Civic & Urban Planning
LaXing
Make the case for grade-separating LA’s light rail — 223 street crossings — vivid enough to move voters, agencies, and funders.
Full case study →Selected Work
Projects
Six case studies, then the archive: fifteen years of maps, apps and platforms, one line each.
Case studies
Development & Spatial Design
Nesso Plaza
An indoor-outdoor marketplace filling 13 retail spaces needs tenants, investors, and the neighborhood to see the place before the doors open.
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Government & Enterprise GIS
World Imagery Wayback
A secured browser app for a government client to explore years of historical satellite imagery — on infrastructure that could not go down.
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Spatial Search at Scale
Image Hunter
Let customers of a satellite-imagery broker search a global archive of scenes by location and date, and trust what they find.
Full case study →Location Marketing · Mobile
Pushyy
Take over an agency’s React Native geolocation marketing app and rebuild it native — without losing the product in the process.
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Ongoing Digital Stewardship
7x24 Exchange SoCal
A data-center industry nonprofit needed its web presence, SEO, and event marketing run like a product, not a side project.
Full case study →The archive
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LaXing - Stuck at the Crossing
Featured · Web AppStory map and data app for the LA ballot initiative to lift Metro light rail out of street traffic: 223 crossings, ten years of collisions, a trip planner and the financing math. Built with Justin Levy.
Wayback Imagery Viewer
Cloud AppSecured browser app for a government client to explore years of historical satellite imagery, built at Esri on AWS with React and TypeScript.
Image Hunter Search Engine
Web AppSatellite-imagery search for Apollo Mapping: Angular over a Flask API with PostGIS queries across a global archive.
7x24 Exchange SoCal Website
Web DesignFull redesign of the chapter site on StarChapter: events with Eventbrite, member registration, sponsor showcases, SEO and email campaigns, run from the board since 2024.
Pushyy - Location Marketing App
MobileGeolocation marketing app rebuilt from React Native to Swift and SwiftUI as the outside lead, shipped through CI/CD to TestFlight.
GeoConvert - GIS File Converter
Cloud AppBrowser-based GIS file converter on AWS Lambda and GDAL: KML, KMZ, Shapefile, GeoJSON, GPX, CSV and DBF, with a map preview before you download.
GeoidLife - GIS Professional Platform
Cloud AppNico Tek’s GIS platform and resource hub, home of the converter and the LaXing maps.
AWS Study Hub
Cloud AppAWS certification prep sold by Nico Tek: practice questions, flashcards and timed exam simulators for four certifications. The earlier Cloud Practitioner and AI Practitioner study games now live inside it.
Artistree - Creative Discovery App
MobileiOS app that finds artists, venues and music near you. A University of Redlands GIS project turned SwiftUI platform, presented at the 2014 Esri User Conference.
Nico Tek Portfolio
UI/UXThis site: two switchable designs, Contour and Aurora, responsive and audited for accessibility.
Valevo - Location Based Marketing
MobileCross-platform location-based marketing prototype in Ionic and Angular, deployed to TestFlight.
UrSpot Parking Finder
MobileiOS parking-finder prototype with CoreLocation, MapKit and an animated logo.
Environmental Impact Mapping
Graphic DesignCartographic products and impact graphics for engineering assessments.
Arsenic Threat Visualization
Graphic DesignResearch maps and infographics of contaminant sites relative to hydraulic fracturing.
UC Irvine UI/UX Curriculum
UI/UXWireframing, prototyping and design-to-code curriculum taught at UC Irvine.
Breathe Deeply — Design Mantra
Graphic DesignA mantra poster for the pause before design work: breathe deeply, think slowly, dream focused.