Below is a summary of my projects that have either provided full-time employment or were on the side.

Personal Sites

NJWhite.com

Begun in 2002, this site gave me space to practice my web design skills. Having undergone countless revisions, the current design has been in place since late 2006.

NathanandKristen.net

Shortly before my wedding late 2004, I setup this site to show our wedding and honeymoon pictures. We’ve recently updated the design and are working on adding more content.

CommonwealthOfNowhere.com

Where I put my favorite pictures. Designed using Apple’s iWeb software.

Full-time Employment

NewEnglandShoe.com and QuanticoBoot.com (2/04 - 12/07)

Hired to overhaul and oversee a retail website for a company in the town of Quantico that primarily sold boots online. Inherited a NewEnglandShoe.com site that badly needed a new face-lift. Quickly learned the e-commerce engine beneath the software and created a new design within six weeks. Later in 2004 was instructed to open up QuanticoBoot.com as the store was renaming itself to ‘Quantico Boot’. Provided a new design and oversaw the transition of the database from the old site to the new site. Maintained both sites for a year with the NewEnglandShoe.com serving as a discount site.. While both sites were live, provided a new design for both that looked very similar, with one site blue and the other site red to increase brand awareness for customers.

A significant accomplishment was to streamline how the products interacted with the database. The old method to update products and prices was extremely inefficient and time-consuming. There were over 100 different pages that needed constant attention as different products went on sale or were discontinued. Rewrote the site so that, besides company policy and information pages, there were only two pages. One page dynamically pulled from the database the gallery of products, while the other page provided the detail page of the product. Thus, website maintenance dramatically dropped, allowing me to transition to a larger role within the business.

Eventually a new design was needed but with my new roles I did not have the time to design it myself. Served as project manager and oversaw the design and implementation of the new site. Ensured that new design remained consistent with efficiency policies that I had previously put in place. Responsible for providing graphics for homepage and other side graphics as needed.

While at Quantico Boot, also oversaw creation of Facebook page to reach out to younger Marines. Also designed several ads for publications such as the Marine Corps Times and their website, MarineCorpsTimes.com. Additionally placed an ad in the inaugural program book for the new Museum of the Marine Corps.

Side Projects

Bridge Vision Web Ministries

Based at BridgeVisionWeb.com, started a church website consulting ministry late 2006. The goal was to provide low-cost and easy-to-use websites for churches who lacked financial resources and technical know-how to provide a site of their own.

So far seven clients have been helped with three projects currently on-going. In talks with three other churches about websites later in the year.

More can be seen at bridgevisionweb.com/portfolio.

ModerateBaptists.com

Having witnessed how blogs affected the theological and political discussion in other denominations, in late 2006 decided to begin a blog aggregator site that catered to Baptists who considered themselves moderate (rather than conservative or liberal).  The goal is to store and display all blog entries by bloggers who consider themselves moderate Baptists in one place.  The site has become quite popular within this group and now contains a central calendar and original content.

TheFredReview.com

Living in Richmond for two years allowed me to experience the rise of hyper-local news blogs and how they could affect discussion and debate in the local level.  Moving back to my hometown of Fredericksburg and not finding anything similar, began this site in Summer 2007 to increase awareness of local issues as well as give an independent forum for citizens to interact.  By using Google News Search along RSS, am alerted to news about Fredericksburg from a potential of thousands of different sources.  Each day after culling through the material automatically generated via the corresponding RSS feeds, then post relevant articles for consumption and discussion.

The new design was installed November 2007 and since then readership has steadily grown.