In 2006 FASTENnetwork.org won a website award by the American Association of Webmasters. This was, in large part, due to Lou Storiale's commitment and dedication to the website from 2003-2007. Lou contributed his website development skills and knowledge, updated our content management system, helped create several databases for tracking and marketing purposes and posted all the Spanish translation sections of the site, as well.
Lou's information architecture and usability knowledge is extensive and it helped to fix website design issues that occurred when we outsourced one of the website designs to another company. Lou not only provided sound advice to improve the design, he also worked within the new design to post all the content for centeronfic.org. He conducted his work very professionally, communicating with me and my staff each day about the progress. When Lou had questions, he asked - when we had questions, he was fully informed and was able to provide status information immediately.
After Hurricane Katrina occurred, we received a grant to conduct research on Non Government Organization and their relief efforts during Hurricane Katrina. Lou Storiale managed the marketing database, created requirements for the application and managed the programmers to ensure it worked correctly. This database served as center of our research. We were able to mine information gathered from over 150 organizations, cross-reference data across states, organization types, size, training methodologies and more. We were able to develop best practices for non-government organizations during relief efforts because of this data. Lou Storiale was project manager of this project and it completed on time and within budget. "
I relied heavily on Lou for his technical expertise, project management skills and website development advice while working with him from 2003-2007 on several website initiatives for Sagamore Institute. Lou Storiale is responsive and careful with assignments and has high standards for quality control, there is no doubt.
Lou displayed strong communications skills in training my staff (and others) on the Content Management System for the FASTEN site and on the use of other Web technologies such as HTML training, and search engine optimization. It was particularly refreshing to work with Lou because, despite his technical expertise, he is able to communicate to non-technological people like me. I would recommend Storiale Consulting Group/Lou Storiale very highly. read more