Ivor Davies16 Backus Court, Markham, Ontario L3P 6V5

Home: (905) 294-7003 email: ivordavies@rogers.com

May 2, 2023

As a seasoned I.T. professional with management experience, my qualifications closely match the requirements for this position. Enclosed is my resume for your consideration.

LinkedIn has identified Ivor as an ALL STAR profiles with over 8,900 LinkedIn contacts, 8,800 followers & over 1,000 skill endorsements. Classified as a SharePoint "Specialist"on Klout with 1,600 Twitter followers & 12,000 Pinterest followers. Ivor is a recognized speaker on the SharePoint circuit. Recently he spoke on the importance of SharePoint Governance @ the Toronto SharePoint Summit and at Microsoft - SharePoint Saturday Toronto. Ivor can also be found on MPUG at http://www.mpug.com/author/ivor-davies/

I have thorough knowledge and significant experience exercising project management methodology and practices. In addition, I have advanced knowledge of the SDLC process and methodology. I have excellent leadership, team building and people management skills, gained through leading project teams.

Over the last twenty-five years, both my manager and Senior Management have assigned me many urgent and high-level tasks, including several major projects and corporate initiatives. I have earned the respect and trust of both internal clients and external customers in every aspect of my work. I am often complimented on my exceptional interpersonal skills and approachable style.

My exceptional communication skills have been demonstrated through many presentations, seminars and training sessions which I have delivered to internal users as well as external organizations (predominately Project Server and SharePoint). To date I have trained in excess of 150 content managers and over 200 team site owners at the LCBO. I excel at presenting to all levels with any number of attendees. I also created several groups with over 25,000 members on LinkedIn for Project Server & SharePoint. I am adept at creating training content with Camtasia and SnagIT – I have developed numerous online training videos using this software.

In 2013 my organization implemented SharePoint 2010. This implementation reduced my division’s involvement (Information Technology) in the content management process. Over 160 content managers were drafted to look after their divisional and departmental content on the corporate portal – this removing the web services group from the process and speeding up the delivery of content.

In the fall of 2015 we upgraded our SharePoint infrastructure to SharePoint 2013. During this time I updated all internal training content to reflect the new functionality in SharePoint 2013. To better meet the demands of our content managers & team sites owners I created over 15 online training sessions. The sessions were broken down into logical portions that are easy to digest, understand and follow along. You no longer have to wait for formal training sessions in the training room to learn how to use SharePoint! This content was made available on our team site for content managers / team site owners.

To effectively manage and control the content on the portal, I introduced SharePoint governance and I was the driving force in getting it implemented in our organization. I worked with client divisions drafting policies and procedures for governance, the result was a complete governance document which was approved by all client divisions in the LCBO. Using the governance document I created a governance web site on our corporate portal for all staff, including portal content managers and team sites owners (over 200). In February 2016 I retired from the LCBO after 34 years of service 25 in Information Technology).

In October 2016 I started my own consulting company – Ivor Davies IT Consulting Services Inc. My first contract was with UNICCS Consulting Services of Mississauga. My current engagement is with The Cole Engineering Group Inc. (in Markham, Ontario). My primary role is to provide IT Business Analyst services and to assist them in their first intranet using SharePoint Online in Office 365. I am assisting them with the expanded use of Office 365 services including SharePoint Online, Yammer, Delve, OneDrive For Business. I have developed their Office 365 Video portal for internal training & support content.

Please contact me at home at (905) 294-7003 to further discuss my qualifications with you.

Thank you for your consideration of my resume, and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely,

Ivor M. Davies