Small Iz Beautiful

Used technologies:

PHP, SQL, CSS, XHTML, JavaScript / AJAX

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Project introduction:

SmallIzBeautiful is a recruitment agency based in Paris who is specialised in small and medium companies.
The website of the agency is their primary tool and is coupled with and intranet website.
All the work of the agency is done through these two tools so they are critical for the business of the company.

What was my role in this project?

I was in charge of improving the existing system and adding a number of new important features to the website and to the intranet.

I was in charge of all the steps of the development: From user needs analysis to design and imlementation.
My work was critical in the way that any issue with my work could lead to all the people in the company not being able to work properly.
Here is an overview of what I did during my 3 months contract with them:

Refactoring the database storage model of business data
Migrating the data from the former storage design to the new one and ensuring its consistency
Adding 2 new sections to the main website: ad publishing system and management of several new options in the account of the user
Fixing various bugs in the main website
Adding administration management systems related to the new main website features
Creating a newsletter and email marketing "smart" system (with bounces management, load balancing, detailed user targetting, etc. ... )
Teams reviews with the users and trainings

I was working very close to the users and was able to get direct feedback from them. I set up a Redmine tool to be able to work remotely without problems, we were close to AGILE work methods in the end.

Skills I acquired or used with this project

Working with existing codebase
Team work
Feature designing and scheduling
Object-Oriented PHP
Mailing systems
Data migrations
NetBeans
Svn, Git
Etc. ...