The Engagement
Retained continuously across a decade via agency contracts to safeguard, optimize, and systematically modernize the digital infrastructure of one of the world's premier business school platforms. Act as a foundational engineering resource for the ecosystem, managing complex version lifecycles, enterprise integrations, and high-concurrency availability.
Key Contributions
- Multi-Generational Platform Migrations
Successfully guided the institution through successive, massive core migrations from the original Drupal 7 build, through Drupal 9, and into its modern Drupal 10 architecture. Executed structural data mapping, custom module refactoring, and database migrations to preserve historical content integrity across CMS generations.
- Enterprise Identity & Access Management
Engineered and support robust, secure single sign-on (SSO) integrations leveraging SAML and the University of Michigan’s OpenID Connect (OIDC) protocols. This framework safely manages administrative access and protects restricted student, faculty, and portal content.
- Automated Enterprise Data Aggregation
Built and maintain advanced backend data synchronization pipelines that interface daily with on-campus university databases. These integrations seamlessly aggregate, map, and cache massive content sets, including active courses, faculty research CVs, student profiles, campus events, and executive program listings.
- Component Architecture & Layout Systems
Architected a modular, layout-driven content management framework using Drupal Layout Builder, custom component blocks, and highly optimized Views with exposed filters. This enables the internal marketing team to autonomously assemble intricate, responsive landing pages for academic programs and student guides while enforcing global brand guardrails.
- Continuous Lifecycle Management
Successfully guided the platform through successive major core migrations up to its current modern Drupal 10 architecture. Conduct ongoing core and contrib security patching, performance tuning, and technical discovery to ensure stability during peak academic enrollment windows.
Timeline: 2014 – Present (Continuous Architecture & Modernization)
Core Stack: Drupal 7 / 9 / 10, PHP, Symfony, SAML / OpenID Connect (OIDC), Enterprise Data Aggregation, Layout Builder
Note: Original frontend layout and visual brand identity designed by Behavior Design. Full-stack platform engineering, system integrations, and continuous multi-generational lifecycle maintenance executed by nah design as a long-term technical team augmentation partner with Launch Control.
