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Stephanie Leary

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Education

My clients in higher education generally need custom search interfaces for multiple data types. I help them set up automated data imports from external sources or APIs, remediate the incoming metadata, and create customized WordPress authoring interfaces tailored to their data models. Whether we need to create a new theme or design the site to match institutional branding, I design a custom search interface to take full advantage of the available metadata.

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

Berkeley College of Engineering theme framework and content model

2016 | Industry: Education

The University of California at Berkeley's College of Engineering had a huge demand for WordPress sites and not enough staff to handle each request individually. Their marketing team asked me to build a theme framework that would offer a few color scheme options in compliance … [Read more...] about Berkeley College of Engineering theme framework and content model

Qatar Process Safety Symposium

2014 | Industry: Education

This was one of the small conference projects that later led the communications team to commission the development of a flexible multisite network to more quickly spin up websites for conferences and symposia hosted at Texas A&M University at Qatar. … [Read more...] about Qatar Process Safety Symposium

Texas A&M University at Qatar conference network

2014 | Industry: Education

I had worked with Texas A&M University at Qatar before to set up last-minute sites for events. We agreed that this was not the ideal process, and they set aside some time for me to create a better solution. We set up a new multisite network and created a sample site with … [Read more...] about Texas A&M University at Qatar conference network

Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases

2013 | Industry: Education, Government

The Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases, a part of Texas A&M's AgriLife division, is a research center focusing on animal disease. In addition to the usual news and informational pages, the site needed to showcase the Center's research projects, tools (the finished … [Read more...] about Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases

Technology in Higher Education Conference

2013 | Industry: Education

This group needed a site for their conference, and they needed it done in a hurry. They had a Photoshop comp from their designer, but it was a fixed width design, and they wanted a mobile-friendly site. I decided to make it responsive, and I worked with them to determine content … [Read more...] about Technology in Higher Education Conference

Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering

2013 | Industry: Education

This project came along just a week or two after the Technology in Higher Education conference, and the situation was similar: a short deadline and a design in hand that wasn't planned with responsive layouts in mind. Again, I used Genesis to get things going quickly. … [Read more...] about Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering

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

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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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