One of the most fun projects I have ever been a part of... Braintree activated CP+B and Black & Red to build 2 super-sized arcade machines that were controlled via WebApp. As lead developer and solution architect on the project, I worked with electrical engineers to reverse-engineer the circuitboards in vintage 1970's claw machines. Using a collection of micro-controllers and consumer/maker electronics we fabricated custom encolusres and embedded a captive WiFi access point for user's to interface with the machines themselves. The claw machines were featured as part of Braintree outer-active activations at Collision Conference and Tech Crunch Disrupt. The claw machines now proudly reside in PayPal headquarters in San Francisco and Chicago.

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Crack the Claw Project Showcase by Black & Red
Crack the Claw, Build and Collision Conference by Corey Szopinski

Pinpoint is an adaptive analytics tool for deans and administrators of nursing schools commissioned by Wolter's Kluwer. As project lead, I was intimately involved in all aspects of Pinpoint's management, conceptualization, prototyping and beta development. This product presented many complex usability and technical challenges requiring a unique and robust infrastructure backed by NodeJS, MongoDB, AngularJS, AmazonAWS, and Jenkins.

Our internal team for this project was small, only 5 highly skilled full time equivalents. The client teams however were quite large comprised of about 20 key stakeholders across various business units and executive teams. For more information on this project, please see the slides from my presentation at Refresh Data Visualization for Designers and Developers : Planning and Approach to Effective Data Visualization

Dfuzr was contracted by First Data to produce multiple various interactive infographic pieces to support various marketing efforts around the time of their IPO. These fun projects were fantastic collaborations between marketers, designers and developers. Over various passes, we were able to scaffold these builds such that our designers could ultimately build SVG animations in Adobe Edge requiring minimal effort from developers.

• The 2014 Prepaid Consumer Insights Study
• A Guide to the Financial Habits of Millennials
• EMV Compliance for Merchants
• First Data Salutes Veterans

2015 Interactive Media Awards : Outstanding Achievement

Telespine initially approached me for consulting work and our engagement soon moved to Dfuzr for a complete plaform re-work. We worked with the Telespine product team and management to migrate away from an offshore team while performing a platform audit. The backend was scrapped and rebuilt with Django/Python while the user experience was entirely re-designed and finally implemented with an AngularJS interface. A typical SaSS platform in many ways, there were several complex and unique vendor integrations required including Recurly subscription management, a video solution using Brightcove and 2-way video conferencing with Tokbox.

As interactive producer, I was responsible for gathering client requirements from the 3 primary product stakeholders. An agile project, I crafted all stories and tasks, delegating responsibilities for an internal team of 3-6 depending on the scope of a sprint.

The Insightics team at First Data needed a product tour, but did not want a video - the solution needed to be more interactive and self-paced. For this project, static DOM snapshots were stitched together to create an interactive tour allowing users to "choose their own adventure" drilling into sections of the product while listening to informative voice-overs that called out specific functionalities. In order to maximize value and shelf-life for the project, this almost became a framework - I abstracted all text, audio, images and snapshots into easily editable configuration files.

This feature for the RealMassive was designed to assist commercial real estate brokers keep their various marketing channels up-to-date on changes with their listed properties. Hooking into a Django/Python backened that leveraged Google's Object Change Notification system, the elegant and complex Angular front-end handled all message formatting on the client-side.

For this particular project, I was working closely with the backend team in Austin in addition to the VP of Engineering. In order to expedite this feature, we also established an international tag team where I was handing off daily work to a front-end pair with Salsita in Prague and vice versa.