"Lorin is an extremely talented, productive, results-oriented developer who has the ability to get things done. He's always been the 'go to' guy on our team, he's got my highest endorsement."
- Miles Ward{ Director of Community Intelligence at Visible Technologies }
Expert-Level Skills:
- Hand-coding:
- HTML 4 & XHTML 1.0 Strict
- CSS Level 1 & 2
- Rails: ERb
- Rails: HAML & SASS
- Cross-Browser compatibility:
- IE 6 & 7
- FireFox
- Opera
- Safari
- Adobe CS3 software:
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Audition
- Audio Production:
- Multitrack mixing & mastering
- MIDI sequencing & automation
Working Proficiency:
- JavaScript:
- jQuery
- Moo Tools
- PHP 4 & 5:
- CakePHP
- CodeIgniter
- CMS apps & template engines
- WordPress
- Serendipity
- SilverStripe
- phpBB2
- Smarty
- Ruby on Rails 1.2.6 & 2.0.2
- MySQL
- Flash
- SEO
Front-End Focused
I specialize in front-end languages such as XHTML and CSS, as well as interprited front-end languages such as HAML and SASS for Ruby on Rails and Smarty for PHP.
With a fierce passion for stunning results, an insatiable appetite for making beautiful websites in full compliance with today's web standards, my service is oriented around one goal: Ensuring that your website appropriately represents your company image and plays well with many browsers.
Client Oriented
I like happy clients. My business savvy has always put the client's need ahead of any technical set-backs. I have the skill to get your project to a highly polished state, and I will do just that no matter how challenging your project may be.
I make a point to mind the details early on to produce incredible websites that are extensions of my clients' vision for their brand identity. This comes from my years of experience taking vague business requirements and turning them into captivating user experiences.
My Portfolio
ReachMachines, Inc.
ReachMachines' intention-driven marketing application is currently in alpha for private clients. I am the lead Front-End Development in charge of implementing the UI/UX on the app. The application is only about half done and already it is very large and complex.
When the original idea of wrapping the corporate website inside the application's chrome failed to yeild the intended results I quickly created a clean and sophisticated website design. The challenge was that there wasn't very much publicly digestable content available on this site, so I had to keep that in mind while still keeping a strong focus on what content was there.
Westmarch Studios
A game studio which produces everything from casual games to first person shooters. They came to me with a request to completely redefine their brand. I created a new logo for them which set the stage for what eventually became their website. They wanted something modern, simple and sleek, but also immersive and game-like, since much of their target audience will be developers, distribution houses and gamers.
Cornerstone Properties & Investments
Cornerstone is one of many websites I worked on during my tenure at LuxuryRealEstate.com. I was the lead Front-End Developer on Cornerstone from it's design-phase completeness until I left LRE. The finished product was a collaborative effort between me and two other front-end developers.
This is a very large site with plenty of unique challenges on the front-end. Semantics were very important to LRE, so very often elements that visually may be much lower in the markup structure. This highly structured positioning scheme made it possible for us to place semantically similar elements near each other, but call attention to one or more visually on the page and even above the fold.
MyForte Artist Management
This is one of my projects in active development. In short, MyForte allows artists who are managing one or more music artist to create and manage media-rich websites for their artists, all in one place.
Who's Who in Luxury Real Estate
A global leader in the luxury property industry. LRE's development arm buils custom websites using their own proprietary engines targeted for real estate brokers who think big. I was in charge of managing many of their broker's websites, over 20 while I was there.
I was the lead Front-End Developer on LuxuryRealEstate.com as well, their corporate website. My duties included front-end maintaining consistency, updating any static sections (such as Conferences and Events), and porting various print media to the web (such as full-page ads run quarterly in the Wall Street Journal).
Ewing & Clark Private Brokerage
Another website I worked on at LRE. I assisted the lead Front-End Developer on E&C to build out various support pages and maintain front-end consistency. This site, like Cornerstone, has a very intricate positioning scheme in many places, it is also very large and needed special attention to keep the overall project consistent.
