Robert Barkow

UndergroundsRecordCafe.com was designed as a fully modern, responsive website for the restaurant Undergrounds Record Cafe on short notice. I used Bootstrap as a base for the website and built it on CSS 3 to handle it. To keep the website consistent with the existing branding done by a third party, I designed it with an accordant look and feel to utilize the color scheme. This allowed for consistency and streamlined viewing by customers. Additional work included search engine optimization and digital marketing, which had to meet the restaurant director's guidelines.

• + Microsoft Windows.
• + HTML5, CSS 3, JavaScript.
• + Graphic design, SEO, and digital marketing.

BrassCityTint.com was designed as a fully modern, responsive website for the company Brass City Tint. I used Bootstrap as a base for the website and built it on CSS 3 to handle it. To make the website unique and preload resources fast, I designed it using scalable vector graphics for the main style and minimal scripts. This allowed for swift loading and streamlined content creation. Additional work included search engine optimization and digital marketing, along with designing logos, business cards, flyers, and brochures that had to meet the company's guidelines.

• + Microsoft Windows.
• + HTML5, CSS 3, Photoshop.
• + Company branding, SEO, and digital marketing.

CTCoralClub.com was designed as a fully modern, responsive website for the aquatic livestock supplier CT Coral Club. I used Bootstrap as a base for the website and built it on CSS 3 to handle it. To keep the website eye-catching, I designed it with a fluorescent gradient on various sections using CSS 3. This allowed for various main sections within the website to mimic the company's major seller, coral that is fluorescent in nature. Additional work included designing logos, flyers, and setting up social media accounts, which had to meet the company's guidelines.

• + Microsoft Windows.
• + HTML5, CSS 3, Photoshop.
• + Company branding, video editing, and social media.

NorthwestHillsExcavation.com was designed as a fully modern, responsive website for the company Northwest Hills Excavation. I used Bootstrap as a base for the website and built it on CSS 3 to handle it. To keep the website consistent and eye-catching, I designed it with modern web practices and a minimalistic design philosophy integrated. This allowed people to view with ease and access the required information they needed swiftly. I worked closely with the company directors to redesign their previous branding for a more modern look and feel. Additional work included designing logos, business cards, advertisements, and setting up social media accounts that had to meet the company's guidelines.

• + Microsoft Windows.
• + HTML5, CSS 3, Photoshop.
• + Company branding, video editing, and social media.

SusanHaasStateRepresentative.com was designed as a fully modern, responsive website for the State Representative candidate Susan Haas on short notice. I used Bootstrap as a base for the website and built it on CSS 3 to handle it. To keep the website minimal but eye-catching at my client's request, I designed it by implementing JavaScript animations. This allowed for various animation effects while loading the website and ease of transition into the website for visitors. Additional work included designing rack cards, which had to meet my client's guidelines.

• + Microsoft Windows.
• + HTML5, JavaScript, Photoshop.
• + Graphic design, SEO, and digital marketing.

RenacerHealthyClub.com was designed as a fully modern, responsive website for the company Renacer Healthy Club. I used Bootstrap as a base for the website and built it on CSS 3 to handle it. To keep the website consistent and fully integrated with their existing branding done by a third party, I designed it with an accordant look and feel. This allowed for streamlined viewing and easy access and ordering by customers. Additional work included designing menus, flyers, and brochures, which had to meet the company's guidelines. I worked closely with the company directors as well to implement a bilingual translation system to translate on the spot for Spanish-speaking customers.

• + Microsoft Windows.
• + HTML5, CSS 3, Photoshop.
• + Graphic design, SEO, and bilingual support.

Holiday Chances was developed to run on any device supporting a web browser for ease of access to parallel live raffles. Development included a home page with an animated layout, an internal portal page, and a self-help document repository, along with extensive analytics and reporting functionality, all of which were exposed internally to the company directors. The website was built on top of a custom CMS solution I developed with extensive functionality to integrate it with existing WordPress plugins. Additional modifications were implemented using JavaScript controls, which communicated with MySQL via PHP.

