SharePoint Administration
Sept 2007 - 2008
- SharePoint Administration 2003 & 2007 MOSS (Standard Client Access License)
After the departure of the existing SharePoint administrator, I took over the SharePoint administration. I began a project to implement a standard look and feel with branding. During the effort, I implemented a corporate taxonomy to help maintain organization and structure without an overwhelming amount of subsites. During this iniative, I worked closely with the communication team, marketing team and the department heads to replace the current intranet with SharePoint. We appointed line of business power users from each department as site owners. I used SharePoint Designer to craft custom masterpages, site themes and CSS layouts. As a team we developed a security structure that made it easy for each department to manage their sites with my support. To help bring this project it's great success, I employed myself in study of SharePoint by visiting Microsoft in Seattle and meeting many of it's core developer and support team, attending the 2007 Microsoft SharePoint Conference, becoming an active member of the Dallas SharePoint users group and attended many vendor workshops. I thoroughly enjoyed working with SharePoint as I immersed myself in education about this revolutionary product. I was the sole SharePoint Administrator for Centex supporting 8,000 employees and over 20 subsites in one company site collection for the entire nation.
Domain Administration
Sep 2007 - June 2007 - Domain Administration
I led an effort to consolidate all domains that were purchased and maintained by hundreds of employees across the nation. The problem was having multiple owners of multiple domain names made it hard to track, manage and understand the risks and benefits of Centex's domains. This caused a problem because people who registered domains could leave the company with the domain still in their name. If Centex didn't own the domain, we couldn't update the IP or manage the domain because it was registered by an individual. In addition, multiple different domain registrars were employed making it hard to manage. I worked with senior management and marketing directors to institute a new domain policy
to ensure that all domain registration went through our group (corporate office) and to ensure we could track and manage all 2,500 + domain names. I created an Access database to track all domains, their status, IP, division and billng. We went through each domain and transferred ownership back to Centex Corporate under one domain administration provider. Once the fix was in place, this helped not only with manageability, domain expirations and swift IP updates, but we could also track ROI through adding code to each domain name for web analytics to measure traffic and have a single point for billing validation. Once this process was established, I was able to hand this off to a fellow employee to maintain the domain databse I created in Access and manage the billing.
Pubic Website Content Management
April 2005 - Dec 2008 - Domain Administration
I maintained page content for the public website (www.centex.com). Each area in the nation was assigned a web administrator to maintain division content and I was their support person to help each division with questions on code, function and method for maintaining their site specific pages. In addition, I developed and designed custom pages for My New Homes users using Flash, video and interactive elements to help new home owners navigate the use and care of their new home. I maintained corporate pages including executive biographies, flash elements such as maps and advertising and any other needed additions or updates. I was on call from 7AM - 7PM 5 days a week supporting web administrators from the west coast to east coast.
Web Analytics / Reporting
April 2005 - Dec 2008 - Web Traffic and Lead Reporting
Using Google Analytics to help track traffic and our SQL lead tables, I produced a weekly and monthly web traffic and web lead report for the marketing department. The report included unique visitors, visitor source (ad, microsite, partner site, etc), page visit count, time on page and lead data.
