I’ve taken a full-time, permanent role at Untangle now as Vice President, Sales & Marketing. It’s been a great ride for the last 7 months, and I’m very happy to be part of such an amazing team. I haven’t worked with such a talented group since Zing.com in the 90s. Yay!

I rolled out a new home page, tagline, positioning and registration/download process this week. My role is hands-on, so this is my design. So far, positive feedback. :)

I started a long-term consulting position at Untangle, Inc. as Director, Web Marketing in December of 2010. I’m pleased to report that I’ve settled in and have truly enjoyed working with the team at this fast-paced start-up. My focus is to stabilize the web site from a development and production standpoint while ramping up our online marketing activities including a new email newsletter, an enhanced presence on IT sites,  and developing various advertising campaigns. I’m also looking at enhancing our social media and community building activities, as well as attacking search engine optimization. The image above is a new design I did to split-test for the home page. Plenty to do!

Just completed a back-end stabilization project for parent & kid media site Red Tricycle. They needed help with their WordPress install, plugins, forms and overall site performance. I also did a mock-up of some navigation changes as a first step towards a site redesign.

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Just finished a quick project for a canned demo site for InterAct Public Safety. They needed expert production work turned around on an expedited schedule. I took their wireframes and turned them into functional HTML and CSS.

The 2010 campaign of Ronald “Scott” Owens for District Attorney of Placer County is kicking off next month, and the website I’ve built to support it has launched at scottowensforda.org.

I built the site in WordPress and designed a custom template. I think this will allow for easy updates, and the blog platform feels appropriately conversational for a campaign. I’m using PayPal for tickets and donations, and Flickr for the photostream.

I’ll be supporting the site on an ongoing basis and am looking forward to keeping pace with the campaign.

I wanted to have the site loosely look like the desk of a paranormal investigator, with a slight Indiana Jones retro feel. Hopefully I captured that sense of wonder with a tinge of nostalgia. The site is still evolving, so a few design elements haven’t gone out yet. Can’t wait to see the final product.

The site is still active and has been serving its purpose. I’m looking forward to see where the company goes from here and am grateful for the opportunity to have been part of the team at such an early phase.