Years of experience:
8
Example sites:
Madison.com is the website for the Wisconsin State Journal and Capital Times. For 6 years, I directed the operations
for madison.com.
During that time, it achieved the highest audience market penetration of any local media website in the country, according to the Media Audit.
All of the front-end development work was done in PHP.
PumpTubing.com is a guide for the selection and specification of pump tubing used in medical and life science applications.
Example code:
TamedCMS
I have written a complete content management system in PHP, utilizing the Zend Framework. I am using it in the development of two current projects.
You can download the source code for this application
here.
Years of experience:
3
Example sites:
Alice.com is a website for managing the packaged items you might normally purchase at a grocery store. It makes heavy use of jQuery.
The Web Development Project Estimator is a simple tool that allows web designers and site developers to quickly and thoroughly estimate the time and materials required for a proposed web project.
Epistemic games are computer games that can help players learn what it is like to practice certain professions.
This site is maintained by the University of Wisconsin School of Education.
We built a game that teaches you to be an urban planner, based on the Google Maps API. The game make heavy use of AJAX to deliver an interactive experience to the players. JSON is used to deliver latitude and longitude
values from the database to the map for drawing parcels.
Example code:
Google Maps manipulation
Create and edit parcels
here.
Years of experience:
2
Alice.com is a website for managing the packaged items you might normally purchase at a grocery store. The front end was written in Ruby on Rails.
Example code:
You can view the presidential voting record for Wisconsin interactively and update the vote count values.
Download the source code
here.
Years of experience:
1
For the past year, I have been developing my ActionScript skills by creating test applications in the Flex framework.
Example code:
You can view the presidential voting record for Wisconsin interactively and update the vote count values.
Years of experience:
10
Example sites:
Madison.com is the website for the Wisconsin State Journal and Capital Times. For 6 years, I directed the operations
for madison.com.
During that time, it achieved the highest audience market penetration of any local media website in the country, according to the Media Audit.
We wrote three iterative content management systems to feed this site in Java
allow non-profit organizations to create their own websites without programming knowledge. These
sites are tied together so that a visitor can access all of the volunteer opportunites and events for the entire community at once.
I wrote the entire system in Java, based on the Velocity template engine.
Example code:
Design patterns
I have written a collection of applications demonstrating the following design patterns:
- Creational Design Pattern - Singleton
- Structural Design Pattern - Flyweight
- Behavioral Design Pattern - Visitor
- Concurrency Design Pattern - Thread pool
This package also demonstrates usage of the Hibernate model.
Years of experience:
1
For the past year, I have been developing my Objective-C skills by creating test applications in the Cocoa framework.
I am currently working on my first application for deployment -- a data organizer for working with Google Docs offline.
Madison.com is the website for the Wisconsin State Journal and Capital Times. For 6 years, I directed the operations
for madison.com.
During that time, it achieved the highest audience market penetration of any local media website in the country, according to the Media Audit.
All of the front-end development work was done in PHP. The content management systems were built in Java.
Epistemic games are computer games that can help players learn what it is like to practice certain professions.
This site is maintained by the University of Wisconsin School of Education.
We built a game that teaches you to be an urban planner, based on the Google Maps API. The game make heavy use of AJAX to deliver an interactive experience to the players. JSON is used to deliver latitude and longitude
values from the database to the map for drawing parcels.
Alice.com is a website for managing the packaged items you might normally purchase at a grocery store.
I was part of the team that wrote the application in Ruby on Rails and jQuery.
Lee Enterprises is a publisher of local news, information and advertising in primarily midsize markets, with 49 daily newspapers and a joint interest in four others, rapidly growing online sites and more than 300 weekly newspapers and specialty publications in 23 states.
Testimonials:
"Todd is brilliant and also a pleasure to work with. His passion brings projects to life.
I've worked with Todd Lekan over the last few years on a number of complex, ground-breaking projects.
Few online development professionals bring such clear focus on the one thing that matters the most: the site visitor's experience.
Not only is Todd focused on how people use online resources, he also thinks through the product roadmap,
looking two or ten steps down the trail, looking to avoid box canyons and other calamities that arise during agile development work."
--Jeff Herr, Director of Interactive Media, Lee Enterprises, Inc.
"The day Todd Lekan came to work for Capital Newspapers was a good day,
indeed. He brought great talent and energy to our faltering online
business, immensely improving our website and generating enough
revenue to bring us from lagging the industry to leading it.
He also took over our IT operations and cut costs, improved customer
service and got our tech infrastructure up to snuff.
Todd is smart, hard-working, innovative and creative. He was a
terrific colleague and a valuable contributor to our online success.
I recommend him without reservations."
--James Hopson, former Publisher, Wisconsin State Journal and Operating Vice President, Lee Enterprises, Inc.
The Wisconsin State Journal is the second largest daily newspaper in Wisconsin.
Testimonials:
"Todd Lekan worked for me wearing two hats.
He was the manager of our IT department as well as manager of our internet department.
He played a crucial role in developing Madison.com.
He is bright and full of vision.
He has a strong passion for the potential of the internet and how people use the internet.
His technical knowledge is very strong and he thrives on major challenges. His work ethic is second to none."
--Bill Johnston, Publisher, Wisconsin State Journal
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin.
Testimonials:
"[Todd Lekan] does an outstanding job of keeping [his] clients up to speed. [His] willingness to drop everything and work 10 hrs/day through the weekend has elevated [his] status here immensely."
--Epistemic Games Group, UW-Madison School of Education
