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National Center for Women & Information Technology

NCWIT

The National Center for Women & Information Technology has a special place in our hearts. NCWIT has been a great client since 2013 and their work is very important to us.

We began by provisioning a cluster of virtual machines on bare metal and migrating their existing Drupal applications and databases to it.

aspirations.org

Performed a round of bug fixes on aspirations.org then moved on to create the college.aspirations.org, central.aspirations.org and docs.ncwit.org Drupal sites. Returned to work on aspirations.org to rescue it from a troubled rebuild.

  • Created animated graphics using JavaScript
  • Performed theme refreshes
  • Front page redesigns
  • Created customized dashboard and dashboard widgets for each of the user roles
  • Custom user registration workflow
  • Created user profile processing and dashboard integration
  • Developed batch data exports
  • Created customized reports
  • Created central profile data handling
  • User badge performance ranking for gamification campaign
  • XML site mapping
  • Created single sign on system using Bakery and customized it to handle user profile data
  • MailChimp list integration
  • Batch user notification system by e-mail and dashboard
  • Created award recognition system
  • Re-engineered the Parental Approval processing
  • Developed the batch PDF application export
  • Re-engineered the application review system
  • Re-engineered the student award application system
  • Created batch NCES school data processing and json import
  • Re-engineered educator award application system
  • Implemented performance caching using Memcache

Drupal CMS Features

  • Drupal Features module integration
  • Apache Solr Search
  • Memcache Performance Integration
  • XML Sitemap
  • Google Analytics
  • MailChimp API integration
  • Custom Entities using Entity API

college.aspirations.org

Created the college.aspirations.org Drupal application that includes the following features:

  • Student application system
  • Student application review system
  • Student application award system
  • Single sign-on system
  • Custom dashboards for students, reviewers and administrators
  • Award recognition system>
  • Custom user registration process with single sign-on integration.

Drupal CMS Features:

  • Bakery single sign on.
  • Google Analytics
  • Google reCaptcha form protection
  • Zen base theme

central.aspirations.org

  • Single sign on system using Bakery
  • Central profile repository for college.aspirations.org and aspirations.org.

docs.ncwit.org

Created as a repository for documentation. Implemented Drupal's API module to automatically generate documentation for custom module code.

trackingtool.ncwit.org

  • Provided bug fixes and performance enhancements.
  • Recreated the CSV file data import with new field mapping and batch processing using the contributed Feeds module APIs.

ncwit.org

Support Services

  • Provided Drupal security updates
  • Performed CiviCRM LTS upgrades
  • Fixed summit registration bugs
  • Provided CiviCRM bug fixes
  • Supported CiviCRM configuration and administration
  • Implemented Memcached performance caching for CiviCRM and Drupal
  • Fixed and maintained shopping cart system
  • Fixed Summit Badge registration bugs

Drupal Features

  • CiviCRM integration
  • SMTP relay
  • Google analytics
  • Apache Solr Search

Infrastructure

Provided the following infrastructure services:

  • Application security updates
  • Application security hardening
  • Automated off-site Amazon Web Service S3 and Glacier CDN backups
  • Operating system hardening
  • Ansible playbooks for continuous development (CI/CD) automation.
  • Ansible playbooks for automated maintenance tasks
  • Nagios monitoring of Drupal applications, backup scripts and operating system performance
  • SMTP relay service integrations with Amazon SES, MailChimp and Sendgrid.
  • Linux OS upgrades
  • Linux administration
  • Implemented Fail2Ban protections
  • Docker workstation environment that mirrors production environment and hosts.
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ncwit.org
Development Period
2013
2020

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