Robert Briggs

ITLooks@me.com

Clearances:

DOD Secret

 

 

Certifications:

MCITP, MCT, MCTS SharePoint, MCP, Security+, Programming HTML5 JavaScript and CSS3

 

Skills:

 

Platforms:

 

AWS, Azure, Office 365, Windows server 2003/2008/2012, Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10, DOS, Linux, IBM ISeries AS400, Exchange Server, BlackBerry Enterprise,

SharePoint 2003/2007/2010/2013/Online, Project Server, Dynamics CRM\GP

 

Programming:

 

ASP.net, C#, VB.net, T-SQL, XML/XSL, XPATH, UML, ASP, HTML5, JavaScript, VB Script, CSS, Flash Action script, Perl, PowerShell, Ruby on Rails, Plex, Windows Store Apps, Office Apps, SharePoint CSOM\REST

 

Databases:

 

MS SQL 2012/2008/2005/2000, MySQL, Access, IBM ISeries DB2, NoSQL, SQL Azure

 

Technologies:

 

ADO.NET, COM/COM+, MSXML, XML Web/Windows Services (WSE), WCF, DOM, Web/Windows Forms, caching, GDI+, Full text search, OWC (Office web components), SQL XML, Crystal Reports, UML, AS400 ISeries, E-Commerce. Ibatis, Linq to XML, Linq to SQL, .Net 1.1/2.0/3.0/3.5/4/4.5, WPF, Silverlight, Cognos, SSIS, SSRS

 

Software (Subset):

 

Visual Studio.NET 2012/2010/2008/2005/2003/2002, SQL Server 2012/2008/2005/2000, IIS 8/7/6/5, TFS, Visual Source Safe, Visio, Nhibernate, CC.NET, Seagate Crystal Reports, Dreamweaver MX/Flash MX, Adobe Photoshop, Subversion, VMware, MS Office 07Beta/07RTM/Xp/2000, Virtual PC, Authorize.NET, InfoPath, Virtual Server, Microsoft Expression Suite, OCS/Lync, SharePoint 2013/2010/2007/2003, ADFS 2.0, FIM, UAG, TMG, SharePoint Designer, JQuery

 

 

Experience:

 

BMW Contract

10/14 – 06/2015: Business Solutions Architect

·   SharePoint 2010/2013 Architecture

o   Designed and Development applications to automate global processes

§   This was done against SharePoint 2010/2013 OOTB, SQL Server 2012, .net, JQuery/JavaScript, WCF Services, Visual Studio and SSRS

§   Created custom content types and workflows to handle needed actions

§   Project Server 2013

·   Automated report gathering and dissemination

o   .Net development

o   HTML, JQuery/JavaScript and CSS (AJAX)

o   SharePoint Client Side Object Development

·   Responsible for turning requirements into solutions

·   Information Architecture

·   SharePoint Branding and customization

·   InfoPath

o   Was used as a front end for a Request Management system

·   Project Server 2013

o   Setup and Administration

o   Configuration

o   Workflow Development

o   LOB Integration

 

 

 

Condrey Corporation

02/14 – 10/14: Principal Solutions Architect

·   Office 365 Architecture

o   Developed applications for provisioning office 365 using c# and PowerShell

§   This was done against SharePoint Online, Azure, Exchange online, JQuery and WCF Service

§   Created custom content types and workflows to handle needed actions

§   Created Custom applications that ran on top of Azure services and Azure VM’s

·   Designed an office 365 product for Education allowing classrooms to function online.

o   Handled sales, presales, requirements gathering

o   Facilitated customer adoption

o   Provided training regiments as well as pointers to improve success

o   Custom Reports using PowerPivot, SSRS, SSAS, and PowerView

·   Responsible for training company users and facilitating adoption of Microsoft technologies that benefited the company

·   Content Management design

·   SharePoint branding and customization

·   Setup and configured TFS to be used for versioning and continuous build.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

eGroup

09/13 – 02/14: Senior Application Services Engineer

·   SharePoint Architecture

·   SharePoint Administration

o   SharePoint installation (all Versions)

o   SharePoint Migration (All versions to the latest)

§   Including from DotNetNuke

o   Service Configuration

§   Secure Store

§   Managed Metadata

§   Performance Point

§   BDC

§   Access Services

§   Search

§   User Profile Service

§   Excel Services

§   Word Services

·   Office Web Apps

o   Installation and Configuration

·   SharePoint Architecture

·   Microsoft Certification Training

·   Software Engineering

·   Business Analysis

·   On-Premise to Cloud Migration

·   Self Service Automation tools creation with SharePoint as the front end

·   Catalyst for Change

·   Custom Development

o   SharePoint Branding

o   Workflow Creation

o   LOB Integration

o   WCF Services

·   Microsoft Stack consultation

·   Requirements gathering

·   BI

·   Training

·   Custom .net development along with ASP.NET MVC designs

·   SharePoint development

·   Pre-Sales consultation

o   Demonstration

o   Sales

·   Setup and configured TFS to be used for versioning and continuous build.

 

 

 

IT Inquisition

2012 – Present: President

·   IT Consulting

·   SharePoint Administration

o   SharePoint installation (all Versions)

o   SharePoint Migration (All versions to the latest)

§   Including from DotNetNuke

o   Service Configuration

§   Secure Store

§   Managed Metadata

§   Performance Point

§   BDC

§   Access Services

§   Search

§   User Profile Service

§   Excel Services

§   Word Services

·   Office Web Apps

o   Installation and Configuration

·   SharePoint Architecture

·   Microsoft Certification Training

·   Software Engineering

·   Business Analysis

·   On-Premise to Cloud Migration

·   Self Service Automation tools creation with SharePoint as the front end

·   Catalyst for Change

·   Custom Development

o   SharePoint Branding

o   Workflow Creation

o   LOB Integration

o   WCF Services

·   Microsoft Partner

·   Process Optimization

·   Sales All Aspects

·   Office 365 Management and build

o   Hybrid setup with On-Premise services.

