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Balance Remaining Pending Approval (Hours)89368.035
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Transaction Date Request Summary Work Completed Consumed (Hours)
10/04/2023

Coordinate That Testing, OPS SimplifySmallBiz Gravity View, Ramage Law Troubleshooting

  • Coordinate That Sellers Disclosure Implement Changes to Test Conducted by Client
  • SimplifySmallBiz OPS site – Develeop  view for petty cash payments using Gravity Views
  • Ramage Law Troubleshooting learning
0
10/06/2023
10/06/2023
10/09/2023
  • Met with Jayd to discuss and implement improvements to Ampian PTO calculation script
5
10/09/2023
  • Set up new work environment
  • Set up Local site for RLG to develop and test on
  • Morning Meeting
  • Ops Meeting with Andre Nell and Michaela Keel
4.5
10/10/2023
  • Met with Jayd to further develop Ampian script whilst learning and understanding principles and methods of programming
6.5
10/10/2023
  • Sundry Maintenance Items
  • Morning Huddle
  • Ops Meeting with Andre Nell and Michaela Keel
  • Development Training from Andre Nell
  • Developed a Local Dev environment for RamageLawPortal.com
3
10/11/2023
  • Met with team to implement github to FTP functionality
  • went through and renamed my submission for ampian
4
10/11/2023

Updated plugins

2
10/11/2023
  • Morning Meeting
  • Training from Andre Nell
2.25
10/12/2023
  • met with team to learn about using github within our development
3
10/12/2023
  • Training on Github from Jayd Page
    • How to make local changes to code and submit them to github for approval
  • Morning meeting with Michaela Keel and Andre Nell
  • Troubleshooting an issue with Clio
  • OPS meeting with Michaela Keel and Andre Nell
5.75
10/13/2023
  • Met with Jayd to discuss Ampian’s broker commission calculator
  • Met with the team to go over GitHub and ftp integration
3
10/13/2023
  • Team Training from Jayd Page
    • Github
  • Training from Andre Nell
    • How to complete diagnostic procedure
    • How to find errors in automations
  • JavaScript Study
  • Tested using GitHub to upload changes made in Visual Studio Code
4
10/16/2023
  • Morning Team Meeting
  • Training from AN
  • Troubleshooting PHP Format Option in Visual Studio Code
  • Organization of Trello Cards
  • Codecademy Git and Terminal Course
6.5
10/17/2023
  • Training from AN
    • Updated scripts for Red Flag Review for RamageLawPortal.com
  • Troubleshooting Local Error
  • Management of Trello Boards
    • Updated OPS Board with new request form Thomas Fine
  • Study of Javascript on codecademy.com
  • OPS meeting with AN
5.75
10/17/2023

RamageLawPortal Troubleshooting Training:

  • Red Flag Review Update Form Submissions to redirect to correct form IDs according to the correct red flag review.
0
10/02/2023
  • Met with Tom regarding Divorce Concierge WordPress site and custom plugin.
  • Introduction to the various WordPress plugins that we use for development ( Gravity Forms, Gravity Flow, Gravity PDF, etc. )
2
10/03/2023
  • Onboarding with Tom to take me through the Ampian plugin and PTO calculation requirements.
2
10/03/2023

Onboarding with Andre to discuss what is required of me and to take me through the way of working

