James Ferguson Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, MN, US

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

M365 Twin Cities (M365TC.com) (Formerly Twin Cities SharePoint Saturday) is a bi-annual Not for Profit event run by a committee of passionate IT Technologists. This event is held twice a year (one in the Fall and once in the Spring).Typically this event has 30+ different speakers, 20+ different \Industry Sponsors and 500+ attendees who come together learn.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

As a Modern Work Solutions Architect, I was directly responsible for the success of over 20 enterprise projects spanning greenfield Power Platform development, application redesign using low-code / no-code Power Apps / Power Automate technologies combined with native M365 functionality, Complex migrations from on premises SharePoint implementations with.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

No Code / Low Code Solutions Architect, Teams/SharePoint Architect, Microsoft 365 Lead, Cloud Migration (on premises to cloud and cloud to cloud (e.g. google, tenant to tenant), Managed Services Senior Lead on various Fortune 200 / Government / International clients. Bringing diverse groups of people together to maximize corporate investments in the cloud.

Golden Valley, MN

• Accomplishments:
• Engaged with enterprise clients in disparate industries to understand their needs and develop Statements of Work for multiple projects. Successfully completed projects working in a variety of capacities: Developer.
• Strong community involvement: CEO for SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities; speaker at many area/regional events, Co-leader of Minneapolis Nintex User Group
• Responsible for Organizing and running team meetings to foster community
• Developed marketing campaigns with Sales team and Practice leadership
• Responsible for forming partnership with Sharegate

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Senior Consultant/Solution Lead on multiple projects responsible for Project Delivery, Governance, Information Architecture, Customization, etc.Accomplishments:
• Engaged with multiple enterprise clients simultaneously, across a wide variety of industries and sizes on their Office 365/SharePoint Deployments as an Architect, Administrator, Developer, Information Architect.
• Asked to step into difficult client situations on many occasions and ensure the engagement’s success.
• Provided thought leadership/mentoring to junior colleagues on a variety of topics and projects.
• Responsible for over 30 successful projectso Direct Migration Projects from On Premises to the Cloudo Corporate Intranet projectso Process Improvements (Business Process Automation) Architected and Developed an.

Consultant responsible for editing courseware, translating the programming language of development courseware from C# to VB.NET to support a wider development audience, and create new labs for development/admin courseware

Mumbai Area, India

Outsourced from US to India by an Indian Outsourcing firm and contracted to a US based Fortune 200 organization working in their recently formed Global Business Services unit in Mumbai, India tasked with both creating and stabilizing their India SharePoint team (to support a 24x7 "follow the sun" model for support and continuity for their world wide.

Responsible for all aspects of SharePoint implementation and development.

Twin Cities SharePoint Camp is a bi-annual event on a Saturday that is by the community for the community centered on SharePoint. Typically this event has about 30 different speakers and over 170 attendees who come together for a free day of SharePoint education in Minneapolis, MN

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