I worked with a local developer, helping on a ASP.NET system that organized incoming hormone saliva test kits for analysis and diagnosis. We used ASP.NET, ADO.NET and C#.
Category Archive: Projects
Hormone Test Analysis Site
House Plan Sales CD
This project was for Alan Mascord Associates, a firm that sells house plans. The CD contained entire web site with plan catalog for faster offline viewing. A substantial sales increase resulted from the distribution of 20,000 copies at an industry show.
Globalized UI for Brachytherapy System
As my partner declared once, you don’t want to be on the business end of one of these devices. That said, if you have a cancer that can be treated with brachytherapy, it beats the alternatives.
The globalized user interface of this Windows 2000 application allows clinicians around the world administer radiation treatments to cancer patients. It was written in VB, using Multilizer for globablization/localization. It was localized into German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese.
Hotel Internet Kiosk
In the days before wifi in hotels, there was a real need among travellers to somehow connect to email. I worked with a kiosk manager to create a system that allowed payment and metering of kiosk usage in hotels. I used MS Access, Visual Basic and Javascript to control and monitor a credit card reader and currency collector. I also created an email portal that would inter-connect to AOL, Hotmail or whatever server the user desired.
Kiosk Network Monitor
To manage a network of 100+ commerce kiosks, I created a network management database system with MS Access, Visual Basic and pcAnywhere to track and report on current and past kiosk activity.
I had two projects converge into a single product idea that I called a Viosk. It’s a computer kiosk for customer service than contains a web browser and video conferencing. The customer and a service representative can see each other by video and share the browser window. For the two banks that were interested in this, it allowed helping customers at unmanned branches to complete forms while maintaining a more personable relationship.
Viosk, Public Information Kiosk with Videophone
While helping Intel create new uses for its ProShare videoconferencing product, I had two projects converge into a single product idea that I called a Viosk.
It’s a computer kiosk for customer service than contains a web browser and video conferencing. The customer and a service representative can see each other by video and share the browser window. For the two banks that were interested in this, it allowed helping customers at unmanned branches to complete forms while maintaining a more personable relationship.
The product got some attention in its day. It was shown at a national banking conference, made the local evening news and the city paper.
To create Viosk I used VB. I still maintain units in Washington, Oregon and Missouri.
Voice Transactions Systems Integration
ATT needed to integrate several systems to allow third party verification of when customers switched carriers for long distance. It was necessary to build interfaces between sales agencies and the verifier company via TCP/IP and 3780 protocols.
We also built a streaming server and web site for selecting and streaming call recordings when there was a dispute. This was done with ASP and SQL.
MP3 Player UI Concept
Created a desktop UI for focus group testing for Intel’s new MP3 player. Used VB to simulate the effect and feedback for controls. It turned out the designers were very close because the eventual UI was very similar to what we tested.
Game Controller Prototype
A local company wanted to create an input device for games, starting with a snowboarding game. Using a prototype board that included an accelerometer I wrote a VB program to accept input and display status from the controller to use in demos.