1.5
10/16/2023
  • Created Weekly Report
    • Developed the form
    • Developed the GravityFlow workflow
    • Tested the workflow
  • Team Meeting
    • Reviewed status of Tom Donnelly Do Items
    • Tested process to update server via github pull requests limiting approvals to code owners
    • Trained Keke Phasha & Liam Nell on troubleshooting Ramage Law Portal issues
  • Testing Weekly Report
    • Tested Weekly Report procedure with Brie Hakes & Tracey Nell
    • Attempted to assist Crystal Rabb to access her HubSpot account
  • Setup unique domains and email forwarding accounts for all personnel who need a flexible email for test purposes
7
10/17/2023
  • Team Meeting
    • Met with team in morning meetings
  • Coaching & Development
    • Coached Liam Nell and Keke Phasha on the diagnostic process and the Ramage Law Sales Process to increase their abilities to assist with trouble shooting Ramage Law Issues.
  • Hours By Employee Reporting
    • Developed the views to create reports of hours by Employee
    • Tested the view
  • Operations Management
    • Reviewed hours by employee
    • Communicated with team members regarding issues with their reporting
8
09/04/2023
  • Training on How HubSpot Works includes:
    • Hubspot CRM
      • Workflow/piplines
      • Deals
    • Ramage LAw Potal
0
10/18/2023
  • Trello board management
    • Resolved issues for Thomas Donnelly regarding AmpianHR
    • Commuicated with Eric Thorup regarding the server setup for AmpianHR
    • Assigend work
    • Reviewed approvals
  • Team Meeting
  • Coaching
    • Keke Phasha & Liam Nell
    • Reviewed RLG Issue with Liam resolving the issue
    • Reviewed RLG origination of eCheck Authorization for Autopay
  • Meeting with Thomas Donnelly
    • Reviewed hours reported for the past 2 weeks
    • Identified reports that have issues
    • Made assignment for Thomas Donnelly to edit exising submissions and add additional submissions
    • Provided Thomas Donnelly with a tempory admin acces link to ops.simplifybiz.co to facilitate the required edits.
2.5
10/13/2023
  • Studying Php by Codecademy
    • Arrays
    • Objects
    • Functions
0
10/18/2023
10/18/2023
  • Updated my client reports from the first of the month to represent my work for the client.
1
10/05/2023
  • Client Submission Approvals
  • Reconcile Xero
1
10/10/2023
  • Reconciled Customer Balances on the ops website
    • Marked submissions with invoice # and date paid
      • Ramage Law Group
      • Divorce Concierge
      • RBCA
5
10/11/2023
  • Compared results of testing for Ampian HR (billed to Ampian)
  • Client submission approvals
  • Reconciled Xero
  • Cleaned Andre emails
1.5
10/12/2023
  • Reconcile Xero
  • Approve Client Submissions
  • Submit Andre’s client reports
1.5
10/16/2023
  • Morning Meeting
  • Weekly Xero report to Andre
    • Who we owe – cleaned that up in Xero
    • Who owes us
    • Client hourly balances for the week
  • Reconciled Xero
  • Client submission approvals
2.5
10/17/2023
  • Morning Meeting
  • Reconcile Xero
  • Plug & PlaySM
    • Marked off submissions per hours purchased
    • Checked to verify that the remaining minutes match and they do
4
10/18/2023
  • RLG Issue 1
    • Thomas Fine reported that a deal was in SPED Admin when it should be in CLOSING Hired.
    • Coached Liam Nell through the diagnostic process to identify and resolve the issue.
  • RLG Issue 2
    • Thomas Fine reported that a deal did not include the link to next action.
    • Coached Liam Nell through the diagnostic process to identify the issue. Liam Nell tasked with testing and resolving the issue.
2.5
10/18/2023
  • Meeting with Andre Nell and Keke Phasha
    • Instruction regarding diagnostic procedure
    • Training on Hubspot Workflows
  • Meeting with Andre Nell
    • Andre Nell gave an explanation of how Ramage Law Portal and Hubspot workflows flow.
1.5
10/04/2023
  • PHP and WordPress Research (1 hour)
  • Pairing with Tom on Ampian code improvements (4 hours 20 minutes)
  • Daily meeting with Team (20 minutes)
5.6
10/05/2023
  • Introduce the coding concept of “Single Responsibility”
  • Coaching on how to choose a good name
  • Coaching on code comments
  • Investigate how to write Unit Tests in PHP
  • Do a proof of concept for writing a unit test in the Ampian project
  • Troubleshooting how to return REST API plain text responses within WordPress
6
10/06/2023
  • Meeting with Tom to Better Understand the Way of Working and the Software Development Lifecycle within Simplify
  • Pairing with Tom on PTO calculation refactor
  • Introduce Tom to the concept of encapsulation
  • Advocate for the use of PHP Types
  • Advocate for the use of PHP Classes
  • Introduce auto code formatting
  • Daily Meeting with Team
6.25
10/09/2023
  • Introduce Tom to
    • error handling techniques
    • data integrity validation within the code
    • default parameter values
    • variable length parameters
  • Introduce the concept of how to write testable code
6
10/10/2023
  • Introduce Tom to
    • DRY principle
    • the concept of Idempotency
    • the concept of custom return types
    • the concept of Dependency Inversion
  • Explain concepts of how to write sustainable code
  • Coach Tom on thinking about edge cases and boundary conditions
5
10/11/2023
  • Troubleshooting restoration of Ramage Law Portal to Local Machine
  • Investigate and create Proof of Concept for Auto deploy to FTP via Github
  • Documentation for Github deploy to FTP
  • Session on configuring and deploying to FTP with the team
4.75
10/12/2023
  • Roleplay Git and source control scenarios with team
  • Git conflict resolution
  • Git pull requests
  • Git pull request review
  • Git pull request approval
  • Git branching and conventions
2.5
10/13/2023
  • Update Github deployment behavior on pull requests
  • Investigate Github reviewer and merge permissions
  • Paired with Tom on Ampian Broker Commission Calculator Introduction
  • Reviewed Broker Commission Calculator code to make suggestions
  • Met with development team to configure deployment of the SB sandbox plugin to the development server
5
10/16/2023
  • Suggested and coached Tom on how to refactor the code using Object Oriented concepts
  • Reduced code duplication and looked to simplify the solution
  • Introduced Tom to to data transfer objects and data modeling
  • Suggestions for future code improvements around making the code more maintainable
  • Daily meeting with team
4.5
10/17/2023
  • Fix the code owners of the sb-sandbox-plugin repository to force approval by Andre of pull requests into the main branch
  • Add documentation on how to protect branches in Github
0.6
10/18/2023
  • Introduction to submitting daily work hours
  • Pairing with Tom on Ampian Broker Commission Calculator and how we can best synchronize data
  • Discussion on strategies for long running tasks
1
10/18/2023
  • I updated all of the plugins that were listed.
2
10/19/2023
  • Team Meeting
  • Coaching Keke Phasha & Liam Nell
    • How to diagnose an issue
      • RLG Issue Cancelled Appointments not updating throughout the system
    • Setup Dev Server
      • Setup rlp.sblik.com

