Daniel M Burfield
Senior Application Developer
Senior Application Developer
My love for computers started in the 3rd grade. After programming an infinite loop on the Apple IIGS in the LOGO language within the Turtle program, I won a scholarship to computer camp. In 2000, I started Globalsoho.com, an Ebay business. This got me interested in better websites to support my business. In 2003, I started my own freelance web design company, Notion Potion.
I have been building professional websites since 2000. I have corporate, advertising and startup experience. Working at Alcoa there was a structured corporate process. We met 100% corporate compliance after a fiscal audit. At BarkleyREI I learned about the fast pace of a design house. We had quick turnaround of large and beautiful websites. I learned a lot about standards-compliant web design. Working at USA Today, our division had just been purchased by the parent company, Gannett. The company had just undergone an acquisition and I was working with a new development team. We built a great team in the following three years. I learned about a wide array of frontend and backend development. At Ciber Inc., I continued with managed media IT serving corporate clients which include Delmonte, Big Heart Pet, Bayer, and Ascensia Diabetes. In 2018, I went to Brunner and completed a large home inspection app that generates a rating score for real estate. Most recently I created a Help Desk mobile app for PJ Dick - Trumbull connecting their Lotus Notes database to an Angular app.
I created the UI for the eCommerce sales orders portal which linked all product vendors and allowed global customer service agents insight into order status with real time tracking
I created the UI for the eCommerce sales orders portal which linked all product vendors and allowed global customer service agents insight into order status with real time tracking
Adventure STEAM is a virtual coloring book for kids that I wrote in a lot of vanilla JavaScript and jQuery along with various graphics libraries. It was adapted to be easily extensible for rebranding per the client's request.
Virtual Engineer is a design tool to a size and select an automated system and cut out the need for an engineer to walk the customer through the process. I drove the new Software Support role to tackle the large backlog of support bugs. I also created new features for the company divisions and worked closely with the client track software improvements.
E-Ponies is a computer analysis from popular horse racing circuits in North America. I worked with the client to address areas of optimization and fix under-performing, broken sections and features. Consulted on key improvements such as adding SEO, redesigning the site for mobile responsive performance.
Created an Angular Help Desk App which allows employees to fill out Help Desk tickets and communicates with the Lotus Domino Database via JSON-formatted data
Completely reworked the PHP-based corporate website, PJDick.com
Built a user interface which collected over 1000 points of data on a home inspection to calculate a rating score. Designed the visual graphic mockups. Web app built in ASP.NET MVC with a Bootstrap front end fueled by smaller AJAX calls to optimize performance. Completed in an aggressive 6 weeks.
As part of the Del Monte divestiture Big Heart Pet needed a corporate website to post branding and SEC filings. I designed this responsive site using a Bootstrap framework plugged inside .Net.
I translated creative assets into a single page responsive ad campaign. Using many javascript functions the page had parallax features. It talked to a SQL database through AJAX. It was all built in a .Net framework.
Our team was tasked with giving Milkbone a site redesign. The brand was launching a new product in conjunction with this update. I worked directly with Big Heart Pet's creative team, Evolution Bureau, translating PSD layouts to web standards solutions inside a .Net Ektron framework.
Our team was tasked with giving Nature's Recipe a site redesign. The brand was launching a new product in conjunction with this update. I worked directly with Big Heart Pet's creative team, Evolution Bureau, translating PSD layouts to web standards solutions inside a .Net Ektron framework.
Del Monte tasked us with completely redesigning this site top to bottom. It was built in Ektron with a .Net framework. I handled all the frontend coding.
Working closely with our design agency I implemented the full responsive website redesign. The site built mobile-first with many products inside carousels and several layers of navigation to handle the various product categories.
Lots of scripting went into this site including interactive scrolling animation (waypoints) and 3D product scrubbing.
I maintain this site by updating products, navigation items, and javascript functions.
Functioning somewhat as a microsite advertisement for medical professionals only, I translated creative comps to a functioning mobile-ready single page application.
I maintain this site by updating products, navigation items, and javascript functions.
I added scripting to handle complex functions based on a unique URL. Also created a form for free medical bracelets campaign.
In 2013 I did consulting for Grow Sales, Inc. This website is for one of their clients.
I worked with my Grow Sales contact to provide this website with optimized frontend design and some backend work to give their client the website they needed. Grow Sales provided mockups and content. I applied the requirements as requested.
This site is built on a Wordpress framework. It site is also mobile responsive.
In 2013 I did consulting for Grow Sales, Inc. This website is for one of their clients.
I worked with my Grow Sales contact to provide this website with optimized frontend design and some backend work to give their client the website they needed. Grow Sales provided mockups and content. I applied the requirements as requested.
This site is built on a Wordpress framework. It site is also mobile responsive.
In 2013 Asics signed a full year advertising campaign which included two series of voting polls with prizes given to the winners. I designed the full campaign.
Tale of the Tape started in the spring of 2013. The poll asked "Which sport produces the best athletes?". Each week, two sports engaged in a head-to-head debate where testimonials built a case for each sport. The athletes and fans then voted on one or the other. A winner was decided by votes and a sports bracket was published once a week.
There are also sections for Smack Talk and Ultimate Idols Videos and general news articles supporting the campaign.
