The USF migration process consisted of many moving parts and collaboration between myself and content owners. I am the team lead when it comes to content migration and website build out. I was responsible for seeing a website through concept to completion while collaborating with many different people from many teams.
The migration process consisted of an initial meeting with a content owner to talk about their wants and needs from a website. After the initial meeting I set up a project timeline to make both parties aware of their responsibility in the project and to ensure we hit our milestones and met the project deadline.
From there I would direct them to our blank wireframe templates where they would layout their site to their specification. I would then review their wireframes and offer any input on things that could improve the site or the user journey. After some back and forth I would then take their wireframes and build out their test site.
Building out their test site consisted of my taking their wireframes and building them on our content management system. I would also set up restrictions to prevent users from placing files, documents and images in places where they don’t belong. Along with setting up restrictions I would create groups and add every user into a group and then give that group access to the site. After building out the “skeleton” of the site and giving proper access I would send it over to the content owners to add their content.
Sometimes content owners did not have enough time or did not feel comfortable enough to migrate their content so I would do that for them. In the process of taking their content from the wireframes to the aspx pages I would stylize and format their content. I would make sure all images were in proper snippets to help with mobile responsiveness as well as create all the metadata for pages and link them all together.
If the content owners decided to migrate the content one they were done they would send me their test site to give it a final review. During this review some of the things I looked for were:
- Made sure all pages had content and metadata
- Images were in snippets
- Pages linked properly and there were no dead links
- Images and documents were in their respective folders
Once I completed this review and they fixed any issues that I found I would then sign off on the website. Depending on the size of the site I would launch it myself or send it to IT to have them launch it and set up vanity urls.
Detail-oriented Technical Project Manager with 10+ years of experience in website implementation and management projects. Proficient in planning, problem-solving, and coordinating to consistently achieve project objectives. Skilled in content management systems, website management, and web scalability, with an analytical mindset to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve website-related issues efficiently.
Paul Latka is a Senior Analyst from Chicago and living in Tampa. This site displays some of the projects that I have worked on in my 10+ years of hands-on experience. If you would like to know more about me and my work please email me.