• + Microsoft Windows.
• + JavaScript, MySQL, PHP.
• + Graphic design, networking security, and CMS development.

AffordableAutoBodyLLC.com was designed as a fully modern, responsive website for the company Affordable Auto Body. I used Bootstrap as a base for the website and built it on CSS 3 to handle it. To keep the website optimized and current, I designed it with modern web development practices in mind. This allowed people to load and access the website with low network bandwidth. I worked closely with the company directors to port previous information from the legacy website and integrate it into the current. Additional work included search engine optimization and digital marketing.

• + Microsoft Windows.
• + HTML5, CSS 3, JavaScript.
• + Graphic design, SEO, and digital marketing.

AbsolutelyMintAD.com was designed as a fully modern, responsive website for the company Absolutely Mint Auto Detailing. I used Bootstrap as a base for the website and built it on CSS 3 to handle it. To keep the website consistent and fully integrated with their existing branding, I designed it with an accordant look and feel. This allowed for streamlined viewing and ordering of services by customers. Additional work included app development, search engine optimization, and digital marketing, along with designing business cards, advertisements, and brochures that had to meet the company's guidelines.

• + Microsoft Windows.
• + HTML5, CSS 3, Photoshop.
• + App development, SEO, and digital marketing.

Ruinic was built to work hand-in-hand with the Ruinic Suite. While the last mentioned is a development environment of tools used to design and develop Ruinic, Ruinic is the engine that actually parses that information and creates the gameplay experience. Ruinic is built in C#, using SFML for graphics and audio and Lidgren for the UDP networking. The game was specifically built using an authoritative server model due to its online nature and the vast amounts of clients that could connect. It takes the knowledge learned from Zathexus and Perfect Dead and expands upon it with modern design and development practices.

• + Microsoft Windows.
• + Sockets, C#, Photoshop.
• + Graphic design, real-time networking, and content development.

The spiritual successor to Perfect Dead and Zathexus, this suite acts as a development environment for the game Ruinic. The application is built in C# using my custom control library for the user interface. Everything is built into a fully dockable front-end, similar to programs like Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. I make extensive use of persistent state, making sure the application remembers everything as you left it to minimize the amount of customization required to build an ideal development environment.

• + Microsoft Windows.
• + C#, .NET, Visual Studio.
• + Control design, interface mockup, and pipeline formulation.

Perfect Dead was an open-world survival online multiplayer game that was developed using the .NET framework. It was built in C#, using SFML for graphics and audio and Lidgren for the UDP networking. The game was specifically built using an authoritative server model due to its online nature and the vast amounts of clients that could connect. Packets were encrypted based on their importance using a custom-built priority system. Perfect Dead was retired due to the massive scope of the project and stability issues with scaling.

• + Microsoft Windows.
• + Sockets, C#, Photoshop.
• + Graphic design, user experience, and content development.

Zathexus.com was designed as a fully integrated website and community for the small online multiplayer game Zathexus. I used MyBB as a base for the forum and built on the Bootstrap framework to handle the website pages. To keep the project consistent and bridged, I created a separate server for the game that ran information past the main server used by the game to relay information to the website. This allowed people to see information relating to their account in real-time. Zathexus.com was later sold to a Chinese gaming company for a repurposed use.

• + Microsoft Windows.
• + HTML5, CSS 3, JavaScript.
• + Graphic design, SEO, and web server bridging.

Zathexus was designed as a small multiplayer online game written in C#. Due to the unique nature of the game, a large amount of the code and graphics were made from scratch. While the bulk of the work was handled by myself, I had a small team that helped out with community management. Zathexus was shut down due to the overarching security flaws it contained, as it first started getting programmed when I was 10 years old.

• + Microsoft Windows.
• + Sockets, C#, Photoshop.
• + Team leading, project ownership, and presentation.