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PickupMVP
Play & reward yourself, your community, & all athletes in any sport.

A web and mobile application to find, create, promote and win rewards from live sports matches. Available in the App Store & Google Play

Built front-end and backend of PickupMVP.com

  • Wrote abstractions for Track Authority Music (TAM) to support Groups within Groups while inheriting publish and privacy settings from parent group
  • Added customized Checkout process to require Release of Liability agreement
  • Extended e-commerce system to allow draft orders and entrance fee payments of upcoming matches
  • Enhanced TAM permissions matrix to allow connecting music playlists from other groups as background music for upcoming match.
  • Built Flutter WebView wrapper to publish as mobile app in App Store and Google Play

Started: 2022-04-01

Launched/Lasted: 2023-04-01

https://pickupmvp.com

Technologies: ReactJS, Material-UI, Drupal 9, mySQL, Apache, Youtube API, Flutter

Industries: Music, Sports, Events

Team: E.A.Taylor: Design, Front-End, Back-End, Business Development

Companies/Brands: TaylorMadeTraffic, Track Authority Music
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Track Authority Music
Rewarding Musical Tastes

Crowdsourced Communal Playlists. Rewarding Musical Tastes.

Built all aspects of ReactJS responsive web app with Redux and Material-UI

  • Built single codebase to compile different applications with unique branding, themes and functionality. For examples, see
  • Wrote abstract form builder to render any layout and set of field components.
  • Wrote Cypress.io Test Suite using TypeScript and NodeJS to generate unique end-to-end tests for each brand, each with 3 device sizes. Also wrote FFMpeg script to crop and repurpose Cypress recordings as HowTo / demo videos.
  • Designed and copywrote entire application, icons and logo, sometimes in California, sometimes abroad

Built all aspects API and CMS from a decoupled Drupal 8 architecture with mySQL

  • API built with PHP around Drupal 9 and Symfony, leveraging the Cache API and dependency injection for services, query factory, and entity normalizers.
  • Built CRUD routing paths dynamically from registered Entities and entity bundles
  • Built end-to-end functional testing suite to test all endpoints over CURL requests
  • Integrated Cloud9 Gateway alongside Commerce Funds to process transactions and keep records of users 'wallet' value
  • Wrote OAuth2 Authentication system to issue short and long term access token from the Password Grant via HTTP and encrypted OTP links
  • Wrote Email Blast tools for Group owners to send OTP links to existing and new users safely and securely.

Started: 2020-01-01

Launched/Lasted: 2021-01-01

https://trackauthoritymusic.com

Technologies: ReactJS, Material-UI, Drupal 8, mySQL, Apache, Youtube API, WebVTT

Industries: Music, Events, Gaming

Team: E.A.Taylor: Design, Front-End, Back-End, Business Development

Companies/Brands: TaylorMadeTraffic, Track Authority Music
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Track Authority - Angular Player

A music/youtube player to help users build playlists around Track Authority challenges
An AngularJS music & YouTube player that helps build playlists against Track Authority challenges by searching YouTube for related titles. This new interface is an entirely separate codebase slowly being integrated with CodeIgnitor / API features

Started: 2016-07-01

Launched/Lasted: 2016-07-20

https://player.trackauthoritymusic.com

Technologies: AngularJS, Node.js, HTML5, CSS3, Less, YouTube API

Industries: Music, Events, Gaming

Team: E.A.Taylor: Design, Front-End, Back-End, Business Development

Companies/Brands: TaylorMadeTraffic, Track Authority Music
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Track Authority - Native Mobile App

A platform for perfecting playlists and parties by awarding musical tastes
  • Built a fluid interface, fully responsive from 320 to 1024+ pixels wide, without a page refresh, with HTML5 and CSS3
  • Scripted all API integrations with JavaScript and PHP.
  • Deployed the mobile application through Cordova and Node.js plugins to quickly configure, compress, and compile mobile applications for Android and iOS.

