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about

hy-brid.com is the portfolio of Duncan Reid. I am currently located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and am always on the lookout for extra work, so drop me a line if you need some help!


My interests lean toward the technical aspects of the project. Areas such as programming, interactivity, usability and prototyping, but when given the chance I do love to play designer. I enjoy being involved in the various processes that provide the end result and learning new techniques to achieve that result


Over the past 9 years of my career I have grown along with the Flash Platform, I use it every day in one form or another. I dabble in server side technology and external data sources such as PHP and MySQL and frequently use XML, XPath and Remoting with Flash. Since the release of Flash Player 7 I have worked on numerous interactive applications and websites driven primarily by Flash video and have also worked with Flash Communication/Media Server to record and deliver streaming media. There are also those rare, yet needed, occasions where I get the chance to develop compliant XHTML and CSS driven websites.


I am a sucker for old school print/design and am addicted to icons.

work

Ashley Reid : Version 2.0

Type : website

Agency : n/a

A recently updated version my wife Ashley's Art Portfolio. Well overdue for an overhaul, I decided against Flash this time around.

URL : http://www.ashleyreid.net

  • Animation : 0%
  • Design : 100%
  • Development : 100%
  • Concept : 100%

Global College

Type : website

Agency : mind over media

Flash based mini-site which incorporates Flickr and Twitter allowing select students to help market and promote the organization. Using these free services helped lower the overall budget while allowing Global College to keep the content fresh. Server-side scripting was unavailable so we had to use Yahoo Pipes as a proxy for Twitter.

URL : http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/globalcollege/virtualtour/

  • Animation : 0%
  • Design : 0%
  • Development : 100%
  • Concept : 0%

Penn State Basketball

Type : website

Agency : mind over media

Flash based mini-site which focuses primarily on video. The project is database driven and uses AMFPHP to access the data and content. I also was tasked with creating an AIR application in Flex which allows video editors to upload videos, edit current content and set that content as featured elements within a given section.

URL : http://www.gopsb.com

  • Animation : 0%
  • Design : 0%
  • Development : 100%
  • Concept : 0%

ITT - Kiosk

Type : kiosk

Agency : mind over media

Kiosk built using Flash & XML wrapped in Zinc, to be used at conferences on large wide screen displays and for local playback during sales presentations. The application would need to scale from a content and display perspective.

  • Animation : 0%
  • Design : 0%
  • Development : 100%
  • Concept : 0%

NFormd Video Player

Type : application

Agency : mind over media

This was a fun project. I was tasked with creating a Flash based video player on steroids. It had to have the ability to play both hi and lo band videos, call external server side scripts which would update database content showing progress for the user, bookmark videos, show test questions and results provided by the server at specific timecodes within the video, closed captioning, allow for color theming and seamlessly switch streams mid-stream without using a costly solution like Flash Media Server. Having control over the server environment helped immensely and I was tasked with finding a simple and cost effective solution for streaming video. Settling on Lighttpd, we used Amazon S3 to deliver the videos and would switch over to the server running Lighttpd if the user switched streams from lo to hi band mid-stream.

  • Animation : 0%
  • Design : 0%
  • Development : 100%
  • Concept : 0%

Waynesburg Wutube

Type : application

Agency : mind over media

WordPress, YouTube & JQuery. Marketing and promotional website used to show potential students and parents what life is like at Waynesburg University through the eyes of freshman students. 4 students were provided video cameras, Flickr accounts and access to Wordpress. The Wordpress posts were administered by faculty. I was tasked with modifying Wordpress to meet our needs, client-side JavaScript using JQuery and building a Flash video player which would pull videos from YouTube.

URL : http://www.waynesburgwutube.com

  • Animation : 0%
  • Design : 0%
  • Development : 100%
  • Concept : 0%

Alcoa Recycling

Type : kiosk

Agency : mind over media

Flash based Kiosk for use at conferences and tradeshows, display: large flat panel touchscreen. Simple bouncy, fun kiosk built for Alcoa that includes a short quiz helping to inform the user about recycling and information on what they can do to help.

  • Animation : 0%
  • Design : 0%
  • Development : 100%
  • Concept : 0%

Dick's Sporting Goods

Type : intranet

Agency : mind over media

Flash based training application used to motivate and train employees about selling tactics, products and customer interaction. Using Flash video married with animation to engage the user and provide a more robust experience. The user is required to take a test after completing each chapter so their performance can be measured by the manager of the store. I worked closely with the Senior Designer to conceptualize and architect the project while creating wireframes and functional specifications for the team of developers, animators and designers.

