Principal Software Developer
I was contracted to develop a system of web-enabled Windows applications to update this space from a museum to an interactive experience. The New York Life Archive Room is a permanent installation on the ground floor of the historic New York Life Building at 51 Madison Avenue in New York City.
When visitors enter the Archive Room, they have access to four display areas on eight 65” Planar narrow bezel touchscreen monitors featuring four content categories:
1. History of New York Life, covering the company’s 170 year history.
2. The People of New York Life, focusing on leaders, agents and home office staff.
3. Advertising and the NYLIC Review, focusing on the company’s history as represented through advertising campaigns and news stories.
4. Rotating content. Currently Honoring Veterans.
The displays utilized the existing walnut cabinets in the Museum Room. Interactive touch screen kiosks are housed in the lowest level of the cabinets. The middle tier of cabinets house New York Life memorabilia (photographs, newspaper clippings, license plates, etc.) Visitors are able to explore items that represent the company’s story as well as explore thousands of pages of content and hundreds of archived videos including twenty-four television spots dating back to the early seventies are available on the advertising kiosk. This is the most popular area of the Archive Room.
Project Links
The Company (touchscreen demo)
Windows Application Documentation- Gitlab
- Jenkins
- Node.js
- HTML5
- LESS
- CSS3
- JavaScript
- After Effects
- PHP
- Vue.js