Aaron Steven Miller - Portfolio

Companies I've Worked For

Some of them are still around, some are not. These are larger corporations or multimillion dollar startup companies that I helped in some way or another (I have also done work for much smaller clients). Each presented different challenges and approaches to problems. What I've come away with, I think, is flexibility, something that was not exactly in my nature to begin with.

Nextag hired me to redesign their site, including their logo and their user interface, which they wanted to look more like Ebay's. They ended up going with more of a Google look. As well as leaving them with some Google-ish mockups, I suggested some architectural changes to their JSP layer. They were conservative for a dot-com, which may explain why...

Zatso hired me as a Designer/Perl scripter but quickly moved me to engineering when they found out I knew Java and XSLT. As a software engineer, I architected the version 2.0 front-end entirely in XSL and helped debug Servlets on the back-end. The 2.0 release was going to be beautiful, both aesthetically pleasing to the eye and cleanly, sensibly implemented on the servers. But as the launch date for the 2.0 release approached...

Organic was building cutting-edge sites for Playstation and Macy's when they hired me to help. I was the resident Flash-expert as well, advising them on Flash's new XML capabilities. Organic was a good shop but like many others, they were hurt when the demand for web design went south with the rest of the market. Once they had finished with the Playstation and Macy's accounts, my work, and the work of around 800 others, was done.

Driving Media had a vision of a website for auto-enthusiasts that would employ the latest content management and front-end technologies, and hired me to build their flagship product in Perl and Flash. I brought in a team of three other developers to help. Bob Lash, the guy who created WebChat, was heading up the Perl FCGI module development. However...

Wells Fargo not only has a gargantuan website, but a special division that builds web applications for other companies. This is the Wholesale Internet Solutions division, where I was employed until September, 2002. Since then, I've gone back to my consulting company, Superfinedesign.com, where I'm doing independent contracting for places like University of California, Cisco, and League of Women Voters.