Making
dougfoster.me – website
WordPress website for sharing personal stories about life & work, photos, and work projects. Built with Beaver Builder theme & plugins, the site includes custom PHP code, All in One SEO, Clicky analytics, iThemes Security Pro, Slider revolution, and PODS for custom post types (CPT) & extended fields.
Line Defender – product demo video
Two minute video demonstrates how Line Defender™ easily prevents monofilament fishing line from snarling the propellor & motor shaft of electric rolling motors. Shot with DSLR & iPhone cameras, fishing boat, trolling motor, and a 60 gallon aquarium in front of a chroma-key backdrop.
Wake Tech – web technologies
Instructor for HTML5 & CSS3, JavaScript, PHP & MySQL, WordPress, and Web Design classes (online, seated, and hybrid) at Wake Tech Community College. Create lectures, assignments, projects, grading, & guest speakers; Blackboard Learning Management System for course content; EPIC Online Teaching Certification.
LIPM – FOCUS integrated marketing software
Print/digital marketing campaign platform. Engine is Drip ECRM cloud service, WordPress for dashboard and landing pages, custom JS/PHP manages private URLs (pURLs) & QR codes; Calendly, Gyft, & Drip integrated via REST APIs.
LIPM – website & marketing
Marketing support for short-run print shop. Rebuilt WordPress website, web analytics, lots of pages & posts, write/edit copy, photography, videos, SEO, custom JS/PHP/REST API software; email marketing to increase traffic.
Touchstone 3D – website
WordPress website promoting product innovation & prototyping services. FooGallery plugin with Beaver Builder theme for easy to maintain, highly visual, page structure. iThemes Security Pro with Two Factor Authentication, All in One SEO, Clicky analytics, and Gravity Forms.
LIPM – job status tracking
WordPress app to track limited-run post card mailings. Gravity Forms, Gravity View, custom JS/PHP; Members & Login Redirect plugins allow clients & staff access to protected pages; email notification when jobs are updated.
AFS Photography – website
WordPress website promoting photography services; extensive blog with backstories and favorite photos. Beaver Builder theme, content copy protection, Slider Revolution plugin for photo/testimonial sliders, Instagram slider, iThemes Security Pro with Two Factor Authentication, All in One SEO, Clicky analytics.
Touchstone 3D – Order Management System
Proof-of-concept challenge to select a new tool for rebuilding company’s Order Management System. OMS was difficult to maintain and written in Java by an intern no longer with the company. ScriptCase Rapid Application Development platform quickly built the test case, proved flexible & easy to use, and was selected.
LIPM – HP Wall Art video
Two minute video showing the creation and installation of an in-house designed, ceiling to floor, HP Wall Art display. iPhone & DSLR cameras shot hundreds of stills and hours of video; Telestream ScreenFlow & Adobe Creative Suite rendered the final time-compressed version.
Touchstone 3D – websites
Multiple websites, first created with design tools such as Adobe Dreamweaver and Apple iWeb, later evolved to WordPress. Promoting the company’s product innovation & prototyping services, Touchstone3D continues to contract with Convinsys for all web based projects.
Fuentek – NASA EBF3
Fifteen minute video explaining NASA’s Electron Beam Free Form Fabrication (EBF3) technology. Created by interviewing co-creator over Skype and adding relevant still images. Facilitated exploratory licensing between NASA and Stratasys, Inc.
eNC – netcasting manual & classes
Manual with training class on how to create podcasts and webcasts. Delivered to entrepreneurs & small business owners at four of the rural North Carolina Business & Technology Development Centers. Funded by the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center under a grant from the Kellogg Foundation.
Cisco – AVVID demo room & kits
Portable kits and training room demonstrated Cisco Unified Communications (UC) solutions. Telecommunication managers were skeptical of Voice over IP (aka UC) technology; the kits and demo room offered opportunities for hands-on evaluation.
Team CP – Products Division, TeamNet
Plans to start a new Products/Systems Integration group at Team Connecting Point, also implement company intranet with Internet connection. Acquired first IBM reseller authorization for RS6000 Unix line of RISC based workstations & servers.