Tom Braman Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle

With a strong focus on SharePoint, Teams, and Office 365, I support the City of Seattle in achieving its strategic goals of employee productivity and workplace efficiency. Current tasks include:>> Managing a curriculum of 20 online remote-work courses deployed as part of the IT department's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Employees have attended more than 10,000 sessions.>> Managing the city's Digital Workplace Champions Program, an employee user group committed to learning about and promoting usage of Office 365 and other digital-workplace tools across the city (roughly 1,000 members).>> Developing and championing enterprise Digital Workplace Tools governance, including SharePoint governance.>> Developing and implementing SharePoint collections and sites, and supporting business owners/site owners in that process.>> Troubleshooting customer SharePoint problems, and addressing their SharePoint service requests.

Seattle, Wa

SuperSonicArts offers these affordable services to bluegrass, old-time, newgrass, and Celtic musicians:> Creating one-sheets for radio promotions.> Writing promotional emails for radio-station/deejay consumption.> Bulk email marketing to radio stations and deejays.> Follow-up email, telephone, postal, and other marketing to radio stations and deejays.> Daily, weekly, or monthly reporting on radio plays on Folk-DJ, Spinitron, and other folk-music lists.> General consultation and referrals on related promotional topics (streaming, CD distribution, playlists, print, online, graphic arts…).

Seattle, Wa

w/ focus on Office 365 As liaison and central point of contact for enterprise Web activities, and aside from helping the County win top-5 Best of Web national awards over five times, I achieved the following: >> Led and/or supported dozens of software development and procurement projects, including SharePoint, Sitecore (our Web content management system), WordPress, and a host of application servers and providers (search, statistics, social, etc.). Included RFP development as well as vendor-response evaluation. 15 years. >> Managed and administered enterprise SharePoint services, including consulting and customer-support services, information-architecture development and implementation, governance leadership and management, and day-to-day back-end, collection, and site administration. 3 years. >> Working with and across teams, deployed large-scale, publicly available IT solutions including hardware/software upgrades (including new applications and servers), domain-name changes, service retirement, and Web site redesigns. 15 years. >> Managed second tier of a 24x7 customer-support desk, supporting thousands of SharePoint users, HTML developers, Sitecore users, and others with Web-related needs through planned changes and unplanned issues. Served on change-management panel. 15 years. >> Managed Web Team staffing and budgeting, including goal-setting, hiring, performance evaluation, and support of my department’s annual business planning. Included up to five full-time employees as well as contractors and vendors. 5 years. >> Developed, implemented, and managed IT governance processes, including Internet and intranet services and publishing. 15 years. >> Delivered dozens of presentations on behalf of my department in front of the public, executive management, County Council, governance boards, department managers and employees, vendors, and coworkers. 15 years.

Senior producer. Managing writers, editors, photographers, and graphic designers, I kept employees satisfied and productive while overseeing creation of the online magazine’s vast database of sports, recreation, and leisure destinations in the Pacific Northwest. I launched/managed its sports and getaway sections, packaging essential info in user-friendly ways, helping site visitors to make swift decisions on what to do and where to go.

With my team, determined budget, audience, tone, look, and editorial offerings of the world’s first multimedia magazine published on CD-ROM (60,000 monthly). I managed five producers, a Los Angeles bureau chief, and myriad freelancers.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Political Science And Government

Post-Bac, Business / Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Graduate School of Business and College of Computer ScienceStudied computer science, human-computer interaction.

International Political Science

Semester study at the United Nations, with focus on environmental issues in the Sahel (West Africa).