Project Manager Design

ROBERT R. PADDOCK

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OBJECTIVE: Senior SharePoint Business Analyst positions that demand

detailed analysis and creation of highly accurate, traceable business

requirements, functional-technical specifications and hands-on SharePoint

content design, configuration, testing, knowledge transfer, support and

best practice consulting. Seek to leverage extensive SharePoint 2010

research and preparation for 2007>2010 enterprise migrations.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Over 12 years of extensive, hands-on experience providing critical business

analysis, requirements, design, site building, testing and team

lead/project manager roles in SharePoint/Portal/Web landscapes for Fortune

500, Big 4, pharmaceutical and government customers. Keen business,

functional and technical skill balance has enabled clear understanding of

client needs, accurate synopsis of "As Is" state, and delivery of "To Be"

solution sets at all sponsor, executive, stakeholder and technical levels.

Skilled at rapidly adapting to dynamic client business/technical structures

and extracting concise SharePoint requirements at IT enterprise, LOB,

functional area and team scopes and then contributing heavily to site

design, rollout, support and consulting.

SELECTED SKILLS

Overall Business Analysis

o Proven success writing detailed descriptions and analysis of user needs,

business impacts and system functionality/customization requirements for

software development life cycles of intranet, extranet portals

o Strong experience writing requirements that are actionable, definable,

relevant, measurable and testable

o High success rate delivering appropriate level use case scenarios,

detailed functional and technical specifications that ensure technical

team issue/enhancement evaluation clarity and build instructions

o Strong ability to *think outside the box* when resolving issues and

developing solution sets

o Trusted partner as liaison between business teams, development and

infrastructure teams

Typical Deliverables

o Traceable Business Requirements (use case, user intent driven), (e.g.,

RUP, Enterprise Architect)

o Information Architectures, Site Maps, Iterative Site-Page Wireframes

(Mockups/Prototypes/Pilots)

o Modeling Diagrams ("As Is" - "To Be", Business/Integration) to enable

envisioned solution discussions

o UI and Visio site-page wireframes and iterative creation of working

prototypes to ensure key concepts

o Functional Specifications (e.g., Visio Flows) to describe desired

behaviors, presentation, system integration points for custom Web Parts,

Workflows, and application-specific customizations

o Test Plan creation, Execution and Cross-Team Coordination through fix-

retest-close phases

o Team/Admin/Individual Training, Knowledge Transfer, How-To Guides,

Technical Documentation

SharePoint 2007 Business Analysis, Design and Hands-On Configuration

o SharePoint visionary - readily relied upon for SharePoint best practices,

insights, and honest tradeoffs

o SharePoint power user with a demonstrated knowledge of SharePoint best

practices and firm understanding (and ability to explain) the benefits

and appropriate use of customization

o Deep experience with SharePoint 2007/2003, Standard, Enterprise, WSS

3.0/2.0, MS Office 2007/2003 Suites, third party WP integration (Quest,

Documentum, NewsGator) desktop dependencies

o Extensive design and hands-on configuration of SharePoint site

collections, sites-subsites, custom content types, information

architectures, custom lists-views, Corp-SC-Site-Lib-List level metadata,

reusable page templates, web part configuration, audience definition-

security and content targeting

o Effective hands-on configuration of SharePoint proof-of-concept

evaluation sites, clarifying examples

o Experience writing customization requirements for development of custom

web parts in a MOSS environment - clear specifications for config/coding

in SharePoint Designer, MS Visual Studio

o Specialist-level experience authoring requirements, designing and

configuring for SharePoint Server components, content, InfoPath

forms/validation, Excel/Access Svcs and third party add-on integration

o Attentiveness to Microsoft trends ( e.g., SharePoint Server 2010 XSLT vs.

CAML custom type direction)

o Ongoing Consulting Support: Design, Testing, Rollout,

Platform/Application Release/Strategy Planning

SharePoint 2010 Research and Migration Preparation

o Extensive SharePoint 2010 research and hands-on preparation for 2007 >

2010 enterprise migrations: New key paradigms for UI, page, site concepts

and core enterprise managed metadata, meta-driven navigation, term

stores, auto-tagged feeds, FAST enterprise search taxonomies etc.

o SharePoint Server 2010 Administration & Developer Training - Pilothouse

Consulting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SharePoint Functional Analyst - Merck Pharmaceutical - Whitehouse Sta, NJ

Aug 2009 - Apr 2010

> SharePoint 2010 Capabilities & Migration Mapping - Provided SharePoint

capability comparisons (2010 vs 2007) to identify and plan final 2007

release candidates and initial release migration mapping to indicate

functionality that is more robustly (or only) provided in 2010,

particularly around enterprise scoped features such as managed metadata,

metadata-driven navigation-taxonomies, scoping etc.

