Chris Jackson Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Doncaster, England, United Kingdom

• Subject matter expert and lead in all aspects of the client’s migration project to SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams• Spearheaded the modernisation of classic SharePoint sites to the Modern Site experience as part of the migration project to create intuitive and innovative solutions for existing SharePoint sites• Developed several key new SharePoint sites and Teams in Office 365 based on complex business requirements• Porting legacy SharePoint 2010 and 2013 workflows to Power Automate, taking advantage of the additional functionality available including adding enhancements to existing business processes• Identifying key areas in the business where additional benefit and digital transformation could be realised using the services available in Office 365, further increasing their return on investment and business benefit realisation with cloud technologies• Offering guidance and leadership in hybrid and remote working, as well as actively seeking to help the business formulate its ongoing digital strategy to make the best use of digital technologies and business transformation opportunities in the new world of remote working• Technical lead for Office 365 and Azure expertise for a new virtual employee mobile app being developed in partnership with a third-party provider, requiring connectivity and authentication to Office 365 and other Azure services and components• Collaborating with the digital team to produce proof-of-concept applications utilising the Microsoft Power Platform including PowerApps, Power Automate, PowerBI, and the Microsoft Dataverse

Wakefield, United Kingdom

Offering Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365 Infrastructure, Administration, Architecture and Consultancy services.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

• Headed up the End User Computing delivery tower on a major digital transformation project, including an Exchange, SharePoint, and Skype for Business migration to Office 365 and Windows 10 deployment for this large pan-European financial services client• Managed a team of internal and service provider subject matter experts to ensure successful migration of the clients on-premises Exchange, SharePoint, and Skype for Business services to Office 365• Migration of each service in a planned, co-ordinated, and staged manner with frequent and detailed communications to the business, including go/no-go reviews with key stakeholders at each stage of the migration• Designed, planned, and implemented the various cloud security and compliance features including Cloud App Security, Conditional Access Policies, and several other threat detection and cloud security features in conjunction with the client’s information security team, service provider and business stakeholders• Deployed Intune and Microsoft Endpoint Manager to replace an existing mobile device management solution including device compliance and application protection policies• Worked with the client and service provider to ensure that any gaps or omissions in the new service contract were identified and resolved in a timely manner to ensure the project remained on schedule and contractually viable upon completion.• Ensured that all changes and services were introduced in line with the clients and service providers service introduction and change processes to ensure the migrated services were accepted into service at the completion of the migration project• Technical lead and subject matter expert for the implementation of several new key business applications working with the client and third-party cloud SaaS providers such as Zoom, Workday, and Unily

Doncaster, United Kingdom

• Leading a SharePoint team during a migration from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2016 / Office 365 utilising the ShareGate migration tool set• Undertook the design, planning, and build for the new development, UAT and production SharePoint 2016 infrastructure as well as the mapping and migration of users from a legacy Active Directory domain• Architected and tested a high availability design based on business scale and usage as well as appropriate load-balancing, backup, and disaster recovery solutions• Gathered requirements and managed the delivery of several SharePoint projects including an intranet portal, central document management and records management solution, and other sites as required• Created and delivered SharePoint training for site owners and super-users as well as creating a training portal for general users across the whole business• Produced the SharePoint governance plan and setup the SharePoint governance board within the business to drive the SharePoint implementation and long-term strategy forward• Carried out decommissioning activities for the SharePoint 2007 infrastructure, ensuring that all applications and sites had been migrated and closed• Produced extensive documentation on the design, build and configuration of the infrastructure including service continuation plans, patching plans and guidelines, security permission models, and support documentation for BAU activities

London, United Kingdom

• Leading a SharePoint team during a migration from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online • Utilised ShareGate and AvePoint migration tools• Performed an appraisal of their current infrastructure and SharePoint application stack• Implemented recommendations to improve the overall service for performance and availability• Removed numerous single points of failure, and implemented a new fully tested backup and DR strategy• Implemented SharePoint infrastructure and application monitoring using Solarwinds and Splunk• Supported numerous development and infrastructure programmes of work, offering technical leadership and architectural support.• Ensured the business were getting the maximum from their investment and that SharePoint was the de-facto go to solution for document sharing and collaboration.• Mentoring junior team members and produced professional development plans for each team member

Grimsby, North Lincolnshire

• Greenfield implementation of SharePoint 2013 on premises built for performance, capacity, and redundancy. • Migrated their SharePoint 2007 and file server content to the new platform using ShareGate and PowerShell• Implemented a new Intranet comprising of custom master pages and page layouts, including custom CSS, jQuery UI and branding• Built a corporate news site, and central document centre to compliment the new intranet• Utilised enterprise search features including refiners, managed properties, crawled properties, and content by search• Overhauled their business development application with the addition of custom workflows, jQuery, InfoPath, social features, and dashboards• Created a document management application built as a full end-to-end project lifecycle document management application• Extensively used custom workflow and web services to handle and route all project documents as per their document control procedures• Replace existing paper forms and document control processes with InfoPath and the Qrules plugin• Each project site was completely provisioned using PowerShell, with every element of the project site being configured by the site provisioning PowerShell process• Site provisioning included the approval and creation of user accounts necessary for external clients to access the system.• External access configured using ADFS authentication and WAP

