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Eric "The Big Cheese" Carmichael

STARTER

$3,000

Get 10 pages of your site wireframed and consulted on by backend engineers

Wireframes hooked together via clickable links

Presentable to clients, customers, etc.

Some light revisions after finalizations if needed (up to about ~5hrs work)

A spec written out by a Technical Architect and engineers, describing the action plan to implement designs specifically

This plan can be taken to any design firm and implemented

Includes an estimate for complete design + creation of the actual product

Includes a Minimum Viable Product

PRO

$10,000

Get all pages of your site wireframed out and consulted on by backend engineers

Wireframes hooked together via clickable links

Presentable to clients, customers, etc.

Some light revisions after finalizations if needed (up to about ~5hrs work)

A spec written out by a Technical Architect and engineers, describing the action plan to implement designs specifically

This plan can be taken to any design firm and implemented

Includes an estimate for complete design + creation of the actual product

Includes a Minimum Viable Product

ENTERPRISE

Get all pages of your site wireframed out and consulted on by backend engineers

Wireframes hooked together via clickable links

Presentable to clients, customers, etc.

Some light revisions after finalizations if needed (up to about ~5hrs work)

A spec written out by a Technical Architect and engineers, describing the action plan to implement designs specifically

This plan can be taken to any design firm and implemented

Includes an estimate for complete design + creation of the actual product

Includes a Minimum Viable Product

Team

Eric Carmichael

Position

Lead Developer

Experience

8 years

Has worked for

Tivix
Caktus Group
University of Paris
Princeton University

Has worked with

Microsoft Research
The United Nations
Google

ckcollab

ericcarmichael.com

Tyler Thomas

Position

Developer

Experience

2.5 years

Has worked with

Codalab
Google

Achievements

2015 Future Business Leaders of America Web App Finalist

Github

tthomas63

Brendan Myers

Position

Junior Developer

Experience

1.5 years

Has worked for

M.G.M. (web animation)
Evergreen United

Github

BrendanMyers88

Wade Lutz

Position

Project Manager and designer

Experience

3 years

Has worked for

Kochava
Playxpert
Say Roar Studios

Jimmy Keith

Position: Junior Developer
Experience: .5 years
Special Skills: Machine Learning; Project Management
Degree: Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Literature from Northwest University
Github: jimmykodes

Recent blog posts

Heroku vs AWS

Heroku.. almost a bad word in many circles. It’s expensive, polished, and restrictive. To me: it’s like the Apple of hosting providers. I can rely on it to “just work” the vast, vast majority of the time.

Bitcoin and disruption

Like many companies, CKC has been infested with at least one of “those guys” who are way into Bitcoin. (looking at you Eric)

In this post: what Bitcoin is and how CKC hopes to make innovative, disruptive, and buzz-wordy applications based on this newfangled digital platform. Eric’s appreciation for Bitcoin was magnified by impactful experiences while doing work for the United Nations.

Optimizing Heroku Django Memory

This week we’re writing about a particularly tech detailed situation we have with a client. The symptoms: architecture that has slowed down and behaving poorly. There are warnings about too much memory usage, requests are timing out after 30 seconds — causing some pages to be completely unresponsive for clients with more than 300 offices.

CKC - Who are we?

We’re a lean, agile, jack-of-all-trades mix of nerds (that happen to be software developers). The team has experience working with Microsoft Research, Google, University of Paris, The United Nations, CERN, etc.