HILARY SILVERT NEWELL

Arlington, Virginia    703.795.9218

OBJECTIVE

FTE in Arlington VA or remote ONLY as software developer using SharePoint SME expertise.

SUMMARY

SharePoint 2010 Development Certified Professional (Learning Tree March 2012) to design & develop Intranet & Internet SharePoint Solutions. Experiences with SharePoint 2013, 2010, 2007, and 2003. InfoPath forms. HPE Fortify Security scans. Self-starter with "Value Added" attitude who prefers to work in a team. Able to multi-task and to rapidly become expert in new software. Expertise in one on one end-user and JAD requirements gathering & definition, project development, web-based applications, information architecture. Workflow analysis, content management, communications, technical writing, and editing.  Experienced in understanding project life cycle methodology, the requirements lifecycle, SDLC, Agile, ITIL Enterprise Service Concepts, and Section 508 standards. Concepts of ISO 9001:2000, and of CMMI, Agile, and RUP. Worked on Federal Government project at multiple agencies; two years working directly with PBGC Contracting Officer and Contracting Officer’s Representative.

Design, develop, and maintain

●        Internet & Intranet Information Architecture for Online documents & information systems, including architecture, GUI, templates, & graphics - 10+ years

●        SharePoint portals, project, and team sites, SharePoint Designer 2007, SharePoint Designer 2010 custom workflows and page layouts, InfoPath 2010 client delivered forms, custom web parts. SharePoint 2013, 1.5+ years

●        CSS-based templates using .js -  2+ years

●        Web-based applications in Java, JavaScript, HTML, & DHTML, XHMTL with .css - 7+ years

●        Online documents & information systems, including architecture, GUI, templates, & graphics - 16+ years

●        End-user documentation, training materials and technical documentation - 16+ years

Use

●        SharePoint 2003, 2007, 2010, 2010 BPOS (cloud) UI with admin permissions, 2013 with SCA - 3.5+ years

●        InfoPath 2003 2+ years, InfoPath 2010 1+ year

●        SharePoint, MS Office suite, Project, and scripting to automate management tasks - 3+ years

●        Adobe CS4, to develop and update site design, templates, web parts, graphics, icons, etc. - 7+ years

SECURITY CLEARANCES

TSA Position of Public Trust

Interim DoD Top Secret investigation completed 12/15/13

DoD Secret investigation completed 03/08/13

(inactive) VA Position of Public Trust

(inactive) USDA Position of Public Trust

(inactive) DOJ and TSA completed investigations 2012

(inactive) Position of Public Trust, High Risk: OPM form 85-P C9, for DHS completed 11/9/2009

FDIC Position of Public Trust, High Risk: OPM form 85-P, completed 5/8/2006

TECHNICAL SKILLS

LanguagesJavaScript (js), JQuery, Angular .js, VBA, CSS, HTML, DHTML, XHTML, XLS, XLST, VB, C#, Java (JDK 1.3 & Swing),

SoftwareHPE Fortify, MS Office Suite 2007, 2010, 2013; Project Server; MSWord 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013; Acrobat Pro 11, Adobe CS4, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Contribute, RoboHelp (certified trainer, 1997), Author IT

CMS/DBSharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2007 (MOSS), SharePoint Designer 2013, SharePoint Designer 2010, SharePoint Designer 2007, InfoPath 2010, IIS, SharePoint Access Web Services, Excel Web Services, Schoolwires, Access 2003, ColdFusion

EnvironmentsVisual Studio 2013, JBuilder, TextPad, VI eMacs,

OtherSQL queries; CollabNet,WinVCS PowerBuilder, MySQL queries, FileNet editing, StarTeam, PVCS Tracker

OSWindows 8.1, Windows7, Windows 365, XP, MAC 10, Mac 11, Free BSD, UNIX, Linux

OtherWinVCS PowerBuilder, MySQL queries, SQL queries; FileNet editing, StarTeam, PVCS Tracker

EDUCATION

Master of Arts in Teaching English, State University of New York, Cortland NY, 1990

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting & Printmaking, Bachelor of Arts, with Distinction, History of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1984; David Bean Fellow, 1982

Java Programming TTT Program, George Mason University, Train to Technology, June 2001

Please see CERTIFICATIONS & TRAINING

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

June 2015 - Present

Senior Software Developer (SharePoint SME)

Dogwood Management Partners

Department of Homeland Security Transportation Security Administration Office of Information Technology Office of Security Capabilities Information System, on Team IBM

·               Modify Angular application in development to be 508 compliant, researching and implementing .css and Ng plugins and using online test tool to ensure compliance.

