David Durfee Email & Phone Number

Sanford, Nc, Us

Greater Chicago Area

Guidehouse acquired Navigant in October 2019.

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for the planning and deployment of multiple internal and external SharePoint environments in a corporate cloud data center. Expert technical resource for design and deployment of Microsoft SharePoint infrastructures. Senior administrator with oversight of a team of administrators along with mentoring them on best practices. Assist portal, web and application designers build and configure web portals, integrate business applications, and manage administration and deployment of collaborative solutions for SharePoint 2007, 2010, and 2013 farms in various development, staging, and production environments and Office 365.• Successfully planned, coordinated and executed 2 month-long tenant-to-tenant migration project, migrating more than 1200 SharePoint Online, MS Teams and One Drive For Business site collections• Developed migration strategy and migrated 470+ staging environment site collections within 7 web applications to SharePoint 2013 on premise; replicated the process and performed flawless migration of production site collections within a span of 4 weekends• Migrated tens of thousands of Box folders to SharePoint Online• Developed numerous PowerShell scripts to automate migration and post migration validation tasks• Created custom composed looks and CSS to provide custom look and feel across sites

Ft Bragg, Nc

Engineers SharePoint farms utilizing best practices, proper utilization of server resources to maximize performance and the implementation of security measures minimize vulnerabilities. Actively maintains four lab farms consisting of 27 virtual servers. Works with development team to test, deploy and implement custom solutions. Provides upgrade strategies, technical guidance and Tier III troubleshooting for the operation of USASOC’s production 2007 and 2010 farms, supporting approximately 20,000 personnel. Key Contributions:• Designed migration strategy of USASOC’s MOSS 2007 farm; provided documentation, hardware requirements, risk and analysis studies, timelines, and architectural diagrams and support agency tasks• Executed multiple medium size farm migrations from MOSS 2007 to SPS 2010, providing various courses of action, to include: SQL detach / attach, PowerShell, stsadm, Metalogix, and DocAve• Authored 120+ page, step-by-step SharePoint 2010 Installation Guide detailing configuration of servers, farm installation, configuration of web applications, security, and implementation of service applications• Architected SharePoint 2010 farm consisting 3 Web Front Ends, 4 Application Servers and SQL Cluster• Configured Office Web Applications, Service Applications, Enterprise Search, and select BI components • Successfully migrated 82 production site collections from MOSS 2007 farm to SharePoint 2010 using SQL attach methodology using custom 100+ line PowerShell script, which automates the entire process

Ft Bragg, Nc

Administered and maintained SharePoint Server farms on 5 networks for 45 sites. Consulted with senior-level officials throughout the region to discuss strategic planning. Utilized Visual Studio and SharePoint Designer to build custom solutions. Built and maintained physical and virtual server farms. Implemented, tested, and maintained high availability and disaster recovery plans. Managed 15 site collection administrators. Key Contributions:• Migrated MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010 numerous times using multiple strategies within virtual farm• Expediently recovered SharePoint Farm via SQL restore and stsadm after catastrophic hardware failure• Split 100Gb site collection into numerous content databases, enhancing backup/restore and security• Replaced numerous PowerPoint presentations with data-centric ASP.NET apps, saving 15+ hours weekly• Flawlessly implemented numerous virtual farms for backup and recovery, testing, high availability, development and migration strategies; instrumental in maintaining 99.99% production up time

Ft Bragg, Nc

Administered and maintained SharePoint Server farms on 3 networks for 24 sites. Served as organization’s consultant for all SharePoint projects and tasks. Analyzed requirements from leadership and end users. Developed and implemented enterprise-level workflows and solutions. Provided direction to site administrators.Key Contributions:• Migrated production farm to 64-bit servers during single shift with minimal down time and zero data loss• Adeptly conducted classroom and one-on-one training to certify administrators, designers and end-users• Designed and implemented user-friendly CBT portal to maximize training opportunities and productivity• Created custom forms for data collection; integrated into SharePoint libraries to replace a plethora of legacy forms, enhancing data collection and overall business intelligence throughout the organization• Interfaced with key leadership to garner requirements and objectives for SharePoint farms; translated vision into governance to standardize look and feel and methodologies throughout the enterprise• Built SharePoint farm from ground up; scrupulously worked with more than 50 offices to translate requirements into viable, integrated, portal environment; revolutionized interoffice collaboration

Ft Bragg, Nc

Provided outstanding technical support to more than 450 employees. Troubleshot network connectivity, printers, VOIP, and telephones. Performed software upgrades, repairs, and life cycle replacement for desktops and laptops. Managed active directory user accounts, distributions lists, and security groups. Key Contributions:• Implemented work order tracking system to monitor all service calls, assigned technician(s), allocated resources, progress and resolution; customers lauded ability to initiate and monitor work order status• Meticulous organizational skills reduced average technical resolution from two weeks to two days• Expertly initiated more than 2500 service calls; raised customer satisfaction rate to 99%• Evaluated customer needs across the enterprise and implemented dynamic, data-driven web sites; collaborated / redesigned entire WAN into a coherent, integrated Intranet, enhancing communication• Installed, configured, implemented and maintained WSS server farm, providing real-time collaboration

Managed human resource-type programs using multiple automated data systems. Worked with managers at all levels to gather and fulfill requirements. Developed numerous web-based applications to enhance data management, collaboration, and presentation.

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