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   * Name: Alex Ma
   * Login Name: macat
   * Email: ama@caida.org
   * Office Phone: 858-822-3506
   * Location: LaJollaOffice
   * Comment: CAIDA Webmaster starting 2000

---++ Things I've been working on that I don't want to forget about 
|Sep 2013|Document the caidawebmaster@gmail.com account to list what it's being used for: doodle, webmaster tools, custom search tool on caida, youtube account, google docs|
|Sep 2013|Lightbox needs to get hooked into XSLT at the right place so that it sets up the IE conditional directives correctly, so it can be deployed on a sitewide level rather than just in [[http://www.caida.org/publications/posters/][Publications Posters]]; related files on cider: %BR%/www/content/www-xml-443/c2supportfiles/lightbox2.6/%BR%/www/backend/www-xml-443/stylesheets/page2html.xsl (maybe pagecontentwrapper.xsl needs involvement instead)|
|Dec 2014|PubDB Presentations needs deploy tested further, more options for faster deploy.  The input interface still has bugs with the first-time input, and the venue/presenter accordions.|

---++ Annual Goals 2013-2014
|Fully document the CAIDA Publications Database for use by others in the event of webmaster absence|Moved to next year.|
|Deploy and evaluate the second generation of a CAIDA Publications Database that manages CAIDA presentations and slidesets|Not yet done. Presentation deploy needs work.|
|Update the research section for the CAIDA public website with new information to reflect recent activities and deliverables in those areas.|DONE.|
|Complete transition of AS Rank from relying on flat data files to using a database|Transferred ownership to Brad.|
|Increase communication and feedback with others in the group by holding periodic web design meetings|Needs improvement next year|
|Maintain NDN wiki and explore new wiki and blog apps to make sure our blog/wiki infrastructure is up to date|DONE.|
|Make sure all papers and slides are posted, and all folks have home pages|Almost DONE.|
|Provide assistance to new employees to orient them to the CAIDA workflow environment|DONE.|
|Take a leadership role in capturing updated content and populating the annual report on a frequent basis|DONE. 2013 Annual published May-June 2014.|
|Continue exposure to the LaTeX document preparation system to support the creation of PDFs for CAIDA papers and documents|DONE, mostly funding proposals removing sections and building, converting.|
|Establish and maintain regular in-person contact hours for coworkers and collaborators|DONE.|
|Provide consistent, timely feedback on my weekly activities via weekly reports|DONE. Except December was crazy.|

---++ Annual Goals 2012-2013
|Deploy and evaluate the second generation of a CAIDA Publications Database that manages CAIDA presentations and slidesets.|In development. Presentations still needs work.|
|Document how to maintain the AS Rank website and how to further develop it.|[[As-rank][DONE]].|
|Update the research and data for the CAIDA public website with a new information architecture to reflect recent activities and deliverables in those areas.|DONE. More work to do|
|Deploy a new version of AS Rank that uses a database backend in place of flat datafiles.|DONE. June 2013|
|Provide assistance to new employees to orient them to the CAIDA workflow environment.|DONE. Oriented Edgardo, Pol Colomer|
|Take a leadership role in capturing updated content and populating the annual report on a weekly/monthly basis.|DONE. 2012 Annual finally published Jul 2013.|
|Continue exposure to the LaTeX document preparation system to support the creation of PDFs for CAIDA papers and documents.|DONE. Worked on NDN Annual Report and ULSD-DARPA proposal.|
|Establish and maintain regular in-person contact hours for coworkers and collaborators.|DONE.|
|Increase technical, leadership and management skills by enrolling in relevant technical/business courses at UCSD Extension or with UCSD HR/staff education.|Did not do.|
|Provide consistent, timely feedback on my weekly activities via weekly reports.|DONE.|

---++ Annual Goals 2011-2012
|Take over the design, development, evaluation and deployment of the first generation publications/presentations database.|DONE. New development owned by jon|
|Learn the !LaTeX document preparation system to support the creation of PDFs for CAIDA papers and documents.|DONE. Prepared Papers/2012/imc-topocompare !LaTeX. More learning to be had. |
|Establish and maintain regular in-person contact hours for coworkers and collaborators.|DONE.|
|Hire another webmaster's assistant from the UCSD student pool to replace graduating/outgoing student Alex Dodge.|DONE. Sep 2011. Hired Jon Yuan|
|Update the research and data for the CAIDA public website with a new information architecture to reflect recent activities and deliverables in those areas|Partially DONE. Added images, in progress|
|Take a leadership role in capturing updated content and populating the annual report on a weekly/monthly basis|DONE. Staged and published 2011 annual by July|
|Promote accessibility by implementing sections of the website that orient a site visitor with a limited background in networking research|DONE. (in some capacity, it's an ongoing effort)|
|Funding permitting, increase leadership and management skills by enrolling in relevant business courses at UCSD Extension or with UCSD HR/staff education|NOT DONE.|
|Provide consistent, timely feedback on weekly activities via weekly reports|DONE. weeklies sent tuesdays|
|Increase communication and feedback with others in the group by holding periodic web design meetings|DONE. meet one-on-one, group meetings minimized|

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