Joe Adair
Technology Executive | Enterprise Software & Platform Leader
Portfolio
Enterprise software platforms spanning academic operations, research, healthcare, events, and infrastructure stewardship.
Joe's platform work spans academic and administrative operations, research and healthcare systems, event and community platforms, and the infrastructure required to run them reliably over time.
Platform Domain
Internal enterprise platform hosting academic, administrative, research, and operational applications.
Lead Architect, Principal Developer, Platform Owner
Capstone and showcase lifecycle platform for submissions, advisor workflows, and resource coordination.
Lead Architect, Platform Owner, Product/Project Lead
Application, scheduling, and workload management systems supporting course assistant operations.
Architect, Lead Developer
Sponsored research proposal workflow platform supporting administrative review, reporting, and history.
Architect, Lead Developer
Administrative request and approval workflow supporting travel management across the College.
Lead Developer
Platform Domain
Django clinical research platform supporting provider workflows, assessments, and autism-related research operations.
Lead Developer, Technical Lead, Platform Owner
Healthcare and research Android application supporting adolescent health engagement.
Technical Lead, Backend Developer, Infrastructure Owner
Research workflow application for sample tracking, shipping management, and autism risk research support.
Lead Developer, Platform Owner
Windows-based research application with Raspberry Pi integration for rehabilitation analysis workflows.
Lead Developer, Systems Integrator
Platform Domain
End-to-end event platform for registration, judging, sponsors, prizes, resumes, and operational reporting.
Technical Lead, Lead Developer, Platform Owner
Operational platform for provisioning servers and categories for academic and recruitment use cases.
Architect, Lead Developer
Platform Domain
Long-term stewardship of faculty-hosted web servers, research application servers, and production environments.
Infrastructure Owner, Operations Lead
Detailed Portfolio
The detailed portfolio below is sourced directly from `projects.md`, so updates to the content file now appear in the site instead of being hidden behind the summary view.
Below you can find a comprehensive portfolio of some of Joe’s bigger projects over the past few years.
Across these projects, Joe’s role consistently included far more than initial application development.
CCI Apps is the College of Computing & Informatics’ primary internal enterprise application platform. It supports academic operations, faculty services, student engagement, research administration, and administrative workflows across the College.
Supports the course assistant hiring and management lifecycle, including application collection, review, selection, assignment, and administrative oversight.
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Supports scheduling, workload balancing, assignment planning, and operational management of course assistants across terms.
Supports sponsored research proposal workflows, faculty proposal tracking, administrative review, reporting, and historical proposal management. This application is heavily utalized by the College’s Research Operations team and faculty to manage proposal submissions.
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Supports travel requests, approvals, tracking, and administrative management. The travel request system allows faculty to submit requests and supporting documentation for travel activities which are then routed to department heads and administrators for review and approval before any travel is approved.
Internal Academic Use Uses the Discord API to provision and manage Discord servers and categories for academic and recruitment use cases. Every term faculty submit requests to provision Discord Categories for their courses. Utilizing Discord API’s the categories are provisioned with predefined roles and channels that are immediately ready for use. Discord category memebership is determined based on enrollments. There is a job that runs nightly to check against data provided by the university to ensure that all students in that course have access to the course Discord Categpry. This process also ensures that only students and faculty associated with that class have access.
Recruiting Use The college admissions team is able to submit a request for a new discord server which is automatically provisioned utilizing the Diuscord API. Utilizing this application to provision the server ensure that the server and process to join the server adheres to the Universities guidelines. The admissions team has the capability to manage user access to internal, esxternal and invitation based users via the CCI Apps platform. This allows for accepted students, enrolled students and perspective students to all be easily invited view email invitation in a variety of methods.
Capabilities include:
Conceived, architected, developed, deployed, administered, and continued to support the platform and its applications.
ACE is a Django-based clinical research platform developed for the AJ Drexel Autism Institute to support autism-focused screening, assessment, and research workflows.
One major component, Checkupquestions.com, gave pediatric providers, universities, and clinicians a way to collect patient screening data before appointments. Patients used provider-issued access codes to complete behavioral and developmental assessments, including Adverse Childhood Experiences questionnaires.
The platform began with a fully dynamic implementation of the M-CHAT-R, including complex scoring logic. A later phase expanded the system into a clinical portal with more than 40 digitized clinical and assessment forms for parents, providers, and administrators. Working from paper-based source materials and stakeholder requirements, we built workflows that released and scored forms automatically based on a child’s age and treatment plan.
This was a separate ACE-related application built for the Drexel University School of Education and was distinct from the AJ Drexel Autism Institute ACE Clinical Research Platform.
Developed as part of a research grant, the ACE Education Platform provided dedicated portals for school administrators, students, teachers, and researchers. Students completed reading passages paired with passage-specific questions designed to measure reading comprehension and related performance indicators.
The platform also included an organizational hierarchy that supported top-down administration across schools, grades, teachers, and students. It captured metrics such as time spent on each passage, clicks, and navigation behavior, then surfaced that data to teachers to help identify student strengths, weaknesses, and performance trends.
The research portal exposed much of the same underlying data at a broader level and included export capabilities so teams could perform additional analysis in external tools.
ECHOASDER is a Django-based research application developed for the AJ Drexel Autism Institute to support baby tooth collection, shipping coordination, sample tracking, and analysis workflows tied to autism risk research in adolescence.
PAST is a Windows-based research application developed to support rehabilitation research through the measurement, recording, graphing, and analysis of force applied to specialized hardware.
The research team developed a proprietary hardware device connected to a Raspberry Pi that captured data related to force, timing, and rate of applied pressure. The device was attached to various pieces of rehabilitation equipment so the team could collect participant data during exercises.
The application communicated with the Raspberry Pi over Bluetooth to collect and analyze data for each participant. Built as a WPF desktop application, it allowed users to create patient records, record session data, and track progress over time.
The Philly Codefest Event Management Platform is a comprehensive Django-based application built to support Drexel University’s annual Philly Codefest hackathon.
It handles project submissions, event organization, participant registration, check-in, judging, sponsor management, prize management, resume collection, reporting, and day-of event operations. The platform includes dedicated portals for administrators, students, and sponsors.
Designed to support the event from promotion through final judging, the platform automated a large share of event operations and reduced staff overhead. It also replaced several external tools previously used for registration, check-in, project submissions, and judging.
Senior Project Showcase supports the full lifecycle of senior design and capstone projects. It supports project submission, project idea creation, project management, advisor engagement, resource requests, team coordination, student resumes, and showcase and competition workflows.
TYS is an Android application developed for Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the City of Philadelphia to support adolescent health initiatives.
Prior detail described this as supporting at-risk teens with HIV and PrEP-related health engagement in a secure healthcare research environment.
At Pennoni Associates, Joe began in the Marketing Department creating and optimizing database-driven marketing solutions for proposal submissions and proposal management. His responsibilities expanded into larger application development, process automation, reporting, and business systems support.
For approximately two years, he contributed to an ETL and data migration effort moving data from multiple legacy applications into a new centralized enterprise application. This was part of an organization-wide implementation spanning accounting, human resources, marketing, project management, and record keeping.