Paul Sackley
PROJECTS
Eddie Bo
Eddie Bo was a legendary piano player from New Orleans, LA. He passed away in March of 2009, after a career of over 50 years. His importance and influence would be difficult to overstate.visit eddiebo.com
advisor.fidelity.com
Advisor.fidelity.com is Fidelity Investments' web site for investment professionals. Along with dozens of other people, I've been working on it for over eight years now.visit advisor.fidelity.com
Dameia Palace Hotel
This is a resort on the island of Santorini, Greece. The site that's up there now isn't the one I worked on.![NOMA [temp]](images/noma-temp_sm.jpg)
New Orleans Museum of Art
[temporary post-Katrina site]
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, I helped the New Orleans Museum of Art with a temporary web site. There wasn't much to it. It had a bit of text and photos showing that the museum was in good shape, temporary contact information for museum staff, and instructions on how to donate money. I wish I could have done more.
Lake Victoria Cichlid Species Survival Plan
In the late 1980's and early 1990's, I helped start a captive breeding program for endangered fishes from Lake Victoria in East Africa. While a graduate student, I volunteered at the New England Aquarium in Boston. I worked on several different projects over the years, but what brought me there was the plight of the haplochromine cichlids of Lake Victoria. Eventually we handed off many of the responsibilities, but in the early days of the program, Les Kaufman and I handled every aspect of it, including several trips to Africa to conduct research and to collect broodstock. Later, I developed a web site with photographs, research results, maps, a copy of the studbook, and so on. In retrospect, it looks dated, obviously, but there was a lot of good content.view a screenshot
Schooner Asset Management
This is the first web site I ever worked on, c. 1996. It was built with Microsoft FrontPage 1.0! In retrospect, I think it was a pretty good site for its time. It was named as one of the top three financial services web sites by financial guru Dean LeBaron in the Journal of the Association of Investment Managers and Researchers (AIMR). It included secure, password-protected financial holdings which were updated daily, streaming video and audio market commentary by management, and an on-line discussion group.
Sanders Corporation
I worked on several intranet sites for Sanders Corporation, a defense contractor in Nashua NH. Not exactly my proudest moment, but I needed the job, and it gave me some good experience working in a corporate environment. I commuted about an hour and a half each way, from Cambridge MA, in a 1968 Fiat convertible, so that made it a bit better.view a screenshot
Sanders Corporation
Another Sanders intranet site. This one was for their "Single-Process Initiative", their attempt to standardize processes. Interestingly, that initiative did not extend to their intranet, as this site was yet another in a series of one-off designs.view a screenshot
How I Got Here
Here are some of the things I've worked on over the years, some at work, some for fun. They are in no particular order. My level of involvement varied from project to project.
I first learned how to make a web site while working at Media@Work, a small start-up started by my friend Craig Homenko. As I recall, the job interview went something like this:
Craig: Come work for me. I can't pay you much, but then again you don't know anything.
Me: Okay, sounds good.
I had just left graduate school and was delivering pizza and playing ultimate frisbee and not much else. This was much more interesting than delivering pizza. It ended up being a great learning experience with a fun, hard-working crew. I left for reasons which are not entirely clear to me any more. I think the root cause was my bitterness at being forced to wear a suit and tie to work.