Portfolio

TheIdeaStartup continues to be my largest project to date. The site is pure asp.net/c# with a sql backend and includes custom socket servers for real-time push notifications to visitors. The site also makes extensive use of custom front-end controls and focuses on front-end interaction to enhance the user experience. Unique challenges for this site included developing a financial modeling engine capable of running thousands of calculations concurrently for hundreds of visitors. I built most of what you see on the site, though we brought in developers to help build out the backend and create our excellent design (thanks to Jacqueline Barcamonte for that). I co-founded TheIdeaStartup.com and it’s currently my main focus.

HS Baseball Report is an excellent source for high school baseball prospect information and discussion for the Southwestern US. The application consists of a front-end public site, backend content management system, message boards, and ecommerce functionality. I custom wrote the backend to support the unique lists, team, and scout tip videos that the client needed control over.

Martin Burke is an experienced lawyer working out of offices in my hometown of Vernon-Rockville, CT. He’s been providing quality legal services to our community for almost 40 years and came to me looking for a web presence. This site is a simple, static html site with multiple pages and a colorful, eye-catching design.

RateButler allows limousine and transportation agencies to efficiently share important rate and fleet information with each other via a central location. The site helps companies track and manage affiliate relationships and has built in email alerts to drawn attention to expiring documents, changes to affiliate information and more. The site makes extensive use of AJAX and JSON and includes a lot of custom front end javascript logic. The flash intro movie and page header, as well as the design of the site were integrated from client purchased templates.

Track the Newly Weds is a site I built for my wife and myself as a blog for our world travels after our wedding in July, 2008. The site is powered by Blogspot and I quickly customized an existing theme and was able to get the site up overnight. I designed the logo (bride/groom in as the ‘T’ and ‘R’) and used some flickr widgets to display pictures we took during our travels on the site.

Diamond Compliance is a Sarbanes-Oxley consulting firm out of MA for whom I built a complete web application customized to fit their business requirements and processes. The production version of the application manages the risks and compliance plans behind tens-of-millions of dollars of customer revenue. I worked on Diamond Compliance for almost a year as the application continued to be developed and expanded to support a growing business and customer base.

Bullpen Financial is a consulting firm focused on business process evaluation, internal controls and data solutions out of MA. Their site serves as an informational site and is powered by my Inside Track platform for content management.

Mattchep.net was the precursor to MattChepeleff.com and survived multiple iterations as my design and development skills improved. I created the site while in high school and used it as a development sandbox for years – especially when I didn’t have client work on my plate! This version was created for a course at Northeastern University in 2006 and is written in asp.net. All content was served by XML documents and used XSL transformations to display in the UI.

I developed this site to distribute information for a local relief effort in the wake of Hurricane Katrina started by my friend (now wife) Kristen. The site proved instrumental in getting documents and other information out to volunteers and schools involved in the project. The site was developed in just a few hours.

I began volunteering with Movin’ With the Spirit in high school by helping out managing changes to their informational website. The site included several redesigns over a few years and saw the addition of an shopping cart integrated with Verisign’s PayflowPro, an interactive community spin-off with a socket (push) based Java chat room, and user management system/membership functionality. The application also included a backend content management system that other volunteers used to manage site content.

MWTS Radio was the webpage for an online radio station I help setup. The station streamed audio 24×7 over the web and included live programming on a weekly basis. This site allowed vistor’s to listen in, search for songs in our catalog, queue song requests automatically, explore programming, and see what we’d been playing. The online radio itself ran on Spacial Audio’s SAM Broadcaster which had an Access database I could integrate into the website. It was very cool at the time!

Garages Pages was created as a Garagesale index for (initially) New Jersey. The application was completely custom developed using Classic ASP and a MS Access database and included an administrative backend for managing sales and users. A highlight for this site, which was build my freshman year at Northeastern University, was a geographic zip code search that used geo-location and some math to “search nearby.” It also included “did you mean” spelling correction powered by a custom algorithm I wrote which compared the search term with possibly related terms.