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Building maintenance tracking application

Bently Holdings is a private asset holdings and management company that oversees property investments, and operates under strict green business practices. The company is always expanding through its focus on buildings of historic value or architectural splendor. Bently’s head of IT and Design, Brady J. Frey, hired me to help them design and build a suite of business process applications. This one is for engineers to manage building projects and maintenance across multiple properties. The graphic designs were produced by Brady based on the prototypes. See below for a screen shot of my prototype. In my time there, we built and rolled out this engineering application, a time clock app, and an HR application for time sheet and payroll management. These applications were built with php/html, css, Django, and are also iPhone compatible.

As is often the case, I filled several roles on the project during its life cycle. My first role was the UX design lead, gathering and writing requirements, conducting user interviews, and producing sketches, documentation, and wireframes. As soon as those were mature and accepted by the client, I moved into prototyping mode, using html/css to generate a series of prototypes to reach a final design. Finally I moved on to the front end engineering work of writing production ready code to Brady’s strict code and graphic design specifications.

The prototype

As you can see, Brady added some much needed polish to the application. Go here to see examples of his fine graphic, marketing, web site and user interface design: bradyjfrey.com/portfolio. You’ll see several new applications have been added to the Bently set, modeled closely after the Engineering and Time Management app structures.