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ROLES:
 SharePoint BI Analyst
 SharePoint Administrator
 SharePoint Project Manager
 Microsoft Technologies Developer
 Business Analyst
 Software Engineer
 Technical Trainer
TECHNOLOGIES:
SharePoint
- Architecture
- Administration
- PowerShell
- InfoPath
- SP Designer
- Performance Point
- Dashboard Designer
Content Management Systems
SQL Server
INDUSTRY APPLICATION:
 Healthcare
 Insurance
 Medical Device
 State Government
 Financial Services
EDUCATION:
University of Minnesota – Carlson
School of Management – Minneapolis,
MN, Pursuing M.B.A
University of St. Thomas – St. Paul, MN
Pursuing M.S. Software Engineering
Trinity International University –
Chicago, IL, MA in History and
Philosophy
Microsoft - Bloomington, MN, Microsoft
Certified Professional in Visual Basic 6.0
CAREER OBJECTIVE:
I am aggressively seeking a challenging, full-time position
as either a Microsoft SharePoint Administrator or
Business/Systems Analyst position within an industry-
leading, growth-driven corporation wheremy 20+ years of
technical skill, training, and experience will havelong-term
significant and strategic impact.
Skill Yrs Experience
SharePointArchitecture& Installation(Incl.
PowerShell, andWebPartinstallationand
Deployment
7 Intermediate
Software Development(Waterfall, Agile) 20+ Expert
Visual Basic/VBA 10+ Expert
Business Intelligence (SSAS,Performance
Point, PowerPivot, DashboardDesigner)
5+ Intermediate
DatabaseDesign & Development(SQL,
embeddedSQL,SQLServer, Oracle,
MySQL, MSAccess)
15 Expert
Reporting(MSAccess,Cognos, Crystal
Reports, SSRS,SSAS)
20+ Expert
MicrosoftOffice (All products) 20+ Expert
Business Analysis (Requirements Gathering,
Statusreports & meetings, Requirements
documentation, JAD sessions, )
5+ Expert
Technical Training 5 Expert
Communication(Oral,written,public
speaking)
15+ Expert
Steven W. Berg, MA
612.234.7830
stevenwberg@outlook.com

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CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARYOFEXPERIENCE
Independent SharePoint Consulting SharePoint Architect/Administrator
My most recent endeavorshavebeen almost exclusivelycentered around the design,
creation, and administration of SharePoint 2007, 2010, and 2013 SharePoint farms on
both single-tier and three-tier configurations.
My latest professional pursuits have targeting several, SharePoint/Content
Management Systems (CMS)contracts, providing me with a wide breadth of skillsets
including SharePoint design and architecture, installation and configuration,
administration and maintenance, as well as web part development and Business
Intelligence reporting.
o Avtex – Minneapolis, MN SharePoint Administrator
 Served as an ITPro Consultant for one of the premier consulting firms in the
Minneapolis/St. Paul area on numerous projects for several clientssuch as
Polaris, Tennant Corporation, MHS Law, Ardent Mills, Carver County, Lexion
Medical, and Washington County.
 Responsibilities included, but were not limited to, installation and
configuration of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 and Windows SharePoint
Services; assisted in preparation of environments for collaboration,
business process management, content management, as well as
alignment of business requirements to features in the platform; provided
occasional support for existing SharePoint installations.
 Specific Projects included
 SharePoint migration efforts both from2010 to 2013, and 2007 to
2013 using PowerShell scripts,
 SharePoint health check, analysis, and clean-up, a complex
SharePoint Workflow, and InfoPath 2013 development.
 Participated in envisioning sessions for a future new intranet
deployment to be built in SharePoint 2013 for a large global
corporation based locally and business requirements
documentation.
 Extremely complex, multi-year workflows driven by a corresponding
complex InfoPath 2013 user form.
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 Design, creation, and support of departmental level teamsites,
sub-sties, lists, libraries, based on enterprise and locally defined
custom content types.
o Ticomix – Rockford, IL SharePoint Architect/Administrator
 Architected, created, and developed a small single server SharePoint
2013 IIS Web Application farm with a built-in database, to support a public
facing website for a large client using a combination of both out-of-the-
box Central Administration tools as well as SharePoint PowerShell cmdlets
and scripts, with a limited user-profile.
 Created and maintained several lists and libraries, ensuring data integrity
and security in accordance with business needs and industry best-
practices regarding privacy, security, regulatory compliance as well as
and enforcing SharePoint Governancepolicies
 Developed Robust Document Center with public accessibility for
download
 ServiceApplications creation and administration including:
 Search Service and search center implementation using
FASTsearch technology, continuous crawls, and customized Result
Type specifications
 Managed Metadata taxonomy service based upon a hierarchical
product catalog structure, as well as a navigation systembased
upon a termstore.
 Secure Store Service for storageof authorization credentials to
support an external Business Data Connection
 Business Data Connectivity Services
o Midwest HospiceCareCenter, - Glenview, IL SharePoint
Architect/Administrator
 Architected and created a full-featured enterprise SharePoint solution to
replace the existing corporate intranet site which had become unwieldy
and confusing. This new intranet site was developed in SharePoint 2010
and currently provides the clinicians in the field with a nimble website for
quickly and accurately searching the corporate document center for all
appropriate policies, procedures, etc.
