Summary
Managed the development of a Custom applications, meeting client requirements with precision, which enhanced user experience and operational efficiency.
Experience
Senior Practice Director - Unify Consulting
Present -
- Managed the development of a Custom SharePoint application, meeting client requirements with precision, which enhanced user experience and operational efficiency.
Project Manager/Global Architect - Symax America
10/2015 - 03/2018
- Led a global infrastructure architect team, which streamlined efforts across the company, improving service reliability and speed.
- Designed and implemented a Global AWS Solution, providing best practices, governance frameworks, and security guidelines that improved overall service reliability.
- Served as the infrastructure liaison to teams in Japan, Germany, and the US for the Global Solution, helping to align strategies and share insights effectively.
- Leveraged AWS services such as CloudFront, CloudWatch, CloudAudit, EC2, ALB, VPC, S3, IAM, RDS, and Route 53, which optimized performance and IT asset utilization efficiency.
Senior Architect - National Oil Varco
06/2013 - 09/2015
- Led a team in architecting and deploying the transition from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013, which improved the platform to a global user base of 70,000, enhancing collaboration across the organization.
- Managed the design and implementation of a robust production SharePoint 2013 Intranet environment, ensuring best practices were followed and high availability/disaster recovery solutions were in place, which helped maintain system reliability.
- Leveraged SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, Windows Server 2012, Distributed Branch Cache, Office 365, and Azure, which optimized the infrastructure to meet modern features to meet user needs and business needs.
Senior SharePoint Architect - Weber Grill
06/2013 - 09/2013
- Led the architecture and deployment of SharePoint 2013 Standard, which streamlined collaboration across teams and improved overall efficiency.
- Successfully deployed production SharePoint 2013 Intranet and Extranet environments, helping to enhance communication and information sharing across the organization.
- Applied technologies including SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, and Windows Server 2012, ensuring a robust and scalable infrastructure that supported business needs.
Senior SharePoint Architect - AT&T
06/2013 - 09/2013
- Led the architecture and deployment of SharePoint 2013 Enterprise and Project Server 2013, establishing a robust foundation for the organization's collaboration tools.
- Successfully implemented an Intranet SharePoint 2013 Enterprise environment, which included user needs, impact and selected enterprise search capabilities, making information access easier and more efficient for users.
- Deployed Project Server 2013 while also implementing branding and information architecture solutions, helping to enhance the user experience and align project management tools with the company's identity.
- Applied technologies such as SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, and Windows Server 2012, ensuring reliable performance and scalability to support the organization.
Senior SharePoint Architect - City of Seattle
01/2013 - 06/2013
- Led a team to architect and deploy the SharePoint 2013 Enterprise environment, which streamlined collaboration across the organization.
- Developed both Development and Production Farms, ensuring a robust and scalable infrastructure for various applications.
- Implemented branding and information architecture solutions, helping to enhance user experience and navigation within the platform.
- Created event receivers to automatically update lists from Active Directory, ensuring that users could access the latest information and data updates.
- Applied technologies such as SharePoint 2013, SQL Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012, which ensured a modern and effective IT environment.
Senior SharePoint Architect - Global Nuclear Fuel
01/2013 - 07/2013
- Led the team in architecting and deploying a pilot SharePoint 2013 Enterprise environment, which provided a robust platform for collaboration and information sharing across the organization.
- Developed a solution that streamlined collaboration solutions that contributed to a successful pilot, enhancing user experience and making the platform more accessible to users.
- Applied technologies such as SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, and Windows Server 2008, which ensured a seamless integration of systems and improved the overall user experience and efficiency of the environment.
Senior SharePoint Architect - AT&T
09/2012 - 06/2013
- Led a team in architecting and deploying SharePoint 2010 Enterprise with Project Server 2010, which enhanced collaboration and project management across the organization.
- Designed and Implemented the upgrade of the production SharePoint Foundation environment to SharePoint Enterprise 2010, helping to improve collaboration and user experience.
- Successfully deployed Project Server 2010 for a multi-year project valued at over $1 million, which streamlined project tracking and resource management for significant initiatives.
- Provided ongoing Tier 3 support for Project Server 2010, ensuring that the system ran smoothly and addressing any complex issues that arose, which contributed to higher user satisfaction.
- Utilized technologies such as SharePoint 2010 and Project Server 2010 to enhance collaboration and project workflow, ensuring that the team achieved greater efficiency in project execution.
Senior SharePoint Architect - AT&T
06/2012 - 09/2012
- Led a team to develop a SharePoint 2010 proof of concept (POC), which helped assess the technology's feasibility for our needs.
- Conducted interviews with over 30 stakeholders to gather comprehensive business requirements, ensuring the proposed solution aligned with user needs.
- Developed and presented a detailed proposed solution to executive leadership, which provided clarity on the project's potential impact and value.
- Guided the team in creating a Project 2010 POC to prototype the proposed solution, demonstrating its functionality and capabilities effectively.
- Utilized SharePoint 2010 and Project Server 2010 technologies, which helped streamline project management and collaboration efforts.
Senior SharePoint Architect - Global Nuclear Fuel
01/2012 - 04/2012
- Developed a SharePoint development environment, which facilitated rapid proof of concept (POC) creation and effective visualization of proposed solutions.
- Led efforts in deploying the SharePoint 2010 enterprise production environment, ensuring that systems were set up efficiently and met organizational needs.
- Acted as the overall SharePoint 2010 enterprise architect, overseeing ongoing solutions to align with business objectives and improve operational efficiency.
Senior SharePoint Architect - Boeing
10/2011 - 09/2012
- Developed a proof of concept (POC) using SharePoint 2010, which showcased potential improvements in supply chain management efficiency.
- Led the design and development of Performance Point, Workflow, Alerting, and UIX components, ensuring a cohesive user experience that met business needs.
- Created an engaging video presentation of the POC for internal distribution, which successfully communicated the project's benefits to business decision-makers, helping to drive further discussions on implementation.
President/CEO - Grazulu.com
02/2010 - 09/2011
- Conducted enterprise architectural design sessions, which helped high-tech and design firms optimize their system structures for better performance.
- Managed hosted solutions, ensuring reliable service delivery that met client expectations.
Education
Education/Certifications
Penn State University
Mathematics
Skills
Leadership
Root Cause Analysis
Technical Debt Management
Data Management
AWS
MS SQL
Linux
Windows Servers
Azure
IBM DB2
SharePoint
SQL Server
