Portfolio

Here are some examples of the web applications that I’ve developed. At J.W. Hutton we tried to maintain a consistent look and feel which stressed usability, readability, and rapid development over flashiness and the latest HTML and jQuery tricks.

Intranet Site

(PHP, mySQL)

One of the first apps we determined there to be a need for was an intranet site that was a home page for all our users so that we could easily share things with the team and have a consistency in our work. After studying our employees work habits we also noticed that each one kept a seperate list of bookmarks to use while they worked their cases. We though “why not add a page of collective bookmarks so that we can share our knowledge with the entire team?” This was well before google bookmarks and the like. We also needed a way for a nontechnical person to administrate these pages. Thus was born our intranet, which also established the general style of all our future apps, a simple blue and gray color scheme with some splashes of orange in the buttons and hilights.

File Transfer

(PHP, mySQL)

As we dealt directly with insurance companies and worked with patient claim information every day health privacy was a very big priority for us. Some of our smaller clients had little IT staff or the staff they had was unable to help them with meeting their privacy obligation. We decided to take matters into our own hands and develop an easy way for those clients to send us data or correspondence that may contain PHI (personal health information). Our main goal was to make the system easy enough to use that even the most novice internet user could use it and therefore we’d could encourage more users to utilize it. We also wanted the system to be as secure as possible so as well using HTTPS to transmit the data we encrypted the files on the fly for storage on the server.

Case Management

(ASP, MSSQL)

When I first arrived at J.W. Hutton there were a variety of access databases or excel spreadsheets that one or two people had access to that was used to turn claim data that we received from our clients into workable cases. As our clients got bigger this sort of system started to become unworkable. We needed a way to take the business rules that existed in this wide array of tools and in people’s heads and also allowed for continued client growth. Our solution was to create a new system built around an MSSQL database with a front end built in ASP. Stored procedures were utilized to apply our proprietary business rules to the individual claims and create a workable case. Then a team of analysts could work on the cases to further determine which claims actually belonged to the case and also print out claim detail reports to send to clients or attorneys.

Web Reports

(PHP, mySQL)

The main application that J.W. Hutton used, since its inception, for case management and call tracking had very basic reporting tools. Month after month we would get requests for various changes to the paper reports that we sent out, or more prevalent were requests for electronic reports. Our solution was to take a few of the files that this system was able to create in CSV or excel formats on a monthly basis and create a process to push that data into a database. We were then able to create any report the data supported and customize them to each client if need be. As a later addition to the system we created a way batch run all the reports for a specific client and create PDF files for each subclient which we then delivered to our client so that they could distribute the PDFs individually.

Big Barn Harley Davidson

(PHP, mySQL)

As a freelance consultant I helped the design firm Adaptive Easel develop a custom content management system for their client, a local motorcycle dealership. With easy to edit content in various sections including a calendar of events, inventory, and front page blurbs this system is still in use 10 years later.