Gilles E. Uréna SharePoint Solution Architect

ATWorks LLC 730 Lemoine Lane Richmond, Virginia 23236

Cell: 804-363-3006 email: gilles.urena@atworksllc.com

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SharePoint Implementation Highlights

Hay Group, Pa. 05/07 – 07/08 Contracted by the Hay Group as a MOSS architect and Technical Lead to design and implement a MOSS 2007 business portal to support the executive strategy to operate as a global organization versus separate country business units. Hay Group is a global management consultancy with 94 offices in 47 countries and over 3000 employees servicing more than 7000 clients around the world. Historically Hay Group has operated as separate country business units resulting in units first and foremost meeting their own needs with regards to systems and processes. The primary stakeholders of the projects were located in London, England and Corporate IT in Philadelphia, USA. All work was performed remotely with recurring phone calls, Webex presentations, and on-site meetings. The project was organized in separate engagements:

A 4 weeks envisioning phase to define the scope of work and create a project plan and wireframes to support the executive strategy to:

Operate on a consistent global platform with corporate standards & processes

Migrate existing Lotus Notes applications and databases to the Microsoft platform

Aggregate content across practices, service lines, business units, countries and offices

Provide a sophisticated search center to share and retrieve critical information.

A 10 months Planning/Building/Deployment phase to implement MOSS according to the scope of work and project plan delivered in the envisioning phase

The primary components of the project consisted of:

Designing and implementing the infrastructure for the development, staging and production environments. A 5-server farm was implemented and configured for the staging and production environment. All servers were virtualized (VMware ESX 3.5).

Designing a global taxonomy and information architecture. Business analysis sessions were conducted with primary stakeholders to define content elements, site columns, content types and libraries. All taxonomy elements were implemented as features and solutions (WSP) to be centrally management and deployed across multiple domains and environments.

Designing a custom HR application to be integrated with MOSS employee profiles

Developed data model, stored procedures and views (SQL 2005)

Developed BDC application definition files

Integrating corporate data structures residing in external databases with the global taxonomy (SQL, BDC).

Designing a custom database to support workflow requirements for employee 360-review and skills accreditation (InfoPath):

Branding intranet site with new master page, page layouts and CSS file (VS 2005, SPD 2007, XML, and CSS).

Developing 10 custom web parts for content roll-up, employee location and employee profile setup (VS 2005, SQL, XML, XSLT).

Developing features and solutions (WSP) to allow centralized deployment and management of custom elements (VS 2005, XML)

Hay Group References Stephen Kaye Chief Financial Officer Hay Group, Philadelphia (215) 861-2627 Stephen.Kaye@haygroup.com

Jackie Potter Global Knowledge & Information Manager Hay Group London (+44) 20-7856-7000 Jackie.Potter@haygroup.com James Dooney Director Worldwide Electronic Messaging Hay Group, Philadelphia (215) 861-2498 James.Dooney@haygroup.com

Microsoft Caribbean & Central America 04/07 – 06/07 Contracted to work with MCS and the Government of Puerto Rico. Architected a MOSS/InfoPath solution to allow citizens of Puerto Rico to fill up electronic forms to be processed by government agencies. The proposed solution needed to be integrated with an existing Citizen portal built with CMS 2002.

The Asbury Group, Gaithersburg, Md. 10/06 – 05/07 Developed a MOSS Clinical Business Portal. Asbury’s customers will use the portal to run their daily operations based on their job functions. The portal integrates a user’s daily activities with real-time information through the rendering of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) triggering the execution of business processed though workflows. Technologies used : MOSS 2007, WSS 3.0, Excel Services, BDC, SSO, InfoPath 2007, SQL Server 2005, SQL reporting Services 2005, and Task Workflows. PKIs are rendered using BDC and Excel Services using external data connections.

References & Testimonials “Gilles Urena has worked with our organization for over three years and plays a significant role in the design and formation of our SharePoint platforms. Gilles is the chief architect of all of our SharePoint technologies, leading our internal staff to design, coordinate and develop our SharePoint solutions. He designed our original SharePoint 2003 corporate Intranet and developed custom webparts for several of our business units including an Associate search engine (driven thru Microsoft Active Directory), a Paid-Time-Off (PTO) viewer for associates, and an image (photo) gallery for our Communications and Marketing departments. Gilles also developed custom SharePoint navigation components including a menu system for content grouping, and integrated third-party applications into our SharePoint platform for our dashboards and business intelligence. He is currently working with us to migrate our SharePoint 2003 platform to the new MOSS 2007 platform. His knowledge, expertise and professionalism are unsurpassed. We will continue to rely on Gilles as our SharePoint architect and strategic technology initiatives.”

Chip Burns VP/CIO The Asbury Group 201 Russell Avenue Gaithersburg, Md. 20872 (301) 987-6061 cburns@TheAsburyGrp.com

Northrop Grumman - PMO Dashboard 1/06 – 09/07 Led the planning, development and implementation of a Project Management Office (PMO) extranet utilizing WSS technologies. This solution allows multiple project teams (600 users) to store and share project management information.

Collected and analyzed business requirements

Created detailed Project Plan including tasks, time frame and cost

Designed business architecture and specifications according to the requirements

Developed a dashboard site to roll-up action items, risks & issues, progress reports and work plans from 50+ project sites.

Developed graphical web parts to display current status of the program

Developed InfoPath forms to execute several business processes

Developed training materials and perform training for over 200 power users

References & Testimonials “Gilles Urena supported our Microsoft SharePoint portal design and implementation during a new program start-up. Gilles was extremely knowledgeable of the product line and of third party products to enhance the base product's efficiencies - greatly reducing the start-up time and cost. He is extremely professional and an excellent team player.”