 

3
10/19/2023
  • Morning Team Meeting
  • Training from Andre Nell
    • Troubleshot properties not updating in Hubspot after consult is canceled.
  • Meeting with Michaela Nell and Andre Nell to discuss progress of Ramage Law Group projects.
  •  Misc
    • Pick Up Dallas for Andre Nell
5.25
10/19/2023
  • Setup Dev Sites on Sblik.com
    • tdc.sblik.com
  • Setup GitHub FTP Workflows
    • Ampian Live Server
    • TDC Live Server
    • TDC Dev Server
3
10/20/2023
  • Met with team to attempt to integrate pushing certain folders in github to certain folders on a sites server
2
10/20/2023
  • Review the changes Tom proposed to the Github FTP deploy workflow
    • Made suggestions to combine PDF and Plugin deploys into a single workflow
    • Explained the use of dry-run option for FTP deploy
0.3
10/20/2023
  • Team training
1
10/20/2023

Research:

  • Gravity views
  • Changing Upload Field Temple Names
  • eChecks

Team Meeting

Ramage Law Portal:

  • Red Flag Review Creating new Form submission triggers
  • Updating Developer Notes
  • eCheck
  • Appointment Cancellation Troubleshooting
0
10/23/2023
  • Got github repository to successfully change separate server directories with files from separate folders in github
  • Researched and attempted to implement downloading of debug logs from server into github repository
5.5
10/23/2023

Team Meeting

  • Reviewed process to update development server via FTP using GitHub

Set FTP Updates via GitHub

  • Setup repo for CoordinateThat.com
  • Tested the workflow to update a dev server after edits to local site that failed
  • Requested assistance from Jayd Page

