I am a Cloud Solution Architect in the Culture and Cloud eXperience practice focused on bringing together people, process, and technology to drive adoption, business value and ROI. My primary role is to advise and assist customers adopting M365 cloud services with maximizing value, collaborating with IT and business stakeholders to build change management plans including communications and training, measuring success, digesting the M365 roadmap, and empowering customer champions and stakeholders.I also provide pre-sales support, IP creation, and internal practice support. I maintain deep technical expertise as well by with deliveries including the Viva Suite, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive for Business, M365 Compliance, and the Power Platform.

Author of "SharePoint Architect's Planning Guide" from Packt Publishing, 2022 - https://www.packtpub.com/product/sharepoint-architects-planning-guide/9781803249360.I am a seasoned speaker and trainer in Microsoft collaboration technologies, change management, and business analysis. I bring perspectives from technical how-to, user adoption, and employee experience. I have spoken at local, regional and national technology events with a focus on SharePoint and Office 365, including the following:National and regional conferences:SPTechCon Boston MA 2014, 2019SPTechCon San Francisco CA 2013SharePoint Fest Denver CO 2013SharePoint Fest Chicago IL 2013SharePoint Cincy 2013, 2016Code PaLOUsa Louisville KY 2013, 2015, 2019DogFoodCon Columbus OH 2015, 2017, 2019Local conferences including:M365 Chicago Salute to Services 2022Minnesota Microsoft 365 User Group - Virtual Workshop Day Fall, 2022SharePoint Saturday Cincinnati OH 2012, 2013, 2018SharePoint Saturday Dayton OHSharePoint Saturday Louisville KY 2012 SpeakerSharePoint Saturday Louisville KY Speaker & co-organizer 2014SharePoint Saturday Kansas City MOSharePoint Saturday Manchester NH SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach VASharePoint Saturday Saint Louis MOSharePoint Saturday Philadelphia PAO365 & SharePoint Saturday Nashville 2016, 2019SPS/Cloud Saturday Chicago Suburbs 2017SharePoint Saturday DC/Reston 2018SharePoint Saturday Atlanta 2019User group involvement:Cincinnati SharePoint User Group - speakerLouisville SharePoint Users co-organizerLouisville SharePoint User Group - speakerCentral KY Microsoft User Group - speaker

Principal Consultant on the Enterprise Collaboration Team and the lead for the Employee Engagement Group focused on adoption and change management. My work included: • defining service offerings• defining strategic goals and repeatable processes• architecting solutions for M365 collaboration tools (Viva, SharePoint, Teams, OD4B, Yammer, Stream)• delivering SME services in adoption, governance, and deep technical projects• leading project delivery teams in cooperation with the PMO• providing coaching, mentorship, and direction for the group• resource planning and scheduling• providing pre-sales scoping, estimation, demos, and support• managing vendor and partner relationships including Microsoft• writing blog posts and other marketing content• evangelizing the value of change management within KiZAN and to our customers• developing and delivering training content internally and for customers• delivering raving fan service on customer projectsI was awarded a Raving Fan Champion award by KiZAN leadership and was selected by co-workers as the Customer Service All Star in 2020. I previously worked in the capacity of BA/UX Practice Lead, leading the PREP team (Process, Requirements, Experience and Planning), responsible for providing business analysis consulting services.

Principal Consultant specializing in SharePoint Architecture and solution development.Responsibilities within the SharePoint practice include pre-sales and marketing support, project scoping and documentation, interviewing potential employees and strategic planning. Technical role as SharePoint subject matter expert for our clients including architecture, development, administration, mentoring and platform governance.

Consulting services including planning, architecture, development, training, administration, etc. delivering SharePoint, .NET and related products and solutions. Projects include custom web part development, InfoPath custom development, workflow development, and SharePoint 2010 upgrading for large enterprise clients.

Software engineer and technical architect specializing in .NET and SharePoint solutions at the corporate office of Emergint Technologies in Louisville. Projects included .NET desktop development for the EPA; architecting, developing and administering a SharePoint Portal for the Ireland Army Hospital and Warrior Transition Unit at Fort Knox; in house development and training using SharePoint 2007.

Adjunct instructor via the GRID for the .NET, SharePoint and SQL Server Master's Programs.

Managed technical staff responsible for internal IT and setup operations. Lead developer for internal projects and public web site. Delivered .NET, SharePoint and SQL training and consulting to clients.

taught classes to undergraduates in public speaking

Delivered training and consulting services using Microsoft development and database technologies.

taught classes to undergraduates in public speaking and business and professional communication

In this role, I managed direct mail communications and served as a ghost writer for the college President, writing articles for the monthly publication of the college and other assignments as needed.

Taught business and professional communication and public speaking to nursing program students