David Wilkinson
email: davidwilk@msn.com
(925) 351-9809
BIO:
An information systems professional with over fifty years in the computer industry, experienced in all aspects of analysis, design, development, implementation, and project management. Areas of expertise include Internet and Web technologies; Clustering technologies, Windows Server 2000 – 2018, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SMS, Microsoft IIS, Microsoft Transaction Server, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, UNIX/Linux (including OpenSource software), Systems Administration, Client/Server 2003, 2007, 2010, 2012, Relational Database Management Systems (MS SQL Server 2000 to 2022, Oracle, Informix, Sybase, MySql) programming (C, C++, C#, VB, Java, Visual Studio .NET 2003 through VS 2022, DreamweaverMX, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Ruby on Rails, etc.), image processing; PC and server platform technologies; Systems Security and Administration; and Project Management. For the last twenty three years I have been primarily focused on SharePoint Consulting, architecting and building out SharePoint solutions for SharePoint 2001, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016 (Office 365) and Microsoft Cloud (Azure) technologies.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:
Recent and ongoing Projects:
Awake to Love (for Michal Hayes, and Alisha Das) – 2019 to current – Technical Support for Keap, Bucket, FB ads, Marketing, and acting as a virtual assistant.
Dipietro Associates – 2014 to 2023 – Developer, System Administrator
Design, deploy, monitor and maintain Microsoft Azure implementation of their legacy ASP.NET/SQL application to the Microsoft Cloud (Azure), stood up a Dev Ops environment. SQL Server 2016
Baraness Ventures – Ongoing since 2008 – System Administrator
Design, deploy, monitor and maintain Linux VPS server applications for Line of Business WordPress blogs and websites.
Caesar’s Entertainment – April 2017 to June 2017 – SharePoint Developer
Design and develop SharePoint Office 365 workflows using InfoPath forms and SharePoint Designer. Design and develop dashboard reports using Microsoft PowerBI.
Prior Projects:
Southwest Gas of Nevada – Jan 2014 to Oct 2016 – SharePoint Architect
Migration of SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013. Architected and built out the hardware solution which is comprised of a 100 server development, UAT, and Production environments engineered for high availability and reduction of single points of failure through server redundancy and MS SQL Server Always On Clustering. Also, using VM SRM to allow for recovery of the total system within a 4 hour time window. Directed SharePoint installation and configuration of the new SharePoint environment with the IT Team. Directed and participated hands on with the migration effort including workflow customizations from SP 2010 to SP 2013. After migration to SharePoint 2013, my role is SharePoint Architect and developer, with responsibility to design and architect onboarding of business units and departments, business analysis, site design, site development, site deployment etc. Custom workflows using K2 as necessary.
Macfarlane Group – May 2013 to August 2013 (part-time)
Macfarlane Group – May 2012 to April 2013 (Full Time)
Title: SharePoint 2010 Developer and Architect
Full responsibility for the SharePoint 2010 Farm – 5 servers
SharePoint 2010 Test and Dev Environment
Functional Roles: Architect, System Administrator, Developer
Support to end users and power users, and training
Stabilized and repaired existing SharePoint 2010 medium farm installation.
Technologies used: Visual Studio 2010 (Workflows and customizations), SharePoint Designer, InfoPath forms, JQuery, XSLT, XML, Web Services, etc.
Activities: Conducted Security Review and made recommended Changes. Migrated 18,000 Legal documents to SharePoint, created custom public facing Reservation Calendar, isolated the HR Site for greater security, installed and configured Business Intelligence Portal, installed and configured Microsoft Project Management Portal. Created workflows in .NET and SharePoint Designer. Modified all forms to use InfoPath. Created Departmental sites and sub-sites as required. Made modifications to existing applications as needed.
December 2011 to February 2012
Medical Chiropractic Center
Network Administrator, System Administrator, IT Support, IIS/Web Admin, SharePoint 2010, SQL Server support. Stabilized the network, servers, computers, and applications.
November, December 2011
Publishing Consultants
Java Architecture Consulting – created architecture to move the application to the cloud.
October 2011
Caltrol – A Division of Emerson
Stabilized failing SharePoint 2010 Foundation instance on a VM environment with very large content databases in excess of 1 terabytes. Troubleshoot issues with authentication, search, central admin interface, content databases, and SharePoint error log messages. Stabilized Sharepoint using psconfig, stadm, powershell, etc. Preserved all data. Installed Foundation Search, and SharePoint 2010 Express Search, configured search, crawled content databases, installed PDF search filter, fixed issues with Security Token Service.
