SharePoint Architect, consultant, Office 365 business process consultant working across divisions for SharePoint migrations. Managed organization wide projections, resource allocation, IT organization redesign, collaboration, and PowerAutomate workflows. IT Governance processes, risk management and reporting. Coordinated internal and external project and enterprise audits. Configuration and administration of Project Web Access. Complete overhaul of SharePoint site hierarchy, metadata, security and navigation as part of planning a phased migration and upgrade of SharePoint utilizing Sharegate and Tzunami Deployer. PowerShell expert. Prototyped a range of SharePoint based solutions utilizing InfoPath , C#, and Web Services that combined enterprise data. Developed on-line interactive executive dashboards using PowerBI. Designed SharePoint, intranet, and content management governance, policies and procedures. Architected and implemented a comprehensive, enterprise-wide Records Management, Record Retention, and eDiscovery solution. Developed a SharePoint ERM (Enterprise Risk Management) solution consolidating and mapping risks, controls events and scoring models. Designed the hierarchical enterprise taxonomy using managed metadata. Migrated enterprises from on-premises SharePoint to Office 365.

Leading key projects, focused on Business Intelligence, risk management and data warehousing.

Directly responsible for PMO, Project Management, Business Analysis across the organization. Lead an enterprise-class marketing data warehouse project integrating customer analytics, campaigns, promotions and ad management. Defined and lead the budget process, project methodology and instituted IT governance and demand management.

PMO responsibility across all projects across the enterprise, including resource allocation, program, project and financial management, auditing, standards compliance and organization optimization. Manage budget organization wide projections, resource allocation, and IT organization redesign

Defined the methodology and put in place project management, PMO, test automation, customer integration automation and a defined process for customer project engagement, outsourcing as well as a professional services pricing model. Managed design, and outsourcing of a range of projects that added eCommerce, VoIP, Text-to-speech, eCommerce, web services and integration capabilities. Successfully lead contract negotiation and definition with customers and vendors. Lead creation and on-time delivery of eCommerce processing, and web services based integration with Palm Treo handheld application.

Amid declining revenues, Joel was brought in to restructure and optimize the technology organization, including software development, QA, project management and business development team, prior to a major downsizing. Responsible for all technology including embedded systems programming for retail POS terminals ATMs and cash registers, a range of e-commerce internet systems, CRM, financial systems integration, with teams in USA, Canada, Latin America and Russia. Developed a program management and project management process, software development methodology and software project pricing estimation framework. Instituted software configuration and version management. Managed outsourcing to Russia, and coordinated product lifecycle management with offshore headquarters. Managed staff of 50 in USA, Canada, Latin America and Russia.

Redesigned and transformed the data center’s e-commerce and intranet systems shared environment hosting across all division, bringing in major cost efficiencies. This includes pricing, operational systems architecture, network design, performance metrics, SLAs, standardizing error handing, reporting, monitoring and deployment processes. Managed e-commerce outsourcing to EDS, and large scale AS/400 insourcing. Devised an organizational inventory audit and migration strategy.Built from scratch technology, including infrastructure, program management, software development, QA, architecture and site design. Also responsible for hosting strategy, managing hosting relationships, and large scale outsourcing contracts for site development and B2B e-commerce integration with external partners. Worked closely with executive management in both parent companies to set and manage objectives and expectations. Managed budget of $15M million.

Lead all software development within this public company. Headed department of four groups of 25 employees. Key member of the senior management team on technology, acquisition strategy, marketing and finance. Developed and deployed an employee evaluation and skills assessment process. Delivered a company-wide website redesign two weeks early and on-budget, including a free/premium model, rich content, outbound XML news feeds to other sites and wireless channels.Integrated a TIBCO/Oracle architecture to support 1,000 stock quotes a second, with high performance, scalability and full redundancy in support of feeds such as S&P Comstock, Reuters, Multex and Lipper.Managed design, development and maintenance of a set of systems for handling credit card authentication and charging, subscription management, customer login, usage and site hit reporting, and integration with internal financial systems.

Responsible for all credit information delivery systems, decision systems and database marketing systems worldwide with direct accountability to Corporate CIO. Directly responsible for $14 million budget and 50 software developers and managers in multiple sites. Lead technology strategy, planning and all phases of methodology, design, development, test, deployment and production support. Worked with global and regional Marketing and Product Development to refine strategy and respond to competitive offerings. Internet-enabled the primary credit report legacy system, avoiding a costly rewrite. Designed a broad range of client/server and distributed internet systems translated and fully localized for North America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific markets. Developed D&B access from scratch into a $200M business. Worked closely with CIO, CFO and senior management on global strategy, organizational structure, budgeting, resource allocation, e-commerce and emerging technologies and trends.

Assistant Treasurer / Consumer Banking Group 1991 to 1992Senior Systems Analyst / Corporate Systems Division 1990 to 1991 Senior Programmer/Analyst / Advanced Electronic Technology 1985 to 1990