SITS Developer

Period of Employment

16th July 2018 to 31st July 2020

Employer

University of the Arts London

Team / Department

Project Team

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Summary

Contract was extended three times.

Worked across several programmes, helping to implement new developments as well as perform fixes and improvements throughout. Worked in the following modules: research, finance, admissions and recruitment.

Key Achievements

A visual overview of all the projects undertaken throughout this contract can be seen here - https://xr7sy.app.goo.gl/Gr34 (opens new window).

 Projects

Enquiry Forms - North American applicants

Project Duration

February 2020 to July 2020

Project Summary

n/a

Project Details

New enquiry forms created to facilitate recruitment of North American students.

Improvements to IPP qualifications section

Project Duration

October 2019 to February 2020

Project Summary

n/a

Project Details

Various changes and improvements made to the qualifications section of the university's applicant portal, allowing students to submit a greater number of qualifications and reducing page load time.

Refunds Report

Project Duration

May 2019 to October 2019

Project Summary

n/a

Project Details

Created new report to list refunds due, given various user-specified criteria.

Bulk clearance checks

Project Duration

January 2019 to May 2019

Project Summary

Tool to apply clearance checks against a group of students.

Project Details

Developed tools to allow bulk creation of clearance checks against a user-specified group of students.

Performance Improvements

Project Duration

August 2018 to February 2019

Project Summary

n/a

Project Details

Use of SQL to enable significant improvement to response times in application review reports (from several minutes response time down to under 10 seconds).

New 'Contact Us' form

Project Duration

October 2018 to December 2018

Project Summary

Redirect student queries to the correct department.

Project Details

Creation of new 'contact us' form to allow student queries to be forwarded to the correct department, based around the nature of the student's query. Prior to this, all queries were sent to a single email address in the admissions department.

Improvements to Application Review search pages

Project Duration

July 2018 to October 2018

Project Summary

Various changes to both search and results page for student applications.

Project Details

Client had requested numerous changes to a search page for retrieving student applications, with a particular focus on improving page load time. Changes were implemented as requested and page load time decreased substantially from several minutes down to under 10 seconds. Performance improvements due mainly to use of RQx.