Senior SharePoint Consultant
IRW Systems
Total years of experience :13 years, 0 Months
5/2012 - Present IRW Systems, Glasgow SharePoint Consultant
Teaching Leader
• Migrating Intranet to cloud project
• SharePoint 2013 Online platform
• Migrating content using ShareGate
• Using Social features
• Creation of site templates for use in sub sites
• Creation of 2013 business Workflows
• Online Exchange
• Office 365 setup
• Creation of MySites and Implemented different Social Collaboration features of SharePoint 2013
• Term Store and meta tagging
• Search optimisation for specific search requirements
IRW Intranet/Extranet
• Installation and configuration of SharePoint 2013 Farm on Windows Server 2012 with SQL Server 2012 and Visual Studio 2012
• Mentoring junior SharePoint consultants
• Migration of Existing SharePoint 2010 Document Management system to SharePoint 2013
• Creation of Development Environment document for SharePoint 2013 infrastructure setup on clients Production, Staging and Development environments.
• Used deployment scripts to deploy SharePoint 2007/2010/2013 for virtual machine all in one boxes for developers, Development environment, Staging environment and Production environment using PowerShell Script for a consistently and accurately provisioned farm configurations.
• Demo on different features of SharePoint 2013 On Premise and Cloud to Client Stake Holders as part of requirements gathering workshops.
• Creation and configuration of SharePoint 2013 Service Applications like Metadata Service, User Profile Service Application, Search Service, Enterprise Search Centre
• Creation of My Sites and Implemented different Social collaboration features of SharePoint 2013
British Library
• Taking over the management of the publishing Portal
• SharePoint 2010 platform
• Variation language site Welsh and English
• Custom development work
Lee and Thompson Solicitors
• Optimised SQL Server database
• Optimised SharePoint Farm
• SharePoint 2007 Platform
• Branding Intranet solution
• Migrated content using Metalogix tools
Aberdeen Harbour
• Troubleshot performance issue
• Optimised front end web servers
Bishop Grosseteste
• SharePoint Web Content Management
• Setup workshops to ascertain and confirm business requirements in discussion with senior management regarding SharePoint 2010 business requirement
• Rebranding public facing website
• Will be one of the first responsive HTML5 University sites in 2013
• Term store and meta tagging
• SharePoint 2010 Platform
Stewart Milne Homes
• Business requirement workshops
• Reviewing and audit of existing SharePoint farm
• Rebranding Intranet
• Meta Tagging
• SharePoint 2010 platform
Scottish Power - HR eFiling
• Interface trouble shooting
• SSIS packages
• SharePoint 2007 platform
Scottish Power - Energy Networks
• SharePoint architect role
• Setup workshops to ascertain and confirm business requirements in discussion with senior management regarding SharePoint 2010 business requirement Created Technical Solution Design documentation
• Creation of Information Architecture, Logical Architecture, Governance documents for the SharePoint 2007/2010 Collaboration portal planning. Created my own templates for workshops.
• Installed and configured SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services with SharePoint 2010 using SharePoint Integration Mode in Development for demo purposes.
• Implemented the following SharePoint 2010 features Record Management, Document Centre, Term Store, Metadata Service, Search, Custom Master Page, Content Organizer, Custom site columns, Custom content types and Content Type Hub
• Created a number of deployment script using PowerShell for Web Applications, Site Collections and Application services.
• Creation of numerous Team site specific templates and WSP packages for different SharePoint artefacts.
• Record Management
• Migrating content using AvePoint Migrator
• Building Phase 1 of the solution
• Mentoring younger colleagues in the process
5/2010 - 05/2012 Arthaus (Visual communications), Marlow, Buckinghamshire SharePoint Consultant
• Installation and configuration of TFS 2010 for the development team, planning and creation of Solution Structure in Visual Studio 2010 and Managing Code using TFS 2010
• Used deployment scripts to deploy SharePoint 2007/2010 for virtual machine all in one boxes for developers, Development environment, staging environment and Production environment using PowerShell Script for a consistently and accurately provisioned farm configurations.
Diageo SharePoint Online Portal using Office 365 enterprise version
Key Skills used: • Branding
• Functionality
• Configuring
• Testing
Diageo SharePoint collaboration sites using Office 365 enterprise version.
Key Skills used: • Branding
• Functionality
• Configuring
• Team site templates
• Testing
• Support
PepsicCo Created an HR career progression application tool on a SharePoint 2010 environment
Key Skills used: • Branding
• Design
• Development
• Management
• Configuration
• Support
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Group - European division.
Created a new intranet Portal for the company and was involved pre sales, design, delivery and support management of the complete solution.
Key Skills used: • Branding
• Design
• Development
• Management
• Configuration
• Training
• Support
• Initial brought onto the ISIS project (a £4M student record system) on a consultancy basis but after 5 months I was offered a long term contract.
• Leading a team of developers, dba and system administrators to deliver a new Integrated Student Information System (ISIS) the underlying platform was Agresso. This project had time driven deadlines set by universities student life cycle. Following the Prince2 methodology.
• Coordinated the installation of the ISIS estate which consists of a 40 plus server enterprise server farm. This includes clustered SQL server 2005 databases and network load balanced web servers. The whole estate had access to its own SAN which provides flexible growth of the estate. Working with virtualised test environments.
• Rolling out SharePoint Portal Services for the staff and student zones. This will allow the ISIS estate to have one central portal interface that all the other legacy system will be able to communicate through.
• Interfacing with the ISIS system with other systems on the estate such as the oracle finance and HR systems.
• Implementing Microsoft CRM 3 system that is being rolled out to the university department by department basis
• Maintained revenue generating and external services to a 70, 000 customer base around the world with a 98% uptime. Scholar programme (http://scholar.hw.ac.uk).
• Delivered sharepoint functionality and customisations for £1.2M CeLLS projectwww.cellsproject.org
• Increased productivity by introducing a virtual workspace for employees to brainstorm using Sharepoint.
• Rationalised legacy services and reduced TCO by deploying a number of Virtual solutions using VMWare.
• Developed and implemented procedures to run security checks for the complete estate every 6 months to identify flaws in our network.
• Successfully migrated estate from Windows 2000 to 2003 server environment and all desktops to Windows XP.
• Supported up to 6 managers over 4 continents.
• By automating Windows updates, centralising anti-virus control and automating patch updates I significantly reduced the TCO of our estate whilst providing significant improvements to the reporting structure.
• Significantly improved on call response times by deploying reliable early warning monitoring system.
• Setup the appropriate escalation procedures for our On Call Team. This has been a major factor in achieving our 98% uptime.
• Improved resiliency of our web services by installing a hardware network load balancing solution. Similar solution to improve our database resilience which will be implemented later in the year.
2/2001 - 6/2004 EdICT Training C/O Govan High School
Network Administrator
1994 - 1999 various jobs please ask for details on request.
1999-2000 University of Paisley Glasgow MSc/PgD Information Technology and Web Technology
1994-1998 University of Glasgow BSc Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry