Management Project Manager

Arthur Gregory

Information Architect, Knowledge Management - Biotechnology, Financial Service,

Insurance, Travel & Networks

*** ****** ***** - ***********, ** 08033

***********@*******.*** - 856-***-****

Art Gregory is a Principal Consultant, specializing in Information Architecture, Taxonomy and Ontology, for

multinational Biotechnology, Financial, Insurance, Travel and Private Network companies. He has over 13

years of experience leading teams that successfully create and implement knowledge management solutions

(Intranets, Extranets and Public Sites). Many based on SharePoint and focusing on enterprise information

architecture, taxonomy, metadata, portal strategy and collaboration architecture and design.

Art has over 30 years of experience in the computer software industry working with life science, insurance,

financial, communications, and travel & transportation organizations and has managed a diverse and complex

scope of multinational engagements on a global scale. He has been a program manager, project manager

and strategy / business analyst. He often provides process planning guidance to customers, and works with

all levels of management to resolve sensitive project issues to efficiently and creatively accomplish successful

projects.

Art has lived and worked in South America, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia Pacific regions. Art's

background helps him be socially aware of global business ethics & etiquette. Art has two BS degrees from

New England Aeronautical Institute/Daniel Webster College (a former division of M.I.T. School of Aeronautics)

and currently resides in Haddonfield, NJ.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Principal, Information Architect

Independent at Global Biopharmaceutical Company - Berkeley Heights, NJ - February 2014 to Present

Responsibilities

Manage public websites deployment team.

Accomplishments

Manage over 2000 domains, while deploying over 90 new public facing websites

Skills Used

Liaison between business stakeholders, corporate communications and IT platform, application and support

teams

Principal, Information Architect, Subject Matter Expert

Avanade - New York, NY - July 2013 to February 2014

Role: SharePoint Information Architect, Subject Matter Expert

Relevant Technologies: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Enterprise FAST Search 2010

Art led the engagement for SharePoint 2013 & 2010 content management solution to create a consolidated

intranet, with extranet/public network access. Agents needed training, product information, and purchasing

capabilities. High net-worth customers needed direct access to their portfolios. User adoption was a key

objective. Therefore branding, information architecture design, and a governance plan were the primary

deliverables, along with creating social collaboration among all types of users. Branding was implemented

using a centralized design to lower the total cost of ownership. The information architecture design transformed

individual group taxonomies, into an optimized enterprise-wide framework.

Principal, Enterprise Solution Consulting

Cognizant at Global Biopharmaceutical Company - Berkeley Heights, NJ - January 2012 to July 2013

Relevant Technologies: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Enterprise FAST Search 2010

Art led an on-/off-shore team to plan, design, build and deploy an enterprise intranet serving almost 60,000

employees, using a multi-farm globally dispersed environment.

Principal, Enterprise Solution Consulting, Leader

Cognizant - United States - October 2011 to July 2013

Role: Strategy, Design, Development and Solutions Lifecycle Management

Relevant Technologies: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Enterprise FAST Search 2010,

Microsoft SharePoint 2007

Verified solution design for global organization seeking to provide ubiquitous employee access to secure

information when internal or external to firewalled corporate IP/IC (Intellectual Property/Capital)

Assisted in final preparation tasks for a proposal to migrate/install Microsoft Windows 7 & Office 2010 via a

light-touch/zero-touch deployment methodology.

Acted as trusted advisor to global legal firm seeking to improve the quality of a certain third-party solution

provider's product. Key drivers: reduce time-to-market of quality certified solution set.