·               Conduct pre-build security testing using HPE Fortify for application modules and entire application

·               Participate in Agile Development project management

·               Write and update project System Design Document (SDD) and Functional Requirements Document (FRD) deliverables

·               As sub-team tech lead, design and develop Site Lead Input Sheet Application (SLIS), a component of Team IBM’s .Net Equipment Request Interface (ERI) application, SLIS enables TSA to approve track and report on the progress of TSA’s checked baggage division threat detection equipment throughout its lifecycle from planning stages through deployment through retirement. The application interface is based on SharePoint 2013, and uses jQuery and angular.js to customize the interface and augment form validation and display. Create and maintain all required SDLC documents.

·               As sub-team tech lead, design and develop eReview, a suite of three customized applications for tracking and auditing TSA equipment throughout its lifecycle from planning stages through deployment using jQuery and angular.js to customize the interface and augment form validation and display. Assist with creating and maintaining all required SDLC documents. GAO is using eReview as its audit tool for testing events. eReview to Congress soon by the head of OSC-IS.

·               Develop SSRS reporting and custom display for customized SP OOB applications

·               Assist with functional requirements and system architecture planning for .net application to replace existing TSA Equipment Request Interface

 

December 2014 - June 2015

SharePoint Developer

LynxNet LLC

SharePoint Developer-Architect, Dept. of the Army Office of the Provost Marshall General

·               Site collection and site administration to consolidate several OPMG site collections in SP 2010 to one portal, with planned migration to SP 2013

·               Site collections survey and discovery

·               Design and develop command–wide task management system

·               Propose, design, and implement department-wide definitive reference to correctly list and identify all relevant  networks and facilities user groups

·               Propose, design, and implement revisions to site collection architecture and permissions

 

December 2013 - September 2014

SharePoint Architect and Developer

Technatomy

SharePoint Developer-Architect, VA OIS OIT FSS

·               Site collection and site administration for VA FSS site collection in SP 2010

·               Site collection and site design for VA FSS site collection in SP 2010

·               Site survey and discovery

·               Design and develop department –wide task management system

·               Propose, design, and implement department-wide definitive reference to correctly list and identify all relevant VA networks and facilities

·               Propose, design, and implement revisions to site collection architecture and permissions

·               Revise and maintain existing site features, including KPI and dashboards

·               Propose, design, and implement FISM and NIST Security Controls Handbook Collaboration

·               Design and implement User Portal to enable single page coordination of end user tasks and schedule

·               Develop and implement .js and jQuery solutions to modify data views and forms

·               Provided timely or immediate support to VA customer – which was specifically praised by the customer in writing

·               Performed analyst and customer liaison activities in addition to developer role

·               SharePoint Developer-Architect, Technatomy Intranet

·               Analyzed and regularized existing SP site and file share content and permissions, Revised and administered permissions and services configuration.

·               Site survey and migration from SP 2010 to SP 2013, including project plans, updated architecture and permissions structures
 

Consulting

May 2013 – Present

SharePoint Developer

Preferred Systems Solutions

Analyzed and regularized existing SP site and file share content and permissions, Revised and administered permissions and services configuration. Developed enterprise content management solution to address ISO 9000 audit. Designed and implemented ISO 9000 compliant Forms and Documents repository, Wrote plan to expand SP solution to web-based forms data capture and an analysis to enhance audit tracking and analysis. Designed and implemented list and InfoPath form to streamline leave request process.

June 2013 – November 2013

SharePoint Developer and Administrator

Evolver Inc. Reston VA

Maintain and develop intranet and publishing portals in SharePoint 2010 and 2013 including InfoPath forms and workflows. Process and procedural analysis, design site architecture, site, server and farm administration and applications for SharePoint 2010 and 2013. Designed and updated existing documents to a normalized, auditable format for document and content management to ISO 9000 standard.  Maintained SharePoint 2010 sites and forms, and implemented and installed SP 2013 test instantiation.

October 2012- February 2013

The Squires Group

Client: Department of Energy Fossil Energy, Washington D.C.

Senior Analyst - SharePoint

Design and implement customized SP 2010 for DOE department Content and Knowledge Management

February 2012 – April 2012

Vega Consulting

SharePoint Engineer

Client: BCBS Carefirst FEPOC, Washington, DC

·               Design and develop custom application sites for SharePoint 2007, working one-on-one with more than eight department POC and /or management

·               End-user liaison and one-on-one training

·               Wrote enterprise SP Power User guide
 

Permanent Positions

February 2010 – January 2012

Glacier Technologies LLC

Web Development, SharePoint Foundation, BPOS /MOSS Development & Admin/ Technical Writing

Client: USDA Forest Service CIO Business Applications Office (FS CIO BAO)

·               Designed & developed Internet & Intranet Information Architecture for Online documents & information systems, including architecture, GUI, templates, & graphics

