Paramount, MaxPreps Photography Site

  •  Utilized React, Styled Components, HTML, and Next.js technologies to build the following site pages for the MaxPreps photography site: Full Size Photo Gallery Page, Checkout Page, Gallery Photo Card Grid 
  • New photography site pages account for over 200k users and 20MM pageviews a month 
  • Significantly contributed to team KPI to transition 75% of web traffic to the new React site, with new pages accounting for almost 30% of the web traffic to the new React site 
  • Optimized site for ecommerce as well as photographer needs 
  • Offered an additional Fall 2021 internship

    • Andrews McMeel Universal, UExpress Site

  •  Utilized React, HTML, CSS Modules, and Next.js technologies to build the following site pages for UExpress.com: A-Z page, email unsubscribe page, submissions form page, scholarship form page 
  • Updated SEO models across the site and implemented Google Tag Manager events 
  • Collaborated with designers, producers, and business teams across the publishing branch

    • Pomona College Department of Media Studies, Senior Thesis 


    “‘The Spine Collector’: An Interactive Investigation” project transforms a piece of investigative journalism titled “The Spine Collector” from New York Magazine into a work of interactive journalism. The project is a web-based, desktop compatible application coded with React, framer-motion, and SCSS modules. All graphics, assets, and site design are original and were composed with Adobe Illustrator. The site moves the reader through the article's original text in a gamified, animated way. It makes use of text, illustration, animation, and user mouse and keyboard input to transform the media text.

    The points of editorial interaction within the article serve as sites of performance and entertainment, tools of world-building and reader immersion, and sources of engagement and education. They alter the reader’s relationship to the text by giving the reader an active investigative role in the article, requiring reader site navigation, and shifting the reader point of view. The project seeks to comment on the rhetorical power, affordances, and consequences of interactive article formats. 

    This digitally based project was accompanied by a written work on interactive news as an emerging form of media. The project was also presented at the annual Intercollegiate Media Studies day at Pitzer College in May of 2022. A gallery installation of the website also appeared at Pitzer College.



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