Husband to a beautiful wife and father to five awesome kiddos. Lucky enough to design websites for a living. Designer for Ancestry.com, contributor for UX Magazine, and owner of JL Design Group.
Graphic design, web application design/development, and web strategy and consulting. I use various research and development methods, but every project begins on paper. I enjoy enhancing content and designing for the web, and improving usability features and processes - in other words - making the web more simple and easy to use.
Taking DNA to a whole new level.
Offering web design and marketing to medical professionals, including everything from client communication and web design/development work, to billing, customer support, and training.
My contributions include design and usability research of large-scale web applications used within the LDS Church. With a team of dedicated interaction designers, functional analysts, and user experience managers, we're able to provide consistent, reliable, and usable web interfaces and processes.
I managed Myriad's overall online presence, including corporate, product, and intranet websites. I was responsible for implementation, maintenance, and optimization for all of these websites using XHTML/CSS/JavaScript and PHP/MySQL. I have also become fluent in writing code to interact with Oracle databases using the both the ORA & OCI function sets within PHP. I worked with many outside vendors to provide a high level of quality control for Myriad's stock information, press releases, and webcasts as they are released to the general public.
Helped to enhance and promote the Whisperide website, which was developed on a CMS platform and included full e-commerce functionality. Made general updates to website as needed.
Lead front-end designer of the first public release of the EyeMotion Education Center, an online educational portal for eye care professionals.
Lead designer and developer of the 105 Concepts Plan Administration Center (PAC), a web-based subscription service allowing accountants to offer online HRA's to small business owners. Also responsible for the design of marketing materials such as brochures, posters, and various newspaper and web advertisements.
I designed various marketing pieces, including brochures, posters, and training CD’s for local and national banks. In 2003, I began development of the 3D-Eye Web Library, an online service allowing eye doctors to educate their patients about common eye problems using detailed short animations over the web.