Work

Client: California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA) Problem: CalHFA's annual report has to do two jobs at once. It is a financial accountability document for a state agency, and it is the agency's clearest public statement of what it exists to do: finance housing so more Californians have somewhere to live. Those two purposes pull in [...]

Client: San Joaquin County Employees' Retirement Association (SJCERA) Problem: A Comprehensive Annual Financial Report is a legally mandated document that runs hundreds of pages, dense with investment holdings and actuarial valuations, and follows a fixed structure that leaves little room to move. Its audience is genuinely mixed: board members and auditors who need authoritative numbers, [...]

Client: Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety (OEIS) Problem: Power BI makes it easy to build a chart and hard to build an accessible one. Default palettes distinguish series by color alone and fail in grayscale or for a reader with color vision deficiency. Multiple people produced reports at OEIS with no shared standard, so charts [...]

Client: Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety (OEIS) Problem: Utility companies operating in California must submit compliance data to OEIS regularly in a specific format. The prior process relied on manual file handling and email, leaving submitters unsure whether a file had actually passed validation and leaving program staff unable to track submissions or give timely [...]

Client: Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety (OEIS) Problem: Utility companies operating in California must submit compliance data to OEIS regularly in a specific format. The prior process relied on manual file handling and email, leaving submitters unsure whether a file had actually passed validation and leaving program staff unable to track submissions or give timely [...]

Client: California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Problem: Caltrans QuickMap, the state's public tool for real-time traffic and road conditions, was due for a full modernization across web and mobile. The existing website and web application ran on an outdated backend and frontend, the visual design predated the State of California's current web standards, and the [...]

Client: California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Problem: Contractors interested in Caltrans construction work needed a fast way to find current opportunities across California's 12 districts, rather than digging through a static list of all State of California projects.
The portal needed to support two very different search habits—some contractors know their district by name, others think [...]