In 2001, as an employee of IBM Global Services, Mike Weis accepted the team lead role for a project known as e-Questionnaire, or eQ for short. The client was IBM's internal employee surveying organization. For many years, this group developed electronic employee surveys using IBM mainframe equipment. Employee participation in surveys was initiated via PROFS, the prevailing office email system at the time, and the employee responded to survey questions using the mainframe VM operating system. By 2001, virtually all of IBM had migrated off of PROFS and were now using Lotus Notes as their office email system. The challenge at the time was to migrate the survey system off of the mainframe and onto the workstation, taking advantage of the more advanced graphical user interface available there. Due to the tight coupling of surveys to the email system, the project was implemented as a native Lotus Notes application. This project completed successfully in 2002.
This left the customer working in two environments, authoring their surveys from legacy data in the pre-existing mainframe environment, then releasing it to employees in the Lotus Notes environment. As a follow on project (Phase 2), the survey administrators wished to migrate the rest of their survey activities (designing, authoring and maintaining) to the same target environment as that used by the employees taking the survey.
This document is the proposal for eQ Phase 2, the Administrative upgrade. The document was written and laid out by Mike Weis using Adobe InDesign in 2003. All of the screenshots were prototypes: based on the existing screenshots available from the installed eQ application, they were modified in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to present the proposed layouts shown here.
The proposal was accepted. Mike received many commendations for the presentation of this proposal and this document.
Incidentally, the “eQ logo” 
was also designed by Mike Weis for the initial release of the application. It was adopted by the administrators as their official email stationery logo.
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(3.9M, 54 pp.)