Intelliflix is an online movie rental company. I was offered the opportunity to completely redesign the graphical interface of their movie queue system, and users are now able to rearrange items in their rental queue though an intuitive drag-and-drop mechanism. This DHTML-intensive project was written in PHP and Javascript.

After this project, I was offered the position of Lead Software Developer. At Intelliflix, I created software that linked independent video rental stores together across the country. In doing so, we were able to build a network of inventory hubs that allowed the independent stores to compete online with Netflix and Blockbuster (FTD style).

The application was written in C# and connected to a .NET webservice.

 Intelliflix Website

pdfonline.com is a free online document conversion service. Users upload documents to the server (or email them in) and the service converts them into either PDF or HTML and emails them back to the user. The purpose of the site is to generate interest in the core technologies driving the document conversion process. It showcases two products from BCL Technologies, and demonstrates that they can be implemented in an enterprise-level environment.

We knew that there was definitely a need for such a service, but in the first 2 years of operation, pdfonline only attracted a small number of users. I lead a 3-person team to determine why the site wasn’t more popular, and then to completely renovate the site. Through our efforts, we managed to increase the user base by more than 10x, and we received dozens of emails from our users thanking us for providing the service.

We found that the number one deterrent of pdfonline was that users had to sign up to use the service. We were able to redesign the site so that users could instantly upload documents, view the status of their documents, and view their conversion history..

Finally, we figured out several ways to dramatically increase our search engine rankings. In Google, if you search for the common words, convert pdf, you get 75 million hits. We came up with some clever tricks to get our site listed first.

goBCL.com is written in ASP, and the conversion process uses Magellan and easyPDF Workflow Server.

 pdfonline Website

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