Started: 2016-01-01

Launched/Lasted: 2016-06-01

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trackauthoritymusic.com

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/track-authority-music/id1148706218

Technologies: Cordova, Phonegap, Node.js, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Facebook Graph API, Google Analytics API

Industries: Music, Events, Gaming

Team: E.A.Taylor: Design, Front-End, Back-End, Business Development

Companies/Brands: TaylorMadeTraffic, Track Authority Music
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Track Authority - CodeIgniter Website / API

An online and mobile game that rewards high-rated users with free music, gift certificates, concert tickets and cash
  • Engineered MVC architecture for dual website / API using CodeIgnitor and HMVC Modular Extensions, to allow complex types of permission combinations across user types, and make all components completely portable across applications, serving either HTML or JSON.
  • Optimized memory usage with several Bash scripts and CRON jobs to crop / resize images, handle email queues, and generate static HTML pages for common anonymous requests.
  • Built CMS for managing user-generated and editorial content, review internal traffic logs, logins, and all emails.
  • Built asynchronous email service to seamlessly convert website templates to tablular HTML documents with inline CSS, and manage queue of emails prepared, sent, failed, and clicked.
  • Built Node.js server to authenticate requests to static mp3 files before streaming via ffluent-ffmpeg
  • Automated performance testing with XHProf and data integrity tests with built in logging tools

Started: 2012-11-01

Launched/Lasted: 2013-01-01

http://trackauthoritymusic.com

Technologies: PHP, CodeIgniter, mySQL, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Bash, Facebook Graph API, Node.js, Express.js

Industries: Music, Events, Gaming

Team: E.A.Taylor: Design, Front-End, Back-End, Business Development. Drew Williams: Business Development

Companies/Brands: TaylorMadeTraffic, Track Authority Music
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Ampp Star
Art, Music, Poetry, & Photography

  • Built React.js application with Keystone.js CMS, MongoDB database and Express server.
  • Connected Express API on Heroku with S3 bucket for user file storage
  • Connected Mailgun and Nodemail services within application and Heroku control panels for automated emails

Started: 2017-09-01

Launched/Lasted: 2018-02-01

http://www.amppstar.com/

Technologies: ReactJS, MongoDB, Node.js, Express.js, KeystoneJS, HTML5, CSS3, Sass, Bootstrap

Industries: Music, Art

Team: E.A.Taylor: Front-End, Back-End. Jahanzaib Aslam: Front-End, Back-End. Garrett Morris: Front-End, Back-End. Bisera Mandic: Owner

Companies/Brands: Ampp Star
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Blingby
Live the Experience

Blingby lets users 'live the experience' of their favorite music videos and movie trailers. Blingby LLC tags top-voted YouTube videos with purchase links so products, hotels, and artists are shown in-sync as the video plays.
  • Configured and hooked Drupal Views to query content internally and from Amazon for album artwork as well as YouTube for matching videos.
  • Rebuilt Drupal templates for a more responsive experience across devices with CSS3
  • Developed google-map interface and query logic to re-order of ad / affiliates' links based on the user's location and affiliates’ geographic settings.
  • Built several administrative tools for configuring home page settings, photo carousels, and reviewing data-integrity from error logs and Drupal’s url_alias table.

Started: 2015-11-01

Launched/Lasted: 2016-04-01

http://blingby.com

Technologies: Drupal 7, PHP, MySQL, CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript, YouTube API, Google Maps API, AJAX, Apache

Industries: Travel, Music, Fashion, Marketing

Team: E.A.Taylor: Front-End, Back-End. Robert Stanicic: Business Development

Companies/Brands: Blingby LLC
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Cultur

Cultur is your Ultimate Event Resource, to get what you need when you want it. Find any activity/event going on around you at any time and any place. See if your friends or people with like interests will be there.
Cultur has a simple jquery mobile interface for navigating events crawled by a Ruby on Rails crawler

Started: 2014-09-01

Launched/Lasted: 2015-02-01

http://www.cultur.io

http://www.cultur.io/app.html

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, mySQL, AJAX, JavaScript, jQuery Mobile, Facebook Graph API, MapBox

Industries: Music, Events

Team: Kaili Miyamoto: Design. E.A.Taylor: Front-End. Rama Mcintosh: Back-End. Caleb Haye: Back-End. Jan Uetz Ayacaba Ondo: Business Development. Jonny Mack: Business Development. Mike Hegazy: Business Development

