Mia Writes
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1% for the Planet
1% for the Planet. Keep Earth in business.
Since 2002, 1% For The Planet has inspired members of the business community to contribute 1% of sales to environmental groups around the world.
IBM Services
IBM CIO Interaction Channel
Align your IT strategies with your business priorities by improving resource utilization, reducing costs and enabling more effective IT services
LXTV podcast
AMEX Podcasts: LXTV podcast
American Express and LXTV bring the First Look LA and First Look NY Podcasts to iTunes
Food & Wine Magazine AMEX podcast
Food & Wine Magazine and AMEX podcast
Food & Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen with celebrity chef cooking demos on new American Express Podcast Channel and iTunes Store.
www.americanwineexchange.com
The American Wine Exchange
The American Wine Exchange is part of the world’s largest direct merchant in wine, serving over 900,000 customers around the globe.
www.mrtandme.com
Mr. T and Me
Initial copy editing and quality assurance of this new and newsworthy memorabilia fan site.
www.asianavenue.com/Members/
New Chat client for Asian Avenue, Black Planet, and Mi Gente
Front end integration of CCI design and functionality into an off the shelf Java chat client. The front end container was done with html, php and dhtml, plugged into the mySql database and Java applet to keep track of users, rooms and online status.
www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm
National Geographic Magazine
Lead programmer on a redesign that would bring a 4 page web presence to 60 - 80 page per month site including 6-8 featured stories, Flash slideshows, dozens of Real and Windows streaming media files, 5 perl/cgi forums, a flash poll, and 2 perl/cgi postcards that run on 4 separate web servers. I orchestrated assets delivered by the design firm Melia, partial generation by an in-house Content Management System, and the bulk of programming and QA changes.
www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids
National Geographic Kids (formerly World magazine)
Coordinated a massive redesign of the magazine’s web presence designed and initially programmed by The Chopping Block. Flash games, perl/cgi forums, perl/sql polls and streaming Real and Windows Media are just a part of what I maintained and built new each month. Built optimized for Search Engines and simple updates.
magma.nationalgeographic.com/encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Britannica (partnership)
Communicated technical specifications and coordinated meetings between their engineers and a developer I hired to use EB’s XML/XLT and blend this with an powerful tool (Matrix) we use internally for dynamic page generation. Communication between our engineers, EB's engineers and our servers was an exciting challenge. On the way to a solution a powerful new use for our Matrix tool was created, which is still being used and modified today. I also found a security weakness in the pay version of the EB site (allowing free reference), and immediately urged them to repair it.
www.nationalgeographic.com/kids
Kids’ Guide
Programming and technical guidance on the former and newly redesigned portal for kid-friendly content in Flash and non-Flash versions.
www.nationalgeographic.com/geospy
GeoSpy (partnership with Miss Maggy)
An exciting chance to incorporate a modified version of an multilevel Flash game built by Fever Interactive of Dublin. I provided tech specs and instruction on modifying their ActionScript so that we’d be able to track page views and serve ads in an intelligent way from within global site standards.
www.nationalgeographic.com/ultimateexplorer
NG Ultimate Explorer (formerly NG Explorer)
In addition to regular programming, I helped guide the information architecture and design to maximize functionality and minimize costs, particularly consulting towards search engine optimization and usability.
www.nationalgeographic.com/geographyaction/habitats
Habitats
Lead programmer on a new subsite of Geography Awareness. Photo galleries generated from a database Content Managment System, a perl/cgi forum, and multimedia enhance this educational activity site.
www.nationalgeographic.com/nomad/nepal
Trekking Nepal
A site highlighting an NG-led expedition that normal folks can do, it uses maps, imagery and narrative to describe the culture and environment.
magma.nationalgeographic.com/inca
Inca Mummies
National Geographic’s adventures and anthropological findings regarding some very intact mummies.