William Aldrich-Thorpe Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pa 15213-2612

Design and deliver high-level content organization and navigation structures. Support enterprise-wide thinking about organization goals and how sites support the goals. Support organization in understanding user experience. Collaborate as an integral member of the design and development teams. Strive to make complex information clear. Additionally:• Compile user research on site users and what they want to achieve on a website• Identify content that helps support user goals and business goals• Translate user needs into functional requirements• Perform a content inventory showing all content elements, relationships and dependencies• Perform comparative analyses as required; provide explanation of structures and patterns• Identify consistent elements for information presentation• Develop taxonomies and controlled vocabularies (for searching)• Develop measures of success – list benchmarks for before and after comparison

Pittsburgh, Pa 15213-2612

• Worked on MOSS 2007 / 2010 migrations and 3rd party web parts• Integrate MOSS with Project Server• Worked with SEI internal customers to assess information requirements and designed collaboration sites to meet those needs• Team site creation and customization including security, site design, content types, and templates• Forms and custom workflow development• Develop executive level dashboards• Training of end users to manage SharePoint content and permissions

Rosslyn, Va

Planned and executed a new Federal Proposal Support Team along with a new SharePoint 2010 platform.• Define project requirements coordinating with key executive stakeholders• Manage Portal architecture and project level SharePoint Services web sites• Solution development and develop migration process• Met routinely with executive management to plan technology strategies and solution development.• Collaborate with internal business units to develop and maintain project plans • Coordinate project activities for adherence to project plan and goals • Monitor results against established timelines, deliverables, tasks, dependencies, and associated technical specifications• Support of multiple SharePoint 2007/2010 platforms• Develop highly complex InfoPath forms integrating SQL databases and SharePoint libraries• Manage and train support team members and members of the Federal Capture Group user community

Mclean, Va

Managed and expanded a SharePoint farm deployment for the Federal Capture Team.• Manage/Support/Migrate SharePoint 2003/2007 (MOSS) Platforms, SQL Server 2000/2005, and Active Directory• Portal architecture and build project level SharePoint Services web sites (taxonomy and template development)• Manage the Microsoft 2003 Server operating system• Train, solution development, and plan/develop migration process to new software platforms and web applications• Manage and train the infrastructure support team members and members of the Federal Capture Group user community• Work with executive management to plan technology strategies for the group

Arlington, Va

Planned and executed a new SharePoint 2007 content management solution with a new user interface based on ITILv2.• Manage the groups SharePoint Platform and Library• Interface with Engineering to determine and verify ownership information for application layer items for solutions• Worked closely with various departments to build out a SharePoint 2007 document management solution• Utilized ITILv2 best practice solution for the design and execution

Ashburn, Va

Planned, designed, and executed a new SharePoint 2007 farm platform for use by the Proposal Management teams.• Design, development, build, and support of an enterprise Microsoft SharePoint server farm collaboration system. • Server design and implementation• Taxonomy for both SharePoint Portal and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) • Continued improvement of the platform to support "best practice" policy and procedures • Researched, tested, and deployed next generation web services solutions. • Expert level technical support interfacing both programming and hardware support organizations• Developed a test platform, a user interface web part to build "multi-template-based" project web sites

Ashburn, Va

Dual role managing outsource proposal development and support of the groups technology platform.• Solutions development specifically focused on new business opportunities• Capture plans based on existing MCI products and services and incorporation of other business complement strategies for an overall solution strategy• Planned, built, and executed a SharePoint Team Services (STS) server deployment/solution• Executed a SharePoint 2003 migration to a new SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) operating on HP Blade servers. • Successful platform promotion to increase user adoption and support more collateral and proposal-ready material along with offering more technical sales assistance• Group LAN Administrator

Provide proactive strategic/solution leadership for key retention and strategic MCI programs. Pre-proposal RFP and requirements documentation are supported, alignment of solutions agree with Account Teams and MCI corporate strategy, facilitating ongoing Capture Management Plans, ensure proposal sales document elements are in place, and provide ongoing post-proposal Customer Presentations and revision requests. Second, provide custom solution development for routine programs, support identifying partners and coordinating TPV business plans, provide complex custom managed services solutions, provide post-proposal support for complex managed services and partner deals, and provide custom solution support on consulting basis. Successful bringing in new revenue such as Vopak, AutoZone, Allegis, UNUMProvident, and Ford Motor Company (Asia) for a total of $35M/year. Further, assisted and lead retention projects that totaled approximately $126M/year.

Develop technical proposals in response to RFPs released by the Department of Health. This included a proposal for CSAP Data Coordinating Center (277-99-6034), National Archive Project (283-99-9019), CSAT Knowledge Application Program (270-99-7072), and an IDIQ proposal titled Analyses, Technical Assistance, and Support for CMHS and Related Programs (SAM-CMHS-99-8017). The contract value was over $20.6 Million per year. Completed each proposal on time and with praise from SEMA Management. These proposal efforts required coordination between SEMA and subcontractors plus management to complete and deliver the responses on time. Developed the solution, designed a compliant response, wrote the majority of the proposal, and coordinated the proposal effort of the technical volume and assisting in the management volume. Developed business, operations process, and procedures for all future projects. Reviewed projects for compliance and possible teaming arrangements.

Developed and managed solutions to detailed requirements outlined in customer released RFPs. Assisted closing of several multi-million dollar accounts like Gannett Publishing and Georgia Pacific. Coordinated technical design and internal support departments within MCI. Was one of only two proposal managers responsible for handling high-level opportunities greater than $300K per month. Was the recipient of several interdepartmental awards and was given the organizations vice-presidents Service Elite Award in 1998.Senior System Engineer in the Federal Proposal group, responsible for competing on Federal Government Telecom RFPs. Successful with large contracts such as Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Veterans Administration. Promoted to proposal production manager over technical writers and proposal document specialists. Requested to work on a special project called Operation Crossbow to educate BT employees on TYMNET products, services, and procedures.

Bachelor, Information Technology

Associates, General Electronics