Portfolio for Pete Rutkowski
The Hollingsworth LLP website was developed for a large law firm that specializes in class action lawsuits. My role on the project was to take over development after the client had become unhappy with their previous design agency’s progress. I worked closely with a project manager and a designer to revamp and modernize the website, …
Coinstar is a well known international brand with coin collection kiosks found in cities around the world. My role was to supervise with a team of junior developers to revamp Coinstar’s website to match their new branding roll-out. I worked on developing wireframes, the overall structure of the site, as well as back-end code necessary …
Easier With AT is a product of the Connecticut State Department of Education to help Connecticut residents access information related to tools, devices, supports, and services regarding Assistive Technology (AT). Because the site’s intended audience will be students, families and educators working with disabilities, the site’s development needed to pay close attention to being accessible …
The law firm of Gesmer Updegrove is a 50-lawyer intellectual property boutique. I worked with co-developer developer on this WordPress Gutenberg project, leveraging Git to manage our workflow for seamless parallel development. My role for this project was primarily front-end development. I focused on a mobile-first process to ensure that the site would be responsive …
The Institute for Justice needed to update their 10-year-old website built with WordPress classic. They needed to make their site more organized and easy to navigate for a wide range of company departments and special projects. Since the website is the primary tool they use for fundraising, it had numerous stakeholders with sometimes conflicting requirements. …
The Pearce Lewis website was developed for a small boutique law firm that specializes in class action lawsuits. On this project I was the sole developer and worked closely with the project manager and designer to create a cohesive design that would accentuate the firm’s services. I crafted the wireframes and site structure to be …
PennEd Today is resource for families residing in Pennsylvania looking education options that fit their child and enable their child to thrive. Working with a designer and project manager, I handled both the front-end and back-end code for this WordPress website. I consider this website to be a fairly typical website containing a collection of …
Value Ingenuity is a WordPress site I built on the Twig/Timber framework. I was responsible for front-end and back-end development on the site. The site uses custom WordPress templates in conjunction with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) to enable site administrators to maintain content while retaining the site’s design and layout. Technologies Used Include WordPress CMS …
The Center for Individual Rights is a very typical WordPress-based website for a non-profit public interest law firm. The website is coded on the Timber/Twig framework. I was responsible for the back-end development of the project with included setting up custom post types and importation of the former website’s database/content. The website uses Advanced Custom …
I worked on the TrinTech.com web project as part of a small team of three developers. The site was a massive project involving migrating content from a former Drupal-based website to a WordPress-based CMS. Our development team consisted of members in Romania, New York, and myself in Germany at the time. This necessitated clear communication …
Small Army is a design agency based in Boston, Massachusetts that was acquired by FINN Partners in 2017. Working with their in-house print designers I handed creating the back-end and front-end code necessary to take their static Photoshop mock-ups and convert them to responsive web templates. The site is built on WordPress classic and uses …
The Health Management Systems (HMS) website is a WordPress Classic site. I was responsible for the whole site development, both back-end, and front-end as well as client training. Much of the website’s structure uses fixed full-screen background images with responsive content, presenting unique challenges in making the site responsive for a variety of devices. Technologies …
Larkins Vacura Kayser is a small boutique law firm located in Portland, Oregon that was in need of improving its online presence to showcase the firm’s attorneys and services. It is a relatively straightforward website that manages to leverage impactful imagery and header taglines to create a visually beautiful website that feels very engaging. I …
Amylyx is a company that focuses on developing therapies for neurodegenerative disorders. They needed a website as a marketing tool as they were undergoing a second round of funding and they were launching a new therapy clinical trial. This was a brand new website so there was no need for data migration. I worked with …
The Hall Maines Lugrin website was built on the WordPress classic framework. I was the sole developer for this project and was responsible for the front-end and back-end development as well as the data migration from a former Drupal website. The site utilizes Advances Custom Fields and custom post types two create post-to-post relationships amongst …
The Berman Tabacco website was built on the WordPress classic framework. I was the sole developer for this project and was responsible for the front-end and back-end development as well as the data migration from a Drupal website. Working closely with the client I was able to field technical questions quickly and identify potential pitfalls …
Wenderoth is a law firm that wanted to migrate their website from Drupal to the WordPress platform. I was the the developer in charge of scoping the project, wireframing, and development of the code. The website is built on the WordPress classic and involved extensive SQL data manipulation to ensure the former Drupal site’s code …
The Leydig IP Law website was made on the WordPress classic CMS. I handled the front-end as well as the back-end development of the site as well as data migration from the previous website iteration. The homepage designs posed a unique challenge. Not only did the text need to have a rolling effect, the imagery …