SUMMARY

Over 35 years of business experience, most recently as a SharePoint SME, Senior Architect, KM, and Business Analyst. Governance, Business Process Management/Redesign, Business Cases, Use Cases, Prototypes, POC, Enterprise Architecture, Change Management, Information Architecture, Knowledge Management, Project Management/PMO, Upgrades, Intranets, Portals. VP C-Level Facing/Reporting. Direct- and Matrix-Management. Team and Single-Consultant roles.

TECHNOLOGIES

• SharePoint 2003/2007/2010/2013/Standard/Enterprise. SharePoint Designer. Visual Studio. STSADM. PowerShell.
• Workflows. InfoPath. Databases. Cubes. BI. SharePoint Integration with Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Access. Project/Visio.
• SQL Server 2005/2008/R2/Standard/Enterprise. AD Security. Windows Server 2003/2008/R2/Standard/Enterprise.
• SSMS. SSRS. SSIS. Named Instances. Maintenance Jobs. Backups. Stored Procedures. T-SQL. C . IIS. JavaScript.
• Managed Programmers, Business Analysts, Scientists. Performance Appraisals. Leadership. Coaching.
• Data Scientist. Data Cleansing. Entity-Relation ER Diagrams. Database Design RDBMS. Normalization De-normalization.
• Project Management/PMO. Risk Analysis RAID. Critical Path CPM. Project Plans Execution. Scope/Schedule/Cost Control.
• Agile. Story Writing. Endpoint Definition. SCRUM. Rapid Application Development RAD. Matrix Management. Waterfall.
• Requirements Gathering. Gap Analysis. Strategy. Governance. End-to-End Execution Plans. Growth Plans.
• Enterprise Architect. TOGAF. Zachman. Business Solutions. Write Technical Specs. Functional FRS. User Acceptance UAT.

CONSULTANT AND PERMANENT POSITIONS

WORK EXPERIENCE

Enterprise Architect, SharePoint SME, Consultant.

Confidential

• Meet the Finance Team, elicit needs/issues, design/build electronic Capital Appropriation Request approval System.
• Set architectural design and growth plans, build systems, change management, communication to Users/Management.
• Gather Requirements. Design/Build No-Code Solutions hands-on . Branding. Business Process Management. CoE.
• Design/Build SharePoint 2013 sever infrastructure, environments. Plan/execute SharePoint 2007-2013 migrations.
• Built UI/UX, Navigation, Site Map, Wireframes, KM, Physical/Logical/Information-Architectures, Workflows, Forms.
• Enterprise Architect, SharePoint SME, Consultant. Confidential.
• Confidential RESULTS: System was used successfully and cloned by IT for a similar Phase 4 system.
• Used Waterfall SDLC. Provided change management, managed owners' expectations, provided training, documentation.

Confidential

RESULTS: Improved Search, Navigation, Storage, UI/UX, Information Flow, Retrieval.

• Learned the Business Processes and applied them to document classification. Card Sorting. Verb-Noun-Adjective Analysis. Ontology, Taxonomy, Axes Site Columns , Values Metadata, MDM , Policies/Standards/SOPs, TOGAF.
• Performed Team Building and Training, up to Senior Director and VP level. Some users had little/no exposure to SharePoint or Web Apps. Coached reluctant adopters. Time-Motion Study justified using Metadata instead of Folders.
• Developed Strategy/Governance with Rapid Application Development RAD SDLC. Change Management. Train-the-Trainers/Admins/Users. Built Metro/Windows 8 Interface in SharePoint 2010. Migration from File Share Appliance.
• Enterprise Architect, SharePoint SME, Employee. Confidential
• Created the Gap Analysis, Business Requirement Spec, Hardware Requirements Spec, Mapped Requirements to Tools.
• After reviews with Sr VP and IT Dept, delivered a three-year roadmap for projected hardware/software growth. TOGAF.
• Designed a Multi-Language Intranet Portal, Variations, Author-Publishing Architectural model, and Governance for SVP.
• When asked to cut 200k: Redesigned UI, used 4 Content Types, 4 Custom Lists, 4 Webforms instead of 39 .Net Sites.

