15 Years in Enterprise Web Development + 5 Years as an
Artist +
15 Years as an Architectural Designer = Solid Foundation in Reading Clients Needs
+ Strong Design
Skills +
Solid Graphics Ability + Advanced Technology and Programming Skills.
At first glance you might think it odd that an Architectural Designer ends up
being a web technologist. But it's not that crazy. Architects are trained first
and foremost to be able to listen to clients and discern their needs, which
usually requires a fair amount of "reading between the lines" of what they tell
you. You have to be able to quickly assimilate knowledge about their type
of businesses or personal lives that you may not have much experience with. Then
you process all this information, design some functional spatial relationships,
add in some structure, make it pretty...and hopefully end up with a building
that satisfies the needs of your client. I did all that for fifteen years, and
got pretty good at it.
Moving into web technology fifteen years ago was a willful act undertaken with
excitement to explore what was then a whole new industry with huge
potential...the Internet. Skills learned as an architectural designer readily
transferred to the new medium. You need to listen to clients and figure out
their needs. Websites and web applications are fundamentally not much different
than buildings in that they require good functional spatial relationships
between the various components, programming needs good structure to work well,
and it all has to be pretty. The fact that you create in cyberspace instead of
on raw land and you use code instead of concrete doesn't alter the fact that
fundamentally you are still combining listening skill + design skill +
structure skill + graphic skill to create solutions that satisfy the
needs of your clients.
In 1996 I joined with two partners to form Medseek Inc, and worked as Chief
Technical Architect for more than twelve years to make it one of the largest
providers of web services to the healthcare industry. Today Medseek provides
strategic thinking and advanced web technology to more than 700 healthcare providers in the country. My personal contribution to that effort
included conceptualization and creation of one of the first enterprise grade
Content Management Systems, hundreds of web applications to go along with it,
and helping guide clients through the brave new world known as the "web". Along
the way I've provided web services to a diverse set of clients, including
government entities, corporations, newspapers, community groups, and a variety
of small and large businesses of many different types.
In 2007 I created a new company called
izotz!create with a mission to help businesses do more business
on the web, using new tools that make it faster and more cost effective than
they ever thought possible.
All of this comes together in the strategic web services we provide to those who
need it. Over thirty years experience in design...fifteen of those in high end
web development + solid graphic skills + the ability to understand your needs +
cutting edge web technology = a pretty potent combination when it comes to
coming up with creative web solutions that help people do more on the web.