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Kansas City, Missouri Area
- Current
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- SharePoint Architect for Tulsa-based Client at Inceed
- Principal Consultant / Partner-Owner at EMS Solutions Group
- Past
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- Project: Sharepoint Infrastructure Consultant at Flathead Electric Coop
- Project: Senior SharePoint Consutlant for Jabil Circuit at Oxford International
- Project: SharePoint Infrastructure Architect - Kalispell, Montana at Project Leadership Associates
- Project: SharePoint Infrastructure Architect - Schaumburg, IL at Project Leadership Associates
- Project: SharePoint Consultant at Project Leadership Associates
- Project: SharePoint Consultant/Trainer at Technical Training Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Project: Senior Consultant for SharePoint 2007 Architecture and Redeployment at the Sunflower Group
- Project: Senior Windows Administrator/Special Projects at the Sunflower Group
- Senior Consultant II at Quilogy (Overland Park, KS)
- Project: Senior Consultant at HDR under Microsoft at HDR INC.
- Project: Senior SharePoint Consultant/Trainer at Harte-Hanks
- Senior Systems Engineer at Parian Development Group, Inc
- Sr. Network Admin at SwissBank/Perot System
- Developer, MCI, Cedar Rapids at Perot Systems
- Senior Systems Administrator at the Sunflower Group
- Senior Developer at Analysis Inc.
- Education
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- Moraine Valley Community College
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Eric Stepek, Independent SharePoint Consultant’s Summary
Experienced Senior-level IT consultant with a diverse and in-depth background in Microsoft infrastructure technologies, project management, business analysis and technical training.
Proven ability to architect, implement and provide training for advanced infrastructures using Microsoft technologies such as SharePoint 2007.
Excellent verbal, documentation and training skills. Capable of creating and teaching highly technical as well as user-level training courses.
Continuously seeking consulting opportunities that will allow me to utilize my strong technical abilities to architect and implement high-end Microsoft infrastructure solutions.
Willing to travel for projects that deliver leading-edge technologies and enhance my technical ability.
Willing and capable of learning new technologies and skills.
Eric Stepek, Independent SharePoint Consultant’s Specialties:
*** WILLING TO TRAVEL FOR GREAT PROJECTS ***
- SharePoint 2001, 2003, 2007
- Microsoft Exchange 2003, 2007
- Windows XP, Vista, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows 2008
- Active Directory
- Microsoft Office 2003, 2007
- Microsoft Project
- Visual Basic .NET 2005
- SQL Server 2000,2005
- Network Administration
- Network Audit and Best Practice Implementation
- Project Management
- Team building and mentoring
- Client relationship and management
Eric Stepek, Independent SharePoint Consultant’s Experience
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SharePoint Architect for Tulsa-based Client
Inceed
(Privately Held; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
April 2009 — Present (4 months)
Working with a medium-sized Accounting firm headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma on designing a SharePoint platform for their Intranet and Extranet needs. Project will include business requirements gathering, admin and user training and education, infrastructure design and build out and custom development of InfoPath forms and branding.
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Principal Consultant / Partner-Owner
EMS Solutions Group
(Information Services industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)
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Project: Sharepoint Infrastructure Consultant
Flathead Electric Coop
(Oil & Energy industry)
March 2009 — April 2009 (2 months)
Senior SharePoint Consultant for an Electric Coop in Kalispell, Montana who are preparing to use SharePoint as their launch pad for a corporate intranet and extranet presence.
Key Achievements:
- Developed a fully functional SharePoint environment to use in the live demo for the Executive team. The live demo demonstrated and showcased a number or SharePoint features and functions that would aid the organization in streamlining business processes and managing content. The demo showcased content management, content creation, InfoPath 2007, workflow, search, document management features, metadata assignment, security and platform scalability.
- Worked with the IT team and development staff to educate them on techniques of performing business requirements gathering of current business processes for each department and department content taxonomies.
- Lead an architecture design session to work out infrastructure requirements and capacity planning.
- Built up from raw-server to fully functional and configured SharePoint environment and documented the Phase I production environment.
- Walked the IT team through each configuration screen for the Farm, Web Application and SSP and explained the usage and configuration needs for each screen.