Confidential

• Designed a new SharePoint Server 2010 environment into which the old SharePoint 2007 environment could be imported and reorganized with better Results for Search and Finding documents. Designed Hardware/System. TOGAF.
• Wrote the migration plan, including partition of a single 800 GB Content Database into 80 GB Content Databases.
• Met department heads to box-in SOW, Strategy, Scope, Requirements/Limitations/Expectations.
• Using Microsoft recommended practices, designed the protocols for Migration. Held User Interviews. Level 3 Support.

Confidential

• Introduced Rapid Prototyping in the Cloud. Integrated it with our Agile SDLC stream, Project Backlog, Sprint Backlog.
• Cut Agile defects from 80 to Zero. Cut Sprints from 4 to 1. Zachman.
• Introduced US-Side Rapid Application Design RAD. Designed/Built working Prototypes, reviewed them with Director, VP Level Stakeholders, fixed defects , added new requirements, BEFORE committing prototypes to Off-Shore Developers.
• Re-Architected a complex KM design into a standard Content Deployment Architecture. Eliminated coding, testing, rework, maintenance, impractical future security demands. Consolidated Workflows.

Confidential

• Managed by two Merck Directors in more of a staff-augmentation role. Level 3 Support. Project Plans. Governance.
• Designed Big-Picture, Governance, Term Sets, IA, Content Types, Synchronized Enterprise Hub, Migration Strategy.
• Presented Rapid Prototyping results options, recommendations, benefits at weekly meeting of Directors and Team.
• Resolved standardization issues with Syndicated Content Types during migration. Wrote Roadmap, As-Is/To-Be Specs.
• Piloted 2007 to 2010 Migration with Metalogix 5. Upgrade Plan. Led .Net/OM/PowerShell developers. ITIL. LSS.
• SharePoint Architect, SME, Admin, Web Designer, Consultant. Confidential
• After the Balanced Score Card System crashed: Found root cause. Designed/Delivered new Solution in 2 days.
• Showed why Web App for 1 Dept crashed when used for 3 Depts. Coded HTML/JavaScript Extensibility for all 16 Depts.
• Created Workflows in ShareVis Forms in InfoPath Sites/Groups/Pages/HTML for the Global Logistics System . LSS.
• SharePoint Architect, SME, DBA, Admin, Employee. Confidential
• Designed/Built hands-on Knowledgent's SharePoint System and
• Created: Project Management Toolkit . Exceeded expectations. Expanded Roll-Out from 1 to all PDPM departments.Provided Level 3 Tech Support to contractors supplying our Cloud Services. Microsoft Dynamics. ETL. Governance.
• Supported the T. Rowe Price project, on-site, Owings Mills, MD.

SharePoint Architect, SME, BPM, Consultant.

Confidential

• Worked with Senior Management to elicit deeper Needs, Options, Concepts. Used Spiral/Rapid Prototype SDLC. TOGAF.
• Reduced reporting workload 75 per Project Manager. ITIL. LSS. PDAC. PoC/PoT/Pilot. ShareVis. Swim Lanes.
• Provided real-time Project Management, Dashboard/KPI/Milestone/Risk/Issue/Assignment analysis across all Projects.
• SharePoint Architect, SME, BPM, Consultant. Confidential
• Simultaneously propagated the Latest Data from multiple departments into Upper-Management PowerPoint Decks.
• Added Consolidated Revision Tracking System , Custom Workflows, automatic emails. ETL. ITIL. LSS. PoC/PoT/Pilot.
• Gathered Requirements from a mere 20 minute interview with Managing Director of Global Wealth Management.
• Delivered: Proof-of-Concept, Prototypes, Failure Analysis, Documentation, Design, Information Architecture Results.
• Performed exclusively all hands-on Administration for 44 Sites/Lists/Libraries for 14 Departments, per Business Needs.

SharePoint Architect, SME, Consultant

Confidential

• Provided Architecture, Training, Planning, and elbow-to-elbow instructions to Install/Configure SQL Server, Named Instances, IIS, .Net, App Pools, Web Apps, SharePoint 2007 Enterprise Portal, Three-Tier Farm, Central Admin, SSP, Search, Excel Services, BDC, My Sites, Site Collections, separate Dev and QA Environments. Installation Qualification IQ .
• Provided Architecture/Designs for Governance, Change Management, Approval Procedures, Security, Production Support, Ownership of Metadata/Data/Documents, AD Groups, Backup, Maintenance Plans, Performance Modeling, and even Spindle Usage for the upcoming Production system next year. Finished project in two weeks.

