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Waxhaw, Nc, Us

Reston, Virginia, Us

Project: NASA Consolidated Applications and Platform Services (NCAPS)Established the Microsoft Power Platform solutioning practice in the NASA Enterprise Automation Service (NEAS). Provides technical leadership for the NEAS team and the NASA maker community. Responsible for building governance and development standards for the Power Platform, onboarding new capabilities, and developing solutions for customers.

Reston, Va, Us

- Project: NASA Enterprise Applications Service Technologies (EAST) 2Established the Microsoft Power Platform solutioning practice in the NASA Enterprise Automation Service (NEAS). Provided technical leadership for the NEAS team and the NASA maker community. Responsible for building governance and development standards for the Power Platform, onboarding new capabilities, and developing solutions for customers.Acted as Engineering Lead and Cloud Architect for SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Power Apps, Power Automate, Planner, and Forms. Critical in the rollout of the services, including the development of governance, automated site request/provisioning, and support plans.- Project: NASA Kennedy Infrastructure, Applications and Communication (KIAC)Azure cloud architect for NASA’s consolidated agency SharePoint design project. Developed the full architecture and design for a cloud-hosted SharePoint Server infrastructure that will host the agency’s SharePoint workloads on a set of SharePoint farms. The project also developed a migration strategy to be followed in a future consolidation project.- Project: USDA Risk Management AgencyLead the Cloud Readiness (Azure and Azure Stack) and Application Migration technical work streams in the USDA RMA Data Center Migration project as the Azure Cloud Architect Lead. Provided Azure support for the Backup and Disaster Recovery technical work streams. Responsible for developing and performing discovery, risk analysis, requirements definition, detailed design, implementation, and testing of all Azure-related aspects of the project, both technically and process-based (i.e., governance).- Corporate: SAIC/Microsoft PartnershipResponsible for reestablishing SAIC’s strategic partnership with Microsoft, including membership in the Microsoft Cloud Service Provider (CSP) program. Interfacing with SAIC leadership and Microsoft partner resources to establish and track goals and competencies for Azure and Office 365.

Huntsville, Al, Us

Worked on nearly all aspects of SharePoint (2007-2016/SharePoint Online), including architecture, administration, automation, enterprise search, and development. Heavily focused on the SharePoint Online/Office 365 space, including hybrid. Focused on emerging technology and Cloud/Azure, including information architecture and strategy. Responsible for implementing the Summit 7 Systems methodology as project architect. Assumed ownership of AnchorPoint, Summit 7's remote, on-call SharePoint help desk service. Was responsible for nearly all aspects of the service, including managing the staff, ensuring all support requests were handled with excellence, providing tier-3 support, improving processes and elevating the service, and providing technical and professional mentorship. Key Contributions- Managed, led, and participated in 40+ SharePoint, Office 365, Azure, and Exchange projects both remotely and on-site with customers- Architected and deployed an Azure IaaS environment in the Azure Government Cloud- Architected and deployed a high-performance production SharePoint 2013 farm in Azure IaaS- Deployed Hybrid SharePoint and Exchange environments, including hybrid SharePoint search, hybrid sites, and hybrid identities (Azure AD Connect)- Created multiple PowerShell-based solutions, including: Automated collection and reporting of external sharing in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business; Efficient, multi-threaded synchronization of SharePoint term sets to/from SharePoint Online- Managed team members as Managing Consultant and AnchorPoint Service Manager- Developed high-detail templates to encourage thoroughness and reproducible quality - Managed, led, and participated in migration projects, including SharePoint-to-SharePoint, SharePoint-to-SharePoint Online, Exchange-to-Exchange, and Exchange-to-Exchange Online- Worked with Commercial, Education, State/Local Government, Defense, and Nonprofit customers- Final-tier support for customer technical issues

Charlotte, Nc, Us

With my proven SharePoint history, I was seen as a technolgy (and team) leader. Among the work I did, I created a custom field type solution to securely store encrypted data in a SharePoint list, built multiple C# event receivers (primarily in order to work around restrictions in Designer and InfoPath), reworked a SharePoint 2007 CodePlex solution to SharePoint 2010 development standards, and created an SSIS package to import data from an external system into SharePoint. In addition to the custom .Net development, I created a number of InfoPath forms and SharePoint Designer workflows, and I consulted on many more. Performed deep, extensive troubleshooting and analysis of failing vendor-developed SharePoint/SQL SSIS packages, leading to a redesign of the process, and after diagnosing farm issues leading to critical site outages. SharePoint architecture is what I enjoy, and I like to take an organization's SharePoint practice to the next level by focusing on the "meta" tier: process, policy/audit, practice, guidance, etc. How do we make the best SharePoint service that we can? How do we proactively manage the farm to guarantee quality of service, prevent service interruption, and increase trust in the platform? In short, how do we build better SharePoint solutions? Key technologies:- SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise- C# 3.5- Visual Studio 2010- InfoPath 2010- SharePoint Designer 2010- AvePoint DocAveSharePoint 2010 Server Technologies/Disciplines:- C# (event receivers, custom data types) and VB.NET (custom worklows)- SharePoint 2010 InfoPath browser forms- SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflows and custom pages- PowerShell- JQuery and JavaScript- SharePoint 2007 - 2010 migration- Troubleshooting, performance optimization- Disaster recovery- SharePoint Service Applications, such as User Profile Service (UPS), Secure Store Service (SSS) - SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) ETL for SharePoint- SharePoint SQL database analysis

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Responsible for implementing, administering, protecting, and optimizing production systems at the largest independent Coca-Cola bottling company in the USA. Focused on defining system architectures, automating solutions, and finding ways for IT to perform work more intelligently and efficiently. Mentored application development staff on database development, systems design, security architecture, and best practices. Worked heavily with them to improve code and identify issues, both from SQL and general development angles. Known as the go-to guy for security design and troubleshooting and for performance troubleshooting/optimization. Initiated, led, and completed a datacenter virtualization project which successfully virtualized 95% of Windows servers. Obtained ITIL v3 Foundations and VMware Professional certifications. Administered a large SharePoint 2007 environment for 3 years and then was instrumental in designing, building, and migrating to a SharePoint 2010 farm. Seen as a key thought and technology leader in ISS. Developed numerous solutions, especially to decrease administrative overhead.Key technologies: - VMware ESX/i 3.5, 4.x, 5.x (VCP 4 & 5)- VMware vCenter Server 2.5, 4, 5- Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008/R2 (DTS, SSIS, SSRS)- Windows Server 2000, 2003/R2, 2008/R2 (including clustering)- Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, 2010- Microsoft Active Directory 2003, 2008- Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2005, VSS 6- Microsoft Project Server 2007- IIS 5, 6, 7, 7.5- ASP.Net (VB.Net, ADO.Net), HTML, Visual Studio 2005, 2008, 2010- PowerShell, VBscript- vCenter Operations Standard- vFoglight- AvePoint DocAveOther skills/disciplines- Virtualization design, implementation, and maintenance, including conversions of systems from physical to virtual- Automation- Performance auditing, troubleshooting, and tweaking- Security, internal audits (SOX), Kerberos- Disaster recovery- ITIL v3 Foundations certification

Columbia, Md, Us

DBA (2005)Developer I (2004 – 2005)DBA/Webmaster (2002 – 2004)Internal Application Support Specialist (2001 – 2002)

Produced transcripts for CNN programming with extremely tight deadlines and a very high degree of accuracy.

Ba, History, English

Computer Science

Computer Science