- Worked with the IT team to setup SharePoint security, building out top-level sites and subordinate department and project sites, creating and utilizing SharePoint document libraries and lists -
Project: Senior SharePoint Consutlant for Jabil Circuit
Oxford International
(Public Company; ASGN; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
January 2009 — February 2009 (2 months)
Senior SharePoint Infrastructure Consultant for a large international circuit board manufacturer in St. Petersburg, Florida. Tasked to assist the internal SharePoint administrator and the project team to overcome hurdles and ensure the SharePoint project is delivered by the go-live date of February 16th, 2009.
Key Achievements:
- Reviewed the current SharePoint architecture and design decisions to ensure they met best practices
- Built up from raw-server to fully functional and configured SharePoint environment and documented the Phase I test, development and production environments.
- Developed several STSADM scripts and SQL Queries to aide in the creation, migration and configuration of SharePoint pilot and non-pilot sites in the new production environment
- Walked the IT team through each configuration screen for the Farm, Web Application and SSP and explained the usage and configuration needs for each screen.
- Worked with the IT team to setup SharePoint security, building out top-level sites and subordinate department and project sites, creating and utilizing SharePoint document libraries and lists -
Project: SharePoint Infrastructure Architect - Kalispell, Montana
Project Leadership Associates
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2008 — December 2008 (1 month)
Consulting as a Senior SharePoint Architect and Trainer to design and implement an Intranet for a 2500 person Insurance Services company in Kalispell, Montana.
Key Achievements:
- Architect a scalable and redundant solutions built on the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 platform for their intranet presence
- Full infrastructure design of physical and logical SharePoint farm on Windows Server 2008 for a primary and secondary site
- SQL 2005 Cluster build out and documentation
- SQL log shipping for SharePoint database from primary to secondary site locations
- Farm build out implementation and documentation
- Design and implement backup, change management and governance policies
- Trained engineering team on all configuration parameters in Central Administration
- Trained helpdesk staff on supporting common SharePoint scenarios on go-live and how to create proper end-user documentation for self-service
- Walked the IT team through each configuration screen for the Farm, Web Application and SSP and explained the usage and configuration needs for each screen.
- Worked with the IT team to setup SharePoint security, building out top-level sites and subordinate department and project sites, creating and utilizing SharePoint document libraries and lists -
Project: SharePoint Infrastructure Architect - Schaumburg, IL
Project Leadership Associates
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2008 — December 2008 (2 months)
Senior SharePoint consultant to assist with the design and implementation of a multi-server SharePoint environment for a large Chicago metropolitan municipality. The multi-phased project will include phases for an Internet presence, an extranet and intranet. The initial phase was to implement SharePoint for use as the Internet presence.
Key Achievements:
- Build farm environment from raw servers to functioning Windows 2003 R2 SharePoint servers
- Bring the individual server components together into the SharePoint Farm
- Install and configured SQL Server 2005
- Configured the Internet presence, mysite and SSP web applications
- Provide as-built documentation of the farm installation and configuration
- Reviewed next steps to implement the extranet presence using the MySite functionality and an additional SSP for secure content crawling.
- Assist transitioning the environment over to the development team for custom branding and development of features.
- Walked the IT team through each configuration screen for the Farm, Web Application and SSP and explained the usage and configuration needs for each screen.
- Worked with the IT team to setup SharePoint security, building out top-level sites and subordinate department and project sites, creating and utilizing SharePoint document libraries and lists -
Project: SharePoint Consultant
Project Leadership Associates
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2008 — December 2008 (1 month)
Senior SharePoint infrastructure Consultant for a large international law firm based in Chicago, Illinois to evaluate and correct issues pertaining to the production SharePoint environment that was being prepared for go-live.
Key Achievements:
- Diagnose issues captured in Event Viewer and discovered by team
- Work with the client IT team to modify the highly restricted Group Policies to allow proper rights assignments to service accounts on local SharePoint Servers
- Documented proof of correction for the event viewer errors and issues documented by the team
- Ran the SharePoint Best Practices Analyzer to ensure there were no configuration issues with the SharePoint setup
- Worked with the client support teams to review discovered issue, discuss performance monitoring needs and to educate the team on proper management techniques for their respective responsibilities of the SharePoint farm. -
Project: SharePoint Consultant/Trainer
Technical Training Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma
(Education Management industry)
September 2008 — October 2008 (2 months)
Consulted in the role of a Senior SharePoint consultant and Trainer for a large multi-facility technical training university in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tasks centered around completing the rollout of their Internet presence, which is built completely on the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 platform and training the teams that will publish content to the .