SharePoint Lead, Admin, DBA, Employee.

Confidential

• Conceived/Established/Maintained Multi-National, Multi-Departmental Publishing Portal DMS for Collaboration.
• Zachman. Use Cases. Business Cases. Workflows. Self-Service HR Site. Abstract design for all Products, Departments.
• Interviewed/Elicited hidden needs from Staff/Managers/VPs/CFO. Used Agile/Iterative/Rapid/Scrum SDLCs.
• Customized Site Templates Web Parts Master Data Management MDM with 34 Axes Site Columns Content Types.
• Reorganized Taxonomies. Introduced Facets, Card-Sorts, Common Lexicon. Improved Search Results.
• Migrated 2003 to 2007 using Gradual Migration, STSADM, Prime, and UNC. Migrated Outlook/File Shares/FTP Sites. .
• Created/Modified web.config, default.master, html/aspx Pages, Workflows/Designer, Forms/InfoPath.
• Installed/Administered Windows Server ENT, .Net, SQL Server ENT, Named Instances, SharePoint/MOSS 2007 ENT.
• Created Prototype/Staging/Production Environments in three-tier Farms on multiple Physical and Virtual Servers, SSP, Services, Search, i-Filters, Managed Properties, AD/LDAP Sync, App Pools, IIS Web Sites, .Net, My Sites, Site Collections.
• Created/Administered WMware ESX Virtual Servers. ITIL. LSS. PoC/PoT/Pilot.
• Performed all daily Hands-On Operations: Logs, Backups, Sites, Groups, Permissions, Item-Level Permissions, Alerts.
• Created Training Manuals. Delivered Training. Coached Slow and Reluctant Users. Held Role Play demonstrations.
• Created Information Architecture, one basic abstraction-level design, Wireframes, UI, UX, Navigation, Site-Maps.

Student, 13 Weeks

Confidential

2124C Programming with C . 2030A Creating Reporting Solutions with SSRS. 2783B Designing the Data Tier for SQL Server. 2788A Designing High Availability. 2779B Implementing a SQL Server Database. 2780B Maintaining a SQL Server Database. 2790A Troubleshooting and Maintaining Database Servers. 2787A Designing Security for SQL Server.

Project Manager, Employee

Confidential

Led UAT/FAT/Training with Customers. Wrote Functional Specifications, User Guides, Proposals, Quotes, Project Plans.

SME, Admin, DBA, System Integrator, Consultant

Confidential

• Collected Requirements. Recovered a lost DB. Designed/Deployed a new Access application for managing records. ETL.
• Created a Geographic Information System GIS to design maps and to develop Spatial Databases for land use planning.

Technical Manager Reporting to VP , Employee

Confidential

• Collaborated on creation of a nation-wide Life Sciences Practice . Provided Engineering Technology, Pre-Sales support.
• Created multi-user Access Application for 21 CFR Part 11 data, Quantitative Assessments, Gap Analysis, Reports. ETL.
• Overcame local rules preventing our group from having its own net or internet access. Used Access Priority tool.
• Technical Manager. Knowledge Management, Employee. Confidential
• Used Microsoft Project to resolve a 250,000 billing dispute in our favor. Tracked project progress with MS Project.
• Created/Managed Taxonomies and Crawls for the Commercial Business Network Global Portal in Plumtree Server.
• Wrote the Instruction Manuals for future Administrators and How-To manuals for future Projects.
• After project cancellation was proposed, worked all weekend: delivered new Working Prototype and Success.
• Learned J J's research model. Created an Information Architecture based on J J's classification methods. TOGAF.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Speaker, Computer Prediction of P-V-T Behavior and Cubic Equations of State, Paris International University, International Thermophysical Conference of the IUPAC, Paris, France.
• Published two papers in Fluid Phase Equilibria on Computer Prediction of Chemical Thermodynamics.
• Chairman, Symposium: Computer Modeling of Food Processes, AIChE Natl Meeting.
• Thesis in Computer Prediction of Chemical Thermodynamics using Cubic Equations of State.