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Implemented a new corporate intranet, providing a single company portal for all news, announcements, search, and other useful resources defined by their business requirements• Utilised custom page layouts, master pages, CSS, jQuery/jQuery UI and branding• Deployed My Sites and Profiles with AD synchronisation to improve user search and drive adoption of social features • Created a company document and information portal for all their internal business policies, procedures, forms, guidance, and any other supporting documentation• Used Content Types, Site Columns, JavaScript/jQuery and InfoPath for custom forms, as well as custom search centres, permissions, audience targeting, and custom workflows• Augmented the application with third party solutions such as Pentalogic Reminder, and Collaboris Doc Read amongst others• Evaluated and supported their existing SharePoint farm infrastructure, improving their existing SharePoint assets for team and project sites.• Developed new applications defined by their evolving business needs• Training super-users to enable the business to create their own SharePoint solutions

1 Horse Guards Road, London

• Migrating the UK budget decision process from a legacy win forms application to a fit for purpose, bespoke, SharePoint application• Utilised InfoPath forms and web services to drive the front-end• SharePoint lists and workflows used to control the back-end process• The application would control every budget measure from creation to final approval, before submission to the budget• Utilised a number of third party SharePoint solutions such as Bamboo Workflow Conductor, Alerts Plus, and Cross-List tool

Leeds, United Kingdom

Providing SharePoint farm support and administration across Telefonica (O2) UK's SharePoint 2007 and 2010 estates.

Wakefield, United Kingdom

Providing technical leadership, design, planning, and implementation for a SharePoint 2010 migration project, focusing primarily on the intranet, and central services side of SharePoint.The primary drivers where to deliver HR, IT, Finance, SHE, and Procurement services for the enterprise from a central location, replacing manual processes and outdated legacy systems.Integrated the group data warehouse and reporting solution built on the Microsoft SQL Server BI stack including end-to-end Kerberos configuration, site topology, security permissions, and user training.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Contract position, implementing a Greenfield SharePoint 2010 farm for this large UK based training organisation.Responsible for the ground up planning and deployment of the server farm, incorporating a three tier SharePoint infrastructure including clustered SQL, resilient application layer, and Network Load Balancing of all front end web servers.Multiple web applications deployed using claims based authentication (NTLM, Kerberos, and Forms Based Authentication).Multiple Service Application groups deployed, including partitioning for multi-tenancy of SharePoint solutions.The primary focus for the project was to improve access and manageability of their entire Courseware system including official training material for approx 1000 unique courses, and their associated policies and procedures, for approx 2000 internal, external, and third-party users in a secure, consistent, and manageable environment.

Managing and maintaining a medium to large SharePoint server farm for a FTSE 250 Enterprise.Responsible for the management and availability of all live, development, system, training and DR environments to ensure optimum performance, consistency, as well as patching levels and configuration.Implementing SharePoint with multiple project phases, into a number of divisions within the business.Designing and deploying a consistent and flexible logical architecture which meets the organisational requirements of the enterprise.Ensuring high availability and disaster recovery options for the enterprise, ensuring SharePoint is resilient and available in the event of failure or disaster.Managing the governance aspects of SharePoint within the enterprise to ensure adequate controls are in place to avoid chaos and rogue deployments, whilst retaining the flexibility and dynamism required by the enterprise.

Main responsibilities include support for the wide area network and its associated users, with particular emphasis on the IT and Infrastructure side of the business, including management of Exchange 2003, mail firewall, proxy server, systems backup, secure access devices and VPN, and the Active Directory domain.Technical lead on the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Implementation for the company, requiring extensive knowledge developing site collections and sites including site quotas, security permissions including forms based authentication, appropriate and resilient backups including SQL backups and third party solutions, set-up and development of Excel and InfoPath services including web parts and forms deployment, and finally Search settings and the scaling and configuration of scopes.Providing technical lead on SQL Server Reporting, Analysis, and Integration Services, including integration with SharePoint 2007 and Performance Point 2007.Oracle database support and front end web application support was also needed. Finally liasing with suppliers and customers and manging purchasing for IT within the business

Responsible for the day to day management of a school network in a Windows 2003 server domain, including:Support for Approx 120 workstations, and 800 user, Active Directory domain, DNS, DHCP, WSUS, and IIS.Configuration, deployment, and management or Windows 2000/XP PCs and Laptops.Sourcing and purchasing new IT equipment.TCP/IP networking and wireless technology configuration.Backup hardware and software and Anti-virus configuration and deployment.Implementing and training users on new software and hardware.Management of web applications using IIS, Microsoft FrontPage, and Dreamweaver.Configuration and support for peripherals such as printers, scanners, and digital cameras etc...

Main duties include field and helpdesk based network support for schools across Leeds, including Windows Server 2000/03 and windows 2000/XP configuration and deployment, TCP/IP and Networking, software and hardware support, firewall, anti-virus, backup hardware and software configuration. Finally project managing ongoing interactive whiteboard roll-outs across Leeds schools.