Toby Weston Email & Phone Number

Silverdale, Wa

Currently leading an agile development team focused on delivering high-quality business applications in the biotech industry. Successful in building positive relationships with customers and stakeholders. Experienced in requirements gathering, creating backlogs, wireframing, and agile project management with the development team. Excellent communication skills in working effectively with non-technical and technical personnel alike.- Maintain strong and effective customer and stakeholder relationships.- Work with product owners to create and manage product backlogs across multiple applications in concurrent development.- Schedule and facilitate sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.- Ensure creation of definition of done and maintaining focus on meeting it each sprint. - Meet daily with team to review work item progress; and identify and remove impediments.- Developed and maintain product roadmaps and timelines.- Ensure documentation of release notes.- Document and share development team metrics.- Bootstrap new projects from concept to implementation.- Lead requirements gathering sessions with stakeholders, create specifications, and document acceptance criteria into user stories.- Develop designs and prototypes for requirements clarification and concept validation.- Leading the effort to improve quality across applications through improvement of project documentation, metric tracking, and security focus.- Provide creative thinking and innovative ideas to product teams.- Implement support workflows and processes to provide consistent and responsive solutions to operations issues.- Coach the team towards continuous improvement through discrete actions.- Provide status reports and daily communication with organization leadership.- Facilitate change management to document, prioritize, and implement unplanned items.- Identify, track, and mitigate risks and issues.

Develop solutions using SharePoint 2010, C#, and client-side JavaScript. Utilize scrum methodology to consistently and quickly deliver value to the customer. Worked closely with QA to test and improve SharePoint solutions.- Delivered solution to retrieve external client real estate data and expose via search.- Developed SharePoint profile pages for contacts through integration with SQL Server.- Developed C# code-behind to integrate with line-of-business data.- Developed SQL Server stored procedures to migrate data from linked servers into a customized database.- Delivered custom site pages to display data from Business Connectivity Services.- Wrote PowerShell scripts to automate solution deployment.- Implemented SharePoint workflows and custom branding.

Develop SharePoint solutions onsite at NUWC Keyport. Led effort to identify the best migration path from SharePoint 2003 to SharePoint 2007. Lead development team in SharePoint adoption and best practices for development.- Developed and implemented base-wide parking solution using custom web parts integrating with SQL Server 2005.- Developed and implemented solution for InfoPath generated work requests and utilizing custom workflows to route forms for approval.- Created reports using Reporting Services and the Business Data Catalog (BDC).- Implemented a Keyport building data site through integration with SQL Server and using out-of-the-box BDC web parts and custom web services.- Led the SharePoint 2003 to MOSS 2007 migration research and delivered a presentation on recommendations to the branch leads.- Provided technical guidance on SharePoint 2007 developer best practices.- Setup development virtual machines and created a script to auto-deploy and configure SharePoint.- Provided technical support for various SharePoint projects and issues.- Consulted for Keyport organization in implementing and testing a MOSS 2007 portal solution.

Poulsbo, Wa

Develop SharePoint and.NET solutions for various customers. Participated in SharePoint 2003 and 2007 beta programs with Microsoft. Led development team for consulting services portal as early adopters of MOSS 2007. Created full-stack .NET solutions using C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, and SQL Server.- Developed and implemented a one-stop SharePoint environment for EDS corporate information.- Developed full-stack web application for training management using .NET and SharePoint.- Created collaboration sites and custom dashboards for the Consulting Services Portal.- Created custom web parts to aggregate site collection data.- Developed and administrated the EDSMSFT SharePoint site for use as a partner portal for EDS and Microsoft.- Implemented custom SharePoint branding.- Integrated a 3rd-party ratings module into SharePoint 2003.- Co-wrote programming guide for SharePoint developers.- Co-wrote whitepaper on WSRP toolkit for SharePoint.

Worked as operator running daily and nightly jobs, maintaining operations and answering technical support calls.

Worked as operator running daily and nightly jobs, maintaining operations and answering technical support calls.