Blue Cross Blue Shield: Match-A-Heart 
This flash widget was created for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois. The widget currently resides on the BCBS: Illinois Facebook page. It was built as a holiday product to ship just before Valentines Day. The goal of the widget is to educate the user about unhealthy practices and how to get out of an unhealthy situation.
Directions
- Select a heart
- Try to find the matching heart
- Find all of the matching hearts to win the game
Blue Cross Blue Shield: eCards for Health
This widget was done for Blue Cross Blue Sheild. They came to me with the proposition of doing two flash widgets that they could share on their Facebook fan pages. This widget is one of those two and takes content that they have had implemented on another website, then makes that content available to share on social networks.
Directions
- Click on a thumbnail image to preview its eCard.
- Use the share menu to share your selected eCard.
Blue Cross Blue Shield: Food Shooter
This is one of two widgets for Blue Cross Blue Shield. This particular widget tries to help educate users on healthy eating. The user eats the food by popping its container balloon. The amount of calories is based on actual amounts of fat calories in the corresponding food item.
Directions
- Click a balloon to start the game.
- Before the time ends, try to eat as much healthy food as you can.
- Unhealthy food costs more calories, healthy food gives less
- The goal of the game is to get the lowest possible score.
My Indy Race Car Widget 
This flash widget was created to serve as a decentralized, viral application to promote the main Indycar builder application. It was coded in Actionscript 3 and perfectly mimics the main design tool. It allows the user to create and share their designs with friends via the clearspring platform.
Directions
- Click "built it" to launch the external car customizer
- Enter the generated code into the box to generate your car.
USO Patriotic Six Widget
Located on the front page of the patriotic six website (http://www.patrioticsix.com/). This widget is built on top of the clearspring platform. The widget updates facts, about the USA, on a daily basis between May 25th (Memorial Day) and July 4th. The content is generated via RSS feed. It was created as a freelance project with a company located in Chicago.
Directions
- Click the next and previous buttons to read the facts.
- Click one of the buttons to visit the Patriotic Six website
- Click 'Grab It' to share the widget with others or post it on your own website or blog
Animal Internet Widget
This was another freelance widget done for a company out of Chicago. The widget is for a website called Animal Internet that serves as a social network for animals. Some animals post their own opinion 'columns' and 'animatorials'.
Directions
- Click Opinions to view animal opinions
- Click Animatorials to view animal editorials.
- Click the up and down arrows to change animal and select a species to show only that species.
ID Theft Days Microsite 
The ID Theft Days micro-site was built with Flash and Maya. All of the animation was rendered in Maya and exported as an image sequence. The animation is controlled by custom tweening scripts that I created to animate the image sequence from one point to another. This includes backward animation as well as forward.
Directions
- While the image sequence is loading you can find out how much your company may be losing to identity theft.
- Once the sequence is finished, you can click on one of the items on the desk or the drawers to proceed into each section.
Interactive Television Prototype 
This project was done as part of an intensive course on interactive television at Ball State. While another team of computer scientists were building a televised version, I was responsible for building the web version. We collaborated as much as possible, sharing RSS feeds and content managements systems that we built using PHP. A group of News designers provided most of the graphics.
Directions
- Click the video to pause and play the 'live' broadcast.
- Click one of the icons below the screenshots to play a package.
- Click the minimized NLI Live thumbnail to restore the 'live' broadcast.