Erik Olson
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Shout-outs From My Colleagues
Shout-outs are kind words from Libraries staff to other Libraries staff for going out of their way to be extra awesome at their job.
Bravo to the team that upgraded the Libraries website to Drupal 10 — Erik Olson, Eric Pauley, Meredith Wynn, and Chris Bowen! And big thanks to Amir Blair and Robin Davis for testing. Keeping our large, complex website up to date is important, difficult work. It's the kind of work that would be easy to postpone and get behind on. Not this team! Because of them, we have a well-oiled machine.
— Josh Boyer
Erik led a fast-paced, technically challenging project to transition the Libraries to using Matomo, a web analytics application that values user privacy. His leadership of the task force, research of analytics alternatives, and thorough understanding of our organizational needs meant that the project was completed on time with multiple people and departments on board. It was a big lift, and a big success!
— Robin Davis
Simply put, Web Team solves problems, and fast. An increasing number of Libraries departments are producing different kinds of content across different platforms. Web Team has been adept at not only enabling departments to produce new kinds of content, but also helping External Relations leverage and re-use that content. The team has been incredibly responsive to (and patient with!) out-of-left-field, what-if questions by thinking through the implications of back-end changes from both a technology perspective and a consistency one. They respond quickly with solutions and implementations informed by the Libraries' overall mission, rather than playing defense against changes to the complex infrastructure that they have to maintain. Web Team is always helpful, thoughtful, reasonable, and fast.
— Chris Vitiello