 Developed customized style sheets in order to conformto corporate
branding standards as well as various web parts for delivering and
displaying content, such as BI (Business Intelligence) Reports in useful, and
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 Responsible for developing and delivering administrator and end-user
training coursework and classes to appropriate audiences.
o MillerCoors, - Milwaukee, WI SharePoint/VBA Developer
 Was called upon at the eleventh hour fromthe initiation of a large, multi-
year project to develop a stopgap solution for the weekly generation of
over 100 timesheets with a turn-around time of less than a month. The
intermediate solution was written in VBA, which readsproject task
assignments from a MS Project plan, filtered by resource to produce a
new Excel worksheet in resource-specific workbook files. The second
phase of the solution entailed data extraction fromMS Project, into an MS
InfoPath form, and directly published into a SharePoint list.
o MMIC, Inc. – Minneapolis, MN SharePoint Architect/BI Analyst
 Using the Agile method of softwaredevelopment, I was responsible for the
creation, administration, and development of the company’s SharePoint
2010 sites to serve as both a Content Management System as well as the
creation of dozens of BI PerformancePoint and PowerPivot reportsand
Dashboards (using Dashboard Designer)
o CoreLink Data Centers – Phoenix, AZ SharePoint Developer
 After two previous contractor’sattempts at developing and automating a
version of a monthly sales data projection report pulled fromthe
company’s ERP warehouse (NetSuite) which had been produced
manually in Excel, the corporate executives accepted a bid to have me
step in to do the work. Final selection of technology was left up to the
developer’s discretion
 The final solution consisted of incorporating the company’s under-utilized
SharePoint 2007/intranet site for publishing, downloading, summarizing,
and manipulating of viewsgiving usersonline business intelligence
capabilities
 A VBA-enabled, Microsoft Access2007 database engine provides the
middle-tier connectivity between the NetSuite data and CoreLink’s
SharePoint site through the Business Data Catalog
 A VBA GUI formallowsthe client to kick off the data refresh process (quick
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o Sunny Delight – Cincinnati, OH SharePoint Business Analyst
 Analyzed and documented client’s SharePoint capacity planning needs
across the corporation worldwide.
 Delivered time and budget plan including itemized list of work-effort
estimates. Specifics include resource planning and designing North
American verses European content servers to be independently
managed as separate logical databases.
Gedney Corporation – Minneapolis, MN SharePoint Developer
 Independently managed several company ITdevelopment projects and
initiatives serving as a resourceon a part-time, self-directed basis.
Functions included assessing and interpreting customer needs and
requirements, project initiation and definition, and full SDLC (Software
Development Life Cycle). Projects weretypically smaller in size with
indefinite timelines, including:
 Company Intranet –Defined, designed, developed, and deployed
company intranet site fromground-up utilizing Microsoft SharePoint
Services 2007 (MOSS) and InfoPath 2007.
 ERP Enhancements – Provided enhancements to custom-built front-
end modules for company ERP (i.e. PeopleSoft) systemusing
Access 2007 VBA.
Medtronic, Inc.– Minneapolis, MN SharePoint Administrator
 Redesigned and optimized several department-owned SharePoint sites
through implementation of SharePoint best practices and trained
administrators and users.
 Designed, developed, and implemented a reporting tool in MS Access
using VBA-supported forms and dynamic links to all relevant project
SharePoint lists which allowed users to customize own reportsproduced
through Microsoft Access.
Target Corporation– Minneapolis, MN Business Process Consultant/SharePoint
Administrator
o Designed, Developed, and Administered 15 separate SharePoint 2007 (MOSS)
sites to support large project initiative and operationswhich entailed:
 Content Management Systems services (CMS)
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 Out-of-the-box Workflows
 Configured, Provisioned, and Managed site collection
 Enforced site level standards and policies (layouts, security processes,
space usage etc.)
 Trained new site administrators and business users through live and
recorded demonstrations
 Provided ongoing operational support for established sites
 Determined and Established security groups and customized permission
levels
 Coordinated MOSS upgrades and site migrations using SharePoint
Designer
 Managed and Monitored file size limits and quotas
 Created, Implemented and Supported several webpartsusing XML,
JavaScript, and ASP.Net
o Defined, communicated, and enforced corporate software development
quality assurance principles and standards across 300+ member project team
and across all phases of Software Development Life Cycle for a nation-wide
rollout of a custom-built pharmacy dispensing systemto all Target retail stores.
Internal processes included:
 Requirements Gathering
 Facilitation of final requirements reviews and approvals
 Issues Management
 Content Management
 Configuration Management
 Change Control Process
 Requirements Traceability
o Independently sought and delivered innovativesolutions for internal project-
based challenges such as:
 An Excel VBA-based Traceability Matrix for tracking businessrequirements
throughout entire SDLC.
 Several customized InfoPath forms for enhancement of usability and data
entry control.
