16th July 2018 to 31st July 2020
University of the Arts London
Project Team
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.
A visual overview of all the projects undertaken throughout this contract can be seen here - https://xr7sy.app.goo.gl/Gr34 (opens new window).
New enquiry forms created to facilitate recruitment of North American students.
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.
Developed tools to allow bulk creation of clearance checks against a user-specified group of students.
Use of SQL to enable significant improvement to response times in application review reports (from several minutes response time down to under 10 seconds).
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.
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.