Wentworth Institute

hired as the Institute’s first dedicated, employee Web Administrator. in four years i moved the Institute’s web presence from an afterthought, to a tool for Adminissions, Administration, and Academic publishing.

the beginning
when i was brought onboard, the Institute’s website was being served from an older desktop computer in an office. content was being created by work-study students and had no thought out Information Architecture or server organization. literally thousands and thousands of files were haphazardly strewn about the filesystem.

organization
i created a strict Information Architecture, which followed the Institute’s own Administrative and Academic organizational hierarchy. i migrated all content into this structure, eliminated redundancies, and migrated to unix-based, failsafe hardware that i installed in the college’s datacenter.

policies & workflow
many people wanted to publish information about their department, curriculum, or class on the website. to manage reputation risk, i wrote policies for publishing workflow that involved a designated representative from each department approving all relevant content, and a director having editorial control over all published material.

advanced services
through vendor supplied modules, the Institute’s IT organization wanted to implement student services online for schedules, registration and other administrative tasks. I worked with them to create the web server code, the ties to backend systems, and user authentication mechanism.