Brian Kiel

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• RandomHours

  The successor to 58hours.  Where 58hours was devoted solely to Radiohead (and coded according to the single-band premise), randomhours is able to handle data for countless bands.  I basically took everything that I’d learned about data-organization

• 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.

• eBay Motors – Motors Mashup Unit

  A dynamic display ad that took data from the eBay Motors API and displayed said data using the Yahoo Maps API.  Geotargeting was used in ad trafficking, allowing the map to initialize at the user’s approximate location. + System architecture + public & private API integration + Flash development

• 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.

• 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 […]

• Avenue Fighter

  Constructed over two days at Adobe Flash Camp 2008. Avenue Fighter is a political-themed Twitter-controlled street fight done up in classic 8-bit Nintendo “Street Fighter” style.

• Honda Civic – Mobile ad

  Created a mobile landing page/microsite ad for Honda Civic with a responsive layout. Allowed one codebase to be served to all handsets regardless of OS. Included use of embedded HTML5 video.

• Breville – brevilleusa.com

  Flash elements created for the showcase and menu navigation areas of the Breville USA website. My very last lines of code and bugs quashed for Avenue A | Razorfish involved integrating the Flash with their existing JSP-based eCommerce system. Link to archived site here. + Flash development + Platform integration

• 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.

• 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/