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Jakes Bejoy's Portfolio
1 May 2012
Dr. Yiqi Luo's Ecolab
5 Jun 2010
Stanford Alumni Mentoring
1 Apr 2008
Fellowship in Christ at Stanford
1 Oct 2006
Stan-four-d at Tsinghua
5 Jul 2006
Stanford Table Tennis Club
27 Jun 2005
V2 Rocket Technology
23 Mar 2004

Stanford Alumni Mentoring

April 2008 - 2015

The Stanford Alumni Mentoring program allows Stanford students to find Stanford alumni and develop mentoring relationships with them. The role of the website was to allow participants to manage their profiles and to help students find mentors that matched their criteria.

To put it succinctly, program administration in the past was hell. Manually tracking people, handling paper applications, and answering bug reports became a full-time job of its own. The Stanford Alumni Mentoring team thus hired me to overhaul the original SAM website to:

  1. automate as much of the administrative tasks as possible,
  2. put the application process online,
  3. improve the existing search algorithm,
  4. improve the aesthetics of the site, and
  5. build a more robust, bug-free system.

The current site is a result of several rewrites in a span of a few years. It was by far my biggest project, and I learned a significant amount from my experience, in particular, about using classes and abstracting the user interface.