Special Projects

Here I'll add some images and information about some projects I worked on while at SBD. Aside from working with their webpage, optimization and programming I was part of several other projects that varied in difficulty and proved challenging either because of the time they needed to be completed on or due to some complexity that added to the usually short time frame made them rather difficult. Political promotional material concepts and design: This is one of many projects that required me to work on political campaign graphic design. The challenge here mainly being that I'm a completely apolitical person and it tends to go against my nature to actually help such efforts. My professionalism and my conscience were constantly at odds on these projects because as a professional I like to make quality products that take the message and gets it to the people however as a person I am completely against political campaigns and how they are aimed at manipulating the ideals and...

Space, the final frontier... these are the goals of a great company, to seek out new ways to do your computing, to seek out new ways for our civilization to boldly go wherever they want to go. Or, something like that... Google has been helping users cast out the limitations of computers and porting most of the data and programs to the "cloud". Finding new freedom and new ways to interact while not worrying that the computer will be afflicted by lack of space since the important documents and files will be hosted, accessible and available in any and all devices capable of accessing the internet. Before, they had added the Notebook (now unsupported though I still use it to write my stuff), The Google Docs, along with their whole "Office Like" program set which adds extra capabilities like multiple sharing, turning the documents into web pages directly and multiple "working" on the same document that lets teams work on concepts and projects. They dev...

by Juan C. Peña on Monday, April 11, 2011 at 4:06pm A long time ago I heard a speech that stated that there's nothing impossible just highly improbable. I pondered the meaning of those words in my own field (Art - Education - Computers) One day I found myself watching a cartoon episode of the Jetsons and had the speech still lingering in my head. Shortly after while driving in a ridiculous traffic jam I said to myself... Dude!!! Where's my flying car!!! It became painfully evident that this is 11 years past the year 2000 (which many movies and series depicted as this ultra advanced future) and still no publicly available flying cars. Do we lack the technology for it? ... hmm... possibly... I'm certain we do have enough tech for at least some form of flying car or at least a fully electric one... oh wait there's the Tesla(which is awesome but still pricey) never mind that one. Who cares right we want flying cars... however what does a fl...

By: Juan C. Peña Martínez {This is one of the articles I wrote for the newsletter. It generally talks about the design improvements and tools I added to the online team's websites} Implementing new tools and features helps us reach our goals and provide additional support to our community. New technology is constantly being researched and implemented on our pages. The modifications and fixes we integrate respond directly to the needs and concerns of our community (faculty and students). This additional line of support usually becomes visible when someone has a need and realizes that the tool to solve it is already implemented on the page they visit so often. This topic was created to help identify and showcase these new tools and important changes. Changes in technology are sudden and fast-paced, and our goal is to bring these new technologies to our community, keeping our institution up to date. Support Tools: Compatibility Test: Little known by our community, but one of the...