September 2011 – Lionel Sawyer Collins – Las Vegas, Nevada
SharePoint Portal 2007 – Deployed new development application code, lists and web parts from Development/Test environment to Production. Customized web parts, created new web parts using SharePoint Designer 2007 as per specifications.
June, July, August – 2011
Dipietro Associates, Inc – Migration of ASP 1.1 application to new cloud servers
City of Livermore – Upgrade of SharePoint 2010 Policy Workflows, Troubleshoot SharePoint 2010 Enterprise issues – search, backup and restore, User Profile Service, MySites, job scheduling,
Publishing Consultants – Architecture for Cloud-Based Java Services for 3-tiered application
March – May 2011
Kadlec Health System: Architect, Install and Configure Development and Production SharePoint 2010 environments. Create Search Portal, create Portal site, migrate 3000 documents from Stellant/Oracle document management system to SharePoint 2010.
February – 2011
First Interstate Bank: Installation of Collaboration Site POC, create site templates for Departments and Divisions, setup Performance Point portal for Business Reporting, train staff.
January – 2011
City of Livermore: Continue migration of existing SharePoint 2007 applications to the new SharePoint 2010 environment. Began preparations to bring on new departments to SharePoint 2010
October – December 2010
City of Livermore: Installed and configured SharePoint 2010 Enterprise on new 64-bit hardware. Migrated existing SharePoint 2007 applications to the new SharePoint 2010 environment.
September 2010
Greensleeves Software: SharePoint 2010 project. Created InfoPath 2010 forms for a legal tracking system for a bio-tech company. Forms required c# custom code behind to support various custom functions.
Other Recent Projects include:
May 2006 – 2011
During this time I have provided solutions as Lead System Architect and Lead System Administrator with AbetterProcess.com and Naramore Technology Systems. I have designed, installed, configured, branded, and customized Hosted SharePoint Portal Server solutions for over 35 clients. Solutions included Client Branded Web-based Portals, Workflow Design and Implementation, custom Site Branding, Business Process Re-Design, .NET Development (C#) applications and web-parts, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS 2.0 and WSS 3.0) development, admin and support of Windows 2003, 2008 Server and SQL Database 2005, 2008, SQL Reporting Services, etc.
2010 – Tulare County Sherriff’s Office – SharePoint Project, .NET custom web parts
2010 – Livermore Police Dept, Blog temp – SharePoint Project, .NET custom web parts
2010 – Shutterfly – Blackberry Server Project
2009 – Sandbank – SharePoint Project, Custom Site Branding with SharePoint Designer
2009 – Gallina – SharePoint Project, InfoPath forms
2009 – Oregon Department of Energy – SharePoint Project, InfoPath, Custom .NET Code
2009, 2010 – California Office of Transportation and Safety – SharePoint Project
2009 – Livermore Police Department – SharePoint Project, custom web parts, branding
2008, 2009 – 53rd Bank – Systems Integration – SharePoint Project, Business Intelligence
2008, 2009 – HelicosBio – Exchange Server migration
2008 – Miller Realty Network- Website re-design Project
2008, 2009 – Payment Alliance – System Architecture
2008, 2009 – Presginc – SharePoint Project – custom webparts, and custom branding
2007 – The Monkey – ASP.NET Web Project – C#
2007, 2008, 2009 – PSB – Security and Audit Review
2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 – Dipietro and Associates – ASP.NET Website rewrite project
2007, 2008, 2009 – Cunningham Financial Group – SharePoint Project, custom site temp
2007, 2008, 2009 – Stephen Shepard, LLC – SharePoint Project, custom workflow, .NET
2007, 2008, 2009 – TileCo – SharePoint Project, custom workflows, .NET web parts
2006, 2007, 2008 (Upgrade) – RF Olmo and Associates – SharePoint Project, SSRS
2006 – Anchor Financial – SharePoint Project, custom site template
2006, 2007, 2008 – Strategic Estate Advisors – SharePoint Project, SSRS integration
2006, 2007 and 2008 (Upgrade) – SJS Davis – SharePoint Project, migration, custom branding
2006 – Pannatoni-Olmo – SharePoint Project, custom workflow, branding, .NET
February 2008 – June, 2008
SharePoint Information Architect Contract at AXA Rosenberg in Orinda. Conversion and migration of previous WSS sites to a MOSS 2007 Portal. Designed internal Portal, look and feel, custom theme, custom site project template, taxonomy, site navigation, document management, business reporting, forms, user training, user admin training, development of an internal evangelizing program to promote the use and growth of SharePoint.
