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Power Platform Governance Solution | AvePoint, Power Platform Center of Excellence (CoE)Provided roadmap & rationale to move PwC’s global Power Platform governance solution from Microsoft’s Center of Excellence (CoE) to SaaS-provider AvePoint, allowing delegation of governance responsibilities to territory admins and eliminating massive time requirements to maintain & update the CoE.Power Platform Adoption Reporting | Power BI, Azure Data Lake Gen 2, Dataverse, Power Automate, Azure APIsArchitected & led a diverse team of developers to build a global Power BI reporting solution to showcase Power Platform inventory & usage data, allowing global teams & member firms to understand and act upon adoption metrics & trends.Power Platform Hygiene | AvePoint, Power Automate, Power Apps, DataverseLed team of 3 consultants to refine hygiene requirements, explore capabilities using SaaS-provider AvePoint, and develop Power Platform functionality to cover the gaps, reducing the number of orphaned & inactive Power Platform assets in our global tenant to decrease capacity usage & governance overhead.

Reston, Va, Us

Technical lead for team of 6 BAs, QAs & Devs to assist national insurance corporation in converting 5 highly complex applications from InfoPath XML form libraries to Canvas Power Apps stored in SharePoint lists, preventing loss of business-critical technology before InfoPath’s retirement in 2023. Collaborated with Business Analysts & stakeholders on requirements, designed data interactions through an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) & field metadata mapping, guided developers by reviewing work, troubleshooting issues, & encouraging best practices, and transitioned final application to stakeholders by writing solution documentation & walking them through all solution components.Spearheaded process improvement efforts by developing Standard Operating Procedures, reusable data mapping templates, and guiding team to an iterative development approach to increase stakeholder engagement & decrease the number of defects. Also participated in training stakeholders to remediate their own forms through week-long classes & informal office hours.

Utilized Power Apps, Exchange API, SharePoint, and Power Automate to develop innovative Hoteling Workspace Reservation Mobile Power App for state government agency to allow users to filter workspaces by availability, amenities, and location (using floor plan overlays) and to reserve appointment on workspace’s Exchange calendar (including for others with delegated permissions), reducing facilities costs, creating an intuitive user experience, and implementing custom permissions to increase app integrity and security. Developed enhanced provisioning solution to support automatic provisioning of approved Teams and SharePoint sites with convention-enforced naming and advanced security settings for state agency, using Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, PowerShell, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI; quickened time to value creation, minimized monitoring needs, sped up outlier processing, and improved Power BI report’s usability and performance. Built HR 401(k) Process Automation using Azure Logic Apps, SQL Server, Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Excel for national security and aircraft technology corporation to automate sending encrypted 401(k) contributions data to investments vendor, saving files for audit, and sharing high-level financial summaries with accounting; saved 100 hours in annual labor through process automation, improved collaboration with developers via Agile user stories and maintaining source control in GitHub, improved data security and performance, and increased project transparency for stakeholders.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

Designed six-page Site Survey Power App for leading installer of automatic doors to collect over 100 fields of text and media input utilizing Power Apps, Power Automate, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams; delivered time savings, completed digital transformation of paper business processes, ensured efficient data input, and created printing functionality in Teams by creating a Power Automate flow to convert SharePoint data to HTML.Automated the requesting and creation of MS Teams groups and Slack channels for high-end security solutions provider by creating a Resource Provisioning Power App using Power Apps, Power Automate, and SharePoint; saved IT costs by streamlining employee requests, secured data using SharePoint lists, and maximized approval efficiency by developing a Power Automate flow.Improved data storage and functionality of marketing budget solution app for public accounting and technology consultancy utilizing Power Apps, Dataverse, Power Query, and Excel to increase performance and improve long-term maintenance, automate data integration, and simplifying Power App logic.