·   HTML, JavaScript CSS3 (AJAX)

·   Setup and configured TFS to be used for versioning and continuous build.

 

 

 

 

 

Inforeliance

11/11 – 7/13: Consultant

·   Responsible for gathering and implementing requirements for the South Carolina National Guard’s SharePoint 2010 project.

·   Met consistently with high level stakeholders to discuss new features, direction and to impart vision and leadership.

·   Helped formulate the guard’s SharePoint information architecture.

·   Built SharePoint 2013 infrastructure from the ground up utilizing AWS.

·   Developed custom web parts and features using c# and NHibernate

·   Installed and configured UAG to allow external access

·   Automated SharePoint deployment using PowerShell and .NET

·   Provided multiple levels of SharePoint training (Admin, Power user, developer, end user).

·   Proactively increased productivity and efficiency by implementing ideas in SharePoint that were gleaned through what at first glance would seem like off topic conversations.

·   Managed Office 365 Requirements gathering and migration.

·   Configured and managed AWS environment hosting SharePoint, SQL, Exchange.

·   Provided Microsoft Certified training.

·   Migrated client from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010.

·   Designed implemented and supported server and network infrastructure.

·   STIG’d (Security Technical Implementation Guide) servers and applications.

·   Setup and configured TFS to be used for versioning and continuous build.

 

 

 

 

 

Azaleos Corporation Remote

07/11 – 11/11: Professional Services Consultant

·   SharePoint infrastructure design and setup.

 

 

 

Infor Global Solutions Greenville, South Carolina

06/10 – 08/11: Software Engineer

·   Designed and developed Silverlight applications to be used within SharePoint 2010

·   Designed backend databases to be used with WCF services that are then consumed by SharePoint, Silverlight and Open Source applications.

·   Created WCF services used as interfaces to LOB applications.

·   Extended SharePoint’s OOB features.

·   Integrated COGNOS with WCF and SharePoint

·   Created Web Parts to consume BCS data.

·   Setup and configured TFS to be used for versioning and continuous build.

 

 

BMW NA Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey

06/08 – 10/10: SharePoint Consultant

·   Extended OOTB SharePoint objects to meet customer requirements.

·   Recommended SharePoint usage and implantation based on analysis of requirements.

 

BMW Group Spartanburg, South Carolina

04/08 - 10/10:Systems Architect

 

·   Designed, implemented and led global SharePoint environment, consisting of 4 large SharePoint farms.

·   Involved with all levels of support for SharePoint environment.

·   Responsible for development of custom .net solutions for SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange and Office Communicator.

·   Integrated multiple platforms (Exchange, Remedy, etc) with SharePoint to create a single point of entry.

·   Providing provisioning tools for various system software packages including but not limited to Exchange Server 2007, Office Communicator, Active Directory, BlackBerry Enterprise Manager that have saved the company over $100,000 per year.

·   Responsible for the development of training and guidance for SharePoint usage.

·   Consulted with the business to automate dated processes to SharePoint.

·   Search configuration, using Google Analytics, SharePoint Search and Fast Search.

·   Setup and configured TFS to be used for versioning and continuous build.

 

 

 

Professional Computer Software Services Spartanburg, South Carolina

11/05 – 03/08:Software Engineer

 

·   Created E-commerce enabled web applications in C# to service upper and lower courts around the world.

·   Maintained and extended legacy applications, increasing performance and adding features.

·   Enabled users to pay tickets, warrants, and fines online by creating VB.net and C# applications. 

·   Found a better approach to querying report data from ISeries which resulted in a 400% increase in data retrieval speed.

·   Upgraded VS. 1.1 VB.net and C# applications to vs. 2.0.  Continued to upgrade some applications to vs. 3.0.  Also converted applications from VB to C#.

·   Performed all the duties of an IT Business Analyst (requirements gathering, design, implementation, support, documentation).

·   Some web applications required E-commerce functionality. This required creating interfaces using C#, iBiz & Payflow Pro for various payment gateways including Authorize.net & Retriever. 

·   Refactored SQL Server and ISeries queries to increase their performance.

·   Created an interface to allow company’s current legacy application to take payments using IBIZ, PayFlow Pro

·   Created User Management System to wrap .NET 2.0’s Role/Membership namespace.

·   Setup and Maintained Linux CentOS and Kubuntu Distro’s running Mono to allow ASP.NET on customer servers.

·   Removed Remoting from an application and replaced it with Web Services resulting in better performance and maintainability.

·   Created n-tier applications utilizing Ibatis.Net in the DAL for the ORM

·   Created windows applications to modify configuration files on client’s servers using C#, Telerik RadControls.

·   Created a scheduling application to allow clients to schedule long running processes.

·   Created and Maintained SharePoint 2005 portal pages.

·   Setup and Administered SharePoint environment.

·   Created automated testing tool targeting Cool :Plex to allow for system level and regression testing of our legacy application using Linq to XML and WCF Services.

 

 

Chronos Enterprise Solutions Rock Hill, South Carolina

04/00 – 09/05:    IT Consultant

 

·   Developed print industry ERP software

·   PC repair, network installation and administration

·   Technology Training and Consultation including all Microsoft Office products.

·   Created Windows application using XML web services to integrate with the company’s vendors such as UPS and FEDEX for database integration, real time products price/availability, order submission and shipping rates.

 

 

 

Education:

 

Spartanburg Technical College Computer Science	05/05	-	2006
University of South Carolina Upstate Marketing	08/98	-	10/99