Neal McFee

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry

March 2010 – August 2010 (6 months)

Educated senior management about the capabilities and possibilities of SharePoint.
Lead several ECM efforts to enhance internal processes.
Evangelized enterprise adoption of new SharePoint based workflow process for auditing daily transaction data by internal regulatory bodies.
Trained junior developers in SharePoint 2010 Foundation Beta development and configuration.

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

November 2009 – March 2010 (5 months)

Developed workflow to support a contract approval process for the legal team.
Enhanced several SharePoint web interfaces by including the JQuery framework and Plug-ins.
Modified vendor supplied branding to apply within the current farm environment.
Created a security trimmed portal page that rolled up content across site collections and web applications.
Conducted process reviews and recommended the best technology approach based on functional and technical requirements.
Directed in house SharePoint resources to previously overlooked best practices assisting with advanced troubleshooting and correcting configuration errors.
Presented to VIP users an improved document management design that directly solved the business problem that was previously left unsolved due to inexperience of resources.

August 2008 – November 2009 (1 year 4 months)

Provided UI governance architecture for a global MOSS project.
Authored development methodology guidance on SharePoint development patterns.
Trained junior personnel on best practices for creating MOSS 2007 artifacts in a global corporate environment.
Performed SME duties across many teams in virtualized and distributed location assignments.
Assigned work items to junior personnel based on their skill level and team assignment.
Developed a site definition that is capable of future changes and release management.
Advised users, project managers, and program managers when to use SharePoint and when to consider custom development.
Created and published an Office 2007 add-in that integrates with MOSS enterprise search.
Evaluated third party web parts and software identified by project teams.
Participated in SharePoint Server 2010 Technology Adoption Program (TAP).

December 2007 – August 2008 (9 months)

Estimated software licensing cost for MOSS environments across multiple projects.
Architected highly customized WSS implementation.
Interviewed development team candidates to meet project staffing needs.
Authored corporate SharePoint roadmap for multiple farms across multiple functional areas.
Assisted infrastructure team with capacity planning and performance testing.
Represented SharePoint capabilities in several Joint Application Development sessions.
Developed an API on top of the MOSS object model for outsourced.net developers to perform specific tasks without the need to train each developer on WSS programming.
Created custom web parts, master pages, site definitions, list templates, and site pages.
Designed several SharePoint farms for extranet access, custom application hosting, and secure customer facing data management.
Designed a SharePoint artifact deployment process using solution packages and the feature capabilities.

August 2007 – December 2007 (5 months)

Implemented several SharePoint server farms using best practices published by Microsoft.
Advised junior developers, sales staff, and executive staff on the new features of SharePoint.
Participated in pre-sales presentations where a SharePoint 2007 subject matter expert was required.
Created functional, technical, and use case documentation in support of project management methodology.
Reviewed for accuracy draft statements of work for multiple prospective clients in support of the sales process.
Performed SME duties for developers when they could not figure out an issue or an approach dealing with advanced SharePoint functionality or configuration.

August 2005 – July 2007 (2 years)

Maintained a global Windows SharePoint Services v2 server farm for over 2500 users and 800 individual sites with 100% uptime.
Implemented Corasworks Summer 2006 Workplace Suite.
Trained users on new ways to use SharePoint to collaborate in daily tasks and special projects.
Supported users in a Tier II application support level globally.
Created annual budgets for ongoing support costs and new software implementation.
Presented to global SharePoint community of interest about trends in SharePoint development and the new release of MOSS2007.
Developed new templates and themes to support branding across the enterprise using modified out of the box templates.

November 2001 – December 2004 (3 years 2 months)

Developed a custom reporting dashboard using SQL Analysis services and the SharePoint Digital Dashboard Resource Kit 3.0.
Implemented company intranet utilizing SharePoint Team Services, with a later upgrade to SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services.
Designed a Human Resources paper reduction application based on SharePoint Portal Server 2001 and later upgraded to SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Created SharePoint Portal Server 2003 custom site definitions.
Specified corporate taxonomy for document management capability in SharePoint Portal Server 2001 and the backward compatible document libraries in SharePoint Portal Server 2003.
Performed demonstration integration of Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Biztalk Server 2004 for senior management staff for technology capability discovery.
Developed plan for Biztalk 2002 to Biztalk 2004 migration.
Implemented public company website on in-house hosted IIS 6 web servers.
Spearheaded support plan of production Biztalk and SharePoint servers utilizing Microsoft Operations.

April 1999 – September 1999 (6 months)

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry

September 1998 – February 1999 (6 months)