Senior Consultant at Microsoft Corporation
Houston, Texas Area
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- Senior Consultant at Microsoft
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- Technology Director at eFORCE Global
- Sr. Technical Architect at eFORCE Global
- Internet Architect at Dixons Stores Group
- Internet Applications Manager at Dixons Stores Group
- Project Leader at Glynwed Pipe Systems
- Project Manager at Durapipe – S&LP
- Assistant Manufacturing Manager at Vulcathene Plastics
- Education
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- Coventry University
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Adam Hems’s Summary
Senior Architect Consultant with over 12 Years of experience Architecting, designing & constructing n-tier systems across the IT Services, Retail, Entertainment, Oil and Gas and Healthcare Industries using all major Internet Technologies.
Adam Hems’s Specialties:
Office SharePoint Server 2007, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 (WPF, WF, WCF), 3.5, ASP.NET, WinForms, C#, Atlas, SQL Server, Code Generation, Software Factories, Archtiecture, Software Development Methodologies.
Adam Hems’s Experience
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Senior Consultant
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2005 — Present (4 years 2 months)
Responsible for working with new and existing Clients on a variety of Microsoft Products and technologies, assisting with Architecture, design and implementation. My specialism is helping customers who are building line-of-business applications on the .NET framework Architect, Design, Build, Test and Deploy thier applications to maximise manageability, performance, maintainability. longevity and upgradeability. I also specialise in customized SharePoint and Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) deployments and implementations.
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Technology Director
eFORCE Global
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2004 — June 2005 (9 months)
<> Develop business plan and technical proposals for prospective clients.
<> Design scalable and high performance system architecture with load-balancing and fail over capabilities in .NET and J2EE
<> Technical lead in system setup, object design and portal design.
<> Design and document object design using UML, such as sequence diagram, class diagrams
<> Manage project progress, mentor technical team members and review business requirements
<> Implement and deploy application using RUP methodology
<> Act as business liaison role with business proponents
<> Mentor and lead group of developers on site and offshore using GDM (Global Delivery Model) -
Sr. Technical Architect
eFORCE Global
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2000 — September 2004 (3 years 11 months)
<> Develop business plan and technical proposals for prospective clients.
<> Design scalable and high performance system architecture with load-balancing and fail over capabilities in .NET and J2EE
<> Technical lead in system setup, object design and portal design.
<> Design and document object design using UML, such as sequence diagram, class diagrams
<> Manage project progress, mentor technical team members and review business requirements
<> Implement and deploy application using RUP methodology
<> Act as business liaison role with business proponents
<> Mentor and lead group of developers on site and offshore using GDM (Global Delivery Model) -
Internet Architect
Dixons Stores Group
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; DXNS.L; Retail industry)
January 2000 — October 2000 (10 months)
Senior technical architect with responsibility for the technical architecture and application of a new pure-play business to consumer E-commerce Internet site. Lead teams of technical designers and developers, building BroadVision front end with IBM MQ Series to fully integrate to Retek/Clarify back-end. Site to be deployed in multiple European countries, languages and currencies. Responsibilities include drawing up high-level and detailed technical specifications, team-leading developers and technical engineers to deliver in a very short timescale, meeting with external and internal clients and evaluating and working with 3rd party service providers.
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Internet Applications Manager
Dixons Stores Group
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; DXNS.L; Retail industry)
August 1997 — January 2000 (2 years 6 months)
Project Management and technical architect position with responsibility for all ongoing Internet and intranet projects within the group. Lead and project-managed teams in designing, building and maintaining 5 static and 4 transactional business to consumer internet sites for the premier brands of the Group; the largest electrical retailer in the United Kingdom. Responsibilities included meeting with the internal clients, evaluating needs, devising all technical architecture, project plans and costs, and delivering to time and to budget simultaneous projects.
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Project Leader
Glynwed Pipe Systems
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Plastics industry)
April 1996 — August 1997 (1 year 5 months)
Project Management and technical architect position with responsibility for the divisions’ intranet projects and two Internet sites. Project-managed and lead a small technical team in building and maintaining a countrywide intranet. Personally designed and built the companies’ first Internet site. Responsibilities included growing and managing the team and design and deployment of all aspects of the networking, email and server technology used for the intranet and the Internet site.
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Project Manager
Durapipe – S&LP
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Plastics industry)
June 1995 — April 1996 (11 months)
Project Management and technical architect position with responsibility for the company intranet single Internet site. Project managed in a replacement AS/400 JBA business system. Designed, project managed and built an NT Server based intranet, linking it to the AS/400. Designed and wrote the company’s first Internet site, hosted on an Apache platform.
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Assistant Manufacturing Manager
Vulcathene Plastics
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Plastics industry)
November 1993 — June 1995 (1 year 8 months)
In this role, the main theme was to use PC-technology to streamline the company’s manufacturing processes, from design to shipping the product. Engineered a number of small projects using intranet technology to deliver significant cost-savings to the business.
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