Our Work

The Client
Since its establishment in 1865, Cornell University continues to foster a diverse and inclusive community, laying the foundation for a meaningful exploration and exchange of ideas. Through the encouragement of a collaborative culture among students and staff, Cornell has created a home for the development of intercultural skills enacted among diverse campus constituencies, community partners, as well as within the classroom and workplace.

The Challenge
Cornell University wanted to showcase and celebrate its inclusive culture and diverse student groups, while leveraging the schools overarching brand identity and style within a cohesive user platform. While the goal was to put forth this aspect of the university in a memorable and user-friendly fashion, it was also of the utmost importance that the Cornell marketing and administration teams could update content to the new site with ease. However, some concern regarding technical knowledge was brought to light, which could have created a difficult task for the Stauffer team.

The Solution
Known for its easy to maintain platform, it was a no-brainer to utilize Drupal 7 when developing the Cornell University sub-domain webpage. It allowed the Stauffer team to perfectly highlight the University's commitment to inclusion, community and cultural diversity. Additionally, in commitment to our core values and quality of service, we provided the Cornell staff with detailed training videos. These comprehensive, high quality videos are a valuable resource that can be utilized any time the Cornell staff has questions, new employees or delegates administrative functions to other staff members.

The Client
The UCLA Confucius Institute plays a vital role in the study of the Chinese language and culture across our region and in China. Through the connection of existing organizations, developing new initiatives and serving as a link between communities. The UCLA Confucius Institute offers programs designed to prepare top-quality Mandarin language educators with the tools and resources needed for the California K-12 classroom.

The Challenge
When redesigning the UCLA Confucius Institute website, it was essential that the Stauffer team leverage a simple and easy to use back-end framework. In order to equip the UCLA staff access to conveniently update and maintain content in-house.

The Solution
Leveraging Drupal 7, the Stauffer team engineered a powerful and custom designed site for UCLA. Combining flexibility with sophistication, we effectively developed a solid and user-friendly framework for in-house content management.

The Client
USC Career and Protective Services (CAPS), protects and promotes the well-being of the USC community, as well as USC's assets and financial interests. Motivated by providing a safe and secure environment, CAPS allows USC to continue succeeding in performance and management.

The Challenge
The Stauffer team was approached to design and develop a user-friendly webpage for the USC faculty and students. While developing the site, it was essential the navigation be effortless and campus safety and security programs be easily accessible.

The Solution
Utilizing Drupal 7, the Stauffer team employed functionality and engagement throughout the site. In addition to a convenient and easy-to-use Content Management System (CMS) for USC administrators to update content in-house.

The Client
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), is the largest museum west of Chicago and attracts nearly a million unique visitors each year. With an inventory of more than 100,000 works of art, film and concert series to see throughout the year, in addition to an array of selfie worthy exhibits. It is clear why LACMA is a popular destination for residence and tourist alike.

The Challenge
LACMA approached Stauffer to develop a mobile platform compatible with Mobile Web, Android, iPhone and Blackberry Devices. This application would inevitably require administrative access to various parties across the organization. As well as a user friendly interface for visitors to access the over 85,000 works of art, searchable calendar and mobile-optimized map.

The Solution
Designed with visitors in mind, the Stauffer team developed a HTML5 web application “wrapped” within each platform’s application framework for inclusion in respective app stores. As well as configuration of specific permissions allowing unique LACMA users access to update content appropriate to their roles, in addition to a slew of other exciting new features. 

The LACMA app is available for download in the iTunes & Google Play app stores.

The Client
Subsidiary of AMR Corporation, American Airlines (AA) is the world's largest airline provider when measured by fleet size, revenue, scheduled passenger-kilometres flown and number of destinations served. Today, American Airlines together with its regional partners operate an extensive international and domestic network of schedule flights throughout North America, the Caribbean, South America, Europe and Asia/Pacific.

The Challenge
Seeking to create a Spanish language site which would later become aprendi.com, American Airlines goal for this project was to develop a Spanish social network to promote their preferred locations to Spanish language consumers. Thus, presenting a new challenge for the Stauffer team that we could not wait to conquer. 

