I've had the pleasure (in most cases) of work on quite a few interesting projects over time.  Here are some of the hightlights.

• Fixed the Fan after the S**t Hit
  I joined on with a small company to help out in the tech end of things with the expectation of eventually managing operations.  When I started, the resession hit but things seemed to be okay for this company.  About 2 months into things, I was officially made the Operations Manager and started working with the finances.  Long story short, over-staffing was eating up cash faster than it was coming in.  I had to assess all revenue sources, cost centers, and processes to determine if we were viable and for how long.  The answer was "bankrupt in 2 months" or "shutdown and get out $100k down".  The owner decided to push through and I developed a layoff plan to maximize the chances of surviving.  The plan allowed staff enough time to prepare and make other arrangements and successfully kept the company out of bankruptcy.
   
• Content Management Systems
  I have yet to find a really great content management system (CMS) off the shelf. They are getting better and some are on the right track, but we'll see.  A CMS should let you edit content within the content's context. With that in mind, I build a CMS for auctioneers called ZENAuctioneer.  ZENAuctioneer had an XML-based datastore and used a combination of AJAX and voodoo to create a simple and intuitive content management experience.  The sequel to this system is under development. In addition to this little gem, I've build several other simpler but much larger for some other sites. Content management user interfaces is kind of a side hobby of mine.
   
• Survey Engines
  Somehow I always seemed to end up with a fair number of survey/assessment type projects.  I did a needs assessment and built a survey engine for the National Institute of Corrections and also designed some complex reusable assessment tools for a private company.
   
• Request Management System
  My first real programming task was to build a system for managing information request for a library.  I had no real programming experience or training, but it was just as ASP.net rolled out and so I thought I'd take a stab at it. Using Dreamweaver, I built a web-based application that managed incoming requests, processing, order fullfillment, loans, backorders, and reporting.  With an expected shelf-life of about 2 1/2 year, this bad boy just kept on ticking until a contract dispute shut it down.
  
• Bomb Shelter WiFi
  My mission was to design and implement a wi-fi subnet in a 4-story charter school that was formerly a bomb shelter. Contrary to the preditctions of one of the school board members (who happened to sit on the IEEE committee for wi-fi standards), not only did my configuration work, it was still in use after 7 years. Nuke that!
    
• Steamboat Webcam
  A wealthy client of mine wanted to keep an eye on the constuction of his new home up near Steamboat, Co.  I found and configured a Linux based webcam to transmit images back to his server.   To make sure it got installed properly, he fly me in his private plane to his property for the day.  We installed it on the side of a barn and, for almost 2 years, it transmitted a new picture every hour to his server.
   
• DanOBrien.com
  I helped design and manage the website for this 1996 decathalon Olympic gold medalist.
   
• Live "Streaming" of College Sports
  Back in the early '90s when the Internet was but a wee infant, I helped build and run the first ever live broadcast of a college sport (football) on the Internet.  We developed an interface based on rapidly refreshing frames that featured a play-by-play transcript, game clock/scoreboard, field position graphic, and picture window.  It worked like this...A team of three videographers would roam the sidelines for interesting shots, a guy in the press box posted the play-by-play, and I sat on the field taking stills from the video camers, updating the clock/scoreboard, and responding to incoming posts from viewers.  It was awsome!  I was later asked to manage a team of students and broadcast the men's and women's home basketball games.