Omnicom SOX

July 1st, 2005

Designer

Aart Balk

Developer

Michael Krotscheck

Abreon was an interesting company to work for, in that it was entirely driven by the sales force. This usually meant that the project was overbudgeted, overscoped, and set on an almost impossible timeline, but I’m not really someone to back down from a challenge.

This particular e-learning project was built for the Omnicom Media Conglomerate to assist in their adoption of Sarbanes Oxley controls for their IT group. In the process of building this particular package I put together a content display engine that would allow me to build e-learning packages at a much faster rate, something that would have benefitted me quite a bit had I remained with the company much longer

In essence, the engine took two xml files. The first of these was a template file that described a series of page layouts that included access to anything in the library as well as external resources and text assets. The second of these was the content file that mapped particular blocks of content to a particular template, and sequenced them into a single e-learning module.

This engine was then connected via the event model to a fully compliant SCORM controller that interfaced with the LMS into which the package was loaded. It also included (for those true Flash Geeks out there) an extension of the TextArea component that could render HTML tables, as well as a list renderer that handled both ordered and unordered lists. With a bit more work I would have had my own web browser built in flash.

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