Hyphen Magazine is devoted to interests, culture and issues in the Asian American community. When I came on board, they were frustrated with their CMSs (they were using two) and lack of vibrancy that embodied their print publication.  I helped to move them to a Drupal based site that unified their content management and opened the door for adding many new features to their site to better match their dynamic and popular magazine.

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Services

• User Experience
• XHTML/CSS development
• PHP/ Drupal development
• CMS integration

Gamelan Sekar Jaya (GSJ) is a sixty-member company of musicians and dancers, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in the performing arts of Bali. Founded in 1979, Gamelan Sekar Jaya has performed throughout California, the US, and Bali—in venues ranging from New York’s Symphony Space to remote village squares in Bali. A member of Sekar Jaya, I was asked to lead the development of a new site for the organization that showcased their music, video and members. I worked with volunteers and staff from the organization to develop both the front-facing site powered by Drupal and the members only intranet.

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• Project Management
• Drupal Development
• Members Intranet Deployment

Sometimes we’re our own clients which can have a host of opportunities and pitfalls. Thankfully this one was easy: our wedding website.  Complete with online event RSVP, directions, gift registry and links to get our wedding photos and see the honeymoon photos.  Our site featured a one page layout with a great slider function and all the information necessary to attend our event.

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• Visual Design
• XHTML/CSS Development
• Javascript Development
• User Experience

The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the social empowerment and civil rights of the Asian American Pacific Islander community. A part of the larger organization, JACL Health Benefits Administrators (JACLHBA) offers quality affordable health care plans to it’s members. The primary goal of the redesign was to improve the user experience for JACLHBA’s growing client base, providing information about the organization and their insurance offerings. The redesign also sought to better feature the benefits of choosing JACL over other insurance providers. In addition, we worked to enable the JACL Health staff to maintain and update the web site content independently.

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• Visual Design
• User Experience
• XHTML/CSS development
• PHP/ MySQL development
• CMS integration

OneWebDay seeks to broaden the public’s awareness of Internet and Web issues while deepening a culture of participation in building a Web that works for everyone. OneWebDay was founded by Susan Crawford, cyberlaw scholar, former Board Member of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and current technology policy advisor to President Obama. In 2009 they sought to increase the support they gave to their participanted included was a ‘clearer vision and mission, leadership development and resources for volunteer organizers, a robust and inviting set of collaboration tools, and a more effective public presence.’

As part of KEI Creative, I worked with the new Executive Director Nathan James to create a more compelling website that matched this new direction and effort.Included in this project was integration into a CMS and social network subsite as well as content strategy.

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• Content Strategy
• Visual Design
• User Experience
• XHTML/CSS development
• CMS integration and  theme development

Working with Sean on the new Web site for OneWebDay has been a game changer for our efforts. In just 6 weeks, he transformed our Web presence. We now have a site that balances our need for a professional, well-organized interface with our desire to communicate that our effort is inviting and energetic. In particular, I was very pleased with Sean’s original design elements that help to distinguish us from other organizations. — Nathaniel James, Executive Director OneWebDay, Inc.

The Mitchell Kapor Foundation works to ensure fairness and equity, particularly for low-income communities of color. They support organizations and activism which illuminate and mitigate the conditions and dynamics of inequality. I redesigned mkf.org, to better organize the programs and the new direction the Foundation had taken. Included in the redesign was a online grants application section, making it easier for grantseekers to understand the Foundation’s offerings and apply. The site is also editable by the staff, due to training given after the site was finalized. The Foundation is also one of the only foundations to blog about its grants process and work.

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• visual design
  
• user experience
• XHTML/CSS development
• content strategy
• blog integration
• CMS integration and theme development
  

To all of his creative endeavors, Sean Aquino brings a well-developed design aesthetic, a responsive and painless work process, and very gratifying results! — Cedric Brown, Grants Director, Mitchell Kapor Foundation

Level Playing Field Institute promotes innovative approaches to fairness in higher education and workplaces by removing barriers to full participation. They sought to better integrate their rich media library into their site and more succinctly showcase their programs and efforts.  Other project components included a new site look and feel and optimization of their CMS and content strategy.

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• Visual Design
  
• Flash development
• e-Newsletter design and development
  
• User Experience
  
• XHTML/CSS development
• Content Strategy
• CMS Integration
  

Sean is creative, responsive, deeply knowledgeable, and committed to the best outcomes for his clients. Sean was able to incorporate many diverse ideas and perspectives, translate those into design concepts, and then work with us to refine and implement the details, all while staying on-time. Sean was able to explain the science behind the art — why one color works better with another or how font selections carry various emphases — and incorporate those elements to create an overall feeling and focus for the website. — Sara Ransom-Leedom, Development Director, Level Playing Field Institute

IDEAL, the Initiative for Diversity in Education and Leadership (IDEAL) Scholars is a program that assists exemplary underrepresented students to maximize their educational, service, and career opportunities.  Each summer, IDEAL scholars participate in summer internships to further explore their intended major and get hands on experience.

Services

• Producer
• Editor
• Camera
• Lighting
• Sound
  

PLoS ONE is an interactive open-access journal for the communication of all peer-reviewed scientific and medical research. It features reports of original research from all disciplines within science and medicine. By not excluding papers on the basis of subject area,PLoS ONE facilitates the discovery of the connections between papers whether within or between disciplines. PLoS ONE is published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), a nonprofit organization.  For PLoS, I assisted in the design of their web forms including the login and registration pages as well as the articles’ image gallery interfaces.

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Services

• Web form design
• XHTML/CSS development

The ‘What Works’ conference was the Mitchell Kapor Foundation’s convening of their Project 2008 grantees to promote idea-sharing, networking and movement-building. Each invited organization was part of a series of panel presentations to highlight the accomplishments and challenges of the strategies that increased voter engagement or the integrity of the elections process. I worked on the audio recording of the event and, with photos from the event, created a event highlights reel.

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• Live audio recording
• Video editing