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VCHRI is one of the top funded research institutes in Canada translating health research into practice
Project Summary
For VCHRI, I designed and managed development of an internal custom application which tracks all funding applications, contacts, processes, deliveries and reporting. This was specifically an application to help them keep track and manage all groups that they provide research funding for, ensuring those groups are meeting specific obligations, documentation storage, CRM needs such as identifying the primary and secondary researchers, research assistants and related, and much more.
Services Provided
- PIPEDA Support: VCHRI system is handling some levels of sensitive information related to the research projects they are funding. As such some of this project included ensuring the necessary levels of privacy protection and system access restrictions. Supporting in processes, security and related topics was part of my responsibilities.
- BA/SA: All standard business analyst-related skills were utilized throughout the few years I worked with this client. Helping design the applications from the ground up, integrations, gather requirements, wireframe development of all interfaces, UI/UX design, and more were done across the entire project base. Every interface in the system was designed by me.
- QA/Testing & Related: Being the only system that controls the entire business process, even short downtime can result in bringing the business to a halt, as staff would be unable to access the various documentation, perform checks, accept or move clients forward or anything else. As such any changes, updates, security patches, enhancements, deployments and related need to be done and tested carefully to ensure site stability and that perfect functionality remained. Even short downtime would result in large organizational impacts. As such all topics related to QA were of high importance for these projects.
- PM: All standard PM-based responsibilities, such as billing, reports, meetings, task assignments, scheduling, QA/Testing, budgeting, quoting and all related services. As a large highly complex set of projects, this client required every standard PM-related support service over the many years I worked with them.
- Dev PM: All standard development PM related responsibilities, such as scheduling development, working with the programmers, handling sprints, communicating requirements and more were handled by me throughout the entire project cycles.