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
- Developed new e:Vision portal for research staff to administer both staff and postgraduate students.
- New e:Vision portal created for submission of applications by third-party agents.
- Created new report to list refunds due, given various user-specified criteria.
- Implemented a tool to allow on-hold LTI records to be viewed and corrected.
- New enquiry forms created to facilitate recruitment of North American students.
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 2020Project Summary
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New enquiry forms created to facilitate recruitment of North American students.
Improvements to IPP qualifications section
Project Duration
October 2019 to February 2020Project Summary
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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 2019Project Summary
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Created new report to list refunds due, given various user-specified criteria.Bulk clearance checks
Project Duration
January 2019 to May 2019Project 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 2019Project Summary
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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 2018Project 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 2018Project 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.