  • Animation : 75%
  • Design : 50%
  • Development : 50%
  • Concept : 50%

Akron Canton

Type : website

Agency : mind over media

Flash based mini-site which focuses primarily on video to deliver it's message. This website is geared toward perspective students.

URL : http://www.akronadvantage.com

  • Animation : 0%
  • Design : 100%
  • Development : 100%
  • Concept : 100%

Penn State Admissions

Type : mini-site

Agency : mind over media

Flash based mini-site which focuses primarily on video, using current students to deliver it's message. This website is geared toward perspective students.

URL : http://goahead.psu.edu/admissions.html

  • Animation : 0%
  • Design : 100%
  • Development : 100%
  • Concept : 100%

PNC - Grow Up Great

Type : website

Agency : mind over media

Promotional website for Pittsburgh based PNC Bank. The main focus behind this website is to educate and inform parents while maintaining an appeal towards children who might be viewing the site with their parent(s).

  • Animation : 50%
  • Design : 50%
  • Development : 100%
  • Concept : 50%

Hifade

Type : website

Agency : hifade

Flash based website created for a new media house in Pittsburgh that specializes in 3D-Animation, video and post.

URL : http://www.hifade.com

  • Animation : 0%
  • Design : 100%
  • Development : 100%
  • Concept : 100%

On

Type : website

Agency : hifade

Flash based website for a local Pittsburgh motion media marketing company.

  • Animation : 0%
  • Design : 100%
  • Development : 100%
  • Concept : 100%

PPG Products

Type : mini-site

Agency : mind over media

Homepage animations and product information for PPG facilities in Pittsburgh.

  • Animation : 0%
  • Design : 0%
  • Development : 100%
  • Concept : 0%

University Of Toledo

Type : mini-site

Agency : mind over media

Flash based mini-site which focuses primarily on video, using current students to deliver it's message. This website is geared toward perspective students.

URL : http://experience.utoledo.edu

  • Animation : 0%
  • Design : 0%
  • Development : 100%
  • Concept : 0%

University Of North Carolina Greensboro

Type : website

Agency : mind over media

Website redesign. Created multiple templates which were to be edited and modified by the client using Macromedia Contribute.

URL : http://www.uncg.edu

  • Animation : 0%
  • Design : 25%
  • Development : 100%
  • Concept : 0%

Wayne State University

Type : mini-site

Agency : mind over media

Promotional website/cd-rom used to show alumni and perspective donors plans for up and coming additions to the campus. The cd-rom version has a configuration utility which gives the client the ability to tailor the content for each recipient.

  • Animation : 0%
  • Design : 0%
  • Development : 100%
  • Concept : 0%

Miami University Of Ohio

Type : mini-site

Agency : mind over media

Flash based mini-site which focuses primarily on video to deliver it's message. This website is geared toward perspective students.

URL : http://www.miami.muohio.edu/admission/miami/miami.cfm

  • Animation : 0%
  • Design : 0%
  • Development : 100%
  • Concept : 0%

Slippery Rock University

Type : cd-rom / website

Agency : mind over media

Flash based cd-rom / website which focuses primarily on video to deliver it's message. This piece is geared toward perspective students and their parents and offers a wide range of information for international and US prospects.

  • Animation : 0%
  • Design : 50%
  • Development : 100%
  • Concept : 50%

Temple University

Type : mini-site

Agency : mind over media

Flash based mini-site which focuses primarily on video to deliver it's message. This website is geared toward perspective students and is fully customizeable for the client down to the style sheet. Utilizes Flash Media Server 2.

  • Animation : 0%
  • Design : 0%
  • Development : 100%
  • Concept : 0%

Slippery Rock University : Giving

Type : mini-site

Agency : mind over media

Flash based mini-site which focuses primarily on video, using successful alumni to deliver it's message. This website is geared toward successful alumni who want to "give back" to students in need.

  • Animation : 0%
  • Design : 0%
  • Development : 100%
  • Concept : 0%

Ashley Reid : Version 1.0

Type : website

Agency : n/a

A Flash based portfolio website created for my wife Ashley, a traditional artist, who specializes in Pet Portraits. The website is fully customizeable through an administrative interface for ease of updateability and flexibility.

URL : http://www.ashleyreid.net/V1

  • Animation : 0%
  • Design : 100%
  • Development : 100%
  • Concept : 100%