Coaching

  • Assisted Michaela Keel and Liam Nell with troubleshooting issue with pulling a branch from the repo into a different users local repo
3
10/23/2023
  • Updated Ramage Law Group’s Trello Items
  • Morning Team Meeting
  • Resolved an issue regarding Git branches
  • Training from Michaela Keel
    • Troubleshooting Contract: Initiate Form
2.9
10/23/2023
  • Bliksem Board Maintenance
    • Reviewed and updated cards on Andre list
    • Reviewed and updated cards on Approvals list
  • Initiated Weekly Report
2
10/23/2023
  • Reviewed cards in Approvals list
  • Updated clients view of work completed on ops.simplifybiz.co
  • Updated Manager User Guide on ops.simplifybiz.co
1
10/23/2023
  • Assisted LN in setting up github branch to test contracts
  • Trained LN on troubleshooting issues in RLP
1
10/24/2023
  • Team meeting
  • Research how to save debug.log to external application
  • Setup FTP updates via GitHub
    • coordinatethat.com~/plugins/sb-cthat-plugin
    • ct.sblik.com~/uploads/PDF_EXTENDED_TEMPLATES
  • Tested updates via github for
    •  coordinatethat.com~/plugins/sb-cthat-plugin
    • ct.sblik.com~/uploads/PDF_EXTENDED_TEMPLATES
2
10/24/2023
  • Helped Rebekah test DC contracts
    • New signing process
  • Met with team
  • Prepared trello card to have a checklist for each stage of DC client’s workflow
4
10/24/2023
  • Coaching
    • Assisted Liam Nell troubleshooting an RLG item with Clio Manage
  • Maintenance
    • Resolved issue where Thomas Donnelly had submitted client report as webg@simplifybiz.co
    • Updated the entries to tom@simplifybiz.co
    • Confirmed that the entries appeared in Thomas Donnelly’s inbox on ops.simplifybiz.co
  • Management
    • Approvals on Bliksem Trello Board
1
10/24/2023
  • Assisted LN is setting up Github branch for RLP local testing
  • Assisting LN on how to develop a workflow in Hubspot
1
10/20/2023
  • Morning Meeting
  • Working with Andre Nell
    • Setting up Github workflow automations
    • Troubleshooting
      • Git tags were not initiating workflow to deploy changes to dev site.
5.75
10/24/2023
  • Coaching
    • Assisted Liam Nell in troubleshooting an RLG item
      • with Clio Manage
      • a deal stuck in Contracts (Closing)
  • Maintenance
    • Resolved issue where Thomas Donnelly had submitted client report as webg@simplifybiz.co
    • Updated the entries to tom@simplifybiz.co
    • Confirmed that the entries appeared in Thomas Donnelly’s inbox on ops.simplifybiz.co
  • Management
    • Approvals on Bliksem Trello Board
  • Troubleshooting
    • Issue where root files in Texas Divorce Concierge PDF_EXTENDED_TEMPLATES folder were missing
    • Setup update via github for PDF_EXTENDED TEMPLATES folder on
      • texas.divorceconcierge.com
      • tdc.divorceconcierge.com
  • Research
    • Hot to filter entries in gravityflow inbox for a user who has multiple roles assigned
5
10/24/2023
  • Morning team meeting
  • Training from Michaela Keel and Andre Nell regarding Hubspot workflows and troubleshooting Hubspot deals.
1.25
10/25/2023
  • I updated the plugins that were listed.
1.5
10/25/2023
  • Check email
  • Added a blog post to sblik.com
    • How to unenroll a deal from a HubSpot workflow.
  • Morning Team Meeting
  • Training from Andre Nell and Michaela Nell
    • Working on PHP Script to clear Sharon Ramage’s Inbox on ramagelawportal.com
  • Maintenance:
    • Updated Trello OPS Board
3.5
10/25/2023

Management

  • Team meeting
  • Approvals
    • Processed Bliksem board approvals
    • Processed GitHub pull requests

Maintenance

  • Improved efficiency of operations
    • Streamlined email account to send emails to andre@simplifybiz.co
    • Setup functionality to send email from andre@simplifybiz.co as other users
    • Cleaned up folder structure in andre@simplifybiz.co email account to more easily manage the account
  • Tested GitHub Actions
    • update ct.sblik.com pdf_extended_templates folder
    • update tdc.sblik.com pdf_extended_templates folder
    • update texas.divorceconcierge.com pdf_extended_templates folder
  • Continued testing servers via github actions
    • Setup github actions to update custom plugin on
      • tdc.sblik.com
      • texas.divorceconcierge.com
    • Tested to confirm success

Coaching

  • Worked with Liam Nell and Michaela Keel
    • Worked through filtering gravityflow inbox for a specific user
    • Assisted Liam Nell to resolve issue with RLP red Flag Review note to sales team displaying as json_encoded in the ramage law portal entry
    • Resolved RLP issue with Liam Nell to determine the workflow for sending account setup notifications to PNC’s and Third Party’s.
8
10/26/2023
  • Met with Keke to troubleshoot WordPress endpoint issue
0.5
10/26/2023
  • Successfully calculated Broker Commission using real Prism data to get
    • Suta bill rate (per employee)
    • Admin fee (per client)
    • Number of employees enrolled in Ampian health plan (per client)
  • Continued searching Prism HR for SUTA Cost value
3
10/26/2023
  • Management
    • Team Meeting
  • Maintenance
    • Changed location of debug.log on rlp.sblik.com to wp-content/logs/debug.log
    • Created FTP account for Keke Phasha to access this debug log
  • Coaching
    • Worked with Keke on process to download debug.log from rlp.sblik.com to his local driver and then commit to sblik/debug.log repo on github
    • Reviewed principles for Commit message
3
10/23/2023

OnceHub Research:

  • Webhooks Subscriptions
  • Creating Test Account
  • Understand incoming webhooks
0
10/24/2023

Research Oncehub:

  • Understand receiving webhooks from onceHub using Webhooksite
  • Examine RLP incoming webhook

Githhub:

  • Setup Coordinate That repo

 

 

0
10/25/2023

Research Creating WordPress Endpoints:

  • Creating Endpoints for receiving incoming webhooks.
  • Manipulate incoming post-data from third-party sites.
  • Implement in one.sblik.com
0
10/26/2023

Troubleshoot Appointment Cancellation:

  • Create test data
  • Verify problem
  • Research Oncehub, webhook site, and Postman.