·               Designed and developed custom application sites for SharePoint 2010 (enterprise and BPOS)

·               Designed and developed InfoPath 2010 client forms to capture project and document    data and survey data

·               Designed and configured department portal architecture and permissions in SharePoint 2007, migrated to 2010

·               Created document review and approval workflow in SharePoint 2007

·               Develop templates for US FS CIO BAO SDLC PowerPoint 2010, Visio 2007, SharePoint 2007, 2010

·               Developed requirements and design for department time-tracking site functionality for FS CIO department SP2007 portal. App uses web parts to deliver role-based views of data; creates reports of canned queries to users based on LDAP identify and role

·               Wrote requirements and design and scripts to extract Word content control values to spreadsheets displayed as pivot tables for FS CIO BAO PPM dashboard

·               Created SharePoint 2007 document review and approval workflow in, custom SharePoint 2010 workflows and reusable workflows

·               Assisted creating a plan to reorganize the stage-gate review process for applications under development. Adopted into the US FS enterprise; proposed SharePoint as implementation vehicle

·               Documented four-day conference; seven day turn-around to presenting all meeting information in SP 2007 portal with workflows on test SP 2007 instance

·               Assisted in planning reorganization to a stage gate review process for applications under development or adopted into the US FS enterprise

·               Wrote FS CIO BAO Communications Management Plan

·               Developed department templates for FS CIO BAO SDLC PowerPoint2010, Visio2007, SharePoint2007 2010

·               Developed SDLC User guide from existing policy statements and presentation, with templates

·               Documented Business Application Hosting Process diagram with inputs and outputs

·               Gathered all information for and created prepared interactive chart to display FS CIO organization roles, with identity and contact information gathered directly from FS resource database
 

September 2009 – December 2009

SSCI (sub Cogent, Inc., sub AT&T)

Systems Engineer

Client: DHS US-VISIT Smart Border Alliance

·               Defined requirements for, designed and developed developer SP 2007 wiki to enable developers to share emailed directions and resources for onsite projects. Installed SP 2007 on Windows 2003, using the five free seats to provide aliases for different program areas.

·               Learned company biometrics product - acquired completed P86 C9 investigation and clearance in three months

·               Developed, edited, maintained master project plan, individual project plans with scheduling WBS, resource allocation, and link to auditing and financial systems in MS Project 2007 and 2003

·               Identified contractual obligation to deliver documents in compliance with customer-defined document deliverable templates. Defined requirements for set of 14 documents. Reached out to five project teams; gathered complete set of current templates for company use to speed deliverables acceptance by 50%

·               Defined need for document management Content Management (CM) process. Gathered US-VISIT, Cogent, Inc. and user requirements. Identified three free tools for document and file CM, and developed spreadsheet to use while waiting for permission to establish a development CM portal test bed

·               Gathered requirements for, wrote and edited proprietary company application User Guide and Systems Administration manual to Customer’s deliverable standards
 

March 2009 – August 2009

Skillstorm, sub to CACI

SharePoint Technical Writer/Document Manager

Client: Office Secretary of Defense CIO, Arlington, VA

·               SharePoint site design and site administration for SharePoint portal to host Enterprise Service desk ITIL documents

·               Converted requirements document to project plan with resource allocation and project dependencies. Provided daily reports to management and government POC

·               Led effort to analyze and streamline current contract SOPs for Enterprise Service desk to ITIL standard, collate data and write SOPs for review by COTAR and POC

·               Wrote proposal to update contact documents to web 2.0 standard
 

February 2007 – June 2008

Pragmatics

Senior Technical Writer

Client: FDIC, Arlington, VA

·               Maintained multiple schedules at any given time for as many as 130 projects in various stages, with tracking, auditing. Designed and delivered automated daily reports in print and web formats for a daily federal customer deadline

·               Redesigned suite of three project management forms for UNIX applications, & retooled them as database ready forms in word so they could be repurposed by writing a script to add form output to an existing database

·               Prepared FDIC RM Phase I field definitions, workflow analysis, documented Phase 2 activities including field definitions

·               Documented scheduler workflow in order to automate scheduling & database entry tasks

·               Edited Divisional Change Control Board (DCCB) Procedures document & created DCCB workflow diagrams

·               Wrote complete suite of Oracle Application Suite installation & configuration documents. Completed first drafts of suite of 28 documents in less than a month. Corporate newsletter articles

·               RM Scheduler/ DB Maintenance Schedule meetings, enter new releases in RM database, schedule meetings with Federal POC, edit, edit & enter all release correspondence & materials into RM database, edit RM department forms, templates, & papers
 

April 2005 – January 2007

Dynamic Research Corporation

Analyst / Senior Technical Writer

Client: FDIC, Arlington, VA

·               Wrote & distributed MS VBA macros to dramatically speed the performance of scheduling & database entry tasks, consolidating to 2.5 positions to .5 positions

·               MS Access database schema & form changes

·               Requirements & workflow analysis for redesign of RM Scheduling SOP to a db-driven audit-trail solution

·               Edited all RM staff & customer transactions & requests with rapid turnaround, revise & reformat staff authored whitepapers and RUP Milestone Review Summary documents.
 