UnitedHealth Group SR. Business Analyst
Unitedhealthcare, Edina,MN
o Oversaw and coordinated efforts between 6 separate business segments and
application groups for successful, on-time systemintegration and support of
business processes previously non-existent on UHG claimintake and payment
systems for a UHC acquisition.
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o Facilitated requirement reviews and final project approvals:
 Scheduled requirements sessionswith the business users/SMEs
 Facilitated the gathering of application/reporting requirements from
various businessareas through interviews, in-person, and JAD sessions,
asking the right questions to get to the real business needs and dive
deeper into initial business requests
 Analyzed business requests and making technology needs and
requirement assessments in order to meet the strategic direction of the
organization
 Developed deep knowledge in variouscorporate systems in order to
serveas an SME to business users
o Tracked tasks and resourcesthroughout all phases of project Software
Development Life Cycle
o Facilitated weekly project status meetings with key business and application
leaders which entailed:
 Issue tracking, documentation, and resolution
 Escalating severe issuesto senior management when timelines werein
jeopardy.
 Coordinating and leading discussions between business and IT, providing
input and analysis on all unforeseen problems related to the project
o Creating test plans, engaging all application teams for user-acceptanceand
integration testing, and monitoring testing progress.
o Providing clear, concise communication of project status for senior management
through extensiveuse of PowerPoint, Visio, and Excel.
Ingenix, Eden Prairie, MN
o Participated in a variety of projects in support of a corporate-wide initiative
designed to evaluate clinical claims data in order to assess and rank healthcare
providers along various dimensions of provider practicesagainst their peers.
o Job functions included:
 Business Analysis – Businessrequirements gathering and documentation,
 Application Development – Creating innovativeAccess/VBA/SQL Server
solutions for dynamic generation of correspondence letters to providersas
well as design and development of several OLAP cubes pulled from
corporate datamarts and data warehouses, using MS Analysis Services.
 Training - Trained and mentored members of the development teamon a
variety of technologiesincluding SQL, Access, and Visual Basic
 Technical Lead – Oversaw the development effort on several projects
 Project Management – Assisted in identifying tasks and resources,
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identifying and analyzing project risks.
o Received formal process flow training in Microsoft Solutions Framework and
technical training in Visual Basic.Net, and Microsoft Reporting Services.
Ovations, Eden Prairie, MN Sr. Software Engineer
o Selected as the most experienced Access developer in the area to join project
team for creation, analysis, modification, testing, and implementation of several
database applications used for tracking, reporting, and correcting of
Medicare/Medicaid data discrepancies.
o Independently managed through full life-cycle software development, a project initiative
to rapidly deliver a call center application in a multi-user environment. The final solution
consisted of an Access/VBA front-end (including user-input forms and reports) and SQL
Server back end.
o This vital stop-gap measure quickly provided $175,000 in savings within five months of
system deployment through:
 Acceleration of productivityon government required member enrollment calls
 Enhancement of sales and retention potential of former plan members
o Other projects included:
 Oversight of technical challenges surrounding multiple company intranet
site launches
 Development of OLAP reports for tracking and improving operational
maintenance time using web-enabled Cognos tools
 Development of several Oracle 9i objects in support of large clinical
initiative including tables, stored procedures, views and reportswritten in
Crystal Reports 8
City of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN Software Engineer
o Designed, created, and maintained various multi-tiered internet and intranet solutions
using HTML, ASP, cascading style sheets, JavaScript and VBScript. Major projects included
an election filings database used to collect candidate information for upcoming city
elections accessiblethrough the public web site, and a corporate phone directory
accessible only to City employees as well as an additional web interface available only to
restricted personnel for updating employee and department data.
Morgan Stanley – New York, NY Software Engineer
 Constant interfacing with client for gathering design specifications, object development,
testing, implementation and support of tables, views, triggers, and stored procedures on
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entity relational databases on various platforms including MS Access, SQL Server, and
Sybase.
Productivity Point International, Chicago, IL Senior Technical Trainer/Consultant
o Conducted numerous projects integrating MS Access, Visual Basic, SQL, and
HTML/JavaScript in designing, programming, and implementing database and web
solutions for various clients across a broad range of industries including Baxter Healthcare,
Abbott Laboratories, Eirich Machines, Pegard Productics, Caremark, S.C. Johnson Wax,
Zurich Commercial Insurance, American Express, and Kraft Foods
o As a lead instructor for the largest, and fastest growing software training provider, my
responsibilities entailed abilities in a wide variety of capacities including software training,
consulting, training other trainers, providing post-training advisement and various
leadership roles.
 Instruction focused on MS Office products (Access and Excel) as well as SQL,
Visual Basic and Crystal Reports.
 Served as liaison between account managers and clients for creation of
customized instruction to meet their specialized requirements.
 Extensive local and long distance travel to many Fortune 500 client sites across
the country.
 Was chosen to represent over 100 instructors in the company’s largest region in
an instructor advocate council
 Selected as lead instructor for numerous clients including Abbott Laboratories,
Kraft Foods and SC Johnson Wax.
4/1996 –
8/1999