John Ferringer

Current

Contractor at Eli Lilly and Company
Solutions Architect at Apparatus, Inc.

Past

Senior Consultant at Accenture
Seminar Chairperson at HOBY Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership

Education

DePauw University
Manchester High School

Connections

320 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

John Ferringer’s Summary

John is a Solutions Architect for Apparatus, Inc. in Indianapolis, IN, with over four years of experience administering and supporting SharePoint technologies and has spent over nine years working in the technology consulting industry. He is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in the installation and configuration of Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v3, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007. Previously he was a senior consultant for Accenture, where he designed and developed custom applications, managed small teams, and trained new resources in both technical and procedural practices.

John's blog can be found at http://www.SharePointBlogs.com/ForTheUser and he also is the operator of SearchForSharePoint.com, a custom search engine for all things SharePoint.

John and his wife Gretchen have been together for over five years and were married in April of 2005. Their daughter, Piper, was born in July of 2007. He lives in Indianapolis, IN.

John Ferringer’s Specialties:

Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v3 & Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 architecture & admin, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (WSS v3, MOSS 2007, SCOM 2007 configuration), WSS v2 & SharePoint Portal Server 2003 architecture & admin, Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 architecture & admin, Windows Server 2003 admin, IIS v6 adm, BladeLogic admin, software development, testing, & implementation, project management, business intelligence and reporting, database management

John Ferringer’s Experience

Contractor

Eli Lilly and Company

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; lly; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2004 — Present (4 years 4 months)
Solutions Architect

Apparatus, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2004 — Present (4 years 8 months)
Senior Consultant

Accenture

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

1998 — 2004 (6 years)
Seminar Chairperson

HOBY Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1999 — 2003 (4 years)

John Ferringer’s Education

DePauw University

B.A., Communications, 1994 — 1998

Activities and Societies:

Delta Chi, "The DePauw" student newspaper, Habitat for Humanity
Manchester High School

1990 — 1994

Additional Information

John Ferringer’s Websites:

John Ferringer’s Interests:

Golf, Reading, SharePoint, Programming, .NET,

John Ferringer’s Groups:

MCTS - WSS 3.0 installation and configuration,
MCTS - MOSS 2007 configuration,
MCTS - SCOM 2007 configuration,
SharePointBlogs.com, SmallerIndiana.com