client: Jpopexpress.com
• Category: Wordpress/Web Development


• Achievements: As CEO/Lead Web Developer, maintained a steady growth rate of 50% for three consecutive quarters in 2007 across multiple sales channels: music CDs, animation/movie DVDs, video games, posters, toys and figures. Increased traffic to ten times the level of unique monthly visitors from January to July 2005, with a peak Alexa ranking among top 180,000 sites on the Internet.

SF to Share

San Francisco location-based review sharing engine

User reviews of favorite San Francisco locations, mapped by category (mirror version of site).

Google Maps API, JavaScript, PHP/MySQL

• Date: Fall 2010
• Client: POC ("proof-of-concept") app
• Category: Web App