The Solution
Leveraging Drupal to develop the Spanish language site to help American Airlines better reach Aprendi’s target audience. The team at Stauffer enabled users the ability to share postcards with other visitors (awarding the most popular postcards), and a customizable map to track travel locations. In the end, Stauffer accomplished AA’s goal for a consumer social network where Spanish language consumers could interact, upload photos, enter contests and track travel histories.

The Client
Founded in 1993,Major League Soccer (MLS) is a men's professional soccer league sanctioned by U.S. Soccer that represents the sport's highest level in both the United States and Canada. Today, the athletic club consists of 22 teams divided between the Eastern and Western conferences (19 in the U.S. & 3 in Canada)

The Challenge
Workhabit approached the Stauffer team with a project that would enable Major League Soccer stakeholders to provide fans the ability to view updated statistics for their favorite teams and individual players. Additionally, these statistics would be sortable and integrated within the MLS Drupal website.

The Solution
Building a bridge for communication between the statistical information provider and a Drupal multi-site platform. The Stauffer team used a Zend framework to format the statistics, sending them out through JSON by team, player and position. Additional functionality such as the highest score, best goalie, highest performer and shots blocked were also created to provide fans added conveniences. In addition to a layer of memcaching which improved the sites response time and ability to handle heavy traffic.

The Client
Nestlé, whose origins can be traced as far back as 1866, when the first European condensed milk factory was opened in Cham, Switzerland, by the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company. Was founded by Henri Nestlé, a trained pharmacist who launched one of the world’s first prepared infant cereals ‘Farine lactée’ in Vevey, Switzerland. 

Today, after over 140 years in operation, Nestlé corporate business principles continue to be the basis of the company’s culture. These principles reflects the ideas of fairness, honesty and long-term thinking.

The Challenge
Nestlé realized that with a global customer base, they needed a cohesive web presence to connect their diverse customers to the Nestlé world. It was important to the organization that its identity be consistent across all web portals internationally and that users across all levels of the organization could update each sites with ease. This meant that thee language, culture and business objectives of each location needed to be adequately considered and represented. Additionally, Nestlé wanted to create a content and image library that would be accessible by administrators at each location. Along with solutions to enhance engagement with consumers and food service organizations, through providing an e-commerce platform and access to applicable information.

The Solution
As a component to this project, Stauffer assisted in the design and architect of the enterprise level custom Content Management System (CMS). Participating in the decision to use a web services architecture that would allow all Nestlé sites to be developed and managed under one platform. In addition to conducting business analysis to support this process while helping Nestlé prioritize feature requests; merging regional business objectives with overarching company goals and building an infrastructure to accommodate each language, culture, and unit of measurement for corresponding locations.

The Client
A subsidiary of Fox Entertainment Group, Fox Interactive Media owns and operates FoxSports.com, FoxNews.com, Fox.com, AmericanIdol.com, RottenTomatoes.com and many more.

The Challenge
When approached to design the FOX Interactive Media mobile application, we were presented a challenge of bringing various brands to the mobile landscape simultaneously.  

The Solution
Augmenting Fox Interactive Media's existing mobile division with experienced Stauffer developers and engineers, we created a custom platform to syndicate content to both app and mobile web. In addition to a monitoring system to ensure content is transmitted live in its proper form.    

Today, Stauffer has successfully launched multiple mobile apps and webpages for companies such as AskMen, IGN and Rotten Tomatoes to name a few.

The Client
Founded in 1999, AskMen is a leading men's lifestyle site dedicated to providing style, money, grooming and dating tips. Acquired in 2005 by IGN Entertainment, AskMen continues to reach over 40 million unique visitors from the Middle East, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and United States.

The Challenge
AskMen mobile content editors sought development of a mobile application that would enable them access to the internal Content Management System (CMS), in order to update content in-house. Additionally, this system needed to be easy to navigate and make content editing fast and convenient.

The Solution
The Stauffer team created a mobile format iPhone application that syndicated Askmen content, filing it in an approval queue. Thus, ingesting a feed of content for a moderator to approve and edit prior to publishing to the Askmen mobile site. Enabling a controlled content stream in which a writer would create a draft and pass it on to an Askmen editor for review prior to publishing.

