Work

Case studies, with the names left out

Each of these is real work on real student systems. Two come from my full-time architect role, three from consulting engagements, and one began in the full-time role and grew in a consulting engagement. Names, screens and figures drawn from student records are left out on purpose; the problem, the design and the reasoning are all here.

Full-time architect role

A financial aid migration you can run twice

A check-only report is read and approved first; then one command corrects financial aid records for a whole student population, can be run again safely, and leaves before-and-after evidence for every student.

  • Financial aid
  • Migration
  • Audit evidence

Full-time architect role

Two AI agents and one audit trail

A second AI agent independently re-checks AI-assisted migration work against the source systems and writes the audit trail, in place of spot checks by hand.

  • Applied AI
  • Verification
  • Audit evidence

Consulting engagement

The race that emailed students an empty link

A timed job sometimes lost a race with the email scheduler, so students got an invitation with no link. Now the link is saved as soon as the record is.

  • Integration
  • Azure
  • Timing

Consulting engagement

From batch jobs to near-live student data

A new integration layer on Azure replaced batch jobs, so a change in the student system reaches the other systems as it happens.

  • Integration
  • Azure
  • Near-live

Full-time architect role, then a consulting engagement

A report that documents every workflow you are running

A self-service report that lists, classifies and explains every production workflow in the student system, so nobody has to remember what is running.

  • Reporting
  • Workflow
  • Audit

Consulting engagement

A document migration checked record by record

Student documents moved on deadline with zero defects, because every record was verified before sign-off, not a sample.

  • Migration
  • Documents
  • Verification

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