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EPi supplies industrial and consumer clients worldwide with traditional and custom-created solutions for metal plating, finishing, and cleaning. EPi is known for providing customers with superior knowledge, advice, and service.
Project Overview
During my tenure at Smart Solutions, I was responsible for the entire EPI project, BA/SA as well as a primary PM initially and then supportive secondary backup PM later on.
This project was originally a redevelopment project, recreating the site with improved design and capabilities into a Magento Platform, from a prior site.
Smart Solutions completely re-developed the website, providing all web services such as design, development, data migration, hosting setup, training, SEO, maintenance, and related services.
As a B2B focused site, this specific website has a few common B2B set of features, such as advanced shipping for LTL/Freight based shipping needs, large order handling and related.
Example Services I Provided
- Initial PM: All standard PM-based responsibilities, such as billing, reports, meetings, task assignments, scheduling, QA/Testing, and much more. As a mid sized client with minimal internal staff experience, this client required every standard PM-related support service during development and post development phases.
- Secondary PM Backup: After site creation, into the maintenance period the PM responsibilities were taken over by other dedicated PM’s and I provided a supportive backup role for the project where needed.
- BA/SA: All standard business analyst-related skills were utilized throughout the years with this client. Helping design integrations, gathering requirements, wireframe interfaces for new topics and more were done across the entire project base. This client is using the free Open Source version of Magento, and has a few customization areas especially in relation to B2B focused shipping needs due to the large and heavy nature of some products.
- SEO Support and enhancement: such as core web vital score improvements, backlink/301 audit support, speed optimization support, integrations with GA/GTM,managing the search console, CRUX reports and more.
- QA/Testing & Related: Any changes, updates, security patches, enhancements, deployments, and related needs to be done and tested carefully to ensure site stability. As a BA, part of my responsibilities was creating and supporting test plans, as well as from a PM standpoint managing the execution and review of the plans.
- Data Migration, Data Enhancement & Optimization: During site development periods the client required support and training on migrating and improving the data from their prior environments.