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Greater San Diego Area

Lead a team of 10 people in an enterprise-wide upgrade from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2016. Establish the methodology and build a migration factory to upgrade thousands of sites over the course of a dozen waves. For the terabytes of data, there is near-complete fidelity of content and effectively zero downtime for the business during transition.Quogent provides services to enterprises that include process strategy, modeling and process excellence planning. We provide accelerated business application development services coupled with an infrastructure team that works with companies on cloud strategy – migrating business apps to the cloud and ensuring proper alignment with their business objectives.

Greater San Diego Area

Architect and deliver enterprise deployments of SharePoint and Office 365 with an emphasis on cloud migration (data and apps), information governance, and maximizing user adoption.

San Diego

Led strategic advisory team that worked directly with sales and delivery teams on SharePoint and Office 365 architecture, data migration, governance, and roadmap planning projects. Advise customers seeking best practices for on-premises, Microsoft cloud and hybrid collaboration workloads. Helped establish and evolve the service practice in North America, Asia, and Europe. In 3 years, directly influenced sales greater than $10M.

San Diego

Architected and implemented several of AvePoint’s largest and most-demanding SharePoint deployments across three continents. Co-authored a strategic advisory solutions framework that prescribed specific steps to expand adoption and investment in SharePoint. This landed AvePoint’s largest services customer in North America and expanded the customer’s daily SharePoint usage from 6,000 to 14,000 users within 8 weeks. As a thought leader, authored whitepapers, conducted internal and customer-facing workshops, and invited speaker at dozens of conferences.

Lead architect responsible for architecting and deploying SharePoint farms in North America and Asia. Co-authored Synergy's SharePoint Development and Administration training program and trained hundreds to become the next-generation SharePoint experts. In Singapore, established Synergy’s Southeast Asia practice and was the lead architect deploying and driving SharePoint adoption across Asia Pac enterprises. Helped organize the first annual Southeast Asia SharePoint Conference which brought over 500 attendees to Singapore.

Lead a team of 9 programmers in Windows and UNIX software development. Emphasis is on redesigning software development lifecycle (SDLC) and assisting with enterprise project mgmt (EPM) implementation with SharePoint. Publish development standards and guidance to team. Implement software development offshoring with a remote team. Software architect and development responsibilities in .NET and SQL Server as time permits. Assist technical operations group with leadership direction as needed.

As Senior Solutions Developer, I was involved from the beginning with this development team that grew to a staff of 25. Responsible for all aspects of project lifecycle development from requirements gathering to post-development support as a project-lead. Area of emphasis was on SQL back-end (modeling/stored procedures) and web middle-tier (COM, ASP and ASP.NET) and SharePoint. As department grew, I became more involved with personnel and project management tasks including interviewing, estimating, and automating internal processes. Primary customer is DOD with multiple enterprise solutions deployed worldwide.As a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), I was responsible for authoring and delivery of both custom and Microsoft official courseware. From 96-97, I was a full-time trainer on Windows NT 3.51/4.0, Windows 95/98, Networking Essentials and SQL Server 6.0/6.5. In 98-00, I transitioned into development and taught fewer classes. From 01-05, occasional classes on XML/XSLT, C#, VB.NET, and ASP.NET.

Honolulu, Hi

Architected and implemented Novell NetWare-based server architectures to approximately 50 customers. Develop automation procedures for desktop deployment (Windows 3.1 and 95). Custom development projects as needed.

Master'S Information Systems, With Distinction, 4.0 Gpa, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Upsilon Pi Epsilon

Bachelor'S Computer Science, 4.0 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Upsilon Pi Epsilon