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MLIS Capstone: FictionFilters.org

2022 | Industry: Publishing

Full page screenshot of the fictionfilters.org home page showing several recent books with genre and trope tags as well as the dual include/exclude search interface

For my MLIS capstone team project, I built a crowdsourced tagging site for novels. Using a tag wrangling process and dual include/exclude search interface inspired by the Archive of Our Own, we demonstrated how curating user-submitted tags into a detailed controlled … [Read more...] about MLIS Capstone: FictionFilters.org

Rutgers GradFund

2019 | Industry: Education

The School of Graduate Studies Peer Mentoring Fellowship Advising Service maintains a database of funding opportunities for graduate students: scholarships, fellowships, and other awards. The database is maintained in-house and needed to be synced with the public website—which … [Read more...] about Rutgers GradFund

University of Georgia Pressbooks OER Network

2018 | Industry: Education, Publishing

The University of Georgia Online Learning team had a pilot project for their open educational resources: the Physical Education department had written an open textbook for their courses, and it was the ideal project to see whether Pressbooks would serve their needs. If it went … [Read more...] about University of Georgia Pressbooks OER Network

University of Georgia Online Learning

2018 | Industry: Education

The University of Georgia Online Learning team wanted to build a site for their faculty community to share resources and best practices related to online learning. A primary goal of this project was to recreate the design used on the school’s main Drupal site. In addition to … [Read more...] about University of Georgia Online Learning

Texas A&M Forest Service

2014 | Industry: Government

This project was quite unusual for me: the team already had a design, and the in-house developers were working on migrating platforms. The Texas A&M University System had recently mandated that all the state agencies in the system should update their names to include … [Read more...] about Texas A&M Forest Service

Texas A&M University Writing Center

2007-2011 | Industry: Education

When I was hired in 2007, the Writing Center had a complex site built in Mambo. It that hadn't been updated in a while. Only the director felt comfortable adding anything, and we had forty-odd enthusiastic students who could contribute -- if only they knew how. I updated the to … [Read more...] about Texas A&M University Writing Center

Strategic Research Development

2012 | Industry: Education

The Strategic Research Development group was, like many offices at Texas A&M University, stuck with an old Dreamweaver-based website they didn't know how to maintain. I moved the content into WordPress using the HTML Import plugin, designed them a simple theme (a child theme … [Read more...] about Strategic Research Development

Texas A&M University at Qatar

2012 | Industry: Education

The Texas A&M campus at Qatar had been up and running with WordPress for a while, but they needed a review of their custom theme. Its developers had, as it turned out, done a lot of things on the checklist of what not to do. The theme included the complete source code of four … [Read more...] about Texas A&M University at Qatar

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I’m a front end developer at Equinox OLI, working on open source library software. I was previously a freelance WordPress developer in higher education. You can get in touch here or on LinkedIn.

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