The Client
Founded by Russell Simmons (co-founder of Def Jam Records), Global Grind is a fashion, entertainment, music and lifestyle site dedicated to providing the latest news in Hip-Hop and Pop Culture.

The Project
Thanks to our friends at Workhabit who brought us this project, we successfully launched a Drupal site that continues to engage and inspire a diverse audience of listeners.

The Client 
Owned by Participant Media, Pivot.TV was an American television network that launched into the airwaves on August 1, 2013. Targeted towards Millennial’s, Pivot was designed to provide its unique viewers programming to spark conversation, inspire social change and shine a light on today's pressing issues through engaging content and customizable actions. This diverse slate of entertainment included a mix of original series, acquired programs, films and documentaries. 

An early adopter in the shift of the media landscape, Pivot was available via traditional Pay TV subscription as well as an interactive application which seamlessly integrated options such as Live TV and On Demand streaming.

The Project  
The teams at Stauffer and Participant Media worked together to design and develop the Pivot.TV network website. Utilizing a Drupal CMS, we successfully embodied the energy of the company's mission to provide "entertainment that inspires social change." Thus, developing a user-friendly and interactive site that was built around communication between the network and its viewers.

The Client
Notably produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, Eastbound & Down is an HBO original comedy starring Danny McBride as Kenny Powers. In the series, Kenny Powers is a former professional baseball player who after a whirlwind career in the major leagues, is forced to return to his hometown middle-school in North Carolina as a substitute physical education teacher.

The Challenge
HBO wanted to promote the Eastbound & Down series through a Facebook marketing application designed to provide fans the opportunity to celebrate the holidays "Kenny Powers style."

The Solution
The experienced team of developers at Stauffer flawlessly engineered a dynamic Facebook application which leverages the number of fan page views, likes and interactions.

The Client
Since their launch in 2009 by Cepia LLC, the popular children’s toy ZhuZhu Pets have quickly rose to the top of the market; Expanding into video games, television and film. These fun loving plush robotic hamsters known as ZhuZhu Pets come in a variety of colors to match their unique personalities and sounds.

The Challenge
Cephia LLC needed to launch the Zhuniverse into the Universe in compliance with the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) ahead of the holiday season. However, in order to meet COPA requirements the Stauffer team had to develop a solution which would prevent outside companies from obtaining information from children under the age of 13. This required our brilliant team to create an authentication system for parents or guardians to use when registering on behalf of their children.

The Solution
Utilizing Drupal 7, the Stauffer team connected Flash to a Drupal back-end; Leveraging two LAMP servers, one load balancer and two databases capable of entertaining over four million unique visitors in less than five hours. Our team developed an unparalleled Zhuniverse where children can freely and safely explore, meet the ZhuZhu™ friends, play games, learn new fun ways to play with Zhu pets, keep inventory of their Zhu toys and create a Zhu wish list. This safe and secure environment is engaging, imaginative and creative. 

The Client
Established in 1997, TOKYOPOP has become a Manga trailblazer in the North America market. Producing numerous anime films and television shows, licensing merchandise to consumer goods companies, and publishing over 3,000 books and graphic novels of major brands such as Warcraft, Star Trek, SpongeBob SquarePants and Hannah Montana.

The Project
The Stauffer team leveraged a custom PHP system built around the SMARTY templating system, to house user generated content and Tokyopop Manga. In turn, they enabled the site to comfortably entertain the over 400,000 unique visitors a month.

The Client
First Legal Network (FLN) has been a pioneer in the attorney services market for over 30 years, and today they are independent in their industry to offer comprehensive litigation support services, a suite of investigation products, full-service digital document production solutions and managed records retrieval services. In addition to a cost effective and convenient one stop e(z)Filing service; A virtual avenue which seamlessly files documents at the state and federal level to a number of participating courts and offices across the United States.

The Challenge
FLN receives thousands of time-sensitive documents on a daily basis, all of which must be processed in a secure and confidential manner. Thus, the security and capacity to handle numerous unique visitors at once were vital components the Stauffer team needed to prioritized during the discovery phase.

