Overview
While working as a tutor at Livingstone College’s Student Success Center, I experienced the paper process for recording work hours. I built a digital alternative designed directly around that real workflow.
Problem Statement
The manual paper process for logging hours required calculating daily and monthly totals by hand and handling physical sheets, creating an everyday administrative burden.
Academic tutors recording shift hours and supervisors reviewing timesheet records at the Student Success Center.
My Role & Responsibility
I identified the need, worked out the exact information tutors needed to record, and designed, built, and refined the MVP as a usable operational tool.
Process & Execution
Observed firsthand friction points in the Student Success Center paper timesheet workflow.
Identified essential recording fields: date, day, time in, time out, and total hours.
Designed and built an MVP with automated hour calculations across shifts.
Added calculations for weekly and monthly hour totals.
Implemented a downloadable PDF export feature for required record-keeping.
Solution & Core Features
A functional web timesheet MVP that captures date, day, time in, time out, and total hours, supports automated hour calculations with weekly and monthly totals, and generates a downloadable PDF. (Sending the PDF directly to a supervisor is an ongoing improvement).
Results & Learnings
Successfully transformed a manual paper workflow into a working digital MVP.
Automated calculations for daily hours as well as weekly and monthly totals.
Created downloadable PDF timesheet records reflecting the required institutional format.
"How to take ownership of an everyday operational problem, identify essential user requirements, and build a practical, functioning digital tool."