Sogeti

SharePoint Chief Architect, Gothenburg, Sweden. 2010 to present.
http://www.sogeti.com/

Sogeti is a global IT consulting firm that specializes in professional software services. Its developers, architects, and testers often work in different locations and had issues collaborating on large customer software projects. Sogeti employs more than 20,000 professionals in 15 countries.

I work at the SharePoint Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden, and specialize in architecture and quality assurance around SharePoint 2007/2010 implementations.

Note: I am working in the Gothenburg office from the 1st of May, 2010. Project samples and updates will follow. For more information about previous projects, see the Content and Code section of my portfolio.

Content and Code

Technical Architect, London, UK. 2004 to 2010.
http://www.contentandcode.com

Working at a Microsoft Gold Partner and delivered more than 60 projects from a vast range of project types, markets and clients.

Key achievements:

• Primary technical solutions architect through company growth from 5 to 85 employees
• Specialisation with Microsoft SharePoint technologies for 6 years since version 2003.
• Designed and implemented accessibility and solutions framework for Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and Microsoft Content Management Server 2002, a key unique selling point, which was used to build more than 50 web/intranet projects.
• Created project management framework for Agile/Scrum by joining Team Foundation Server, SharePoint and Project Server.
• Introduced test driven development and wrote custom unit testing framework for SharePoint using mocking and reflections and a Smoke & Build plug-in for use with SharePoint and the Visual Studio Team Server build engine.

Sample projects:

BBC

Financial analysis, tracking and reporting for the BBC commercial division. The application is situated around SharePoint 2007 with integration to external databases and automatic data synchronisation. Reporting uses rich client integration with Excel and Access 2007.

Legal compliance and project management application in SharePoint 2007 with extensive custom workflows and reporting/dashboards.

Screenshots:

IPEM

Website and public extranet with collaboration features and social networking and implementation of e-commerce and replacement of existing database application in SharePoint 2007.

Screenshots:

Buro Happold / ADA

Regional project planning application using 2D/3D mapping with relationship and impact analysis of around 2000 building and utility projects in the Riyadh region of Saudi Arabia. The solution was delivered with a multi-lingual interface in Arabic and English. Frequent client meetings and workshops in the diplomatic quarters of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia and demonstrations for the 30 regional development and planning agencies in the region.

Screenshots:

Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB)

Architect of initial phase of accessible solution using SharePoint 2007. I worked closely with Microsoft and HiSoftware to prove SharePoint as an accessible platform. The platform was used to deliver a website, an intranet and e-Commerce facilities. The project carried on for 1.5 years after my initial involvement and led to an accessibility platform for SharePoint.

Case study

Royal Yachting Association

e-Commerce with integration between SharePoint 2007, Commerce Server 2007, BizTalk 2006 and Navision 5.

http://www.rya.co.uk/

Lloyds Register

Quality control, assessment and review of existing application with recommendations report and training.
Subscription based website delivering using Commerce Server 2002 and SharePoint 2003.

The Body Shop

One the very first SharePoint 2007 websites to pass Level A accessibility standards. Offers multi-lingual support, allowing visitors to switch language from English to French to German.

Case study

Royal London Asset Management

Document and records management using SharePoint 2003.

http://www.rlam.co.uk/

Barclays Capital

Risk reporting and tracking using SQL Server Reporting Services and SharePoint 2003.

http://www.barcap.com/

Microsoft

Architect consultant leading a team of 10 at Microsoft in Reading for the NHS Direct application using SharePoint with custom authentication modules, Forms server and custom workflows.

Roehampton University

Document collaboration with workflows to create course plans using SharePoint and InfoPath.

Wembley Stadium

Document management and planning application built on SharePoint 2007.

Case study

CAPCO

Data mining 5 years financial data for offices worldwide to analyse ROI and billable hours using SharePoint 2007, SAP, Integration Services, Excel Server with custom Office ML components, SQL Analysis Server 2005.

http://www.capco.com/

Explore!

e-Commerce website for adventure travel agency using Content Management Server 2002, BizTalk with interface to remote databases and IBM mainframes.

Case study
http://www.explore.co.uk

Screenshots:

easy Jet

Pre-flight checking application for pilots and crew written in SharePoint 2007.

Case study
Watch video showcase:

Fifteen

Jamie Olivers restaurant site with online table booking. The first known attempt to create an XHTML and WCAG 2.0 compliant SharePoint 2007 website.

Case study
Screenshots:

JKD (Incepta Online)

Technical Architect, London UK. 2000-2004.

Working with a Microsoft Partner, primarily focussed on e-Commerce and systems architecture.

Key achievements:

• Promoted from Web Developer to Senior Applications Developer to Technical Architect.
• Introduced ASP.NET and web services and mentored the development team during weekly training sessions.

Sample projects:

Gurka Planet

Systems Architect, Gothenburg, Sweden. 1999-2000.

Working as a systems architect and developer for start-up online credit card company.

REA.SE

Web Developer and Systems Support,Gothenburg, Sweden. 1999.

Working with online advertising company during setup and promotion of website.

Intermezzon

Web Developer, Gothenburg, Sweden. 1999.

Internship. Developed online support site using ASP for the companies edutainment products.