> SharePoint 2007 Organizational Sites - Provided SharePoint Collaboration

and Publishing site structure and content requirements gathering, design,

creation, configuration of six major site collections including

implementation of third party web part functionality sets. Major

successes were creation of POCs and func/tech concept specifications to

convey to business teams that designs would satisfy needs. Authored many

web part/platform enhancement/customization specifications.

Senior SharePoint Business Analyst / Power User - KPMG LLC - Montvale, NJ

Nov 2008 - Jun 2009

> KPMG SharePoint 2007 Employee Intranet Rollout - Hands-on SharePoint

analyst, site "configurer" of firm-wide rollout of SharePoint publishing

sites. Build out, configuration of BU/Function/Dept level sites

supporting 15K+ users. Gathered site rqmts., created wireframes,

metadata, content types, sites, pages, lists-libs-views, configured web

parts & permissions. Full func-tech Remedy ticket spt respons.

> KPMG SharePoint 2007 Collaboration Platform Rollout - Hands-on SharePoint

analyst and troubleshooter responding to requests from 450+ site

collection and site administrators to provide support to get

collaboration sites up and integrating Wikis, Blogs, Discussion Groups,

Surveys, custom workflows and Info Mgmt policies. Tier 2 technical and

design guidance support responsibility.

Senior SharePoint / Portal Analyst - Logical Design Solutions - Morristown,

NJ Feb 2006 - Oct 2008

> Microsoft Office SharePoint Services (MOSS) 2007 Proof Of Concept -

Developed SharePoint Logical Architecture, Site Collection Content

Information Architecture, Content and Security Model.

> MOSS Support - Matrixed SharePoint Analyst support to LDS project teams

involving SharePoint site consolidations, master/page templates, user

experience, audience-driven content design initiatives.

> McKesson Health Care Services - As a SharePoint Analyst & Team Lead,

developed Portal Design SharePoint page templates, components, content

for 180+ business units and corporate departments.

> Valero Energy, SC Johnson, Motorola - As Portal/Business Analyst,

provided extensive business process analysis and designed highly

personalized SAP Portal workspaces to support client needs.

SAP NetWeaver Portal Consultant - Smith & Nephew Inc. Memphis, TN

Nov 2005 - Feb 2006

SAP NetWeaver Portal rollout, SSO Integration with 50+ external non-SAP

applications, knowledge transfer.

SAP Enterprise Portal Consultant - US DOD Defense Logistics Agency Wash

D.C. Mar - Oct 2005

Support Transfer (SF86 Security Clearance) ops-level trng to Adms - move

spt from IBM to Battle Creek, MI.

SAP Enterprise Portal Consultant - US Army - Picatinny Arsenal - Picatinny,

NJ Mar - Dec 2004

(SF86 Security Clearance) Rqmts, Design, Go-Live (3,800 users, 500 TCodes,

70 roles) Team Training.

SAP Enterprise Portal Consultant - International Paper (IP) - Memphis, TN

Feb 2003 - Nov 2003

Requirements, design, development, team leader of SAP Enterprise Portal

Role Design Proof of Concept.

SAP Enterprise Portal Consultant - Anheuser-Busch Inc. - St Louis, MO

Jun 2002 - Jan 2003

Was responsible to rollout portal pilot and develop portal platform

standards & release planning strategy.

Portal/Business Analyst - Logical Design Solutions - Morristown, NJ

Dec 1998 - Apr 2002

. Colgate-Palmolive, AT&T, Chase Manhattan Bank - Designed, implemented,

tested custom portals.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010: Administration & Developer Training -

Pilothouse Consulting

SAP Enterprise Portal: Design & Administration Cert. - SAP NA Headquarters,

Newtown Square, PA

Related Skills/Trng: ITIL, CMMI, Six Sigma, JAD, RUP, UML, Remedy, CAML,

OOAD, SOA, XML

EDUCATION

(Coursework toward BS - Computer Science) RUTGERS UNIVERSITY - New

Brunswick, NJ

AAS - Computer Science COUNTY

COLLEGE OF MORRIS - Randolph, NJ

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