The Solution
Employing First Connect, a website and order processing portal which allows users to eFile directly with the Orange County Courts and request Court, Process and Messenger orders online instantaneously. The Stauffer team employed advanced technology features to administer the heavy traffic and strict security required for the FLN site such as a custom API module interface, a Legacy ERP system and an application layer of Linux servers. Together, leveraging a Cloud app environment developed using Drupal, First Connect employs the world's largest open-source Content Management System (CMS).

The Client
Founded in 2004 by Jeff Skoll, Participant Media is an industry leading media and entertainment company dedicated to delivering inspirational films that compel social change. With over 75 films, 52 Academy Award® nominations and 11 wins under their belt, it is clear Participant Media has no plans of slowing down anytime soon. 

The Challenge
As competition continues to rise, it is more important now than ever before that companies continue to leverage their unique vision in order to gain an advantage over their competitors. Today, even the best businesses in the world are creating their industries standard through advancing their vision and drive to excel. Thus, when Participant Media wanted to see their vision for an impactful and clean website come to fruition, they sought out none other than the best vision creators; The driven team at Stauffer.

The Solution
Using our studied approach to engineering and design implementation, the Stauffer team advanced Participant Media's goals for strategy, vision and design. Thus, laying the foundation for further expansion of their site, and providing the essential building blocks needed for the future.

The Client
American Media, Inc. owns and operates some of the most renowned magazine titles in Health & Fitness and Pop Culture. Today, their magazines comprise a combined total circulation of more than 2.3 million, reaching nearly 51+ million men and women each month. In addition to their digital properties which reach a total of 36+ million unique visitors and 199+ million page views a month.

The Challenge
Seeking to restructure a number of their premier online properties, the American Media stakeholders and marketing team worked alongside the team's at Stauffer and Workhabit to build Country Weekly, Star Magazine, Muscle & Fitness and Muscle & Fitness Hers.

The Solution
In order to reuse the baser code for each site, the Stauffer team employed Drupal with a multi-site setup. This approach resulted in a exceptional system that provides similar functionality and features throughout, while still customizable for each magazine. Allowing individual brands to showcase their unique identity. 

The Client
Situated within the sprawling streets of Los Angeles, CA, RELM (Previously Melendrez) is home to some of the most remarkable and unrivaled landscape designers in the industry. An architecture and urban design company, RELM has dedicated the past 30 years of practice into a new studio dedicated to urbanism, connectivity and design.

Well awarded, RELM has assisted in the design of some of the most picturesque locales around America. A few of these projects include VDARA (Las Vegas, NV), Staples Center (Los Angeles, CA), Griffith Observatory Historic Renovation (Los Angeles, CA), and USC University Village (Los Angeles, CA) to name a few.

The Challenge
With countless years of success in the industry under their belt, Melendrez was eager to cultivate a dream of something new, something fresh and something different. The challenge, in the midst of the holiday season we had 45 days to rebrand, redesign, sign, seal and deliver. Thus, we got to work!

The Solution
RELM is a vision of perfection and flawless design, it is truly functionality at its best. Leveraged by our five-star Project Management skills, the phenomenal team at Stauffer approached this project with a high degree of tact and diplomacy, placing quality at the forefront. Sequentially, designing an awe-inspiring site that slides beautifully across every page.

The Client
coParenter is a Family Management & Mediation platform that assists separated, divorced and never married parents save time and money by staying out of court. Through coParenter’s calendar and communication tools, coParent's can effectively interact with one another and manage everyday responsibilities. Strategically configured, the application offers real-time messaging that is secure and holds both parties accountable for their communication.

Using the Request Module, coParent's may make changes to their existing parenting agreement, manage disputes among themselves and request confidential communication with a live (and sometimes local) coParenting Professional. These professional's will clarify any legal context, relevant child development context and provide alternative approaches to resolve dispute's in order to help keep you out of court; Saving you time and money.

The Project
Leveraging cutting edge innovations in mobile application development such as React.js and React Native, the Stauffer team engineered a fully-functional and meticulously designed mobile application. Utilizing tools and resources to effectively employ a fluid design that is both secure and user-friendly, we precisely crafted an ambience of aesthetic appreciation.

