Web and Mobile Product Design and Development

Kelly Cooper, at 2 Degree Shift, creates, develops, and promotes web and mobile products. In addition, I invent, promote, and market non-IT products related to cooking and baking.

Web and mobile work incorporate:

Proficient: XHTML/CSS, HTML5/CSS3, Interface Design, Usability, Web Standards, Accessibility, Translate Wireframes into Prototypes, SEO/Analytics, WordPress, phpBB, Moodle, Dreamweaver, Social Media Marketing, Requirements Specifications, Project Management, WHM/cPanel/phpMyAdmin, Technical Writing, Basecamp, Salesforce Chatter

Experienced:  jQuery, Ajax, JavaScript, XML, Photoshop, Navigational Structures; Flow Diagrams, Wireframes and Site Maps, Video, Wikimedia, Authorize.net

Helpful: Java, PHP/MySQL

WordPress Examples…

GrownUpCookies.com – promotion site for an upcoming Cookbook, Cookies For Grown-Ups, currently in-press with Red Rock Press. Full management to include create concept and product, work with a designer, and manage analytics and social media.

CriticalHermeneutics.com – citation site for scholars. Develop site and content, maintain and manage social network marketing.

Hand-Code Landing Page Examples…

Zanottos.com – XHTML/CSS and Photoshop. Optimize page based on a designer Photoshop file.

SavouryCookies.com – XHTML/CSS and Photoshop. Develop and track analytics on a series of landing pages feeding into GrownUpCookies.com.

Landing Page Campaign Samples – CatlinsBackpacking.com, CatlinsWildlife.com, DiningInTheCatlins.com, HikingInTheCatlins.com, NewZealandFlyingClub.com

Third-Party CMS Examples…

PlotterPros.net – QuickBooks partner product CMS, set up with Authorize.net, phpBB forum, and CSS for style. Full management to include merchant, customer, and shipper interface.

Learningbytes.com – Learning site and shopping cart, Moodle and MALS with Authorize.net. Full management to include merchant and customer interface and content development.

CA Community College Emergency Site – Content preparation and navigation for a previous version of DotNetNuke.

PHP/MySQL Examples…

Great25.com – Information Site. Full management of customer and merchant interface, content development, and offshore developers.

SocietyDog.com – Community Site. Manage logo and character development, site development with offshore PHP/MySQL developers, phpBB forum, and merchant interface.

Dreamweaver Examples…

Zanotto’s Rose Garden – Grocery Store Site. Photographer, developer, manager of designer and Flash developer.

EBD Design – Manufacturer Site. XHTML/CSS, train staff to maintain site content.

CookieCampaign – Landing Page. Dreamweaver example from the landing page series for GrownUpCookies.

Writing Examples…

Recent academic articles and presentations:

  • 2011-Imaginative Identity, Utopia, and Time: Avatars in Massive Multi-Player Games (in press) Etudes Ricoeuriennes/Ricoeur Studies (ERRS) Journal. December.
  • 2011-Image and Translation. Society for Ricoeur Studies Conference. Philadelphia, PA. October.
  • 2011-Self and Other in Public Space Disclosed Through Technology. Strangers, Aliens, and Foreigners. Mansfield College, Oxford University, U.K. September.
  • 2011-Refiguring Identity in Conversations with Avatars. International Conference on Ricoeur Studies: New Perspectives on Hermeneutics in the Social Sciences and Practical Philosophy. Higher School of Economics, National Research University. Moscow, Russia. September.

Additional projects include seven cooking related products, currently in patent submission, that will be on the market in Spring 2012.

I teach Web Development at West Valley College, a California Community College, since 1997 and work with 3-4 clients a year to develop or update their web and mobile presence. I teach graduate courses, part time, in Management and Technology for the University of Maryland University College and support collaborative web applications and content management systems for West Valley College, local small businesses, and one non-profit organization.

My LinkedIn Profile | Located in Silicon Valley and the Las Vegas area.