Problem

Minneapolis Public Schools recently completed a massive conversion of all its financial, human resources, and other functional areas to a SAP ERP solution implemented by Siemens. One module integrated within SAP was an E-Recruitment tool — it basically replaced our legacy employment application — although upon implementation and months of use it became quite clear that it wasn’t the “out-of-the-box” MPS hoped it to be.

Our Solution

So, upon continued discussions with HR, we went ahead and developed our own custom employment application, which streamlined E-Recruitments functional overhead, and provided HR with a more efficient interface to manage job postings, incoming applications and the resulting business processes therein.

Once again, this project was built using C#.NET 2.0, except we integrated it with a MSSQL 2005 back-end. Using Microsoft’s latest database server gave us additional benefits, like the ability to send emails server-side via stored procedures, which significantly eased our application layer. It also quickened development through the usage of SQL Server Management Studio.

Tools and Technologies

• Photoshop CS
  Graphic design
• C#.NET 2.0
  Application-layer
• MSSQL 2005
  Custom data-layer leveraging stored procedures for efficiency
• HTML / CSS
  Interface design and development