“Adam was an excellent mentor to me during my time at the Law School website. He always communicated tasks to me clearly and effectively. He also taught me a lot about web design and standards and helped me improve my skills as a developer. In addition, his personal website evidences a wide breadth of artistic skill and talent.”
About
Hi there! I’m a digital strategy leader, designer, developer, and art-maker from Austin…
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#highedweb24 did not disappoint! I met a crazy amount of lovely people who share the same enthusiasm for making the Higher Ed digital spaces the best…
#highedweb24 did not disappoint! I met a crazy amount of lovely people who share the same enthusiasm for making the Higher Ed digital spaces the best…
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Experience
Education
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The University of Texas at Austin
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Activities and Societies: Dean's list, University Honors, National Society of Collegiate Scholars
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Projects
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The Center for Global Energy, International Arbitration and Environmental Law
Custom site design and development for the University of Texas Energy Center (soon to be renamed the Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy, Business & Law), built as a very well-featured WordPress theme and a set of custom post type plugins. Styling built with Sass, task running handled with GruntJS.
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Sarah Lim — Conceptual, People & Portrait Photographer
See projectDynamic website design and development for talented Austin photographer Sarah Lim, powered using the Koken CMS. A custom responsive Koken theme was developed to highlight Sarah's magazine photography, with lazy loading of the large images for improved mobile performance and display.
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Marsha Riti — Handcrafted Illustrations
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See projectWordPress-powered website for Austin-based children's book illustrator Marsha Riti. Fun design that highlights her colorful, retro-inspired work.
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Bleep Labs
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See projectWebsite for Bleep Labs, creator of incredibly fun synthesizer noise toys and other musical devices! WordPress-powered site, with a recently-launched (late 2012) WooCommerce store front that integrates with Stripe for payment processing and Endicia DAZzle for postage printing through custom-written plugins.
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Hubbard / Birchler
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See projectWebsite for internationally-exhibited artists Alexander Birchler and Teresa Hubbard.
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The University of Texas School of Law
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The web presence for one of the most prestigious law schools in the U.S. Responsible for front-end design and coding as well as back-end development, covering thousands of pages of content as well as dozens of in-house web applications.
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Emma Virján — Illustrator and Author
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See projectResponsive WordPress-powered site for children's book illustrator and graphic designer Emma Virján. Uses custom post types and a homemade JavaScript image gallery tool to generate a pleasing portfolio display.
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Kosmic Kombucha
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See projectA very simple one-page site for a fast-growing purveyor of delicious kombucha drinks. Includes a custom backend interface for the client to make changes to their content (product offerings and locations) without having to know any code or markup.
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Patrice Barton, Illustrator
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See projectWordPress-powered website for award-winning children's book illustrator Patrice Barton.
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UT Law Events Calendar
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A full public events calendar and room availability system built in-house at UT Law. Tracks public and private information for thousands of events, with an administrative interface designed to make it simple for content contributors to post new listings, with workflows established for handling catering requests, student events, and media services needs. Features include hcal microformat markup, RSS / iCal / and ics calendar feeds across multiple taxonomies, and a RESTful API for federating data…
A full public events calendar and room availability system built in-house at UT Law. Tracks public and private information for thousands of events, with an administrative interface designed to make it simple for content contributors to post new listings, with workflows established for handling catering requests, student events, and media services needs. Features include hcal microformat markup, RSS / iCal / and ics calendar feeds across multiple taxonomies, and a RESTful API for federating data to other web-based systems. The room availability tool (not public) communicates with our Exchange server for blocking calendars over SOAP through the Microsoft EWS API.
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Honors & Awards
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The Cathy Lester IT Excellence Memorial Award
The University of Texas at Austin
The Cathy Lester IT Excellence Memorial Award was created in 2007 to honor the life and work of our late colleague and friend, Catherine Louise Rihn Lester. In her 27 years as an administrative information technology professional at The University of Texas at Austin, Cathy worked tirelessly to develop systems that support and advance the University’s standards of excellence in education, research, and public service. The award is an unrestricted, one-time cash gift which will be awarded to one…
The Cathy Lester IT Excellence Memorial Award was created in 2007 to honor the life and work of our late colleague and friend, Catherine Louise Rihn Lester. In her 27 years as an administrative information technology professional at The University of Texas at Austin, Cathy worked tirelessly to develop systems that support and advance the University’s standards of excellence in education, research, and public service. The award is an unrestricted, one-time cash gift which will be awarded to one or more individuals each year.
Since 2009, the committee has presented two awards: the traditional Excellence award recognizing someone with an enduring track record for excellence, and a Rising Star award recognizing a person in the early years of their IT career who shows extraordinary promise. -
Cathy Lester IT Excellence Memorial Award (Nominee)
The University of Texas
Languages
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Latin
Elementary proficiency
Organizations
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University of Texas Middleware Customer Steering Committee
Member
- PresentThe Middleware CSC exists to align and prioritize middleware IT service offerings at the University with customer needs. Service areas and topics include: message and workload automation, version control solutions, binary repositories, automated code quality assurance (QA) and vulnerability scanning, continuous integration and delivery, Platform-as-a-Service application hosting, etc.
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University of Texas DevOps Customer Steering Committee
Inaugural Chair / Committee Member
- PresentThe Development Operations Customer Steering Committee is tasked with helping plan, design, and build a successful suite of DevOp-related services, including services for version control, enterprise binary repository hosting, project and issue tracking, continuous integration, code quality testing tools, vulnerability scanning, etc.
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University of Texas Development Environment Management Solution Assessment
Committee Member
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University of Texas Managed and Hosted CMS Services Customer Steering Committee
Committee Member / RFP Evaluator
- PresentThe Managed and Hosted CMS Customer Steering Committee was created to oversee a highly-managed, turnkey site management platform based on the Drupal CMS and a hosting platform and developer tools specifically designed for Drupal and WordPress. Our oversight has included requirements gathering for the cloud hosting platform, solution selection and procurement, and service design and implementation.
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University of Texas Architecture and Infrastructure Committee
Committee Member
- PresentThe Information Technology (IT) Architecture & Infrastructure Committee oversees data and voice networks, data storage, administrative computing infrastructure, applications, and security issues across the University of Texas campus, fostering conversation between stakeholders and higher governance.
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University of Texas Web Technologies and Infrastructure Subcommittee
Inaugural Chair (2012-2013)
- PresentThe WTI Subcommittee is charged with identifying and describing common needs across campus for Web publishing, hosting and technical support; developing and maintaining a set of guiding technology principles for the central Web hosting infrastructure; and advising on the strategic assessment to drive the evolution and advancement of enterprise-scale Web technologies and hosting services. The Subcommittee works closely with the leadership of University Communications and its steering groups that…
The WTI Subcommittee is charged with identifying and describing common needs across campus for Web publishing, hosting and technical support; developing and maintaining a set of guiding technology principles for the central Web hosting infrastructure; and advising on the strategic assessment to drive the evolution and advancement of enterprise-scale Web technologies and hosting services. The Subcommittee works closely with the leadership of University Communications and its steering groups that oversee digital content and design, which rely on the underlying technologies and infrastructure.
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