Debug log training:

  • Uploading debug logs on GitHub
0
10/27/2023
  • Daily Team meetings
0
10/30/2023
  • Met with Andre to get information regarding Ampian
0.5
10/30/2023
  • Team meeting
  • Reviewed bliskem trello board and updated the board
2
10/31/2023
  • Team meeting
  • Completed 1 on 1 mentoring on how to express project requirements and status in written format for managers and other developers
  • Reviewed
    • bliksem lists on the Trello board with Keke Phasha to determine the status quo of assigned projects
    • Thomas Donnelly’s salary with a consultant. He has been with the company for 2 years now.
    • Bliksem lists on the Trello board with Michaela Keel to determine status quo of assigned projects
5
10/31/2023
  • Cleaned up trello board items
  • Consolidated trello board items that had too many cards for the same item
  • Training with AN on written communication
3
10/31/2023
  • Completed Do Items on Bliksem board on Trello
  • Completed approvals on Bliksem board on Trello
1.5
11/01/2023
  • I updated the plugins that were listed
1.5
11/01/2023
  • Updated Trello cards to use bullet point instructions and comments
  • Read through slack messages
1
11/02/2023
  • Met with Jayd to introduce the principals of debugging within VSCode
  • Met with team to go over PHP Storm shortcuts
2
11/01/2023
  • Team meeting
  • Approvals
  • Follow up
    • Ampian PTO Calculator
    • Ampian Broker Commission Calculator
    • RamageLawPortal projects
      • New Lead Form update
      • RLG Issues
        • Keke Phasha
        • Liam Nell
8
11/02/2023
  • Team meeting
  • Training from Jayd Page
    • PHP Storm
      • Shortcuts
      • Deploying updates
  • Approvals
3
11/02/2023
  • Management of OPs board
  • Updated Trello cards with evidence that solutions work.
  • Maintenance Items
    • Check inboxes
    • Check Thomas Fine’s Board for New Requests
2.25
11/02/2023
  • Morning Meeting
  • Trello Board Organization
  • Observed Andre Nell develop Hubspot Workflow.
    • Edits made to follow up call workflow.
3
10/18/2023
  • Met with Andre
  • Submission approvals
  • Added my submissions for Bliksem to keep track of
  • Trello card
    • to An for submission reminders
    • instructions to “Reconcile Bulk Entries & Customer Invoices” to add to the Managers User Guide
2.5
10/23/2023
  • Submission Approvals
  • Emails
  • Reconcile Xero
  • Monday Report
1.5
11/02/2023

Management

  • Approvals
  • Troubleshooting
    • RLG
      • Follow Up Reminder Workflow
    • Simplify Biz
      • Weekly Report notifications to slack
  • Do list items on Bliksem
3.5
11/02/2023
  • Reconcile Xero
  • Submission Approvals… so many!
  • Trello: review & complete cards
  • Monday Report
5
11/02/2023
  • Assisted LN and TD in understanding and troubleshooting RLP
1
11/02/2023
  • Meeting With Tom – Debugging. Segregation of Data Retrieval, Data Mapping and Data Processing
  • PHP Storm Demo With Andre – Keyboard Shortcuts and Auto Deploy.
2.5
11/03/2023
  • Tried to find cause of critical error on ramagelawportal.com
  • Assisted Rebekah with testing ramagelawportal.com
  • Met with team to discuss how to improve communication regarding writing tests and giving instructions in Trello Cards
4
11/03/2023
  • Management
    • Team meeting
    • Approvals
    • Process Pull requests
  • Coaching
    • Formatting cards on Trello Board
      • Title
        • Make it descriptive and measurable
      • Description Field:
        • Objectives
        • Notes or Comments from Clients
      • Comments
        • Bullet point form
        • Add summary comment at the end
        • Comments should make life easier for the next person. They should not have to go looking to figure out what is going on.
    • Troubleshooting
      • Keke Phasha, Michaela Keel
        • Issue with MK local RLP
        • On submission of SPED Set Consult, fields in NLF were not populating from PS
        • Reviewed how to narrow down to the specific steps to investigate
7
11/03/2023

Meetings

  • Finance meeting with Brie
  • Finance meeting with Tracey

 

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