The coParenter app is available for download in the iTunes & Google Play app stores.

The Client
Founded in 2013 by Leana Greene (CEO), Kids in The House was formed with a mission to provide solutions to parenting challenges ranging from pregnancy to college. This amazing and free resource connects parents and guardians to over 9,000 videos, from over 450 leading parenting experts such as doctors, pediatricians, psychologists, educators, best-selling authors, celebrities and parents themselves. 

The Challenge
After many years of hard work and dedication, Kids in the House has now partnered with with over 450 parenting experts and organizations across the country. As a result, Leana Greene decided it was time to bring her vision to life and equip parents and guardians with the ultimate resource for quick and easy information from leading experts; Delivered in a fun and easy to navigate design.

The Solution
Leveraging features such as responsive design, the Stauffer team developed the site to respond to a visitor's behavior and environment based on screen size, mobile platform and orientation. As well as employed the latest web technologies in order to flawlessly engineer a user-friendly theme and intuitive mobile experience, enabling subscribers to quickly engulf themselves in the vast amount of content available.

Today, Stauffer continues to provide ongoing strategy consulting and performance enhancements as Kids in the House continues to grow and expand.

The Client
The Edible Schoolyard Project (formerly The Chez Panisse Foundation), provides a K-12 curriculum to empower students with the knowledge and values to make food choices that are healthy for them, their communities, and the environment. Through lesson plans that are fully integrated into academic subjects and support Content Standards, Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards.

The Challenge
After years of continued growth and success, the Edible Schoolyard decided it was time to rebrand and reposition the organization, beginning with their website. In this redesign they wanted to showcase their exciting new programs, resources and events, while inspiring educator, family and community involvement.

The Solution
Employing advanced technology features such as Apache Solr Search, Drupal’s organic groups concept, CRM integration, and dynamic mapping. As well as utilizing alternative proxy cache, memcached, and converting to Pressflow to increase speed, traffic and activity, the Stauffer team engineered a masterpiece. Additionally, to ensure the vision for this project was well presented, we partnered with The Groop who created exceptional designs for the site which perfectly represents the organization’s passion and commitment to transforming the health and food values of the children in America.

The Client
Founded in 1997, Project Lead The Way (PLTW) is a nonprofit organization which produces an unrivaled learning environment for K-12 students and teachers across the United States. Through issuing the necessary training, resources, and support teachers need to provide students with real-world learning. Their programs empower students to develop in-demand skills to pursue rewarding careers, solve important challenges, and contribute to global progress. With pathways in computer science, engineering, and biomedical science, students not only learn serviceable technical skills, but also learn to solve problems, think critically and creatively, as well as communicate and collaborate as a team.

The Project
Leveraging our advanced technology skills, the team at Stauffer employed cutting edge innovations in the redesign of Project Lead The Way’s website.

The Client
Founded in 1913, Hillsides is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the overall well-being of at-risk youth and families throughout LA County. Since its inception, Hillside has provided quality care, advocacy and innovative services that promote safe, permanent environments for children and families to thrive and heal from traumatic experiences. Rebuilding trust and restoring hope through their four core programs: Family Resource Centers, Residential Treatment Services, Hillsides Education Center (HEC), and Youth Moving On (YMO).

The Goal
Hillsides approached the Stauffer team to create three sites to cover the depth and breadth of their unique position and innovative services for at-risk youth and families. Turning their dream into technology, we developed Hillsides, Hillsides Education Center (HEC) and Youth Moving On (YMO). Additionally, as donations are essential to the continued support of Hillsides programs, developing an easy to access donation page was key in development. 

The Solution
Leveraging Drupal 7, the Stauffer team approached the projects for Hillsides using advanced Drupal concepts to integrate the three websites into one domain access. Utilizing key elements such as mobile responsive design and a Drupal Domain Access Module to allow administrators to share content and configurations across sites. The Module provides tools for running a group of affiliated sites from one Drupal installation and a single shared database. Additionally, partnered with PayPal the customized donation page is quick and easy to use.