I worked with a committee of faculty, staff and graduate students from the Yale University Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) to migrate their old website to the Yale’s Drupal 7 platform. This required a complete redesign of the site architecture and synthesizing content from several existing websites into a single easy-to-navigate site. I customized Drupal views, content-types, CSS, blocks and more for this site’s particular needs, and coordinated a somewhat complex production roll-out with Yale IT staff.
Category Archives: Recent Work
Biology at Yale
Designed and built a scalable and easy-to-navigate portal for all Biology-related websites at Yale within the University’s Drupal 7 environment. Coordinated with staff at the Office of the Provost. Customized Drupal views, css, and content types.
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Worked with faculty to migrate the department’s website into Yale University’s Drupal 7 CMS. Reorganized the content, added new functionality, customized views, content types, taxonomy and more. Configured Biblio module to import and display collected faculty publications. Coordinated move to production with Yale IT staff.
NorthEast Research Libraries Consortium (NERL)
The NERL website is a custom theme built on Yale University’s Drupal 6 content management system (CMS), and takes full advantage of Drupal’s modularity and flexibility, which enabled us to develop a custom architecture for organizing and sharing NERL’s web content.
Much of the content on this website is restricted to NERL members, utilizing Drupal’s content access and user/role capabilities. Drupal views are used to display different slices of the database information.
I worked with NERL to consolidate two existing html websites (public and private) into a single site. I analyzed business needs, wrote the project specification, built the site within Yale’s drupal instrallation, worked with numerous technical service providers, and supervised external designers and programmers.
Yale University Office of Digital Assets and Infrastructure
The ODAI website is a custom theme built on Yale University’s Drupal content management system (CMS), and takes full advantage of Drupal’s modularity and flexibility, which enabled us to develop a custom architecture for organizing and sharing ODAI’s web content. I worked with ODAI to re-conceive their web presence, analyzed business needs, wrote the project specification, built the site within Yale’s Drupal installation, worked with numerous technical service providers, and supervised external designers and programmers. Taxonomy is used to bring together content based on a custom subject scheme developed to explore and highlight the diversity of Yale’s digital ecosystem.
STATUS: Department reorganized and website taken offline
United States of Community Service
Web developer and content architect for national charitable program by and for kids. This WordPress site was designed for visual impact and community building, and the site was developed for significant future growth. Designed photo banner. Created colorful vector map of U.S. to show participating states.
STATUS: defunct
Coins and Medals of Imperial Russia
An online exhibit documenting the coins and medals of Imperial Russia from the Yale University Numismatics Collection. Developed online exhibit architecture and logo design.
New Haven Museum
For this project, I worked with museum staff to re-conceive their web presence, analyzed business needs, wrote the project specification, selected and configured a system for displaying digital artifacts, worked with numerous technical service providers, and supervised external designers and programmers.
Green School Gazette
A private social-media/educational website developed to enable geographically-dispersed homeschool students to engage with each other online during the week to plan, write, edit, and prepare their bi-weekly printed newspaper. The site was extremely versatile and successful for this educational social networking experience. In this site we used: file sharing, discussion forums, image uploading, task lists, direct email communication, resource sharing, and much more. The use of technology for this program enable the kids to do most of the planning, writing, chatting work from home, so the weekly class time could be used for in-house interviews, page layout and design, and other activities that required face-to-face time.
GeoWhizKids
A private interactive website to supplement an intensive geography-bee preparation class for middle-schoolers.