SushiBoat

Design48 is the online portfolio of work I have done for a number of corporations over my 40-year career in Silicon Valley. Here I display only a small sample of the work that I have done on a wide variety of projects.

I began as a graphic designer and was teaching graphic design at San Jose City College even before I had my BA degree. I also worked for a variety of graphic design firms while I was still in school. Good page design has not changed.

I even worked as a calligrapher for a time, hand-lettering all sorts of menus, documents and invitations. My early love of letters has not wained - except now it is done by computer. And I do hand-coding instead of hand-lettering.

For thirteen years I was a technical illustrator, drawing first on a drafting table, and then on the computer, where I learned to be as proficient with the mouse as I had been with a pen. Now it is called vector-based graphics.

Since 1998 I have worked as a webdesigner, gaining more and more proficiency with every project. By the late 90's, everything that had ever been in print had to be reformatted for the browser. It has kept me very busy.

Like most designers, I have tried a number of schemes for my own site. As new versions of code progress, I keep some examples and discard others. I try to keep current, but I can't rebuild everything...

DESIGN48 :: PORTFOLIO WEBSITES

SYMANTEC (2007-2009)

From October 2007 to June 2009, I worked for Symantec, the giant security software company headquartered in Cupertino, CA. I did frontend engineering on a portion of MySymantec, the web portal that provides for the customization of select client/user services. Using HTML and CSS, I helped to build GUIs, or Graphical User Interfaces, for online applications. more...

ORACLE (1997 and 1999)

In 1997, I created over 200 Adobe Illustrator drawings for the release of Oracle8. This was the last big graphics project I had before the internet arrived. After this, I worked primarily in HTML. By 1999, when every programmer on the planet was working on the Y2K problem, I was hired by Oracle to create HTML pages for a small marketing group at Oracle. I've been doing webdesign ever since...more...

NASA (1993 and 2003)

NASA - specifically the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial) Institute, contracted me to build a website for a scientific conference investigating the origins of life in the universe. They weren't looking for little green men. They were looking for the conditions that would allow life to exist in any form, even microscopic. They were looking for the chemical building blocks of life. more...

INTUIT (2005)

At Intuit in 2005, I was hired to reformat dynamic content from the Intuit homepages to be placed on retail sites that carried core Intuit products, including BestBuy, CompUSA, Staples, OfficeMax, etc. I was required to use both table and tableless page structure, extensive CSS, current XHTML standards, Flash, and DHTML. more...

APPLE COMPUTERS (2006)

At Apple I was contracted to work on the Support section of the Apple website. I converted pages built in table structures to tableless divs. Using XHTML and CSS, I made both major and minor content modifications to the existing pages, as well as building new pages. I even contributed to writing some new content. Unfortunately, they had some very quirky requirements. more...

FILEMAKER (2006)

FileMaker, a subsidiary of Apple, had a proprietary source-control system they called Filemaker CMS. In this development environment I modified existing HTML pages and created new ones. I was required to do both table and tableless design, as well as image optimization using Photoshop. more...

MCAFEE (2007)

McAfee used a development environment called Accurev. Page structures were primarily tableless, but older pages were still being converted to the new template according to new XHTML and CSS standards. In addition to doing the HTML coding, I created Photoshop page mockups, and I also created several holiday banners in Photoshop. more...

STANFORD UNIVERSITY (2006)

In 2006, I had a short contract with Stanford University to build 100 new HTML pages for the Stanford Challenge (fund-raising) part of the website. In a Teamsite development environment, I formatted Word doc pages into XHTML and CSS. more...

CISCO SYSTEMS (2006 and 2007)

Three times I was in the interview pipeline at Cisco. Each time they took so long to hire me that I could not wait for them, and I accepted another contract. To complete the application process, I created several pages of both gif and flash animations. more...

LOCKHEED-MARTIN (1980-93)

I am often asked in interviews why I have always been a contractor. Actually, I worked for Lockheed fulltime for 13 years as a technical illustrator before I was layed off or "downsized" as they called it then. I left there with 25 years total experience, the last seven years on a computer, primarily a VAX workstation, but also on a macintosh, one of the first ones. more...

SEGA of AMERICA (1994-95)

After Lockheed layed off 20,000 workers, jobs in Silicon Valley were scarce. I decided to apply in the videogame industry, because I knew that they hired artists. I was hired at SEGA by a man who had been an art director at Disney Studios. more...

TABS & WIDGETS

Tabs & Widgets is the section of my website where I display and explain some of the common features that appear on websites, like tabs and slideshow widgets. more...

JAVASCRIPT

Libraries of freeware javascript functions appeared early on in the history of the web. But these were disparate libraries written by many different authors, and not organized in any way except by categories of widgets. Systems of javascript libraries or frameworks, such as jQuery and YUI appeared later. more...

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