July 2000 – January 2001

Lightningcast, Inc. (LCI), Alexandria, VA

Software Engineer

·               JavaScript developer, designed and developed PBGC department intranet templates with customized JS-based DHTML navigation with alternate 508-compliant HTML navigation

·               Designed & developed usability design for JSP presentation layer of web-based application interface

·               Performed requirements gathering & program analysis & program design documentation, navigation systems for web-based applications, including workflow analysis & business system design for billing. Designed db application & project extranet
 

May 1998 – July 2000

DynCorp

Senior Analyst

Client: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), Washington, DC

·               Technical lead & project coordinator.

·               Created, designed, developed, & maintained very large suite of online documents & manuals in Windows Help & HTML Help systems. Ported them from 16 bit to 32 bit Windows Help using RoboHelp. Maintained archives of all previous versions of manuals & source documents

·               Expanded online document development contract by 300%, from one position to three for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). Interacted with Agency directors, authors, & developers

·               Planned & implemented agency-wide migration to an intranet, including migrating extranet legacy help systems from 16 bit Windows Help to an IE5 oriented HTML-based system, designed & implemented templates to allow non-technical staff to self-publish & maintain documents. Replaced Windows Help document system with platform-independent system using RoboHelp using Dreamweaver, ColdFusion for design and development. Wrote and tested Oracle requirements and SQL queries for search and sitemap

·               Wrote white paper, provided preliminary design, and contributed to production code for project to build template-based intranet to enable users to:

o   Manage own content and Web initiatives

o   Reuse content across e-mail, print, wireless, and the web

·               Converted requirements documents to project plans, with resource allocation, load balancing, and project dependencies. Provided daily reports to management and government POC

·               Researched & coordinated research for Intranet architecture & tool selection, Hardware & software recommendations. Programming & application resource for agency’s intranet design team

·               Designed and developed PBGC department intranet templates with customized JS-based DHTML navigation with alternate 508-compliant HTML navigation

·               PBGC department Webmaster
 

August 1996 – May 1998

Wellspring Resources, LLC, Bethesda, MD

Systems Analyst (September 1997 – May 1998)

·               Mapped requirements against oracle7 db, wrote pseudo code for developer specs

·               Procedure specifications and workflow documentation in Visio

·               Wrote and tested custom SQL queries against oracle7 db

·               Code review for application developers

·               Tested online documentation components, specified content to update

·               Researched Internet & literature to recommend selection of web tools for intranet, solicited vendors & bids

·               Helped define requirements for enterprise-wide purchase

Senior Technical Writer (August 1996 – September 1997)

·               Designed & developed Windows Help, Windows 95 Context-Sensitive Help standards & HTML documents. Technical writing, hardware & software configuration using RoboHelp, Dreamweaver and the HTK complier

·               Wrote plan for & implemented development of JavaScript driven context-sensitive Windows Help95- like Help in an interactive Web-based application that associated Java scripts with GUI objects

·               Designed GUI from specifications
 

CERTIFICATIONS & TRAINING

Application/Software Security wth HP Fortify SCA and SSC March 2016 Fortify Services (at TSA)

SharePoint 2010 Development Certified Professional Learning Tree March 2012

Programming SharePoint 2010 Applications with .NET: Hands-On Learning Tree, Alexandria VA November 2011

Developing InfoPath Forms for SharePoint: Hands-On: Hands-On Learning Tree, Rockville, MD October 2011

Developing Applications and Workflows with SharePoint 2010 Designer: Hands-On Learning Tree, Rockville, MD March 2011

Code Academy - completed all angular.js courses 12/2015. Courses in SQL and advanced .js

ITIL Enterprise Service Concepts OSD CIO 2009

IDEAS conference 2008 -concentrating on making legacy .pdfs and MS office documents 508 compliant

JavaScript for Non-Programmers, Georgetown Networked Media Center, October - November 1999

Dreamweaver 2 & Preparing Web Graphics with Fireworks 2, EEI Communications, May 1999

Access 7 Application Development, Knowlogy Corporation, Falls Church, VA, 1997

Blue Sky RoboHelp Certified Developer & Trainer 1997

Advanced RoboHelp, Designing & Managing Online Help Systems, Solutions, 1997

Advanced Information Design, Solutions, 1997

UNIX Hands-on Workshop, Learning Tree, Reston, VA, January - April 1995