1. Jim Preston Summary Roles Academy Certifications Experience SharePoint
Business Intelligence
Language Technologies
Software Expertise
Projects
US Air Force
Wal-Mart SharePoint Document System
Dell Internal SharePoint System
Royal Caribbean - Migration
Newmont Mining Intranet & Extranet
Greyhound Shipping – Customized SharePoint

2. Roles Jim Preston SharePoint Architect Program Manager
Chief SharePoint Officer
Former CIO
Teacher/Trainer
Business Process Reengineer
Developer

3. Academy Jim Preston Education Publications
Bachelor’s degree, ILR, CS Michigan State University, E. Lansing, Michigan
Microsoft University, RAMP Program, (Pre-Masters Certificate Program)
Publications
-SharePoint Disaster Recovery Solutions
-Fortune 1000 Company Collaboration Techniques -Reduce Costs-Increase Revenues Using SharePoint
-SharePoint Defacto Standards for Universities, Governments and Corporations -

4. Certifications Jim Preston
MCTS - Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
(Microsoft Office SharePoint Server-Configuration)
MCTS - Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
(Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services-Configuration)
MCTS - Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
(Windows Server 2008 Active Directory)
MCTS - Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
(SharePoint 2010-Configuration)
MCITP -Microsoft Certified IT Professional
(SharePoint 2010-Adminstrator)
Courses
K2 Solutions Professional Training – Daryl Ewing
Development of personal leadership skills SQL, PL-SQL, SQL-FORM – Oracle

5. Employment Jim Preston Microsoft FTE - 3 years
Senior SharePoint Consultant
Dell Computer FTE – 2 years
Perot Systems Advisor – 1 year
Principal SharePoint Consultant

6. SharePoint Jim Preston SharePoint Architect, PM, Developer
“Hands-on” designer and implementation of SharePoint 2007/2010/2013 server farms with a High Availability Architecture.
Design/installed SQL Server databases to support farms - backup and restore expertise
Design and Implement Web Parts, Event Receivers, Workflows, WSP solution files, standard deployments
Configure User Profiles and Search Services,
Knowledgeable in authentication systems such as Active Directory deploying Security Model
Expert in building Intranets and Extranets
Project Manager and Agile/Waterfall Scrum Master

7. SharePoint Jim Preston Team Leader, SharePoint Architect, Developer
Global SharePoint Lead
Team Leader, SharePoint Architect, Developer
Designed, developed, led team in enterprise applications based on a 3 tier architecture
Worked with: Web Parts, Event Receivers, Timer Jobs, Web Services, Workflows, InfoPath Forms, List/Libraries, Provisioning Features, BCS.
Responsible of the Common Data Layer for most of the projects
Architect Composite Applications for Departments
Create cross-collaboration apps for horizontal teams

8. Business Intelligence
Jim Preston
Business Intelligence
Experienced in Performance Point Business Intelligence functionality
Analyze/optimize processes and design Excel Services models coupled with Nintex and K2 Workflows
Surface BI data from disparate systems in SharePoint Lists

9. Technologies Jim Preston ASP.Net C# VB Linq Entity Framework AD TFS
JQuery
HTML 5
CSS
JavaScript
SQL Server
Windows WorkFlow Foundation
InfoPath
Windows Presentation Foundation
Silverlight
Reporting Services
Windows Communication Foundation
Web Services
Flash
Xml
SQLite
Oracle
REST

10. Software Expertise Jim Preston Windows Server 2012 SQL Server 2012
8.1
MS Office 2013
Windows Hyper-V
Active
Directory
Team Foundation Server 2012
Visual Studio 2012
Nintex
WorkFlow
Axceler
ControlPoint
Metalogix
Content
Matrix
SharePoint
CorasWorks
InfoPath
Visio 2013
StoragePoint
Server Builds from Bare Metal
K2 WorkFlow
NewsGator
FireScope
MS Data Protection Manager
SharePoint
Designer
MS Systems Center 2012
VM Ware
Power
Shell 3.0