Andrew Walmsley

Current

SharePoint Business Consultant at Aviva
Practice Manager & Director at WorkShares Ltd
Director at Purposeformal Property Management

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Past

Senior SharePoint Project Manager at Computacenter
SharePoint Business Consultant at WDS Global
Senior SharePoint Project Manager at Food Standards Agency

Senior SharePoint Project Manager at Farrer & Co
Senior Project Manager at Silversands
Project Manager at KPMG Consulting
Service/Programme Manager at HomeDirectory

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Education

Bournemouth University

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Information Technology and Services

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Andrew Walmsley’s Summary

The founder of WorkShares, (www.workshares.co.uk), producing collaborative solutions for our clients utilising Microsoft SharePoint and associated collaborative technologies.

Over the last 8 years, I have gained 'grass roots' level experience in the design, build, delivery and support of Microsoft Enterprise Content Management based solutions to a wide range of business sectors.

I am an experienced SharePoint Project Manager/Consultant, having also worked for a Tier 1 consultancy in London in the past and several Microsoft Gold Partners both here and abroad.

I am also Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist (MCTS) for WSS and MOSS 2007. What differentiates me from others in this industry is the experience of working on in excess of 100 SharePoint deployments since the SharePoint platform was released in 2001.

As a SharePoint veteran, I am able to bring to the decision making process knowledge and experience of what works well and crucially, not so well with the product features you are considering deploying.

Combined with consulting background this allows me to bring a mature approach to helping organisations identify and implement only the most beneficial features of the Microsoft SharePoint that deliver value for money.

I am looking to further develop and build upon WorkShares early successes and continue my own professional growth through working with existing and new clients, helping them further and develop their own businesses.

My current focus revolves around helping a global insurance organisation move its existing intrant(s) and associated applications on to a Microsoft Online based SharePoint and OCS environment for its 60,000 users.

Andrew Walmsley’s Specialties:

SharePoint Business Case Production, Planning, Design, Launch and Adoption
SharePoint Project Management
SharePoint Business Analysis
SharePoint Pre-Sales & Proposal/Bid Management
SharePoint Practice Management
SharePoint Architecture
Microsoft Enterprise Content Management collaborative platform (SharePoint, Groove, OCS and Exchange)
SharePoint Governance
Microsoft Online Services
Microsoft BPOS.

Andrew Walmsley’s Experience

SharePoint Business Consultant

Aviva

(Public Company; AV; Financial Services industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

Acting as a SharePoint Business Consultant for a global deployment of Microsoft Online (hosted) based SharePoint global intranet.

My role encompasses reviewing business requirements and scoping future projects from Aviva’s global business regions and units for delivery on to the Microsoft SharePoint Online hosted intranet.

Requirements gathering, stakeholder management and working with 3rd parties to agree and prioritise enhancements that cater for multiple languages, serving some 54,000 users across 28 countries.
Practice Manager & Director

WorkShares Ltd

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

As an experienced consultant and in particular SharePoint Project Manager, I am still very much a 'fee earning' resource for the business in my capacity as Practice Manager/Director at WorkShares.

I am actively involved in a Sales/Consulting capacity whilst I help develop and bring online new business workstreams, but also to help deliver the collaborative solutions that WorkShares has already been commissioned to carry out.

I also continue to work with other organisations in an advisory capacity to help them scope and deliver business benefit using Microsoft SharePoint internally and more recently with Microsoft Online hosted services.

Active in writing articles for the SharePoint community with several being published on online publications.
Director

Purposeformal Property Management

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Real Estate industry)

January 2002 — Present (7 years 11 months)

My role within this company is to work with the other Directors overseeing the management of a property and its grounds.

I recently expanded this role to that of Company Secretary.
Senior SharePoint Project Manager

Computacenter

(Partnership; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2008 — January 2009 (8 months)

Acting as Senior SharePoint Project Manager to manage a team of consultants to firstly design and then deploy a SharePoint enterprise scale multiple farm based infrastructure to support both intranet, extranet and pre-production platforms.

Then going on to manage team of developers both onshore in the UK and offshore in India to deploy an extranet based CRM solution supporting 12,500 internal and 1000 external users (customers).
SharePoint Business Consultant

WDS Global

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

August 2008 — August 2008 (1 month)

Provided consultancy to scope, design and deliver a WSS based Knowledge Management Solution to provide its global call centres with a single point of access to 1000's of knowledge base articles.

Working with a SharePoint developer, introduced 'intelligent' cascading lists which mapped on to problem identification and classification. Accessed globally from their call centre operations via browser only interface.
Senior SharePoint Project Manager

Food Standards Agency

(Government Administration industry)

January 2008 — July 2008 (7 months)

Acting as a Senior SharePoint Project Manager (part time) for infrastructure & replacement Intranet projects. Included overseeing the design and delivery of an enterprise scale multiple farm based infrastructure to support intranet, pre-production and disaster recovery platforms for MOSS/Groove/OCS.

My role involved initially recovering a failing project before going on to manage the successful delivery of the two concurrent project teams including coordinating several 3rd party organisations, multiple project boards, stakeholders and budget holders.

A Microsoft based case study went on to be produced.
http://www.microsoft.com/emea/partnersolutionmarketplace/CaseStudyDetail.aspx?casestudyid=4000002150
Senior SharePoint Project Manager

Farrer & Co

(Partnership; Law Practice industry)

January 2008 — April 2008 (4 months)

Acting Senior Project Manager (part time) for a delivery of a new medium farm sized MOSS based intranet deployment for its central London headquarters.

It encompassed deploying a new information architecture to support fee earners, support staff and business managers with a single point of access to all of information, and included a completely new branding design on top of SharePoint.

Management of design documents, budgets, scheduling of resources and 3rd parties to ensure its successful delivery on time and ahead of budget.
Senior Project Manager

Silversands

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2003 — January 2007 (3 years 10 months)

My role at Silversands was that of Senior Project Manager in which I worked from initial pre-sales (bid management, proposal creation and client facing pre-sales activities, presentations, etc) through to delivery (programme/project management) and coordination of support thereafter.

The company specialised (amongts other things) in Microsoft SharePoint technologies, including MOSS 2007 and SharePoint Services Version 3.

In the time I was there I had worked on in excess of 100 Microsoft SharePoint engagements, from small less than 20 seat organisations, through to 24,000 seat enterprise level customers.

The industry sectors I have worked within include Local Government, Finance, Not for Profit, Police, Insurance and Education.
Project Manager

KPMG Consulting

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2001 — October 2002 (1 year 10 months)

One of the former ‘Big Five’ Consultancy’s: sold to Atos Origin for £451m. I worked within their new .NET practice working on a number of Microsoft engagements for the first 12 months on both pre-sales/delivery capacity.

The latter half of my time their was spent working within their Public Sector division where I was involved in a number of high profile projects, both at a pre-sales (bid management/consultancy) and delivery (project management) capacity.
Service/Programme Manager

HomeDirectory

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Consumer Services industry)

April 2000 — December 2000 (9 months)

Joined as Programme Manager reporting to IT Director, sitting on the Operations Board and headed up technical group with full operational responsibility for IT Development and 24*7 operations. Immediately refocused the working practices, including development team structure and introduced project prioritisation with the existing workload.

Actively managed a team of 12 developers and subsequently grew technology team from 12 to 15 to meet skill and delivery requirements. Proactively involved with Pre-Sales activities to develop new business and managed the company’s multiple 3rd party vendor and the respective Service Level Agreements, (SLA’s),