Client: McGraw-Hill Publishing

Industry: Print Publishing, E-Commerce

Services: Design Technology Lead, Front-End Coding, Smarty

McGraw-Hill Professional helps individuals excel in their learning and occupations by providing timely and authoritative knowledge to professionals around the world. They offer digital tools, services, and books through four core publishing programs.

Halestorm helped McGraw-Hill Publishing launch the redesigned version of their E-Commerce website, MHProfessional.com. As a sub-contracted design technology lead, Halestorm converted visual design concepts into well coded XHTML & CSS. All code was then tessted for cross browser compatibility and compliance with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) coding standards.

Client: Motorola

Industry: Technology

Services: Educational Flash Animation

Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) is an American, multinational, Fortune 100, telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. It is a manufacturer of wireless telephone handsets, and also designs and sells wireless network infrastructure equipment such as cellular transmission base stations and signal amplifiers.

Kristian Weis developed a series of game-like corporate policy compliance tests used for Motorola's employees

Client: Unilever

Industry: Food Supplier

Services: Design Technology Lead, Front-End Coding

Shedd's Country Crock is a food brand owned by food giant Unilever. It originally sold spreads, such as margarine, but later extended to side dishes, particularly mashed potatoes and pasta. Unilever is an Anglo-Dutch multinational corporation that owns many of the world's consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products.

Halestorm helped Unilever launch the "Slow Down" marketing campaign for their Shedd's Country Crock product. As a sub-contracted design technology lead, Halestorm converted visual design concepts into well coded XHTML & CSS. All code was then tessted for cross browser compatibility and compliance with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) coding standards.

Client: Moli.com

Industry: Social Network

Services: Design Technology Lead, Front-End Coding

MOLI connects business, store owners and like minded shoppers. Business owners can increase their list of customers, increase their sales and open an easy to use, affordable online store in minutes. Shoppers receive promotional discounts as they shop for their favorite products and services. MOLI's Business Resource Center is filled with valuable business articles, videos and pod casts.

As the design technology lead for Moli's Beta Phase Halestorm converted visual design concepts into well coded XHTML & CSS. All code was then tessted for cross browser compatibility and compliance with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) coding standards. The completion of this Beta Phase enabled Moli.com to raise $29 Million in new funding.

Client: Warner Brothers Records

Industry: Entertainment

Services: Website Development, Marketing, Design

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary of that corporation. It is also colloquially known as 'Warners' or 'the Bunny', based on the Bugs Bunny cartoons produced by the former animation division of the label's parent company, Warner Bros. Pictures.

Halestorm has produced websites and online marketing strategies for a multitude of artists that are distributed by Warner Brothers Records. This includes design, programming, marketing ideas, encoding media clips and online promotion for Warner Brothers recording artists.

Client: Qwest Records

Industry: Entertainment

Services: Web Development & Administration, Online Marketing, Multimedia

Qwest Records is the record label started by Quincy Jones in 1980 as a joint venture with Warner Bros. Records, although Quincy was still under contract with A&M records through 1981. George Benson's 1980 Give Me the Night LP was the first release on Qwest, although this release was shared with Warner Bros. Records, where George was under contract. One of the first artist signed to Qwest was goddaughter Patti Austin, producing Every Home Should Have One in 1981. Although it focused on the R&B market primarily, its most notable signings were Frank Sinatra (who Jones produced in the 1960s), Tevin Campbell, Radiance, and British post-punk groups New Order and Joy Division. The label also ventured into hip hop music during the 1990s. Qwest also discovered R&B artist Tamia who has now been in the business for over 12 years. The gospel group, The Winans signed to the label in 1985.

In 1996, Halestorm Multimedia exclusively created and maintained Quincy Jones' Qwest Website from scratch. Over time we have created over dozens of sub-websites for Quincy Jones' artists. We are proud to still provide web services for our first major client, Quincy Jones and his various companies.

Client: Russell Simmons

Industry: Print Publication

Services: Web Application Development and Administration

Russell Wendell Simmons (born October 4, 1957) is an American entrepreneur, the co-founder, with Rick Rubin, of the pioneering hip-hop label Def Jam, and creator of the clothing fashion lines Phat Farm, Argyleculture, and American Classics. Russell Simmons is the younger brother of Daniel Simmons, Jr., and he is the older brother of Rev. Joseph Simmons, better known as "Run" of Run-DMC, and son of Daniel Simmons, Sr, a public school administrator and Evelyn Simmons, a New York City park administrator. His brother Daniel Simmons, Jr is an accomplished abstract artist.

Halestorm worked closely with Russell Simmons Oneworld Magazine's executives and developed the original Oneworld Magazine website. The website's infrastructire was equipped with a secure e-commerce solution for magazine subscriptions, a content management system with a database back-end, a professional banner ad account manager, web-based e-mailing listing manager and community features.

Client: Jive Records

Industry: Entertainment

Services: Music Production, Songwriting, Audio Mixing

Jive Records is a record label based in New York City, owned by Sony Music Entertainment, and operating under the Zomba Label Group. Jive is primarily known for a string of successes with hip hop and rap artists in the 1980s, and in teen pop and boy bands in the late 1990s. The word "jive" was inspired by Township Jive, a form of South African music and dance. Jive operated as an independently managed label until 2002 when Bertelsmann Music Group acquired the remainder of Zomba for US $2.74 billion, which was at the time the largest-ever acquisition of an independent label with major-label distribution.

Wrote, produced, and mixed "Gotta Get Mine" for Jive Records recording artists Nuttin Nyce. Song appears on UPN Television's syndicated sitcom, "Girlfriends" and still receives airplay throughout the world.