Current Role
Founder / UX Engineer & Product Developer at Nye-Zik Creative
As the founder and Lead UX Designer/Developer, I oversee all aspects of our creative agency, ensuring each project meets the highest standards of design, functionality, and client satisfaction. Our total project revenue has exceeded $750K, with our Web Maintenance Retainer program contributing 75% of our annual revenue. Nye-Zik Creative is a full-service creative website agency specializing in UX/content-based web design, custom WordPress development, and website maintenance.
See my resume for a complete list of work experience.
Recent Projects & Highlighted Clients
Connected Home Living
Silicon Valley health tech startup company. Their products provide realtime Remote Patient Monitoring to ensure consistent and effective care from the comfort of patients homes. In addition to designing and developing their front-end marketing site, I consulted, designed and built their backend partners’ portal, a secured partners resource area.
Front-End Website: https://connectedhomeliving.com/
Back-End Partners’ Portal: https://connectedhomeliving.com/partners-portal/
Services: Product Development, Consulting, UX/UI Design, Prototyping, Wireframing, Website Development, Copywriting, Content Planning, Accessibility and on going Website Maintenance/Support.
California Department of Social Service
One of the sixteen departments and offices in the California Health and Human Services Agency.
Statewide Post Adoption Resource Site - https://capostadoption.org
Statewide RFA Professional Training Site: http://californiarfa.org
Services: Digital Training Portal, Training Registration, Consulting, UX/UI Design, Wireframing, Website Development, Accessibility and on going Website Maintenance/support with ADA compliance and Accessibility management.
Children's Bureau
An Office of the Administration for Children & Families within the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
California Statewide Survey Site - https://cakinnections.org
Services: Survey Forms, Consulting, UX/UI Design, Wireframing, Website Development, Accessibility and on going Website Maintenance/support with ADA compliance and Accessibility management.
Wayfinder Family Services
Statewide non-profit health and human services organization in California. Highlights from this client include: building their internal content collection form, brand portal, employee admin area for managing their own forms & registration pages.
Main Organization Site: https://www.wayfinderfamily.org
Services: Product Development, UX/UI Design, Wireframing, Prototyping, Website Development, Consulting, Content Planning, Accessibility, Training, Webinars and on going Website Maintenance/Support with ADA compliance and Accessibility management.
Midtown Sacramento Association
Non-Profit association for two Property Business Improvement Districts (PBID) and two Restaurant Business Improvement Districts (BID) in the city of Sacramento, California. In addition to building their main marketing site, we’ve also helped in building their interactive Wayfinding Experiece App, which offers self guided tours throughout the city.
Main Site: https://exploremidtown.org/
Services: Product Development, Consulting, UX/UI Design, Prototyping, Wireframing, Website Development, Accessibility and on going Website Maintenance/Support.
The Humboldt Lodging Alliance
The Humboldt Lodging Alliance (HLA) is a 501(c)(6) California nonprofit representing Humboldt County's lodging industry. It includes eight jurisdictions: Eureka, Arcata, Ferndale, Fortuna, Rio Dell, and three unincorporated areas (County South, County North, and County East). Board members, elected every two years, represent these jurisdictions based on their TBID revenues. A Tourism Business Improvement District (TBID) is a collection of lodging properties that pay an assessment on individual room night stays. The assessment—a nominal fee passed onto the customer—provides funding for destination marketing and development to bring more visitors to the destination.
Main Travel & Tourism Site: https://visithumboldt.com/
Secondary Travel & Tourism Site: https://www.discoversouthernhumboldt.com/
Legal Association Site: https://humboldtlodgingalliance.org/
Services: Consulting, UX/UI Design, Wireframing, Website Development, Training, Accessibility and on going Website Maintenance/Support.
IS Tours
An international travel agency sending thousands of young adults and students around the world annually. We’ve created and maintained a network of brand sites in their corporate portfolio on a WordPress Multi-Site platform. This platform gives the client the ability to easily create new divisions to target new audiences within the travel space. By utilizing this platform and marketing automation tools the client is able to quickly scale and pivot services to meet the demand of their industry while generating leads.
Main Corporate Brand Site: http://www.istours.com
Product Site: https://gradweek.com
Product Site: https://istcampustours.com
Product Site: https://isteducationaltours.com
Product Site: https://istspringbreak.com
Services: Consulting, UX/UI Design, Wireframing, Website Development, Training, Accessibility and on going Website Maintenance/Support.
Viking Industrial Center
Family-owned retail business chain in Minnesota that has been of service to thousands of companies and customers since 1959 selling fastening tools and equipment for construction projects.
Main Website - https://vikingindustrialcenter.com
Services: UX/UI Design, Wireframing, Content Planing, Website Development, Website Maintenance.
Infinitiwireless & Peninsula Engineering Solutions
Infinitiwireless is a full service microwave engineering (cell towers), furnishing and installation company based in Sacramento, California. Peninsula Engineering Solutions, Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer and seller of Microwave RF Repeaters (cell tower anttenas). We built their company site, product site and their RMA (Return merchandise authorization) portal which allows thier customers to returm product for repair. We turned their time consuming labor intensive return process into a mostly automated customer experience.
Main Company Site: https://www.infinitiwireless.com
RMA Portal: https://www.infinitiwireless.com/repair-services/rma-form
Product Site: https://peninsulaengineering.com
Services: Product Development, Consulting, UX/UI Design, Wireframing, Prototyping, Website Development, Training, Accessibility and on going Website Maintenance/Support.