Complete Connections Therapy
Full website overhaul for local therapy business.
Poolin' Around
Website design and development for local pool maintenance business.
Quercus Support resources
Search utility for University of Toronto documentation hub.
GoFloat Studios
Custom website development for local float therapy business.
Anteater Network
Visualize the global distribution of entrepreneurs of University of California, Irvine alumni.
JMMP
Management team for the agile software development pproject, Anteater Network.
Terris
Extensive and tight-knit gaming community focused around Minecraft.
Alien Escape
Basic web game built using lightweight HTML5 libraries and original art assets.
Complete Connections Therapy is a therapeutic services center based in Burlington, Ontario with a focus for holistic wellness.
This website was designed and developed as part of a comprehensive renewal of the company's online presence and identity. Various research initiatives into the best practices from other therapy centers and similar businesses helped guide the vision and inform this major milestone.
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Poolin' Around is a residential swimming pool maintenance service based in Burlington, Ontario.
Without a prior online presence, this website was created and customized from the ground up based on the business's existing brand identity guidelines.
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Quercus Support Resources is a documentation and support hub for the University of Toronto's learning management system, Canvas. The hub contained an extensive library of user guides and support materials with limited navigability and discoverability.
The search tool index all pages within the hub and provided an efficient and fast method for users to find what they are looking for, without the need for a hosted back end.
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GoFloat Studios is the leading float therapy and wellness center based in Burlington, Ontario, with the vision to bring the sensory deprivation technique and improve the mental, physical, and spiritual wellness to as many people as possible.
The website was developed and implemented based on custom design specifications provided by a third-party vendor with completely original assets.
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The Anteater Network is a dynamic and extensible website that connects alumni entrepeneurs of the University of California, Irvine to past, present, and future students and faculty.
By displaying these businesses on a map with a variety of filters, the Anteater Network offers a highly effective, convenient, and visual representation of the spread of UCI's alumni network.
The system was created for the UCI Alumni Association as a senior design project of my undergraduate informatics program.
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JMMP is a student organization that was formed for the year long senior capstone project at the University of California, Irvine. Our goal was to develop the Anteater Network, an innovative web app in collaboration with our sponsors, the UCI Alumni Association.
JMMP operated under agile software development methodologies for one year, with iterative bi-weekly cycles of planning, analysis, design, development, testing, and presentations.
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Terris is a gaming community that was was founded in December 2011. The community largely centered around Minecraft, but steadily expanding to other popular games including Terraria and Team Fortress 2.
Formed from the merging of two smaller Minecraft communities, Terris enabled me to drastically expand our reach and infrastructure.
I actively created, managed, and directed new projects and contests for the community, including the development of custom game plugins. I also maintained all aspects of the administration including the weekly staff meetings, finances, social media presence, graphical identity, technical support, and in game operations.
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Alien Escape is a short, turn based, adventure video game developed over the course of 7 weeks. It features all original artwork, sound assets, line of sight algorithms, and AI logic.
The project involved creating prototypes, presentations, and documentation in addition to the game itself.
The player takes the role of an alien who has been captured and placed in quarantine. The alien must find an engine piece on each level to unlock the teleporter to the next level without running out of turns, all while playing under a fog of war and avoiding various enemies and traps.
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Hello there! My name is Melvin Chien.
I have extensive experience in project management, business and process analysis, user experience design, and customer success. My vision is to improve user experience to allow for clearer, quicker, and more effective universal access.
I am currently spending my days as a product manager at the University of Toronto. In my free time, I enjoy hiking, playing video and board games, cooking, and gardening.