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Within this gallery you will see a small selection of examples and information of some of the many projects we have done. We hope you will give us the opportunity to work with you on whatever your needs are as well.

Egypt With Love Series - Digital Media
Produced for Agora Promotions

This small series offered a unique challenge. Not only was it being made for a huge musical entourage, but in making it, we wanted to instill in the pictures some of what people uniquely identify with Egypt and symbolize peace in doing so. Not only that, but because this is not taking place in the United States, we wanted to also express the meaning in the native Arabic language and also link it to Egypt's ancient hieroglyphic language. With our creativity working overtime and many revisions later, we came up with this duo which astounded both our clients and ourselves. These pictures are being placed on many things including backdrops, posters, and t-shirts.

We were asked to create platinum V.I.P. tickets for a tour of Lord of the Dance in Europe/Asia. Because these will be limited edition prints, they are expected to be memorabilia and also become collectors items. While the information on the the ticket is the most important thing to our client, we realized the most important thing to the purchasers would be the memories brought back by the ticket. Knowing this we wanted to make a ticket that helped bring back the raw emotions they experienced in the live performance. We decided there was no better way to accomplish this than to focus on the lord himself. So we knew we had to have the important information on the ticket but in a way that doesn't interfere with the background. We worked around his image to get a perfect integration of the two in very smooth and seamless ticket.

We were asked to create platinum V.I.P. tickets for David Copperfield's 'YOU' Tour in Europe/Asia. Once again these will be limited edition prints, so they will be collectors items. The client was looking for something similar to what we did with the Lord of the Dance tickets. However, to us, the true magic of David Copperfield is best symbolized and portrayed in his eyes and his hand movements. You just can't get that from a full length picture that is zoomed out. After explaining this to the client they agreed, and we went ahead with our vision for this ticket. We took a clipping from his performance in this tour, zoomed in and cropped the picture to his upper body. But he was still too far away to actually get the same feeling you get in person. So we re-sampled the image and zoomed in more to concentrate more on his face. We had to nudge one of his arms into sight a tad more as his hand was getting cut off. We also added some blue mist to help bring back the whole mystery and mystical wonders that the audience experiences during his performance. In the end we came out with this ticket; one that both we and the client were very happy with. We feel it really portrays the True Magic of David Copperfield.

Terminal Server Login Monitor - Application Development
Developed for ExchangeNet

ExchangeNet, the largest ISP in N.E. Ohio at the time, had a major issue they needed a solution to. Their dialup and isdn lines were being abused by certain individuals and it was costing them dial-up ports and hence money. The terminal servers, while preventing people from logging in multiple times to themselves had no way to prevent someone from logging into different servers as well and hence users were able to share accounts with others so long as their friends called in on different phone banks. They wanted a solution to this. To further complicate things, dual channel isdn customers would still need the ability to login to multiple terminal servers where nobody else should be able to. In addition, they wanted to enforce a auto-hang up time of 8 hours on most users but not on their dedicated clients. Also a way to be able to lock out accounts effective for all terminal servers instantaneously was also requested. With their needs clearly identified we went to work on a solution. We created a user management system where they could define which users were dedicated (not to be disconnected) which ones paid for multi-port access (could have more then one connection) and which ones were canceled accounts. We also made an easily configurable system to add terminal servers and their login/administrative information. Our server application, once started, connected to and interacted with all of the various terminal servers querying the user lists connected and compiling abuse lists and not only disconnecting people for abuse but alerting the corporate account manager to the abuses for billing reasons. Overall the application worked great and served its purpose well and efficiently.

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TTC Intranet - Web Design/Graphic Design/Application Development
Developed for Tele-Tech Company, Inc.

This project was as much fun as it was work (we like it that way). Tele-Tech wanted a centralized place to store and share information. Everything from company news to employee manuals to other information. In addition to that they wanted some custom applications to help streamline processes within the company to save time and money for its employees. They wanted this all done in an easy and user friendly way (our specialty). With most of their employees not being very technically inclined they needed it not only easy to use but easy to learn. Our solution was a great one that satisfied all of their needs. We enlisted the help of Merlin the Magician. He interacted with the users with everything from greetings, to helping describe what to do next and how to do it, and all the way down to wishing them happy birthdays on them and telling them jokes at times. He interacted with the users in a friendly way and became their guide to the use of the intranet and hence helped with the learning curve and productivity.

One of the many intranet applications developed for this was a New-Hire system. Whenever a new employee was to come on, it would be entered there including what job they would have and what they would need to do that job (business cards, phone, fax machine, laptop or desktop computer, id badge, what software they needed etc.) The system would then generate e-mails out to all of the different people in charge of the various parts. All of those parts need to come together before the start date so the new hire would have no downtime on the first day, and this provided a way to colaberate on it. The system would be updated as they got each part done allowing the supervisor, of the new hire, to check its status and make sure it all was moving along and was ready for the new employee to come on. 

One of the other intranet applications showcased above is the HelpDesk application. This allowed the end-users(employees) a facility to enter in requests for help, be it a problem with their computer, needing some software installed, or needing technical support etc. They could enter the problem and it would enter it into a database to be directed to and worked on by a technition. The employees and their managers could then go back and check on the status of their help requests. Merlin the magician was also integrated into this application to help people learn to use it. You can see in the pictures above, how he doesn't just give directions but also moves to the various buttons and items people need to fill out or click on and would point giving them additional instructions.

Overall this was a fun project with great results. The real winners with it were the company's employees.

Call Detail Recorder/Reporting - Application Development
Developed for Tele-Tech Company, Inc.

While the above may look simple, its function and value were anything but that. The simple screen you see above is a server service. Not something a user sees but something that runs in the backend on a server. What this service does is integrate into a huge Meridian telephone system and record information about all incoming and outgoing phone calls. It calculated time spent on the calls, who called where, and who received calls and where from. it generated reports to management that showed them employees who were over utilizing the phones for personal calls. Calculated out long distance costs by employees and even helped to track other abuses on the phones. Not only this and the money savings from higher productivity, but it saved them thousands of dollars cause of modems that weren't hanging up and were staying connected long distance and it was able to find and alert the appropriate people to. All around, not the prettiest program, but it wasn't supposed to be. It got down and dirty, it did the job and did it well.

Employee Contact Database - Application Development
Developed for Shawnee

Shawnee's HR department had a need for a way to track all of their employees information from SSNs, address, wages, review dates etc. In addition they also wanted to track information on all the contract jobs they worked on and be able to add notes about that employees performance on them. Likewise they wanted to record all contact they had with those employees via phone etc. Finally they wanted the ability for reports of all kinds from active/inactive employees, to wages, to i9s and the ability to export them with Excel. EMS stepped up to the plate to create this application for them that handles all of this and more in a very user friendly package. It took but a few minutes of training and they were up and ready to dive right in working with it.