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organization: Harvard University, Provost Office
location:
Harvard, Cambridge MA
period:
2001
title: Senior Technical Project Manager
harvard online courses: Course Web Sites

Partnered with the Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE) and the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) to implement and deploy a suite of web-based tools to support teaching.

Specific Work:

  • Responsibilities include capturing GSE & HDS requirements(functional & visual), faculty and staff training, communication of needed organizational and support structures, and the logistical planning required to serve every graduate course on the web.
organization: Harvard Business School
location:
Boston MA
period:
1996-1998
title: Head of External Relations/Client Services
portfolio: architecture roadmap and website

Responsible for the design, development, communication, and presentation of technology available to Alumni.

Specific Work:

  • Responsible for developing and implementing a vision for an on-line virtual community for Harvard Business School Alumni. Specifics include the WWW HBS Alumni Directory, Lifelong E-Mail forwarding system for 70,000 HBS Alumni, extranet security login system, e-mail push services, and other services.
  • Educate and empower HBS External Relations departmental staff in applying new technologies to facilitate and improve their activities based on HBS Information Technology infrastructure standards.
  • Managed the design, rollout, and support for HBS's Lifelong E-mail forwarding system for all 66,000+ HBS Alumni.
    1. Taught Internet seminars to Harvard Business School Alumni. (formal and informal)
    2. Coordinate with the HBS Alumni Board technology committee on the technology requirements of Alumni and developed plans to meet user requirements. Produce and present current and future technology to this board on a semi-annual basis.
    3. Provide implementation details of current alumni web services to those Alumni that are currently undertaking similar web service implementations within their organizations.
    4. Lead technology coordinator for Harvard Business School's global alumni conferences. Responsible for managing and directing the setup and configuration of the conference technology labs and connections to the Internet. Provided technology presentations to Harvard Business School Alumni on Internet services

email: rvanderpool@fusedata.com