The final contest was the 2013 Ultimate Athlete. Submissions to nominate your favorite athlete ran for 30 days. I built an entry form that took on all the athlete's data. They were allowed to upload a profile thumbnail, videos, and action photos which would then be used to create a voting profile should that athlete be selected for the voting round. I created a contestants administration page along with individual athlete detail edit page so the admins could update, delete, or approve.
I was asked to rapidly develop an ad contest for USA Today High School Sports. It was for the NFL Gatorade campaign to win an iPad. It was to mirror the NFL's page Everything to Prove Sweepstakes site. I was given mockups by our team graphic designer and action item requirements. I used stock NFL images and videos to recreate a similar experience.
Ken Massey has developed a sports ranking prediction system and USA Today pulls these stats into the site. I was tasked to revamp the results page by combining both the computed rankings and a manually entered weekly rating. To achieve this the content team needed an admin tool that would allow them to quickly duplicate the previous week's rankings to make the minor updates as needed. I wrote a RESTful service from a SQL database to a Coldfusion layer. All this was displayed on a JSP page in our admin section of the site. The results were also fed to the front-facing site to display to the public.
The Schedule Star site needed to have analytics beacons added to the site to track ads, click events and page views. I was tasked to add Google Analytics, Omniture, Comscore, and Chartbeat to the site. I created many jQuery click events which fire off information to these tracking tools. One particularly difficult task was to create a click event over an iframed section. I was able to achieve this through a javascript function.
I updated this site's frontend styles and corrected broken links. I also added new menu items via XSLT from an XML feed.
I assisted with frontend optimization for the homepage HTML over a Flash animation slideshow. I also made various updates to the site post QA review.
I was tasked with making some updates to internal pages. Using XSLT, I created HTML pages from XML.
I added some new sections and more articles as mocked up by the design content team.
I worked with the team Flash developer to create the frontend layout for the homepage HTML over a Flash animation. I made various updates to the site post QA review.
I added new academic programs sections to the site and updated navigation through XSLT.
I was tasked with building this site's complete frontend. I then integrated custom templates into a Hannon Hill Cascade Server CMS. Working closely with our team graphic designer, I made graphics for each aspect of the layout. In order to optimize site performance, I used HTML and CSS where possible. Data was fed to the site by a backend developer at the University of California.
I was tasked with building this site's complete frontend. I then integrated custom templates into a Hannon Hill Cascade Server CMS. Working closely with our team graphic designer, I made graphics for each aspect of the layout. In order to optimize site performance, I used HTML and CSS where possible.
In 2006 I was contacted by the PDHA for a site redesign. The new site needed to be updated with lots of new information. It also needed to have an admin section so the web content manager could make updates as needed. This deduced maintenance costs since this is a non-profit organization. They also needed around 1000 members imported with logins to the private area. I created a members only forum and jobs board. This encourages people to become members. Once a year I also make create a new annual conference sign up and online payment form. This has helped the board speed up the processing of the conference forms.
In 2013 I designed a secondary site to handle event sales under a SSL using Square as a payment gateway. In 2018 I completely redesigned the site for the 4th iteration which included a ticketing system and improved payment gateway as well as mobile optimization and security.
This site is a photographer's portfolio. Upon landing at the site her photos take immediate focus. I've updated and maintained the photos throughout the life of the site. I've also trained the client to use FTP to upload and edit her site as well. She recently started a blog section and maintains an active Facebook group to support online marketing.
This site is built on a Wordpress framework.
I was contacted to help with the launch of the Borough's first community website. Working with city council and another developer, the site provides community and events information. It is now maintained by the Woodland Hills High School IT classes.
I've been working with this client for several years. A Pittsburgh-based record label, Innervenus needed a website that encompassed all the bands they produce and an updated shopping cart. We decided to use PayPal for the cart page. One of the co-creators is a graphic designer so they provided me with excellent mockups to design by.
This client needed a portfolio to showcase her ceramics art. She had many images so I used a product called Slideshow Pro which created a Flash movie slideshow to display her pieces. I've worked with this client making many revisions to the site.
I contracted for Logix Guru for three years when I worked on site at Alcoa. A few years later I was contacted to rebuild their website. Working closely with their head of recruiting, I created mockups and requirements. I built this site from the ground up. One major function of the site is having the jobs listing software integrated into the site. I worked with their contact at MaxHire to pull in their API.
This client needed a well-built SEO optimized site to support a Google Adwords campaign. This site was built with SEO keywords in mind. Within the first month of launch, client reported successful conversion that met and exceeded investment.
I built this Opera portfolio for San Francisco-based Tenor Michael Jankosky.
Jane Freund asked me to donate my time to help her with a beautification project, The Gateway Project, that she had been working on. I created Bryn Mawr Farms, a community site dedicated to the residents of Bryn Mawr, Forest Hills, PA. The site was a forum for communicating current issues in the community, volunteer opportunities, and local projects dedicated to the betterment of the area. Donations were made by local businesses and politicians. I built a Thank You page with tiered donations. The project was a success and all those who contributed got their name in a ceramic tile on the wall.
I created the majority of the sites for Alcoa Australia. I worked one-on-one with contacts in Australia from initial mock-up to final product. Due to the time difference, their work day started as ours ended so our work process was quicker than that of most local initiatives. They would approve or send revisions and we would move forward the following morning.
I created the AlcoaCarriers intranet site. It is template-driven to allow the client to upload custom data via a formatted spreadsheet. The site aids trucking safety by increasing awareness.
Alcoa Nautical provided our team with trade show print material which I then imported into Photoshop and created webpages from.