Jamie Aksel Director of Products & Solutions, Northrop Grumman (310) 489-1859 jamie.aksel@ngc.com

Asbury Services, Gaithersburg, Md. 12/03 – 03/07 Managed and led a team of developers, designers and system engineers to deploy an employee-facing intranet portal for over 1500 employees utilizing Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server technologies. Areas of responsibility included account & project management, portal architecture, technical leadership, custom web part development and training. Project duration was 6+ months.

12/2003 Requirements analysis and roadmap for implementation Led requirements sessions with key stakeholders (CIO, Director of Technology, and

Intranet Administrator). Primary goals were to migrate Asbury’s FrontPage intranet to SharePoint Portal Server.

Created proposal, project plan and recommended infrastructure design documents. All documents are available upon requests. Proposal was accepted and work started in January 2004.

1/04 – 4/04 Migration to SPS 2003 Led the development of Home Page & Secondary Pages Design Comps with existing

Intranet Look & Feel

Created CSS file to overwrite SharePoint sps.css and ows.css

Create Portal Architecture: Work with Asbury Intranet administrator on Information Architecture, Content Identification & Organization, Documents taxonomy (MetaTags), Content publishing rules, Security model, User profile & Audiences

Train/Coach Intranet administrator to be able to support & publish content on SPS

Developed the “ASI Navigation for SPS” web part to optimize navigation and deliver content in a compelling presentation.

Develop custom web part to retrieve Personal Time Off information from a PeopleSoft feed. Web part is used on user’s personal site and fully integrated using the SSO service.

Developed On-line Gallery to allow a designer to publish dashboard web parts a WSS site or SPS area

Provided SPS administration services over VPN (Backup, restore, health maintenance checks, infrastructure setup)

Developed a Kiosk Interface to the Portal and setting up a VM infrastructure to optimize backup/restore processes of sites and documents.

5/04 – 03/07 Maintenance, Support & custom development Developed custom Employee Directory web part to allow a user to retrieve Profile

Information

Developed dashboard templates and Site definitions

Virginia Information Technology Agency 3/05 – 9/05 Implemented an employee-facing intranet/extranet portal for over 1500 users utilizing Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server technologies. Project duration was 6+ months and areas of responsibility included account & project management, technical leadership, information architecture, design, custom web part development, and capacity planning. The implementation team was augmented with VITA’ s developers and content administrator.

Worked with customer in the early stage of the project to define vision, scope, tasks, time & cost estimates, internal resources allocation and expected utilization.

Led requirements sessions with key stakeholders: analyzed business and functional requirements assessed existing systems infrastructure, security requirements and customer staff expertise. Created project plan and roadmap for implementation.

Led development of site map, graphic design, storyboards

Led development of custom web parts:

Phone Directory: Quick access to employees name and phone number

Advanced Employee Directory: retrieve user profile information in a spreadsheet format based on custom search criteria.

Query Runner: this web part allows a designer to automatically publish links to documents on multiple areas based on the content MetaTags. This web part can be extended to optimize the taxonomy of a Portal.

What’s new: This web part allows to publish latest content on the Portal Home page

Performed hands-on training in the areas of content organization, content publishing, and SPS configuration and fine-tuning.

Managed the integration of SPS with Active Directory custom attributes

Analyzed State standards for Web accessibility requirements (508)

Identified metrics and benchmarks for capacity planning. Created test scripts and implement ACT for load testing.

Recommended strategy for leveraging SharePoint technologies at the team and divisional levels.

Installed and configured all components of the SharePoint Medium-Web farm topology

Configured access to extranet users through ISA 2004 & SSL

Currently supporting customer on an as-needed basis

References & Testimonials “Gilles Urena worked as a contractor for me at Virginia Information Technologies Agency and was extremely instrumental in leading my support team through a SharePoint Portal and SharePoint team site (WSS) implementation. Gilles has great technical skill related to all Microsoft product, was able to work well with all my staff, worked very well remotely we needed and he always made himself available as a reference even after his contract ended. Gilles is very professional and always follows through on his commitments. Gilles is very proficient when it comes to working with business users to define business requirements even when they are not always sure exactly what they need. I highly recommend Gilles and would contract his services again. I would be glad to provide a reference for Gilles and my contact information is listed below.”

Paul G. Hendricks Deputy Chief Information Officer Chesterfield County, Virginia Office: 804-748-1599 Fax: 804-748-1571 Cell: 804-513-3050 HendricksP@chesterfield.gov

ASI Product Development 01/04 – 01/06 Product Manager and technical leader of a team of 5 developers/designers to build custom

Web Parts and applications using SharePoint technologies

Manage and led the development of Aperture line of products for the SPS and WSS platforms. A description of each web part can be found at: http://store.aperturesi.com

ASI Employee Directory for SPS: This web part leverages the SPS profile database. A portal administrator can set a search criteria based on user profile properties. The search results will be organized in an HTML table with printer-friendly capabilities.

ASI Phone Directory for SPS: This web part allows a user to retrieve phone information after entering a person first name or last name.

ASI Navigation for SPS, “Hover” & “Windows Look & Feel”: This web part renders SPS areas and sub-areas in a traditional drop-down. Users can see and navigate only areas they have access to.

ASI TreeView for SPS: Same functionality as the drop-down but with a tree-view display

ASI TreeView for WSS: Renders and entire structure of WSS sites and sub-sites. This is a great web part to include in left navigation of any WSS sites.

ASI Password Manager: Allows users to update their password from a SharePoint area or personal workspace

ASI Active Directory Self-Service: Enables users to connect to Active Directory to manage their profile.