John Arcadian

A project through one of my full time employments - I developed, coded, designed, and managed the creation of an educational training video game. For this project I had many roles - I storyboarded the narrative flow, developed the code base in an easy to maintain language, helped manage the subject matter experts to provide material for the various exercises, and worked with contractors to develop the 3D models used in the game.

One task I've often been brought into an organization to achieve is to update and modernize an outdated web presence. For many clients and in full-time positions, I've helped revitalize and reorganize older codebases and content structures to be more modern, usable, and secure. Working closely with stakeholders, content-owners, I.T. departments, and customers I have helped breathe new life into older sites. Often this meant creating new functionality, but also helping to train and provide documentation to the site owners. This often takes the form of video tutorials, written documentation and reference sheets, and personalized training to help ensure these revamped sites shine well into the future.

A bespoke interactive map built on a pure js and css framework for the publishing company Kobold Press. Integrates map markers, pathfinding tool, information sidebar, mobile display, and search and filter functionality.

Built on a heavily customized wordpress framework, the develepors of the Bon Jovi Backstage Club brought me onboard to help troubleshoot code problems and fix design issues. I'd worked heavily in custom wordpress and my CSS, PHP, JS, and troubleshooting skills helped correct the small but critical errors occurring. With my contributions the group was able to meet the tight deadlines looming before them.

As a supplemental and last minute idea before a kickstarter I was involved in launched, I built a litely animated video to use as promotional content. Using a mix of stock resources, project art already acquired, and custom built graphics I added some animation to match the script and narrative already written. I've produced more motion graphics since, but usually in support of personal projects and events.

Through a collaboration with their marketing company, I helped the owners of Mutts. and Co build and integrate many custom elements and coding around wordpress, shopify, their point of sale system, online calendars, custom fields for easy updating and manipulation of their content and special customizations for holiday sales and special events. I also created extensive training videos and documentation to help them bring their staff up to speed on the new system quickly.

In support of an upcoming project, Monte Cook Games wanted to build some interest through an artifical reality game event. With a timer, GPS coordinates to real world geocaches, scripts that updated content at triggered times, mysteries and hints dropped into the css and code, and many other features we engaged the many thousands strong community in the months leading up to the launch. We then revealed the next site which contained teasers, promotional material, javascript pledge calculators, and additional content locked behind further cyphers.

Fulfilling large kickstarters when you want to funnel the audience through your already existing ecommerce solution can be a challenge. For Monte Cook Games (a long-term client) I built multiple backend integration solutions and scripts that processed, conformed, and connected data from their kickstarters, backerkit, and other crowdfunding platforms into their existing woocommerce site in order to fulfill rewards there and help remove the pain from fulfillment.

For various clients I've built or modified complex e-commerce sites, often integrating auction capabilities, shipping fulfillment integrations, or helping with the data architecture and design to help businesses present their product in the most effective way. Going beyond the code, I have often helped strategize how best to implement certaion techniques to ensure a satisfied customer base.