Key Achievements:
- Architected and provided detailed technical guidance and documentation to implement the security model post-implementation.
- Developed the backend-SQL process that reads the IIS log files on each front-end web server, parses and aggregates search query strings and writes the aggregated data to a table that is used by the Tag Cloud web part.
- Built and fully documented the development environment
- Developed and presented a SharePoint 2007 users class for 40 students
- Presented a SharePoint 2007 Overview to a group of over 30 directors and C-level executives
- Worked with the technical teams to provide knowledge transfer of processes and technical information so that they can support the SharePoint implementation.
- Worked with development team as a SharePoint functionality SME to provide guidance on SharePoint-specific questions and issues. -
Project: Senior Consultant for SharePoint 2007 Architecture and Redeployment
the Sunflower Group
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
March 2008 — May 2008 (3 months)
Rearchitect and redeploy the current SharePoint 2007 environment to improve performance, scalability and reliability. The environments that will be rearchitect include Development, Test, Training Staging and Production. Migrate remaining SharePoint 2003 content to the new MOSS environment.
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Project: Senior Windows Administrator/Special Projects
the Sunflower Group
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
August 2007 — March 2008 (8 months)
Senior level Windows Administrator to implement a number of infrastructure projects for the client, the Sunflower Group.
Projects to date included:
- Pilot to reorganize and restructure content to a new file server and
implement Windows 2003 R2 DFS for the Accounting, Finance,
Human Resources and Employee Support departments.
- Migration from Backup Exec 10D to Backup Exec 11D and a new
backup server.
- Migration from Track-it 7 Enterprise to Track-it 8 Enterprise
- Migrate content and FTP platform to a new server
- Developed numerous VBscript and WMI scripts to manage group
policy, login script requirements and maintenance jobs -
Senior Consultant II
Quilogy (Overland Park, KS)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2000 — August 2007 (6 years 10 months)
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Project: Senior Consultant at HDR under Microsoft
HDR INC.
(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Civil Engineering industry)
March 2007 — May 2007 (3 months)
Worked as a Senior Consultant at HDR under Microsoft to implement a multi-server SharePoint 2007 Farm. The project came in on-time and at budget. The HDR team was instrumental in the delivery of the project thanks to dedicated team members and excellent project managers and executives.
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Project: Senior SharePoint Consultant/Trainer
Harte-Hanks
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; HHS; Marketing and Advertising industry)
August 2006 — September 2006 (2 months)
As a Senior SharePoint Consultant, I Implemented an external-facing SharePoint 2003 farm for one of Harte-Hanks largest clients as a pilot to allow the client service team and the client to collaborate more effectively. The project also required me to document the entire build-out process, step-by-step, so that the pilot SharePoint environment could be quickly reproduced for other clients. In addition, I developed an Administrators training course that walked through the entire setup of the SharePoint farm as well as a Train-the-Trainer Client Services training course that educated the client services staff how to use the SharePoint platform for collaborating with their clients. The project was completed on-time against a very aggressive timeline and midst a number of personnel changes and other high-priority projects.
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Senior Systems Engineer
Parian Development Group, Inc
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1997 — 2000 (3 years)
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Sr. Network Admin
SwissBank/Perot System
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1995 — 1997 (2 years)
Assisted with the implementation, rollout and support of the Next to Windows NT 4.0 migration for Swissbank Corp in the Chicago Board of Trade office.
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Developer, MCI, Cedar Rapids
Perot Systems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PER; Information Technology and Services industry)
1995 — 1996 (1 year)
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Senior Systems Administrator
the Sunflower Group
(Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1994 — August 1995 (11 months)
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Senior Developer
Analysis Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)
May 1990 — July 1995 (5 years 3 months)
Eric Stepek, Independent SharePoint Consultant’s Education
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Moraine Valley Community College
AAS , Technology , 1988 — 1992
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