Jeff Poste, Mcts Email & Phone Number

Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada

Currently working on configuring and developing Microsoft AI products & services, especially with Microsoft Copilot 365.

Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada

Specializing in MS Project Server & Project Online Design, Implementation, & Technical Support

Port Moody, Bc

Project Server and SharePoint Architecture, Deployment, Design, and SupportProject Server and SharePoint Product DevelopmentSenior Project Advisorjeff.poste@advisicon.com

Port Moody, Bc

SharePoint and Project Server Infrastructure Design, Application Architecture, Deployment, System Administration C#, .Net Framework, InfoPath, Project Server, application custom developmentPMO Business Process Analysis and Development

Port Moody, Bc

Design and Deploy Microsoft Project Server Farm InfrastructureMicrosoft Project Server Configuration and SupportExcel Services and SQL Server Reporting Services Report Authorfor:- Alberta Ministry of Advanced Education - Alberta Ministry of Education - Alberta Ministry of Jobs, Safety, Training, and Labour

Vancouver, Bc

SharePoint and Project Server Infrastructure and Application Architecture C#, .Net Framework, InfoPath, Project Server, application custom development for new intelligent form collaboration features for FortisBC-Gas Project Control & Tracking System.SharePoint 2010 Design & Implementation Support at FortisBC-Electric.SharePoint and Project Server 2010 Implementation at a major Western Canadian utility.Project Server 2007/SharePoint Implementation and Support at AltaGas, BC Hydro.Business Value Planning Services for Portfolio Management Group at Enbridge Liquid Pipelines. Project Control and Tracking System at FortisBC-Gas. SharePoint 2007, Project Server 2007, InfoPath 2007, and custom C# code. Encapsulates project documents and data as content types, automates business process workflow, and provides a flexible and adaptable business intelligence view into over 300 capital projects.Project Management Business Process Re-engineering at City of Calgary.Enterprise Content Management and Project Management Business Process Analysis at Simon Fraser University.Technical Lead / Developer for the IT Project Management Office Improvement Project at TransAlta Utilities. MS Project Server 2007, SharePoint Server 2007, InfoPath 2007. Automated new and existing business processes and workflow to provide enterprise content management repository for project documentation. InfoPath 2007 was used to automate selected strategic project documents allowing content to be recorded just once, yet appear in multiple system development contexts, thereby eliminating redundant documentation efforts. Embedding key metadata in documents allowed users to use contextual search, sorting, filtering, and grouping to categorize, find, and analyze information across multiple projects. Western Principles Internal System Development Infrastructure Lead. Developed and Support Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Server and Network Infrastructure at WP.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Project Manager for the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management Server 2007 Pilot implementation at TELUS Communications. Defined the IT Governance and Project Management processes, as well as the business, functional, and technical requirements for the system. Developed Business Process Management (BPM) Strategy Framework and associated standards and best practices. Participated in BPM tool selection and integration.Developed Knowledge Management Strategy Framework and associated workflow, search, metadata, taxonomies, and system design.Conducted user training for Requirements Elicitation and Analysis.Developed Product and Process Quality Assurance project assessment system to meet the requirement for Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model Integration Level 2/3.Advised on application of Accenture System Development Methodology on projects and on its evolution at Telus.

Calgary, Canada Area

Moveitonline developed software and acted as an Application Service Provider, hosting their product for clients on Sun Microsystems hardware.Direct reports were Development Team Leader, Operations / Desktop Support Team Leader, Software Quality Assurance Team Leader, Product Manager, and Project Manager.Supervised Requirements Definition, System Design, Operational Support, and Software Test Plans. Implemented a process using software configuration management software to produce, disseminate, track, and provide version control for technical documents.Agile software development methods were used to develop a Transportation Logistics application using Java2 Enterprise Edition technology and an Oracle database.

Calgary, Canada Area

Designed and implemented highly available (99.999%) storage area network (SAN), and network attached storage (NAS) subsystems.Fibre channel networking with Brocade, McData, and Inrange switches and directors.Customer requirements analysis, technology proposals, and training.

Calgary, Canada Area

Designed and managed development of eControl Orders product which was a 2 1/2 Tier Java Servlet Thin Client (browser only) B2B (Vendor - Buyer) application using object / relational mapping middleware to map Java objects to and from the underlying (Oracle) relational database. Developed XML / XSL software to map differing XML languages together for import and export to support data integration with 3rd party software.Participated on the development team as a Sun Certified Java Programmer, and administered IT infrastructure.

Calgary, Canada Area

Manager, Sun Authorized Java Centre, Burntsand IncDeveloped the business plan for the Java Centre.Acted as project manager, and developer. The first project was a Java CORBA Applet for Trans Canada Pipelines which performed complex calculations to determine shipping costs on the pipeline under new and old pricing structures. Business plans and technical documentation were developed, tracked, and stored using Open Text LiveLink knowledge management software.Project Manager, Shaw Communications FiberLink Customer Care & Billing System.Web based system development project using relational database rapid application development software.Product Development and Technology Manager, IPL Energy Works a small division (25 people) of IPL Energy (now Enbridge) tasked with developing internal and commercial software in support of liquids pipeline operations.Two major products: 1. Oil Movements Manager, a shipper information system for shippers on IPL pipelines, written in Visual Basic using Oracle. 2. Intelligent Pipeline Scheduling System, which assisted pipeline schedulers to schedule liquids batches into complex pipeline networks, written in C. Introduced a formal Product and Software Development Methodology.

