Brian Kiel

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• Phenomblue – Mr. Manager mobile app

  An internal cross-platform smartphone app for use by Phenomblue employees. Aggregated several internal services and provided a web-service-fed employee directory. Also implemented push notifications.

• Sony Playstation – Jak II: “This is Jak’s World”

  Rich media with an in-ad game promoting the new Jak II Sony Playstation game.

• Republic Project

  Provided Full Stack Development services for Republic Project. Day-to-day technologies used were Flash, HTML5, Javascript, and PHP/MySQL. Republic Project was a startup that was later bought by DG | Mediamind, which later spun off it’s digital ad business under the name Sizmek. At Sizmek, Republic Project’s product was relabeled “Sizmek Social” I continued to support […]

• Morrissey Engineering – Live solar output updates

  Realtime dashboard for Morrissey Engineering which reflects current status of solar panels & external conditions.  Data is retrieved from proprietary solar panel API & cached via PHP & mySQL… and from there, served to the website widget(s) Link to current site: http://www.morrisseyengineering.com/live-solar-output/

• Nike – dynamic display advertising

  Dynamic display advertising campaign created for (the online) Nike Store.  Applied concepts of polymorphism and runtime compositing to create a lightweight shell which pulled in the proper visual and text assets depending on the configuration received from the server.

• Nike – “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”

  An interactive video rich-media ad which follows a woman on her morning run.  As she moves through the seasons, her wardrobe changes and a selection menu is displayed behind her.  At any given moment, the user can select from the product menu, see details about that particular product, and (if they wish) go directly to that product’s page on the Nike Store site.

• Ask.com – AskDeals.com

  A microsite where visitors could record video of themselves (via their computer’s onboard camera) singing along with the AskDeals jingle track and share the resulting video.  The home/landing page of the microsite played an seamless & endless loop of all submitted tracks.

• telegraph.js

  Javascript framework for creating scroll-based, programatic tweens. More information to follow, once it’s formally released.

• Kimera GPS

  Pronounced like “chimera”, and modeled after said word… Kimera GPS (“glyph pack system”) is the codename for a process I created wherein “font-packs” are compiled on-demand by the server and fed to dynamic display ads in the wild.

• AS3 library to interface with Xbox’s Kinect – my new time-suckage

  I have a new source of time-suckage, and its name is the Kinect. Back in December, someone hacked Microsoft’s Kinect.. allowing computers to interface and receive raw data from the full-body motion/gesture sensing device. A week or two ago, in early January, another group created an AS3 solution. The solution consists of a command-line socket […]