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I am a software engineer, business and systems analyst, program manager, and technical architect with a passion for delivering business strategy and technology. Over the past 15 years I have partnered with dozens of employers and clients to achieve goals across the corporate landscape.
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Business Management in Office 365 and SharePoint
Throughout the series, we will cover the subject matter of how to manage your business and business processes in Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint Online. This series is targeted at business users across the corporate divisional/departmental horizon: Sales, Marketing, Human… Read More ›
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Office 365 – Finding Unknown Team Sites
If you read the following Microsoft Office support article, you’ll find documentation that outlines how users can take advantage of the “Create Site” functionality on their SharePoint home page: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/create-a-team-site-in-sharepoint-online-ef10c1e7-15f3-42a3-98aa-b5972711777d In case the link is no longer active when you… Read More ›
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Education Solutions in Office 365 and SharePoint – Easy Quiz with Microsoft Forms
Many day-to-day activities for the Machine Technology program are now being manged using out-of-the-box features in SharePoint and Office 365 as we’ll see below with a quiz built using Microsoft Forms. Those features are complemented by custom page layouts and… Read More ›
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Education Solutions in Office 365 and SharePoint – Assignments and Student Grading with a Mobile App in Azure and Document Sets
Now we’re really seeing the Education Solution in Office 365 SharePoint come together, and we move on to use Document Sets and build a new Mobile App hosted in Azure for student assignments and teacher grading. There are a lot… Read More ›
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Education Solutions in Office 365 and SharePoint – SharePoint Hosted Add-Ins – Bootstrap Navigation – Mobile App Designs and Prototypes
As we progress with the Education Solution in Office 365 and SharePoint, the first build of our Mobile App (SharePoint Hosted Add-In) has been deployed. As expected, design and prototyping are consuming a majority of project time and budget. Creation/Maturation… Read More ›
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Education Solutions in Office 365 and SharePoint – Bootstrap to Brand System Pages and Custom Pages
The design and approach for the Education Solution in Office 365 SharePoint using Twitter’s Bootstrap have been approved, a skeleton solution is checked-in to TFS in Visual Studio Online, and the solution is successfully deploying several core branding and business… Read More ›
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Education Solutions in Office 365 and SharePoint – Developer Planning – the JavaScript Object Model (JSOM) – Bootstrap – jQuery
We’ve laid the framework for our Education Solution in Office 365 and SharePoint with the production of prototypes, wireframes, and through rich discussion around our core scenarios. This led to a variety of agreements around User Experience (UX), User Interface… Read More ›
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Education Solutions in Office 365 and SharePoint – Search – Wireframes – and Implementing Information Architecture (IA)
When building the Education Solution in Office 365 and SharePoint, we’ll brainstorm and use techniques such as mind mapping and white-board exercises to refine our Information Architecture (IA) and understanding of the types of activities people want to facilitate in… Read More ›
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SharePoint Project Task Tracker Update
This is a brief post regarding a new update to the SharePoint Project Task Tracker app. The update was deployed to fix a bug wherein all content on the Reports tab was collapsed when clicking the “Project Views” section header…. Read More ›
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Education Solutions in Office 365 and SharePoint – Information Architecture (IA) and User Experience (UX)
Continuing from the previous post: our Education Solution was started with a simple Office 365 SharePoint document library which was put together to demonstrate how version history, filtering, sorting, sharing, online editing, security, and many other features are available OOTB… Read More ›