Companies/Brands: Cultur LLC
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Ankh Marketing

A few very old flash sites and email blasts for friends and the former employer of Ankh

Started: 2004-04-01

Launched/Lasted: 2006-02-01

Technologies: ActionScript 2

Industries: Music, Events

Team: E.A.Taylor: Design, Front-End. Tommy Goodwin: Project Management. Kamel J Bell: Project Management. Thomas Flannery: Project Management

Companies/Brands: Ankh Marketing
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Collectiv LLC

  • The Collectiv was born in the summer of 2001 in Oakland, CA. Our organization was founded by A. Williams, aka Sokrates, with a mission to "empower the Hip Hop community through education and entrepreneurship." We pursue this mission by sponsoring a diverse range of programs with distinct yet cooperative goals. We work with young entrepreneurs, activists and artists to design financially viable programs that will provide new opportunities for empowerment. We seek to create the perfect environment for turning an idea into impact.
  • The Collectiv currently sponsors three programs, Collectiv Records, Collectiv Arts & Entertainment and Collectiv Foundation. Each of these programs occupies a distinct niche within the Hip Hop community.

Started: 2002-11-01

Launched/Lasted: 2004-12-01

http://www.collectiv.com/

http://www.collectiv.com/events.php

Technologies: JavaScript, HTML, Photoshop, Illustrator

Industries: Music, Art, Events

Team: Jamie Williams: Design, Front-End, Back-End. E.A.Taylor: Design, Front-End. Eli Taylor: Project Management. Drew Williams: Project Management. Tommy Goodwin: Project Management

Companies/Brands: Collectiv LLC
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Ambitions

An Annual HBCU Reunion Party for West Coast residents

Started: 2005-09-01

Launched/Lasted: 2006-09-01

Technologies: Illustrator, Photoshop

Industries: Music, Events

Team: E.A.Taylor: Design. Paul Roberson: Business Development. Yellow: Business Development

Companies/Brands: Collectiv LLC

Studio En Vivo

A mobile beat machine to create and share music with friends
The music is shared a runtime using Galaxy's All-Share and Chord Framework. This internal project was never completed but I still have hopes to revive it with the right team. Please reach out if you're interested in working together.

Started: 2013-08-01

Technologies: Native Android SDK, Java, Chord Framework, All-Share Framework

Industries: Music, Gaming

Team: E.A.Taylor: Design, Front-End

Companies/Brands: TaylorMadeTraffic
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The LoveQuest Tour

3 city concert tour featuring the Legendary ?uestLove Live

Started: 2007-09-01

Launched/Lasted: 2008-02-01

Technologies: Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash

Industries: Music, Events

Team: E.A.Taylor: Design. Justin Herman: Animation

Companies/Brands: TaylorMadeTraffic
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Black Fire

Two incredible artists, musicians, and educators that light up stages of multiple mediums

Started: 2007-09-01

Launched/Lasted: 2008-02-01

http://www.blackfirepress.com/

Technologies: Illustrator, Photoshop

Industries: Music, Art

Team: E.A.Taylor: Design. Biko: Artist

Companies/Brands: BlackFire
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Traffic

Raised $7,000 in corporate sponsorships, $10,000 in booth sales, and saved $12,000 through cross promotions with ProXPrint, SF Guardian, KMEL and other online media.

Started: 2003-08-01

Launched/Lasted: 2004-08-01

http://traffic.taylormadetraffic.com/traffic.html

Technologies: Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash

Industries: Music, Art, Events

Team: Dan Wilson: Design. Erik Siador: Design. E.A.Taylor: Producer

Companies/Brands: TaylorMadeTraffic
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Flavor

An campaign pitch to MetroPCS in Southern California

Started: 2007-09-01

Technologies: Illustrator, Photoshop

Industries: Music, Events

Team: E.A.Taylor: Design

Companies/Brands: TaylorMadeTraffic
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Nina Vidal

Started: 2005-01-01

Launched/Lasted: 2005-02-01

Technologies: Photoshop

Industries: Music

Team: E.A.Taylor: Design