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Andrew C. Hoffman

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317-225-7574 ~ ahoffman@ambassadorsolutions.com ~ 501 Congressional Blvd. Suite 250, Carmel, IN 46032

Mr. Hoffman is provides a combination of deep technical expertise with the communication clarity, and business strategy mindset necessary to provide sound technical solutions that meet business needs. Mr. Hoffman is an experienced software engineer and team leader. Mr. Hoffman’s skills include Microsoft SharePoint and .NET development methodologies, as well as other major enterprise content management systems.

Contact Information Email: ahoffman@ambassadorsolutions.com

Address: Blvd. Suite 250, Carmel, IN 46032

Phone: 317.225.7574

Recent Project Experience Client: Catalina Marketing

Date: August 2008 – October 2008

Project: ePatientLink Prototype

Role: SharePoint Architect and Developer

Details: ePatientLink is a HIPPA compliant system which provides targeted emails to pharmacy retail clients while collecting analytical statistics. The SharePoint component of ePatientLink provides an extranet to manage advertisement content from a number of pharmaceutical manufactures and pharmacy retailers. Mr. Hoffman constructed the CMS with WSS 3.0. This implementation consisted of a series of highly customized site template, event receivers, workflows, custom content types, and enterprise search. Additional imaging validation algorithms were also created to automatically validate ad content as it will be rendered to the end user. A service oriented architecture implementation allows the CMS, through a series of web services additional component constructed by Crown and Catalina.

Tools: MOSS 2007, WSS 3.0, Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.0, SOAP Web Services

Client: Eli Lilly & Co.

Date: June 2009 – July 2009

Project: Global PRA Portal Redesign

Role: SharePoint Architect and Developer

Details: Following an unsupervised roll out of MOSS, Lilly’s Global Payers group required an increased level of governance and control to their internal SharePoint team portal, as well as custom branding and a light weight BI solution. Mr. Hoffman and one other team member provided consulting services and redesigned their information architecture and implemented a new portal. Mr. Hoffman created custom master and layout pages to provide their custom branding requirements. He also implemented three custom InfoPath forms in Microsoft Forms Services and provided a reporting solution from the submitted data using Microsoft Excel.

Tools: MOSS 2007, WSS 3.0, Info Path, SharePoint Designer Customizations, Excel & VBA

Client: Pearson Publishing

Date: August 2008 – October 2008

Project: Consulting Support

Role: Lead

Details: Mr. Hoffman established the relationship with this client, and provided consulting services to the client. In this time he analyzed the client’s needs and implemented a product information catalogue using Windows SharePoint Services.

Tools: WSS 3.0

Client: ST Micro Electronics

Date: March 2009 – April 2009

Project: SharePoint Integration

Role: Team Lead

Details: Lead a small team of developers to integrate Documentum and Microsoft SharePoint. Mr. Hoffman was responsible for technical design and management of the team. This integration ensured that data was able to be synchronized between the two systems across an internet firewall and support the scalability that other out of the box solutions did not afford.

Tools: MOSS 2007, WSS 3.0, Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.0, SOAP Web Services

Client: Crown Partners SharePoint Practice

Date: June 2008 – August 2008

Project: Portico v 1.0

Role: Architect & Technical Lead

Details: Crown Portico is an application designed to make SharePoint the central Information and Data hub of any organization. It allows for user driven migration of content from any external application into SharePoint via a generic connector API modeled after the JSR 170 repository model. The result of the abstract API allowed for content to be transported between EMC Documentum or eRoom and Microsoft SharePoint. Hoffman served as primary architect and technical lead for the initial design and construction of this product.

Tools: MOSS 2007, WSS 3.0, Visual Studio 2008

Client: George Washington University

Date: August 2007-March 2008

Project: GWDocuments – Document Management System

Role: Developer

Details: GWDocuments is a context specific document management, retention and recovery application. The client required an application that is able to be used in all university departments, each with different types of document, metadata, and form layout requirements. Mr. Hoffman’s role involved the design and development of a mechanism that enabled run time form creation based on the users preferences and browsing location within the system. Mr. Hoffman also designed an integration plan and implemented Dojo, a third party AJAX library, to provide the efficient user interface the client required. Mr. Hoffman’s other project responsibilities include implementing extensive customizations to various Documentum components.

Tools: Crown DigiFirst, Documentum 5.3SP2, Java (J2EE) 1.4, XML, Apache Tomcat

Client: Petsmart

Date: May 2008

Role: Implementation Specialist

Details: Petsmart required SharePoint customizations to implement an Enterprise Data Map which facilitates Enterprise Records Management efforts by tracking sources of auditable information. This map leverages standard SharePoint functionality and was accomplished by leveraging configurations and was able to be accomplished without writing code. The end result is a SharePoint site that allows users to track data sources throughout a complex enterprise environment. The data was migrated from an existing eRoom application. Following the migration, training on the use of the Data Map as well as standard SharePoint functionality was provided to PetsMart record management employees.

Tools: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 Standard Edition, Microsoft SharePoint Designer, Microsoft Access

Client: Fidelity Investments

Date: November 2008, February 2009

Project: Fidelity.com

Role: Software Engineer

Details: Fidelity sought to develop a new web application to provide investment research to their customer base. Mr. Hoffman provided developer support to debug XSL/XSLT templates that generated jsp web pages. The result of the effort is the now live www.fidelity.com

Tools: Documentum Web Publisher, XSL/XSLT, FCK Editor (javascript), Java

Client: Lambda Chi Alpha National Headquarters

Date: January 2007-June 2007

Project: Internet Portal

Role: Analyst

Details: The company sought to digitize and automate many of its business processes. My role was to provide process analysis and conduct feasibility studies. A complete set of functional requirements and technical specifications was delivered with emphasis on implementation utilizing .NET technologies.

Tools: Microsoft Server Environment, Visual Studio 2005, .NET 2.0 (C#)

Employment Experience Ambassador Solutions, Inc Consultant 06/09-Present

Crown Partners, LLC Consultant 07/07 – 06/09

Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity Consultant/Assoc. Dir. 06/06 – 06/07

Testutor Systems, Inc. Software Engineer 05/05 – 12/05

Skills & Capabilities Certifications:

  • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: WSS 3.0 Application Development

Roles:

  • Architect
  • Developer
  • Implementation Specialist
  • Analyst

Technologies:

  • Microsoft SharePoint Services & Office Server
  • Microsoft Team Foundation Server
  • Windows Server Environments (AD, IIS, SQL)
  • Documentum and associated technologies (WDK, Content Server,etc)
  • Dependency Inversion Based Web Frameworks

Programming Languages:

  • C# .NET
  • Java
  • C++
  • JavaScript & Ajax Technologies
  • SQL/T-SQL
Education and Merits Indiana University Kelley School of Business

MBA Candidate 2010

MS Strategic Management Candidate 2011

Denison University – Granville, OH

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science 2006

Specialization: Software Engineering and Programming Languages

Dean’s Distinguished Leadership Award – Spring 2006

Modern Language Support for Software Engineering Principles – Anderson Research Grant –Presented at ACM – SIGSOFT Symposium on Verification and Software Validation 2004

© 2010 Andy Hoffman