Category: Full-Stack

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Backend demand-side Frontend Full-Stack SOA Troubleshooting

(Executive) Enterprise Dashboarding

(Yahoo! : 5/07-7/07)

An external consultant to the team had been brought in to develop an überdashboard to aggregate data from another project. The learning curve was steep and the consultant wasn’t familiar with the base data so his dashboard had some major shortcomings.

Results

  • Jumped in two weeks before release date, took ownership, and still delivered a web-based, executives’ dashboard solution for experience monitoring without the benefits of system documentation or tests
  • Reduced 74% page load-time through refactoring backend, improving database queries, introducing pagination for an 80 KLOC (LAMPerl) data warehousing web app
  • Discovered and remedied major data quality issues before going live
  • Radically improved the look and usability of the tool
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demand-side Full-Stack Management Process supply-side

Groupware for Nuclear Resources

(IAEA : 8/06-9/06)

This web app – a customization of an Open Source .NET portal framework – accepts project requests from people around the world and handles the workflow.

Results

  • led award-winning dev team of 3 for custom, web-based Enterprise Project Management solution used by 3,500+ users; 2,600 unique visits per month
  • Reduced licensing costs through the use of the MVC-based, Open Source web content management system: DotNetNuke
  • Implemented standardized practices for software project documentation
  • Created integrated MS Office tools to halve the amount of data entry performed by support staff
  • Retooled the application to support Unicode (e.g. UTF-8)
  • Created a prototype (using SOAP web services) for Translation Management between line-of-business web applications
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Analytics APIs Building buy-in Collaboration Full-Stack Process Prototyping supply-side

The Portal for Nuclear Information

(IAEA : 8/05-8/05)

At the end of 2004, the IAEA had well over 200 scientific and technical information resources (e.g. databases, websites, applications, etc.)

In order to reduce the effort to maintain these (saving time for graphic designers, software engineers, DBAs, and resource custodians alike,) a single portal was conceived and made a priority deliverable for the IT and MIS sections.

As the Lead Information Architect, I was responsible for gathering technical details about the resources, supporting the technical architect, and driving the design behind the user experience.

Results

  • led requirements gathering and implemented modular components for the authoritative web resource on scientific and technical nuclear information
  • Met with and built buy-in among information stakeholders
  • Abstracted the business processes of the organization to the 50,000 ft view
  • Utilized user-centered methods to inform the design of the portal
  • Implemented the beta version using OpenText, LiveLink, and Java APIs for each
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Analytics Content Management demand-side Full-Stack Innovation

Multilingual Workflow Application

(IAEA : 8/03-10/03)

To more efficiently track internal publishing, the IT section created a custom workflow application in October of 2003. The application serves approximately 50 people all the way from editors to translators to printers to distributors.

Results

  • Worked with multi-lingual users to implement v2.0 of a translation workflow application
  • Gathered requirements after leading focus group sessions with users speaking Chinese, French, Russian, English, Spanish, Arabic
  • Migrated v1.0 data store from MS Access to SQL Server