September 2005 – May 2006
Project Management and Technical Consulting with Allin Consulting Services, on assignment with Dolby Labs, Inc., Robert Half International, Synaptics, Inc., and Mervyn’s, implementing MOSS 2007, MOSS 2007 Search Portals, .NET Development (C#) console applications and web-parts, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS 2.0 and WSS 3.0) development, admin and support of SharePoint 2003 Portal Server environments, SQL Reporting Services, Log Parser, etc.
April 2005 – August 2005
Project Management with EMC Microsoft Consulting Services, on assignment to Align Technologies, Inc for an Employee Portal implementation and rollout on Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003.
2004 – 2005
Project Management and Technical Leadership at PMI Mortgage Insurance Company for a Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server implementation and rollout. Currently providing Technical Support and developing SharePoint applications using FrontPage, InfoPath, and Visual Studio .NET 2003, Custom Web Parts, .NET Development, integration with Active Directory, and Web Services.
2001 – 2003
Project Management for PMI Mortgage Insurance Co., for a Disaster Recovery Project. Provided technical assistance and Project Management services to assist with the development of a Disaster Recovery Program at PMI.
Project Management for PMI Mortgage Insurance Co., for a rollout of a Server and Desktop Management System and an upgrade to their Helpdesk System (TouchPaper). Led a team of 3 engineers and a documentation specialist to rollout a LanDesk Server and Desktop Management System.
Sr. Infrastructure Consultant for PMI Mortgage Insurance Co., consulting on various aspects of the migration of 1200 users to a Windows 2000 environment, including Domain Model Architecture and Implementation, Active Directory, Clustered Exchange 2000 servers, Clustered File Sharing and Print services, Clustered SQL Server 2000 services, and Software Distribution.
Software Architect for PMI Mortgage Insurance Co., for a distributed web-based contract underwriting application written in Java and ASP, and based on a mix of Unix and Intel servers.
Senior DBA for PMI Mortgage Insurance Co., supporting two large distributed MS Sql Server applications (version 6.5, 7.0, 2000 in clustered configurations), utilizing SQL, MS Transaction Server, VB 5.0 and 6.0, and Stored Procedures.
2002
Project Management and development for a website for Pratt and Associates (www.fraudadvisor.net) NOTE: This website is shutdown.
2000 -2001
Project Management for a Java Web-based Investor application at Charles Schwab, Inc.,
2000 – 2001
Security review of web-based applications and NT network including web server tuning and implementation of web and network security controls for The Contra Costa County
1999
Year 2000 assessment engagement at Longs Drug Stores
1999
Technical audit of the network infrastructure and Human Resources system at American President Lines
1999
Website development for Stebbins Consulting Group, (www.goscg.com)
1999
Infrastructure, applications and sql database consulting for MPR Health Systems.
1997 – 1999
MS SMS 2.0 implementation planning for The Clorox Company.
Windows NT infrastructure design and deployment for The Clorox Company 8,000 users, local corporate and national locations.
Project Management for a $22 Million corporate infrastructure rollout at The Clorox Company. NOTE: Completed the project 3 months early and $8 Million under budget.
Notes Mail rollout project management for The Clorox Company for 8,000 users. NOTE: Completed the project on time and under budget.
October 18, 1996 to 1998: Gateway Group, Lafayette, CA
As Project Manager, I managed a Windows 95 rollout for 500 workstations at the office of The City and County of San Francisco.
As Sr. Network Consultant, Developed a 32-bit application for United Airlines, Maintenance Operations Center, using Visual Basic 5.0. The application used Oracle SQL and Jet database queries to present hardware/software/network information to United Airlines technical staff. Involves creation/implementation of Netwizard database for data repository in a mixed Novell/NT/Unix environment.
As Sr. BackOffice Consultant, I participated in a system-wide conversion of approximately 1500 users at Pacific Telesis from Windows 3.11 to Windows NT Server/Workstation 4.0. Involved in architecture/design/implementation of NT Servers, SMS Systems, and Exchange systems. Conducted migration from various mail platforms including Lotus cc:Mail, Novell GroupWise to MS Exchange for all users.
April 18, 1996 to October 15, 1996: Chamberlain Associates, Inc., San Mateo, CA
As Consultant, I performed quality assurance testing for the major release of a network management software package at Novell, Inc. Configured, installed and administered a multi-server NT Server-based network used in testing the package. Conducted interoperability, usability, reliability and performance testing in a heterogeneous LAN/WAN environment. Platforms included Windows for WorkGroups, Windows95, Windows NT Server 3.51, Windows NT Server 4.0, Windows NT Workstation, MS Internet Information Server, MS Sql Server, MS Exchange, MS SMS, MS WINS, and MS DHCP, Novell Netware 3.12 and 4.11. Network topology included shared and switched Ethernet, Token-Ring and FDDI. Network protocols were IPX/SPX, TCP/IP, Netbeui.
