We Presented to the Dean on a Wednesday

April 2, 2026

We Presented to the Dean


    Today we had our online presentation of the DMAS to the College of Engineering Dean and her secretary. And I want to be honest about how that felt going in, and it was nerve-wracking. The Dean is not just any audience. She is the person whose approval carries weight, whose feedback shapes whether this system actually gets adopted and used by real people in a real office. That is not the same pressure as presenting to a classroom.

    We walked through the system from start to finish. The document submission flow, the monitoring features, the notifications, the administrative controls, all of it. We explained our design decisions, demonstrated how each role in the system interacts with it, and answered the questions that came up along the way. There were moments where I was watching the screen and genuinely hoping nothing would break mid-demo, which is a very specific kind of anxiety that I think every developer understands.

    It went well. The Dean and her secretary engaged with what we showed them, asked practical questions, and responded positively to the features we had incorporated based on the earlier rounds of feedback. Getting to this point it was from a first rough design to a working system being presented to a dean, is something I will carry with me long after this OJT ends.


    We are not fully done yet. Deployment is still ahead of us. But today felt like the real milestone. The work was seen, and it was received well.

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