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Trait Tree – Interactive Display

The Trait Tree project is an interactive exhibit that was part of the “Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code” exhibition from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and the National Institutes for Health’s National Human Genome Research that was featured at The Natural History Museum of Utah from May 21, 2016 to September 5, 2016. The traveling exhibit “Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code” explains the genome revolution that’s now underway and how it’s shaping our lives. The Trait Tree project was an extension of the main exhibit to help us answer one simple question of how our genes affect the traits that we all share. Along with the interactive component of the display, an administration panel was put together to allow for administrative staff to manage all guests photos and configure the application with custom text values.
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JSecademy – Web Application

JSecademy approached us with a big vision of changing how modern education is done. The vision was a big one and the team behind the vision was even bigger. The goal was to create a modern application that would allow publishers from all over the world contribute writing, video, source code, and content to the application. Custom roles, custom CLI applications, complex payment rules, user lead follow-ups, self-serving application (delete the account, create an account, and reset an account), expiration codes, trial periods, year memberships, monthly memberships, open chat community and lastly viewing and maintaining 3 different books. This project was a large undertaking, but well worth the time and effort.

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Handy HandBook – Mobile Application

The Handy HandBook mobile application was created to quickly master the new skills used in the real world. Designed from the ground up for just about every learning style, the application encourages learners from all backgrounds with a variation of mnemonics that provide necessary tools to quickly remember each of the topics. Lastly, the users are able to verify if they are learning all the new skills by doing a knowledge assessment test built right into the app. The most exciting part of this app was seeing it attract such a large scale audience with over 58,000+ downloads from the app store.
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Expected Guest Request – Web Application

Guest Services from the Natural History Museum of Utah requested a custom web application that would serve incoming expected guests. Since at any given time the Natural History Museum of Utah could be expecting any number of guests, it’s important to know and be aware who and when someone enters the facility. This application has helped guest staff coordinate with other staff members to serve any expected guests and provide extra details upon arrival for the guests. The application has increased customer service and improved productivity across the entire organization.

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DRY Fire – Mobile Application

Mykle from Tactical And Preparedness Solutions requested that we translate an existing product and help turn it into an interactive application that could be distributed to all of their users using iOS, Android, and the Web. The product was a set of “Dry Fire Training Cards” which required a deep understanding of how the product worked, and how new customers might use the application in the real world.The application successfully launched in the U.S.A and it’s available for download in both the app store and the play store.
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CoolEFitness – Web Application

CoolEFitness reached out to us just in time to get their legacy application back up to date and running. The CEO had worked with multiple contractors in the past and got pretty mixed results, the goal was a simple one. Update the current application and migrate it to a new framework and finish up any new feature request. During this process, we created a detailed system requirements document that included user requirements, system improvements, database schemas, database upgrade, UML diagrams and implemented all of the new suggestions to have a piece of software that was ready to be shipped to all of their new customers. Overall this was a great experience bringing an old project back to life, the end result was a complete application that was ready to be used by all of their customers.
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It has been a pleasure working with Rick on all of our software projects and not to mention all of the maintenance work completed and support with our other contractors as well. I received lots of wonderful feedback and comments from at least a half a dozen of the departments that Rick has worked with, about how great it was to work with him, so again we all hear at NHMU appreciate the significant contributions Rick has made to our Web Eco-System.

- Mark Ingalls IT Manager at NHMU

Creating Software Tools For Educators

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