Another Dayton Maker Faire is now in the books. Like last year, I was lucky enough to have a faire (GET IT??!?!!) amount of involvement. This event is great, and to be able to support Dayton and see the everyone enjoying their time is really rewarding. MCM Electronics chose to put on a learn-to-code booth…
While at MCM Electronics, I produced two to three emails per week promoting new products, special promotions, and other communications. In 2015, I created several responsive templates that were used moving forward. Frequently, A/B tests were performed on subject lines, message content and send days and times. Emails were sent out from various vendors over…
After agreeing to sponsor the 2016 Dayton Maker Faire, MCM committed to having a large team present to man the Learn to Solder booth, a selling booth, as well as placing entrants in the Boneyard Build Off. I led an initiative to ensure all MCM’s team members had a unified look by designing and screen…
Earlier this week, I was looking around for more ideas to fill out our video set at MCM, and looking for an excuse to mill some more stuff on the CNC router. The Tenma (soldering and test equipment) logo has a neat shape, with some cool cutouts inside the letters. There was some scrap 1/2″…
A bit ago, we started shooting videos at MCM for our “New Product Saturdays” campaign. At the outset, though, our set was a bit…bland. Essentially, we were shooting at a table I built with a cinder block wall backdrop. To add some interest, I thought it would be cool to add some branding in the…
As MCM Electronics went to a new web platform in 2011, I was in charge of implementing a new front-end. All XHTML and CSS was custom written and integrated into the .NET C# back-end. jQuery was used as the javascript library of choice. Since, the website has undergone many front-end changes that I’ve implemented. Nearly…
