Role: Lead developer, Project Manager
Company: National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors, one of the nation’s largest associations, representing companies amounting to almost $5 trillion in sales.
When: 2005-2008
Jeremy was brought in to improve the navigation and look of the website, improve efficiency on the back end, and simplify data entry to allow non-technical staff to update the website.
Specifically, Jeremy:
- planned and implemented a ground-up redesign of NAW.org. Worked as project manager between a 10 person design committee and the design firm in a six-month architecture and design effort.
- designed and coded the “AEC Resource Guide” and “Ask NAW”, member only information sharing applications. Saved NAW more than $50,000 in development costs.
- wrote a email promotion generator to automate creation of item promotions. Reduced the time needed from days to minutes and reduced the number of staff necessary from 3 to 1.
- replaced a desktop application for sending email newsletters to a custom PHP mailer utilizing spare bandwith and resources on the web server. Eliminated slow network performance and configuration issues and slow workstation performance related to sending 20k+ newsletters each week from staff workstations.
- moved registration for all meetings to online forms and online payment.