Calgary, Canada Area

Responsible for all computing systems infrastructure at Norcen including Data Centre, Operations, Help Desk, AS/400 mid-range computer, 80+ Unix workstations and servers, 37 X-Terminals, 700 PCs, Ethernet / FDDI / CDDI / ATM TCP/IP and IPX local and wide area network for the Calgary head office and 10 field locations, Internet interface, telephone, voice mail, and radio communications.Budget planning, administration, and control for capital projects on the order of $2,500,000, and G&A operating expenses of an additional $2,000,000.Planned and supervised business improvement initiatives for Exploration, Exploitation, and Reservoir Engineering business areas. Reviewed and approved all information systems technology at Norcen.Managed 15 employees and 5 contractors.Project Manager for $1.2M Norcen information systems infrastructure move project to new corporate offices.Designed new data centre facility and the physical cable plant of Category 5 UTP wiring and Multimode Optical Fibre horizontal and vertical distribution systems for computer, telephone, and telecommunications networks. New Data Centre Project was fast-tracked on a tight deadline. Move of 600 computer systems, network, and telephone system was accomplished over a long weekend on time and on budget. All systems were operational when rest of company returned to work after the long weekend.Technology advisor and requirements analyst for the new data warehouse project. Part of this project involved requirements definition for document storage and retrieval. Multiple 3rd party technologies were evaluated. Recommended FileNet imaging technology as the delivery vehicle. The project was successfully implemented, and is still in use today. Principle author of Norcen Information Technology Business Practices.

Calgary, Canada Area

Responsible for ensuring the technical viability of all branch marketing and delivery projects, and ensuring that SHL Systemhouse strategic technologies were understood and emphasized within the branch.Responsible for the development of cost effective technical architecture alternatives.Education Co-ordinator for branch, Consultant on client projects.Audited existing PetroCanada network architecture and infrastructure and produced report giving recommendations for tactical improvements and future strategic direction.Content author and designer of SHL Systemhouse's new client/server system development methodology. This methodology was used worldwide for the delivery of client/server, co-operative processing, and distributed computing systems.

Calgary, Canada Area

Direction of a group of 11 systems and geoscience professionals for support and maintenance of all geological and geophysical systems, and selected engineering systems for Esso Resources.Planned and directed implementation and management of all open systems scientific and engineering workstation technology infrastructure for technical computing at Esso.Introduction of 3D visualization technology for subsurface imaging of geological, geophysical, and engineering data.Consolidated workstation and network tactical plans, resulting in $530K cost saving in 1990 in Research, Engineering, and Exploration Divisions.Developed an information technology strategic and tactical plan for utilization of open systems computing across Esso Resources.

Calgary, Canada Area

Formulated and implemented corporate scientific computing strategic and tactical plans.Evaluated, selected, and introduced new and evolving computer and information systems technology.Directed an eight-person senior development team in system development and research projects implementing reservoir simulation, new seismic methods, digitizing, advanced computer graphics, local area networking, artificial intelligence, computer mapping, relational database technology, scientific workstation technology, array processor technology, computer aided design, common user interfaces, and geological and geophysical modelling.Ensured system development standards and documentation guidelines were met.Introduced UNIX operating system and Open Systems architecture in 1988.Designed and implemented interactive computer aided design infrastructure that operated between Calgary and field offices, transferring engineering drawings electronically for approval of facilities design for gas plants and pipelines.Designed and developed interactive graphics extensions to geological modeling system (1987).Introduced heterogeneous ethernet local area networking (1987).High speed communications protocol R&D (1986).Designed and co-implemented Texaco corporate graphics architecture, including the operations methodology to support it (1984).Introduced the first interactive and forms driven menu interfaces used at Texaco in mainframe and minicomputer environments (1983).Senior company resource for seismic digital signal processing (1983).Co-designed and co-implemented high speed interactive seismic plotting system for SEG-Y seismic data (1983).Introduced and supported FPS AP190L array processor technology (1983).Co-designed and implemented geological stratigraphic modeling system (1982).Apprentice Geologist/Geophysicist, Exploration Department

Calgary, Canada Area

Commanded 65 person troop that provided tactical radio communications from brigade headquarters to units of a 6000 person brigade group.Extensive and intensive communications planning and engineering.Leadership, career planning, training, and operational employment of troop personnel.6 month deployment to United Nations Emergency Force II in Ismailia Egypt to command Radio Troop in 73 Candian Signal Squadron deployed throughout Egypt, Israel, and the Buffer Zone.Promoted to Captain.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Science (Applied)

Graduate Courses, Geophysics And Seismology

Graduate Courses in Seismic Interpretation, Seismic Processing, Signal Analysis, Undergraduate course in Physical Geology

Bsc, Computer Science

Certification, Communications & Electronics Engineering

Bsc (Applied), Science (Applied)

Bsc, Computer Science