Principal Consultant and Owner, 21apps , MVP Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
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- Owner at 21apps
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- MOSS 2007 Technical Design Authority at I2Q Synetrix
- Technical Director at Bx Limited
- MOSS Consultant at United Utilities
- SharePoint Architect at Research Machines
- SharePoint Consultant at ICS Solutions Dream Team
- .Net Technical Architect, Lead Developer & Mentor at Waterford Wedgewood
- Lead Developer at Pubserve.com
- Software Quality Engineer at Marlborough Stirling
- Software Manager at Pierce Management Services
- Education
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- University of Gloucestershire
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Andrew Woodward’s Summary
I have always worked in an IT related position with virtually all of that time in a development environment. At Pierce Management Services I successfully managed the whole development and support operation for 4 years. I implemented process improvements and introduced automated testing tools at Marlborough Stirling. I was a lead developer on the b2b portal, Pub-serve.com, developed in ASP/VB using Oracle, SQL Server and BizTalk. At Wedgwood I worked on a range of projects including the re-engineering the global supply chain with .Net technologies using eXtreme Programming development methodology. Taking on the role of Technical Director at Bx I changed the focus of the company to work with the emerging Microsoft technologies and founded a specialist SharePoint practice working with Microsoft and a number of Gold Certified Partners on a range of high profile projects. I left Bx to setup 21apps; a small consultancy with an emphasis on providing community support and expert consultancy around the expanding MOSS 2007 platform.
MVP for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
Andrew Woodward’s Specialties:
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, software architecture, solutions development.
Andrew Woodward’s Experience
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Owner
21apps
(Computer Software industry)
March 2007 — Present (1 year 6 months)
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MOSS 2007 Technical Design Authority
I2Q Synetrix
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; E-Learning industry)
March 2007 — September 2007 (7 months)
Contracted by Synetrix, as a MOSS TDA, to audit the current SharePoint Portal Server 2003 solution implemented for Leeds Learning Network (expanding to 120,000 users) and to design, plan and manage the migration to MOSS 2007 including Class Server to SharePoint Learning Kit and Microsoft Learning Gateway. TDA roll covered all related technologies including SQL Server, ISA Server, and Active Directory Federated Services (ADFS). I also assisted the bid teams designing the MOSS 2007 solutions architecture (including DR, SLA and scale-out options) for extensions to the Leeds Learning Network to support other Local Education Authorities and a solution for the East Midlands (EMBC) with the potential to reach 1million users, which Synetrix were successful.
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Technical Director
Bx Limited
(Computer Software industry)
October 2003 — February 2007 (3 years 5 months)
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MOSS Consultant
United Utilities
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
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SharePoint Architect
Research Machines
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; E-Learning industry)
March 2006 — December 2006 (10 months)
Working as the SharePoint Architect on the Scottish Schools Digital Network which ‘Based upon current industry knowledge, it is anticipated that the SSDN design represents the largest SharePoint installation of its type’. The solution was based on proven design for SharePoint extra-large server farm. The role was to act as SharePoint lead on all infrastructures technical issues, planning the environments from development, to live and fail-over. Providing appropriate solutions for issues through analysis, design, and development and testing of both technical and logical architecture. Documenting and implementation of operational and business continuity processes. . Evaluation and implementation of Sybari Antigen and Comm Vault solutions. Undertaking knowledge transfer and training of internal staff. Following successful rollout of the 2003 solution I was responsible for designing and piloting the solutions upgrade and migration to MOSS 2007.
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SharePoint Consultant
ICS Solutions Dream Team
(Computer Software industry)
2005 — 2005 (less than a year)
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.Net Technical Architect, Lead Developer & Mentor
Waterford Wedgewood
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Luxury Goods & Jewelry industry)
August 2002 — August 2004 (2 years 1 month)
Design and development of a purchase forecasting system using .Net (C#/ASP.Net) and prevalence techniques to perform 24 months predictive supply movements for Wedgwood global supply chain. Solution reduced time taken to calculate the purchase demand from 3 days to less than 2 hours, whilst adding the flexibility to add new warehouses, supply routes and markets without additional coding. Assisting Wedgwood’s adoption of the applications and the development platform; through mentoring of the internal IT staff.
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Lead Developer
Pubserve.com
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
July 2000 — August 2002 (2 years 2 months)
Developing a major b2b portal using ASP/VB (COM+/MTS) against SQL Server and Oracle 8i databases. Site was designed to support a range of browsers including WebTV. Developed product integration architecture to support trading partners using BizTalk 2000 (including AICs, Preprocessors and mapping to xCBL V3 through developed XML interfaces).
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Software Quality Engineer
Marlborough Stirling
(Financial Services industry)
September 1999 — July 2000 (11 months)
Working within the Quality function my role was broadly based on improving the development projects through independent review, appraisal and process improvement metrics. Auditing and reviewing all development projects to ensure compliance to QMS. Impact assessment of the new ISO9000:2000 standard and CMM. Managing a Board backed project to evaluate, select, cost justify and implement performance and automated testing tools.
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Software Manager
Pierce Management Services
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Facilities Services industry)
July 1994 — September 1999 (5 years 3 months)
Provided facilities management services and software to the MOD and NHS. Main product was Works Services Manager (WSM) and supoort for the NHS WIMS systems.
Andrew Woodward’s Education
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University of Gloucestershire
1990 — 1993
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suguk.org, Microsoft MVP
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Andrew Woodward’s Honors:
MVP for Office SharePoint Server 2007
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