Project: Improve the Community and lay foundation for Generation 3 Position: Creative Director & Project Manager Year: 2008 Project Summary: See below
"I worked very closely with Andrew while working at Jive Software. Andrew was serving as Creative Director and Project Manager for the Bank of America Small Business Online Community. I was leading the development team that highly customized our Clearspace product for that site. This was an extremely demanding project with tight deadlines and an enormous number of features. Andrew demonstrated an outstanding set of leadership qualities that carried us though that rigorous schedule to deliver a high quality product, while maintaining great humor and perspective through the situation. First off, his level of commitment was inspiring. When the need arose to expedite communication, he came on-site and directly integrated with our team, to make himself available to clarify all the many requirements that needed to be fulfilled. Next, I think he has a great design sense and eye for detail, which is the critical difference between good and great web sites. His vision for the product and genuine passion for a high quality end result inspired my team, and drove us to carry the project through to the end. He was very generous with his appreciation of our efforts, which encouraged us and made us care all the more for the project and end result. In a later phase of the project, he delivered us some very high quality, well thought-out requirements, and very useful diagrams and designs for carrying them out. They were so complete that they needed almost no explanation, and we were able to carry out development very quickly."
— Greg Weinger, Professional Services Engineering Manager, Jive Software
Generation 2
Bank of America's Small Business Online Community launched last year (see Generation 1). The community continues to grow with users all over the United States and the world connecting with one another. The goal for 2008 was to make several improvements to all aspects of the community. Attention to detail and listening to the users has helped guide several key improvements.
