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My UW-Madison (1998-2001)
My UW-Madison was one of the first comprehensive web portals for a large university. My role was part visionary and part project manager of the implementation. This began with a white paper I wrote about how we could do an "integrated web environment" that spanned instruction and student services. Before the term "portal" came into vogue. After a year or so of discussions with a small group of managers, this project finally got funded, and we went thru porto-types and evangelism for another year. One of the key technology choices I made was to bring in a product to be our framework, this was Epicentric which was a startup out of SF. This proofed to be a winner as my development team was able to focus on features, rather than the underlying technology. This project also was the first to use a new LDAP enterprise directory and also saw a new
email and calendaring system get added to its scope. Somewhat like reconfiguring a 747 in flight, that's what the Deputy CIO would say. After an initial rollout to a pilot group in the Biological Sciences, I moved onto work in the eLearning area.
UW Statewide eLearning System (2001-2007)
The University of Wisconsin System CIOs decided to have a systemwide eLearning System in 2001. I was on the RFP team that selected the product and then on the implementation/service team that provided this service. In the RFP process, I lead the Technology sub-group, writing most of that part of the RFP and leading the interviews of the 4 finalists. Eventually Desire2Learn was selected as the vendor and DoIT at Madison selected to provide hosting. I had a variety of roles on the implementation and services teams, ranging from policies on hosting, to architecting the datafeeds from the SIS (student information system), to working with the vendor on APIs.
In my last project in this eLearning theme, I lead a team a team that implemented an SSO (single signon) that worked with the Madison SSO. I had been coaxing D2L to give us an API just like Ohio State was using (Shibboleth) that would work with Madison's SSO, rather than their own proprietary API, for a couple of years. Suddenly they announced this feature and I had to put together a team quickly.
The golive happened after I had left my position and it went very smoothly. A testament to all the good folks I had assembled and all the relationships I had formed over the years on all sides.
Engage (2003-08)
http://engage.doit.wisc.edu/software
http://www.languageinstitute.wisc.edu/content/projects/authoring_tools.htm
Engage is a program run by DoIT's Academic Technology to promote innovation in teaching and learning thru technology. In it's initial phase, I was the Architect/Project Manager for many projects. Some are listed on the Engage website, like Quizimage, and others were done for acedemic departments, like the Multimedia Lesson Building for Languages and eTEACH 3.0 for
Greg Moses. These projects used many Flash components and web technologies, and some open source code, all in a fairly cutting edge manner. Some of these will be used for years to come, but others will fade away as they are replaced by even newer technologies.
Redesign WCU Fine and Performing Arts Center website (2009)
Western Carolina University has a regional performance venue at the Fine and Performing Arts Center. In a project to make a showcase web site, I had a role of Director/Sponsor. One of my staff was the project manager and I provided guidance without taking on the day-to-day management of this project. The customer was the College of Fine and Performing Arts, specifically the Dean and Associate Deans. The biggest contribution I had was to keep both the Dean/Associate Deans on track and to ensure Creative Services
was available when we needed it. Oh and I guess I did the Flash slideshow player on the home page, shucks that wasn't much. My project manager grew quite a bit during this project and my strategy of waiting until we could focus on this site before starting also worked out well. Everyone was happy with this site, both the Deans and Creative Services, not to mention my staff at Web Services.
SnapPlus (2011-14)
Lead team of 5 developers and 1 scientist. Improved processes for releases and QA. Implemented continuous build using Jenkins, everyone sees problems sooner. Checkins to SVN must be reviewed by another team member, less bugs during development. Release QA includes formal test plan. Worked on budgets with overall team lead, making sure there were allocations for all aspects of our work. Contracted with ESRI for professional services that gave us a quick start into ArcGIS Server.
HTRC (2015)
Worked with IU UITS (University IT Services) on a variety of services including VMware servers, DNS name setup, disk space, and remote accounts for team members at other universities. Budget for VMware servers and disk space based on current and future needs. External contract with Notre Dame researcher for using our developer on project for geospatial text analysis.
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