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Employment at the Information Technology Office on campus
Gordy Pace, project manager
June 2004 - Present
The UM Portal provides the following services to the campus community:
- Enables students to use one set of credentials to access all login based systems on campus through Single Sign On.
- Aggregates information from many external sources, such as news, weather, and entertainment.
- Brings in data from internal University sources, such as student records, campus news and events, courses, grades, and library records.
- Allows each user to customize their view of the portal, such as layout, template and content options.
I have assisted with the development of the UM Portal for almost 3 years, since 2004. In that time I have seen the project go from planning, to design and implementation to a beta production rollout.
I started out on the project learning how the Oracle interface functioned. I quickly learned that it wasn't adequate for the needs of students and this got me into development for the portal. I have concentrated a lot of effort into creating customization modules for the user interface for the portal, in order to make it friendlier and easier to use. I have also worked on many of the portlets, or portal applications, that exist in the portal. Most recently I have been heavily involved with the development of a targeted messaging system to facilitate campus communication.
The portal is currently in beta and can be accessed at http://portal.umt.edu. You will need a valid SCAUID and password to log in.
Technologies Used- All portlets are written in JSP and Java
- Portlets are deployed to an OC4J server, the Oracle container for J2EE applications
- Development done with the Eclipse development environment
- Visual Source Safe for team development
- PL/SQL database programming for data-enabled portal applications