Hallmark Institute of Photography

As Director of Software Development at this photography/business school, I built many specialized web and database applications.

Hallmark was not an art school, but a business-of-photography school. It was prominent nationally, and undergoing significant growth when I joined.

Technology stack for projects listed here was Django, MySQL, and Apache.

Alumni Portal

A social and information hub for alumni. Alumni connections were facilitated through a searchable and browsable directory of profiles. This system superseded a PHP site created by an outside vendor, maintaining continuity by retaining the database schema and active data.

Student Housing Portal

A tool to help newly admitted students find rental properties in the area. Collected data via a detailed roomate-compatibility questionnaire. CRM-style tracking of communications with students. Converted housing images submitted by landlords, to sane sizes and formats. This system also had a group-email facility to allow Housing staff to communicate with ad-hoc sets of users.

Student Information System

Operations platform for the school.

• Course data and class scheduling for 1400 contact hours over the ten-month program
• Adapted without a rewrite to handle two overlapping cohorts per year, each with different numbers of sections
• Attendance recording and reporting, including automated emailed reports
• Student ID data, parking permits, real-time locator
• Faculty ID data, teaching schedules
• Barcode-reader kiosk mode for large-group attendance
• Generation of print materials, e.g. attendance checklists and face-sheets
• Equipment lending library system managing $1M of photographic gear

Released as open source in 2016 when school closed: https://github.com/pbx/school-base