Tamara Bredemus Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, MN, US

Developing new training on Microsoft 365 applications including the Power Platform.Building relationships with all types of customer employees including C-Level personnel.Providing live virtual training across multiple countries and levels of understanding.Assisting other Learning Strategists in developing skills and knowledge.

Remote

Built relationships with clients to ensure end-user adoption of Microsoft 365.Provided live virtual trainings to executives and large groups across multiple time zones.Managed a team of talented Learning Strategists.Had fun while building training materials for end-users.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Working with an experienced team of user adoption and training specialists. Currently having fun supporting our clients.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Lead a brilliant team of professionals by collaborating on enterprise strategies, providing training & tools, and getting the heck out of their way so they can help our users make work life less complicated.Our team.
• Oracle Web Center - Public Website and Intranet publishing.
• SharePoint Online and OneDrive as part of our O365 Tenant.
• GovDelivery (Granicus) for mass emails for internal and external users.
• Siteimprove - keep our websites accessible and accurate. No one wants to misspell public.
• Smartsheet - used for project management and so much more.

Minneapolis, MN

• Bringing joy and additional productivity to the City of Minneapolis through collaboration. Tools include custom applications, O365 with SharePoint Online, Oracle WebCenter, GovDelivery, and more.
• Edited and resolved issues with the public website and intranet on Oracle.
• Managed and trained users on GovDelivery, a mass email system.
• Implemented Crawl, Walk, Run design and build technique.
• Created and implemented Learn As You Build Program for SharePoint solutions.
• Elicited business stories for and built SharePoint solutions including, but not limited to: o 911 team site with overtime solution to replace spreadsheet on bulletin board. Saved 275 hours/yr. o School Based Clinic.

Wayzata, MN

Worked with multiple clients to provide productivity through SharePoint. Some clients include:Farm Credit – Solution Architect * Lead workshops with C Level and other leadership team members to define game plan for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution using SharePoint as platform. * Architect overall ECM Solution framework. * Guide client through.

Maple Grove, MN

• Teach Power End User, SharePoint Designer and InfoPath courses in-person and online.
• Break down complex concepts for new users.
• Continuously improve courseware with timely updates. SharePoint, SharePoint Designer, and InfoPath.
• Develop custom courses for clients upon request resulting in additional sales.
• Requested by name by clients for training sessions.
• Earned top ratings by students. YTD 8.79 out of 9.

Worked as an independent consultant guiding, gathering and implementing requirements to use SharePoint and other applications to improve current business processes with multiple companies and clients. I love making tired people happy.

Created a central location for all market research materials using SharePoint.

• Saved Best Buy Dotcom over $350,000 in 8 months by assisting in re-engineering business processes and moving those processes to MOSS SharePoint 2007.
• Reduced time managers spent reviewing data 30% by optimizing SharePoint conditional formatting to highlight items outside the normal parameters.
• Designed SharePoint dashboards to dynamically display tasks assigned to the current user.
• Created and edited technical issue resolution documentation in Wiki Knowledge Base reducing time spent troubleshooting repeat issues by the Online Tools Support Team.
• Documented improved business processes in Wiki Knowledge Base reducing training hours of new hires.
• Increased number of authors contributing to the Wiki Knowledge Base 37% through internal marketing and one-on-one training resulting in a wider range of content for a wider audience base.

• Subject matter expert for promotional issues and improvements to promotion management tool.
• Replaced inefficient promotional meetings with the optimization of the promotion management tool already in use to save Best Buy Dotcom Promotion Managers over 600 hours per year by.
• Saved business and operations teams over 625 hours per year by assisting in the creation and implementation of off-shore professional promotional event verification process.
• Streamlined web content issue communication process resulting in reduced turnaround time to resolution.

• Sunset Environmental is an environmental company in Portland, Oregon specializing in remediation of petroleum impacted soil and ground water.
• Reduced bad debt 39% by implementing a new collections policy.
• Saved over 820 hours per year by modernizing client tracking, project tracking and accounting systems.
• Increased net profit by 50% year over year by hiring, training and mentoring team members.
• Changed company brand from cheapest to one of the most trustworthy environmental companies in the Portland area.
• Negotiated with vendors to lower prices on products, parts and services saving up to 23.5%.