Portfolio

Platform
City of Edmonton Notifications
In need of a robust alert system for municipal operations that affected city residents, I provided an analysis of our current technical state and scoped a solution that could be built on existing technological systems and frameworks to deliver a pilot SMS and email alert tool when limited funds and resources were available, leading the project to an on-time launch and an inital sign-up of over 30k users.

Platform
Edmonton’s Zoning Bylaw CMS
I was the technology domain expert for the re-platform of the City of Edmonton’s Zoning Bylaw as the Zoning Bylaw Renewal Initiatives work to refresh the City’s key planning and development guidelines and move the text and contents of the bylaw to a fully interactive digital platform.

Platform
Municipal Website edmonton.ca Replatform
I managed the team, outcomes, oversight, and reporting for a multi-year project to procure a new enterprise-grade content management system (Drupal) for the City of Edmonton, re-platform multiple websites and an intranet system to the new software, and retrain a team of employees to manage the system, all while tracking “business-as-usual” operations and limiting downtime for a municipal government website attracting 30M+ users per year.

Platform
Soil to Sky
I developed, designed, launched, promoted, and operated an agri-food-focused portal of industry-related career development information. Project and associated work, specifically linked to social media & an active and ongoing presence at industry events and career/education venues, acted as a staging platform for youth engagement on the topic of informing and marketing agriculture & food industry career building.

Recent Personal Projects

Platform
Birchmont Studio
A personal novel-writing CMS and web publishing platform, written in PHP/MySQL/JQuery Birchmont Studio allows an author to plan and write fiction of any length and scope, track characters, settings, plot points, relationships, and timelines while drafting, revising and ultimately digitally publishing to the web or ebook formats.

Platform
8r4d-stagram
A personal “unsocial media” applet, written in PHP/MySQL which mimics popular social media image sharing apps and is optimized for mobile sharing. Essentially a minimal blog, the tool allows uploading of post text, images, panorama images, audio clips, videos, links and more, and also categorizes posts with hash tags, profiles and dates. The back end admin interface is robust and protected by 2FA, and allows the management of posts, metadata, and an extensive media database for tracking books, films, and video games that can be associated with posts.

Fiction
The Underfoot
Adventure, science and supernatural mysteries clash in the mountains above the city of Birchmont in this exciting novel and audio drama. It’s the first in a new supernatural science fiction series by Brad Salomons.