jkochis

My name is Jesse Kochis, and I put ‘the moves’ on your web site or your clients' (I'm not picky). I believe a good web product is easy to understand, and has solid content—no fluff. I am currently employed as the Director of Development Services at Hunt & Gather in Boston, MA. Previously, I was the Web Systems Architect at The Chronicle of Higher Education (new site on the way) in Washington, DC. Please contact me if you are interested in working with me.

You can follow me on twitter if you like.

Here's my profile on Stack Overflow :

Here is a short list of some of my favorite projects that I've worked on and clients I've worked with:

  1. BBN Technologies This site is awesome. We built a CMS from the ground up that has every feature you could dream of and full control over every layout and the content in every page. Someone up top doesn't like they way you worded an update? Just rollback to a previous revision. Want to show something to just one person before making an edit live? Go ahead, no one else but you and them can see it. Want to upload a bunch of files all at once? Oh, and you want to drag them from a folder on your computer right into the CMS? Go right ahead. It's got it all.
  2. WGBH - SGPTV This site is super fancy, right? Well, fanciness and accessibility don't always go hand in hand. We took care of that too. This site makes use of Flash and Ajax, but if your browser doesn't support those. No problem. Everything still looks and works like the user would expect.
  3. A123 Systems - Hymotion I used the popular Ruby on Rails framework to build this site. It's mighty pretty indeed, but it's also doing serious transactions over a secure connection. Making money hand over fist.
  4. FarmAid - Homegrown
  5. Demandware
  6. Quattro Wireless
  7. VH1 - The Shot
  8. Mariposa
  9. Pewter Report

I also use and occasionally contribute to the best PHP framework in the universe. I even wrote a handy little helper to make it easy to defend email addresses from nefarious spam bots: easy email address encoder, it is easy.

I have friends and colleagues at Debuggable, OmniTI, Project257, Motoole, Paperclipped, and Sean Daly Design. I adore their work and seek every opportunity to work with them on larger projects. Together we are an unstoppable force, email me if you have an idea that could benefit from nuclear powered developers and designers.