Kirk Fryrear's portfolio

Clackamas Community College Website Redesign

Sitefinity CMS / Bootstrap / Angular

In 2016-17, Clackamas Community College website underwent a massive website redesign in order to focus on audience-specific pathways, mobile-responsiveness and an accessible user experience.

The development was primarily done through a vendor, while some remaining aspects of functionality and styling were completed in-house by us. In addition, the content of the website was completely re-done; as a result, the writing and gathering of new content, along with creating new assets, was done completely manually for 300 pages by our web team.

Puppet by Perforce

SCSS / React / Wordpress / ACF

Puppet, a DevOps software company driving IT automation and cloud services, underwent several site redesigns in my time there, allowing for more page-specific designs choices while maintaining consistent branding.

For example, I updated the above "Why Puppet?" page to display high-contrast and minimalist color scheme choices with scroll-interactive web elements, among many other Puppet webpages.

Educational Focus Areas

HTML / CSS / Sitefinity CMS

Educational Focus Areas are part of an initiative to help guide prospective students through the sea of academic programs institutions have, by starting them with a general area of study first.

We made an entirely new page design and widgets to accommodate the eight focus areas, both on the landing page and the specific EFA pages (e.g. Business, Creative Arts, STEM, etc.). The specific pages feature a sidebar of additional content, navigational program thumbnails and a step-by-step application guide.

Metallica Scholars

HTML / CSS / Sitefinity CMS

Metallica's All Within My Hands Foundation grant is an annual initiative to support students pursing career and technical education in "heavy metals", including automotive, manufacturing and welding.

The page includes examples of brand compliance, interactive links to academic program details, wage potential information for each industry and a video spot banner highlighting the different "heavy metals" fields.

Career-Technical Programs

HTML / CSS / Sitefinity CMS

Clackamas Community College boasts a wide array of programs, notably career-technical education, focused on high-demand, hands-on careers. This campaign focused on three particular fields (renewable energy, electronic engineering and industrial maintenance).

Each landing page per program displays interactive show/hide link elements for displaying credit and industry wage information, while complimenting our campus' brand colors.

Richard's Honda

HTML / CSS / Photoshop / PHP

At Hyperdrive Technologies, we created table-based websites with heavy imagery, designed completely in Photoshop, to generate leads for numerous automotive dealerships. Despite this being poor practice in modern web development, it was done then to cater to our target audience of those with poor internet connections, lower monitor resolutions and slower systems. Sadly, my design for Richard's Honda is the only complete website layout that survived from back in 2005.

Slips, Trips and Falls

Premiere Pro / After Effects / Encoder / camerawork

The Human Resources team at Clackamas Community College enlisted us in College Relations and Marketing to create a safety video about the perils of the rainy season. We decided to add in a 1920's "silent movie" aesthetic for humorous effect and to keep viewers interested.

Winner of the NCMPR Medallion Awards 2018 Gold Award for "Video Shorts (single or series)".

Discover Your Superpowers

Premiere Pro / Encoder

A cross-promotional campaign by Clackamas Community College, featuring a 15-second theatrical ad that played before Avengers: Infinity War on opening day at Century Clackamas Town Center. The campaign focused on comparing the college's career technical programs with superpowers, encouraging future students to discover their own strengths and abilities.

KTwo Productions

Premiere Pro / Encoder / camerawork / photography

From 2012-16, my wife Kate and I performed special event videography and photography for a series of weddings, under our business name KTwo Productions. We both shot video footage at the events that I would later edit into typically two videos: a highlights reel for social media and quick viewing, and a longer one to capture more of the special day's events. A few other unofficial videos are also listed on our website, serving as precursor projects to the actual business.

Serving Those Who Served

Premiere Pro / Encoder

A theatrical marketing campaign highlighting the continuously-awarded Veterans' Services Center at Clackamas Community College, where veterans can learn about resources available to them to further their education and enrich their lives.

Zero Squirt Engine 9000+

Premiere Pro

A fan-edit anime music video (AMV) project using the film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, set to the song "Goodbye" by SR-71. The intent was to make a simple "sit-back-and-enjoy-the-ride" action experience.

Winner of the Best Action award at Kumoricon 2008 and the Judge's Pick at SakuraCon 2009.

The Final Fantasy VI Character Project

Premiere / Photoshop

A collaborative anime music video begun in 2002 and completed in 2005. The admittedly-abstract premise involves the cast from the video game Final Fantasy VI being compared to similar anime characters, set to the game characters' musical themes. Friends and fellow video editors volunteered to participate, selecting a character each.

Despite its age, I look back on it as a great demonstration in teamwork and communication, despite many delays and lack of stability at the time. It premiered at Anime Weekend Atlanta 11, alongside other massive multi-editor projects like AMV Hell 3 and Video Game Project 3.