Portfolio

Some of the clients and projects New Leaf Digital has worked with:

  • [Client confidentials until launch, mid-April 2012]: User portal for a YouTube marketing firm, built in Node.js and Express. Connects to Google, YouTube, and Facebook APIs.
  • NewLeafDigital Apps in Node.js: Spanish Flashcards and Interactive Lists, built to learn the Node.js/MongoDB stack and to demo production code, and hosted for public use. See the code on GitHub and read the blog post about them.
  • Antiques Near Me: Bringing online local search to the antiques market. Dataset covers the whole U.S. and is built to scale for massive traffic. (Startup business partnership apart from New Leaf Digital, Ben is CTO and lead developer.)
  • MassChallenge: Advising on performance, scalability, and development best-practices for the MA startup competition/incubator. Included load testing and comparison of enterprise Drupal hosting options.
  • Viewpoint Creative: implemented a backend CMS for a design firm to showcase its creative work across multiple media, and to allow the sales team to build targeted portfolios.
  • GlobalPost.com: Implementing a site overhaul and new design (by ViewPoint Creative) for America's only primarily-global news organization.
  • KickinKitchen.TV: Teaching kids about cooking and health. Converted static site to Drupal 7.
  • Education Development Center: Custom Drupal development and integration of the Google Maps API.
  • Jewish Women's Archive: Advising on best practices, security, development processes, and digital repository integration.
  • InnovationNights: consulting for architecture of new Drupal site, allowing MassInnovation to expand across the US.
  • CapitolNewsConnection.org: refactoring a legacy code base with Drupal best practices to enable future redesign and development, and implementing a new design for Ask Your Lawmaker.
  • StudyAbroad101.com: conducted a review of the site's code and data structure to facilitate the development roadmap.


Before New Leaf Digital...

At IDG Enterprise (2009-2010), Ben maintained (on a team of 3) the Drupal infrastructure for enterprise technology publications, including InfoWorld.com, ITWorld.com, ITNews.com, and parts of NetworkWorld.com and CIO.com, and architected a "Drupal Common Platform" to consolidate disparate code bases, implement best practices, and optimize performance.

During a year with EchoDitto (2008-2009), an award-winning internet consulting firm specializing in non-profit organizations, Ben worked on GlobalZero.org, The Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, The Yiddish Book Center, and SeventhGeneration.com.

Ben worked through college for a Boston-based newspaper building a custom CMS/CRM. Prior to that, Ben built static mockups in Javascript for a publicly traded corporation, developed small websites and web apps, and coded games in C++. See Ben's CV for more.