Global Pharmaceutical Company

Role: Strategy, Design, Development Lead

Relevant Technologies: Microsoft SharePoint v2007, NewsGator Social Media, FAST! Search Technology

Created and delivered a Roadmap for connecting People to Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and to organized

content utilizing Microsoft SharePoint v2007 with fully integrated NewsGator and FAST! Search tools. Led a

global setup team of 20, consisting of a core team, Executive Sponsors, Change Management enablement

team and developers, over three distinct phases

Phase I Deliverables: Educated & assisted Core & Setup Teams through the Assessment Phase, which

includes creating a Charter; Stakeholders Engagement Process; suggesting methodologies for defining pilot

communities and customizing Roles & Responsibilities

Phase II Design Deliverables: Provided guidance on the creation of Change Management Plan;

Communicating Roles & Responsibilities to SMT, Core & Setup team; Created their Information Architecture

and outlined training requirements for SMEs & Test Users

Phase III Launch Preparation: Created interactive playbook, self-enabling the customer to create new

Communities of Practice.

Global Engineering Consulting Firm

Role: Program & Solution Development of Global Knowledge Systems for 40,000 employee global enterprise

Relevant Technologies: Microsoft SharePoint v2007, Concept Searching Taxonomy Tool, FAST! Search, EMC

eRoom, Integration with Oracle ERP, Hummingbird, SalesForce.com and proprietary sub-systems

Recruited to drive development team while acting as primary liaison to senior management

Initial success lead to taking responsibilities for developing and leading Global Knowledge Programs

Create three prototypes, gaining first ever global consensus on IT implementation

Created (6) integrated farm environment to provide follow-the-sun content system

Manage Content Acquisition teams, while developing (50) Communities of Practice

Worldwide Information Technology Company

Role: Program & Solution Development of Global Knowledge Systems for 50,000 employees

Relevant Technologies: Migration of Oracle Portal 9iAS, Vignette's Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

systems to Microsoft SharePoint v2003 and later, full-migration to v2007.

Designed a successful Proof of Concept (PoC) using Microsoft SharePoint 2003 that became company-

wide standard. Prototype saved & delivered immediate $3m ROI. Managed Content Acquisition teams, while

developing three (3) communities of interest.

Frameworks and Strategic Service Offerings

• SharePoint Information Architecture Offering to holistically and systematically assess and plan all of

information architecture issues in upgrading and governing a SharePoint platform deployment.

• Enterprise Metadata Framework for establishing an enterprise-wide metadata vocabulary and taxonomy

generation process based upon industry metadata standards and XML schemas.

• Enterprise Content Management Governance Framework, including change-management planning and

execution.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in International Business Management

New England Aeronautical Institute

Bachelor of Science in Flight Transportation Systems

New England Aeronautical Institute

Associates of Science in Flight Technologies

New England Aeronautical Institute

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Technical Skills

Microsoft Product Expertise:

• SharePoint 2013/2010/2007/2003/Tahoe

• Enterprise Social and Collaboration

• Enterprise Content Management

• Office 365 (BPOS-D)

• Enterprise Search

• Office 2010/2007

• InfoPath 2010, 2007

• SharePoint Designer 2013/2010/2007

• Active Directory Services

• Team Foundation, Agile Methodology

• Visual Studio 2012/2010/2008

• FAST!

• Yammer

Microsoft Server Platform Project Management:

• Windows Server 2012/2008

• SQL Server 2012/2008

• Active Directory and Federation

• Rights Management Services

• Internet Information Services

SharePoint Related Applications Expertise:

• Accusoft

• Adlib

• Aptimize

• Aveska

• Axceler

• Box.Net

• BrightWork

• Colligo Networks

• CloudShare

• Consona

• dynaTrace

• HiSoftware

• JustSystems

• Kaltura

• laserfiche

• Mindsharp

• NetApp

• Perficient

• Quest

• ShareSquared

• Surfray

• Temenos

• WAND

• Acrolix

• Amazon Web Services

• Apptix

• AvePoint

• Bamboo Solutions

• BrightStar

• CASAHL

• Citrix

• Concept Searching

• DITA (Exchange)

• Ektron

• Innotas

• K2

• KnowledgeLake

• Metalogix

• Mobile Entrée

• NewsGator

• PointBridge

• Riverbed

• SmartLogic

• Symantec

• Tzunami

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