Discovery Community Church Website

Discovery Community Church was a church plant in Troutdale, Oregon until it closed in March 2005. Before it opened, and while it was running I served as the web designer and developer, having both designed several sites for them and maintaining the site to keep it current.

The Discovery website illustrates my skills with Flash, web design (HTML/CSS), program design and problem solving.

It was a learning experience in web design, and every web project I've done since I have drawn upon the experience gained in it.

Essential Management: Resource Management Tool

Essential Management: Resource Management Tool began life as my senior project for Portland State University. LSI Logic proposed and sponsored our development of a database driven, resource management tool. It was developed between November 2004 and April 2005 by myself (Nathaniel Reinhart), John Glover, Joe Armstrong and Chris Wood.

Various features of the project included it being a multi-user, multi-client system with a central database; a tree relationship structure, as well as non-linear, arbitrary relationships between resources; and an access permissions structure which included various project groups.

After delivering the project to LSI in early April, with their permission we released the source code and documentation as open source. Currently, the team is approaching the first beta release of the software.

SecChat

SecChat is a peer-2-peer instant messenger built on OpenSSL capable of text and file transfer. It was developed primarily in C, with a Perl/Tk GUI for ease of use.

As part of the project our team performed a formal security review of another team's project while they reviewed our project.

SecChat was developed by myself (Nathaniel Reinhart), Dylan Bumbarger and Jesse Ransom Burkett as a term project for Mark Morrissey's Applied Computer Security course, winter 2005 at Portland State University. The course focused on the various applications and uses of computer security theory.

Road Map

Seventh Lab is a out source QA (Quality Assurance) start up, which a friend of mine was working on. During the summer 2001, I wrote a series of CGI scripts in C+ to track the state of bugs in software. A web based interface was picked so that their clients would be able access it online.

In retrospect, I could do this project much, much better now with server side scripting and a database. However it was a good learning experience and a chance to build some non-academic software.