Project Info:
Biotech Ontario is a public Internet Portal initiative with an aim to promote Ontario as a biotech center, encourage investment and provide tools and information to facilitate industry growth. The project budget was 1.1 million and ran 8 months in two phases of public release. Included in the project is a large administration Intranet utilized by the Ministry staff to manage the Web site content and database. Also included was a kiosk-based Flash demo of the site available in the ministry booth at the bio 2002 conference in Toronto. The project technology set is a J2EE Java and JSP code base running on a Resin Application server, Microsoft IIS Web Server and SQL database on Windows Server 2000.
Contribution Detail:
The project began as a publicly available government RFP. I wrote the RFP response which made the cut from 16 responses to three finalists. We were invited to present to 20 Ministry staff and won the project over two other companies including a Telus/IBM partnership, in part due to my previous experience leading complex Biotech Portal projects (Biocarta.com). My roles on the project were Project Manager, Business Analyst and Information Architect. I led the JAD planning sessions with ministry staff, wrote the requirements and specifications, constructed all site maps and storyboards and managed the team of 12 development staff to project launch. For the second phase of release I played the same roles and increased the project budget significantly through strategic up-selling of various feature and components.
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