Derek Halstead – Senior SharePoint Consultant

Derek Halstead
SharePoint Consultant and Trainer at Energy Developments
Brisbane Area, Australia | Information Technology and Services
Summary

Derek is a highly experienced SharePoint and .NET consultant, having worked in various capacities including business analysis, development, design and configuration on numerous successful SharePoint MCMS2002/2007/2010/2013 projects since 2004 and a number of other .NET projects for large organisations in South Australia and Queensland for the past 13 years.

In addition to having strong technical skills, Derek has developed excellent leadership credentials, great teamwork attitude and excellent communication skills. Derek has over 13 years of full-time experience in Intranet/Internet development across numerous industry sectors.

Derek’s current focus is to ensure clients are able to gain maximum benefits from their SharePoint implementations by adopting best practices in the business analysis, planning, design, configuration, customisation and development of SharePoint.

I have been involved with SharePoint, Web Development and Content Management for over a decade now and while I haven't seen it all, I have seen and experienced enough to have an opinion, hence my blog CoolWriteups.com.

Experience
Sharepoint Consultant (2015 - Present)
SMS Management & Technology
Public Company, 1001-5000 employees, Management Consulting

- Mentoring staff and knowledge transfer.

- SharePoint Governance decomposition and gap analysis.

- Custom InfoPath eForm templates.

- Calculate resource estimation.

 

Senior SharePoint Consultant

Energy Developments
(1 year 8 months)

– Lead the upgrade of the SharePoint 2010 environment to SharePoint 2013;

– Rebrand the Intranet to give it a more user friendly look and feel;

– Develop SharePoint 2010 and 2013 solutions to meet Energy Development’s business requirements;

– Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server 2011 integration with SharePoint 2010;

– Train staff to better use the SharePoint environment to increase productivity;

– Share knowledge with Team members;

– Build InfoPath Forms with SharePoint Workflow;

– Build SharePoint Web Parts;

– Configure 3rd Party Web Parts such as OSI PI Web Parts for SharePoint 2013;

– Administer the SharePoint Farm including installing the latest SharePoint cumulative updates and Server updates;

– SharePoint branding;

– Splitting SharePoint site collections into separate databases;

– Dashboard development;

SharePoint 2010 Consultant

Silkwood School
(2 months)Mount Nathan, Queensland

In this short term contract I was responsible for assisting Silkwood School make a smooth transition from SharePoint List forms to InfoPath 2010 Forms and Workflow. I was also responsible for designing a solution to host an Internet facing SharePoint website with Forms Based Authentication.

– InfoPath Forms 2010

– Workflow

– Forms Based Authentication with SQL Server 2008

– Mentoring

SharePoint Consultant

Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC)
(6 months)Level 5 Central Plaza Two 66 Eagle Street, Brisbane, Queensland.

In this 6 month contract role I assisted QIC with an upgrade of their existing SharePoint 2007 environment to SharePoint 2010 virtual environments consisting of Development, Test and Production.

This will include:

– Migrating content databases including Nintex;

– Customisations, third party products like Nintex, Bamboo, Muhimbi, SLAM;

– Testing;

– Custom web part migration and InfoPath Forms.

Application Specialist, SharePoint Administration and Development

Queensland Health
(11 months)Fortitude Valley

SharePoint and MS Project 2007.

Employed as SharePoint Application Specialist and working directly with other team members to assure comprehensive, efficient and timely management of projects. Also included, but not limited to, project assessment and initiation, implementation and tracking, resolving project problems/issues, and act as the primary conduit for new projects and new work on existing projects.

– Customizing SharePoint sites, creating Web Parts, Masterpages, Page Layouts, Site Definitions, Content Types, Workflows, Wikis, and List Templates with SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio.

– Designed and implemented a new Project Server Workspace Template in SharePoint with forms and escalating workflows to revamp the old paper work process to a collaborative electronic process.

– Programming workflows that support Serial/Parallel execution, Send email notifications, enable Timeouts and Escalations, Delegation of task to peers etc

– Working with communication tools like Announcements, Discussion boards, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Project Tasks, Surveys, Issue Tracking etc

– Designing InfoPath forms, form templates, template parts, master-detail forms

– Using CAML to query list and filter data in Web parts

– Deploy new solutions and troubleshoot issues in SharePoint 2007.

– Design and deploy SQL Server 2005 Reports to the SharePoint website.

– Create Event Receivers to track and save any new records added to a list or changes made to an existing list, to a SQL Server database table.

– Mentor staff including the Manager on SharePoint best practices.

Analyst Programmer

Datacom
(1 year 2 months)

SharePoint Consultant with Datacom specializing in MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010 configuration, testing and development for both Private and Government clients.

SharePoint 2010 Farm configurations, InfoPath Forms, Workflow, Web Part and custom development. Training staff and all project related documentation.

  • Michael Cant
    Michael Cant
    IT Recruitment Consultant at SourceCode

    Derek is an excellent SharePoint Developer who I worked with closely as a candidate at Hays. He was well recieved in the market and interviewed exceptionally well. His knowledge of the SharePoint environment is excellent and I have no hesitation… View

Web Services Officer

SA Ambulance Service
(6 years 1 month)Adelaide Area, Australia

Managed the Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 (MCMS 2002) based company Intranet and Internet sites. Reporting directly to the IT Manager and performed all Admin tasks related including server backups and configuration, SSRS Reports, custom .NET application development, provided training to staff and representing Web Services at Team Meetings.

Developed custom application to integrate with Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 (MCMS 2002).

 .Net Developer
Department for Families and Communities (DFC) – SA Health
(3 months)Adelaide Area, Australia
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Web Developer

TAIN
(9 months)Pune Area, India
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Web Developer

IT&e (Formerly Webmedia)
(1 year)Adelaide Area, Australia
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Web Developer

IBN Infosys Ltd
(11 months)Pune Area, India
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Trainee Web Developer
Versaware Technologies India Pvt Ltd
(10 months)Pune Area, India
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Publications

SharePoint 2013 Information Management Policy with Workflow

CoolWriteups.com
January 17, 2014

 

Upgrade SharePoint 2010 My Sites to SharePoint 2013 My Sites

CoolWriteups.com
December 13, 2013

 

How To Create a SharePoint 2013 Project With Visual Studio 2012

CoolWriteups.com
January 31, 2014

 

Certifications

Microsoft Certified Applications Developer (MCAD.net)

Microsoft
Starting

 

Microsoft Configuring SharePoint 2010 (70-667)

Microsoft
Starting

Microsoft

MCPS: Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft
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Microsoft

MCAD: Microsoft .NET

Microsoft
Starting

 

MCTS: SQL Server 2005
Microsoft
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Microsoft

MCTS: SharePoint 2010, Configuration

Microsoft
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MCPS: Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft
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Microsoft Certifications

MCSD, Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer
 
Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD)
 

University of Pune

Masters in Computer Management, Software Development
Ness Wadia College of Commerce
B.Com

St.Vincent’s High School

Higher Secondary Education

Recommendations

Analyst Programmer
  1. Datacom

    Michael Cant
    Michael Cant
    IT Recruitment Consultant at SourceCode

    Derek is an excellent SharePoint Developer who I worked with closely as a candidate at Hays. He was well recieved in the market and interviewed exceptionally well. His knowledge of the SharePoint environment is excellent and I have no hesitation in recommending Derek to any emplyer.

    December 19, 2011, Michael was Derek’s client.