March 18, 1996 to April 5, 1996: Avery Group, Palo Alto, CA
As Consultant, worked on implementing a Windows NT Server test lab for Microsoft Consulting Services at Wells Fargo Bank. Installed, configured, and tested core services desktop software for conversion of a large 1000+ Novell server environment to Windows NT Server. This includes installation of DHCP and WINS servers for TCP/IP.
April 1994 to March 15, 1996: Summit Integration Group, Foster City, CA
As Manager/Sr. Consultant, worked on Client/Server applications using Informix on HP Unix, MS SQL Server on Windows NT, and Novell Networks at Wells Fargo Bank. C, C++, MS Access and Visual Basic were used for the client applications at Wells Fargo Bank. Developed a mail agent component for mail enabled applications using MS Mail on Novell, ODBC, OLE 2.0, MAPI, and BLOB technology at Wells Fargo Bank. Highly proficient in Microsoft BackOffice Products and the NT Server Platform including SMS at Wells Fargo Bank. Also participated in Network Administration and design of network architecture solutions at Wells Fargo Bank and American Express Life Assurance Company.
Familiar with Windows 95 and Microsoft Exchange. Project Manager/Architect for a multi-million dollar project of a Sales Performance System for Wells Fargo Bank involving three-tiered client/server technology. Deployment is complete with 10,000+ users on-line.
1992 to 1994: CG Computer Services, Inc., Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA
As Sr. Project Consultant, has worked on various projects including SyBase/MS SQL Server Client/Server applications at Charles Schwab, application development in Clipper, C and C++ at Columbia Pictures and Bank of America, Novell integration and management, Project Management for application development and software implementation projects at Bank of America, and Client/Server hardware/software selection and implementation for the Legal Department at Charles Schwab.
1991 to 1992: Litton Industries, Inc., Beverly Hills, CA
As Senior Programmer Analyst/Project Leader, has developed a full scale Electronic Mail System for DOS in Clipper 5.01, and C. The system utilizes data encryption and compression, background communications, customized data input and collection, transport of business forms and data, budgeting, planning, faxing and gateways to various communications networks.
1983 to 1991: Security Pacific Automation Company, Los Angeles, CA
As Application Consultant, implemented a new image-based check processing system using OS/2. First of its kind in the country, this system involved application program-to-program communication. Developed a pilot project utilizing image processing, artificial intelligence and workflow management in a local area network environment.
Functioned as Project Leader and Lead Technical Programmer in the development of multi-user applications on Novell Networks using Clipper.
Designed, coded and implemented a security module for a transaction intensive application using C. Major aspects included user-id and password management; security administrator functions; electronic signature blocks of data; verification and authentication of data; compliance with stringent encryption requirements.
Analyzed, designed, developed, coded, tested and supported financial applications for a variety of bank operations including a financial analysis reporting system for the retail banking division, and a batch credit inquiry system for the commercial loan department. Trained all users.
Automated and streamlined the return mail process, resulting in a $300,000 per year savings in postage and labor costs.
As Assistant Vice President, conducted physical and data security reviews for various types of computers. Determined the sensitivity of the data and the applications process. Identified exposures, recommended cost-effective improvements and implemented procedures. Developed several information systems security publications and a security presentation aimed at raising employee awareness.
1982 to 1983: Home Savings of America, Los Angeles, CA
As Senior EDP Auditor, conducted audits of the Data Center and related development and system areas. Performed general controls review in conjunction with the external auditors’ year-end audit.
1980 to 1982: Lloyd’s Bank California, Los Angeles, CA
As Senior Inspector of the Audit Department, supervised operational, application and systems audits for up to six staff auditors. Participated in the design and development of computer assisted audit techniques.
1979 to 1980: Bell and Howell, CA
As Program Aide, assisted planners with the Material Requirements Planning System.
1974 to 1979: Automatic Data Processing
Held several positions in computer operations, pre-sales and post-sales support in the areas of Payroll and Accounting applications.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Achieved a 3.5 GPA while attending California State University at Los Angeles, and working full-time at the same time.
AREAS OF INTEREST:
Baseball, Martial Arts, Astronomy, Chess, Philosophy, Economics, Contemporary Art and Architecture, Japanese Art and Culture, Musician (Flute and Trumpet).