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- Brandeis University
- Website:
- http://www.brandeis.edu
- Personal Website:
- http://ianandval.com
- List three areas of expertise or specialization.
- unix, apache, the world wide web
- What CMS are you using?
- Hannon Hill's Cascade Server
- What department or office are you in?
- Library and Technology Services
- Primary Job Responsibility
- Administrate purchased, open source, and custom Web applications such as Web content management system, campus community portal, and wiki. Frequently work in command-line UNIX environments. Setup and maintain UNIX Web servers running Apache and Tomcat and MySQL and Oracle databases.
Develop Web sites, applications, and Web initiatives via standards-driven XHTML/CSS and server-side technologies (Perl, XML/XSLT). Act as release engineer, coordinating product releases using subversion and custom release management software.
Maintain workings of identity management through LDAP, Active Directory, and other systems.
Plan and implement highly visible University projects. Manage several student workers and consultants.
- Number of students at your institution
- 4000 undergrad; 1200 graduate
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* Using a CMS enterprise wide, or with several departments
* Have governance or policies in place
* Have a form of centralized staffing
* And hopefully are encouraging best practices in content and user experience.
If you can take the brief survey at https://vovici.com/wsb.dll/s/8727g3fd23 (no longer than 2-5 minutes) it would help us gather preliminary information that will assist us in our initial phase of research. If you know of someone in your organization better suited to fill this out, please feel free to pass this along.
We are looking for initial responses by Thursday, October 15th.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me or my assistant Kyriakos Zannikos (716-645-4652 or zannikos@buffalo.edu)
Thanks in advance,
Rebecca Bernstein
Web Strategist | UB Web Team Leader
University Communications, University at Buffalo
rebecca@buffalo.edu
Tel: 716-645-4583
My school (Teachers College, Columbia University) is looking at Cascade as a possible repalcement for our homegrown CMS. Could I contact you with some questions about the system? (pa117@columbia.edu).
Thanks,
Paul Acquaro