Richard Alan Norte Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, US

Walnut Creek, CA, US

O365.cool is my Independent DevOps O365 Consulting Company.With over 20 years of experience, I specialize in Microsoft SharePoint Architecture (2007-2016), Office 365, Web Development, Power Apps & Flow, and Mobile Solutions. My expertise includes leading Content Management architecture projects, achieving strategic objectives on time and within budget in.

San Francisco, California, US

Responsible for project management and accountable to provide guidance to a team of Developers and IT analysts to deliver functional design and deploy enterprise automated business processes with K2 business workflows, also responsible for overall administration for company’s SharePoint intranet and extranet environments.

San Ramon, CA, US

SharePoint 2010 to O365 Migration – Planning, implementing, and troubleshooting migration from SharePoint 2010 to O365 SharePoint Online for Chevron’s Health, Environment, and Safety division. Upgrade and re-code workflow automation steps for various critical applications utilizing SharePoint Designer, InfoPath, Power BI, PowerApps, and Microsoft Flow.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Designed and implemented a SharePoint 2016 Farm Topology on Windows Azure using IaaS, starting with the creation of Virtual Networks, Storage, allocation, VM Builds, and AD configuration.
• Created a custom project management site template for use by SFDPW Capital Planning departments.
• Created workflows, XSLT, Web Parts using the out-of-the-box and custom designing in SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio. Sharpened skills in developing Web Part Templates, Deploying Web parts, connection between web.

Oakland, California, US

• Led a team of IT analysts and application programmers to deliver a custom-branded company-wide SharePoint intranet portal and deployed a Hybrid SharePoint O365 enterprise collaboration portal.
• Automated business processes with InfoPath and business workflows.
• Developed an effective governance model, adoption strategy.
• Designed and implemented task management solution for the Chief Legal Counsel, which allowed her to greatly improve daily communications with her staff and track their individual performance.
• Trained BART employees on the numerous use cases and features of SharePoint and MS Office integration.

Luanda, Luanda, AO

• Led eRoom and EMC Documentum migration to SharePoint 2010. This resulted in an enterprise records center with high fidelity search capabilities.
• Designed and implemented the enterprise’s Information Governance model. Created standard operating procedures and updated internal knowledge base with the solutions/research.
• Developed a plant operations’ tracking solution using InfoPath forms, customer workflows, and business performance dashboards. This provided plant engineers and managers an important and vital real-time issue tracking.
• Architected plant SharePoint sites, feature and solutions in PRE PROD, implemented in PROD. Worked on break fix issues when the PROD/QA/DEV farms down scenarios.
• Setup Office365 Tenants, set up hybrid configuration, implemented other Office 365 Services like DLP, and videos for the customers.
• Configured Enterprise Search, Business Data Catalog (BDC), Site Usage Reports, and various Performance Point Dashboards.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Developed an effective governance plan and support model for management and usage of SharePoint environment.
• Delivered an automated business solution under budget and ahead of schedule to improve IT Help Desk support ticket handling system.
• Worked with developers in designing master pages, page layouts, pages, site definitions, deploying the solutions in the test environments, and releasing them to PROD for public availability.
• Helped customize the look and feel of SharePoint to match the design provided by their design department. This included extensive use of CSS, custom web parts.

New York, US

• Worked with a team to successfully migrate all corporate content from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010.

Walnut Creek, CA, US

• Conducted in-depth requirements analysis and conducted POCs.
• Designed, coded, and delivered RFP solution site resulting in quicker and more reliable change management lifecycle turnover.

San Ramon, CA, US

• Delivered 2nd level SharePoint administration end user support and training for the Information Technology Infrastructure Assets Division comprised of 1,100 employees collaborating on 5 major department site collections.
• Implemented E-Discovery improvements and best practices for Chevron’s IT Security Team to track individual efforts, thereby providing transparency and visibility in team workload and performance improvements by 50%.
• Planned, implemented, and troubleshot the migration from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 for Chevron’s IT security department. Upgraded and re-coded workflow automation steps for various critical applications.
• Designed and delivered document change management portal for the management of project training, knowledge transfer, and service catalog documentation updates.
• Created solutions in compliance with corporate governance for the Information Security team to identify, streamline workflows, and establish systems for data forensic and E-Discovery.