MW Krom LLC

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

Values

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

What we do

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
Recent Conference Participation

RubyFringe
(From those who brought you FutureRuby)

BizConf

RailsConf Europe

Recent and Upcoming Work

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

Tools

Ruby / Rails / Javascript

Linux / OSX / open-source

User and participant focus

Prototyping / TDD

iOS / iPhone / iPad / Xcode

Principal

Matthew Krom • principal
matthew@mwkrom.com
Resumé on LinkedIn • (contact for fuller resumé)

Strategic Partners

Douglas Gray • Tide Rise Creative
Boutique advertising, design, and branding agency