Projects

Table’s Ready — Text Messaging Notifications and Reservation Management

Table’s Ready replaces expensive and range-limited restaurant pagers with simple text message notifications. Simply ask guests for their name and phone number when they call ahead or walk up and enter it into Table’s Ready. Once the guest has arrived, a timer begins with the push of a button to monitor the wait in realtime. When a table opens up, push a button and an automated text or phone call (your choice) is sent to the guest. Table’s Ready also tracks metrics like customer volume and average wait times to allow restaurants to more accurately plan their staffing requirements.

FoxyWire and ShipHand— Tightly Integrated E-commerce and Supply Chain/Fulfillment

FoxyWire and ShipHand are the only one stop, plug and play integrations of FoxyCart and BigCommerce (respectively) with Shipwire. Each time a customer places an order on a FoxyCart or BigCommerce store, FoxyWire and ShipHand receive the order, run quality checks to make sure there are no errors, then send the order along to Shipwire for fulfillment. Endorsed by FoxyCart, BigCommerce, and Shipwire, FoxyWire and ShipHand are the only available out-of-the-box integrations between Shipwire and the two shopping carts, and are the last bit of “glue” in an ecosystem that now allows an entrepreneur to set up e-commerce and fulfillment in under two hours.

The Groupvine — Online Collaboration and Finances for College Student Groups

I joined Function Technologies in the Fall of 2006 when I was contacted by Scott Hurff about the possibility of some contract based work. Our discussion quickly evolved though, as we discussed his vision for Groupvine. It was clear that a more permanent partnership would be beneficial to both parties, as many of my ideas for TimeShare (college social calendaring app) could be seamlessly integrated into Groupvine, and benefit from Groupvine’s already extensive features. After three years of development, Groupvine was acquired in 2007.

WhoBook MOBI — BlackBerry-Optimized UI for Highrise

WhoBook MOBI is a mobile interface for 37 Signals’ excellent Highrise CRM web application. It’s built specifically for mobile phones, and provides read-only access to your Highrise contacts. Simply search for their name, and you’ll get back their contact information (with one-click dialing on the phone numbers) as well as any notes you’ve written about them. WhoBook MOBI also has text messaging support, so you can text WhoBook MOBI a name, and receive a text back with contact information.

CollegeGarage.com — Classified Ads for the College Market

College Garage was an online marketplace for students at Wake Forest (eventually expanding to other schools) to trade among themselves, a marketplace where textbooks, TV’s, couches, sports tickets, and more were exchanged freely, student to student, with no middleman. Because we were looking for a classified ads solution and looking to deploy quickly, I looked to the open source package phpBB, with the phpCA classifieds mod. I altered the software to create a custom UI and functionality for College Garage.

Wake Forest University Office of Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts — Web Design

I was hired for the summer by the Office of Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts at Wake Forest University to redesign their website and rewrite their content. It is done using Joomla CMS, and is designed to be “fun” as well as business-like. Primary goals of the design were easy and intuitive navigation, and high maintainability with a minimum knowledge of web design.