Boutique e-Business agency • Custom Customer-facing Web application development
Planning, building, and enhancement • Prototyping • Strategic support
Cambridge, MA USA • Offices in Harvard Square and at the Cambridge Innovation Center, Kendall Square
Contact: matthew@mwkrom.com • +1 617 852 5130
Professionalism, excellence
Delivering value: rapid prototyping, focusing on business value and customers, helping to identify the "right" solution, quality results and implementation, small-team agile approach
Design matters—a lot. Including visual design, branding, information layout, and usability
Enjoyment, immersion, interdisciplinary approach
Quality software engineering through test-driven design and develompment, user focus, continuous improvement
Long-term relationships, building value over the long term, quick prototypes and implementation of valuable ideas
In-person collaboration, short iterations
Holistic business-driven approach
Creativity, brainstorming, humor
Customer-facing Web sites and applications that are...
- Of core strategic importance to the business (often, the Web sites are the business' services)
- Highly functional (as opposed to brochure-like)
- Valuable enough to support custom development
- Valuable enough to support continuous improvement and responding to emerging opportunities
- Integral to the long-term value of the business
- And may also be
- Multi-lingual / Worldwide
- For use at the Enterprise level
- Employing complex business rules
- Enabling relationships
- Deepening existing relationships
- Expected to evolve over time
- Severely challenged by IT organization
- Requiring re-architecture and re-design
- Required to integrate with additional systems
RubyFringe
(From those who brought you FutureRuby)
Mediem.com (and BeyondTolerance.org)
Idealogue, Inc—"Conversations that matter" (original rebuild)
STRIKELOG—Create records of your sportfishing experiences.
An Enterprise-level, Fortune 500 public-facing and internal site (original rebuild)
MyKeyport.com—consolidate up to six keys in one universal access device. (Product configurator and customized shopping cart with checkout—original build)
PickupZone—Use a PickupZone local Pickup Point to get your packages when and where you want. (enhancements, strategy planning)
Coming soon: rebuild/redesign of HeatSpring.com, an education company focused on providing clean energy training to building professionals. (original build)
Playgroops—where families connect
Technical advice to Castaway Clothing retailer
Rudd Realty—basic online portfolio
Ruby / Rails / Javascript
Linux / OSX / open-source
User and participant focus
Prototyping / TDD
iOS / iPhone / iPad / Xcode
Matthew Krom • principal
matthew@mwkrom.com
Resumé on LinkedIn •
(contact for fuller resumé)
Douglas Gray • Tide Rise Creative
Boutique advertising, design, and branding agency