Kanwal Khipple [SharePoint MVP]

Passionate about helping organizations achieve quantifiable goals by leveraging SharePoint technologies

Location: Toronto, Canada Area
Industry: Information Technology and Services

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Kanwal Khipple [SharePoint MVP]'s Overview

Current

Principal SharePoint Architect at BrightStarr
Virtual Technical Solutions Professional at Microsoft
Public Speaker on Business and Technology at BrightStarr

SharePoint MVP at Microsoft
Co-Organizer, SharePoint Saturday Toronto at SharePoint Saturday, Inc.

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Past

Enterprise Architect at Navantis
SharePoint Architect at SharePoint Delivery
SharePoint Architect at Imex Systems Inc.

SharePoint Consultant at City of Barrie
SharePoint Consultant at Bank of Montreal
SharePoint Consultant at Toronto Hydro
SharePoint Architect at Calgary Board of Education
SharePoint Consultant at Dapasoft Inc.
SharePoint Consultant at WolfBridge Solutions
SharePoint Consultant at Jabil
SharePoint Consultant at Cyberplex
SharePoint Consultant at Eidenai Innovations (acquired by Cyberplex)
SharePoint Consultant at Fanshawe College
SharePoint Consultant at Ontario Media Development Organisations
Business Process Analyst at Progressive Moulded Products
Technical Support Analyst at Siemens Business Services

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Education

University of Waterloo

Recommendations

20 people have recommended Kanwal

Connections

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SharePoint 2010 & 2007 expert seeking SharePoint Administrator, Developer, Trainer or Consulting jobs.

I'm passionate about knowledge management, information architecture as well as Search Engine Optimization within SharePoint 2007 and more recently SharePoint 2010.

Specialties

SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2007, design, development, server architecture

Principal SharePoint Architect

BrightStarr

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

June 2011 – Present (1 year)

- Architecture, development & implementation of SharePoint solutions
- Review of development & technical design
- SharePoint functional & technical architecture-- Management of consultants and teams under your control
- Assisting with the design, definition and implementation of solutions
- Managing and building client relationships
- Identify new business opportunities either within existing or new clients and being involved in pre-sales activities
- Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel
- Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members and contractors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work
- Develop best practices and tools for the development and consulting teams
- Mentor, train, supervise, and evaluate staff

Virtual Technical Solutions Professional

Microsoft

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry

January 2012 – Present (5 months) Manhattan, New York

Public Speaker on Business and Technology

BrightStarr

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

June 2011 – Present (1 year)

I'm very passionate about helping organizations acheive quantifiable goals by leveraging SharePoint technologies. I regularly speak at conferences because wanting to share what I have learned is an extension of my passion to help.

Here's a sample of presentations I have spoken on:
- Migrating from Google Apps to Office 365
- Designing SharePoint 2010 for Small Businesses
- Becoming a SharePoint Design Ninja
- Practical Tips to Increase SharePoint Adoption
- Practical Tips for SharePoint Governance
- Office 365 versus Google Apps - The Elephant in the Room
- SharePoint Branding From Start to Finish
- SharePoint Branding Guidance
- SharePoint Branding 101

SharePoint MVP

Microsoft

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry

October 2009 – Present (2 years 8 months)

The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) is the most prestigious award presented by Microsoft for the employees or individuals or consultants working outside Microsoft. Microsoft considers MVPs to be community leaders from around the world who have been awarded for voluntarily providing expertise towards communities supporting Microsoft products or technologies. An MVP is awarded for contributions over the past year, in other words a 2011 MVP is awarded for their work in 2010.

My MVP Profile can be found at http://spbuzz.it/kkmvp

Co-Organizer, SharePoint Saturday Toronto

SharePoint Saturday, Inc.

Nonprofit; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry

June 2009 – Present (3 years)

SharePoint Saturday Toronto 2009
SharePoint Saturday Toronto 2010
SharePoint Saturday Toronto 2010 Webinar Series

Enterprise Architect

Navantis

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

January 2011 – April 2011 (4 months)

As an integral part of the Navantis Sales Account Team, helped to formulate and execute account strategies while acting as a senior technical and process resource for the broadest and most complex issues.

SharePoint Architect

SharePoint Delivery

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

January 2009 – April 2011 (2 years 4 months)

SharePoint Architect

Imex Systems Inc.

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry

September 2010 – December 2010 (4 months)

Implementation and deployment of SharePoint projects for all clients
Information Architecture, Governance, Records and Document Management
Gathering business requirements and translating them into technical requirements, leading the proof of concept
Lead all developers and also act as the architect for the group

SharePoint Consultant

City of Barrie

Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Government Administration industry

September 2010 – November 2010 (3 months)

- Reviewed technical architecture and optimized SharePoint 2007 / IIS 7
- Resolved SharePoint 2007 extranet site performance issues
- Page load time reduced from 2 minutes to 3 seconds
- Configured environment for external anonymous access; AAM & IIS
- Updated Master Page to Hide Sign In Link

SharePoint Consultant

Bank of Montreal

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; BMO; Financial Services industry

July 2010 – August 2010 (2 months)

- Established site structure, assisted with improving SharePoint governance, information architecture on development of Technology Governance site.
- Proposed a new internal SharePoint Master Page for department sites

SharePoint Consultant

Toronto Hydro

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Utilities industry

December 2009 – June 2010 (7 months)

- Assisted with branding for corporate extranet
- Deployed SharePoint 2007 for corporate intranet with Kerberos authentication
- Configured content deployment issues between multiple server farms
- Developed HR Resource Requisition sequential workflow solution leveraging InfoPath Forms Services forms for both the input & task forms
- Automated farm backup using EMC Legato
- Created command line scripted daily site backups

SharePoint Architect

Calgary Board of Education

Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Education Management industry

April 2009 – October 2009 (7 months)

- Technical Lead for the intranet portal information architecture design (Lite, Team and Front facing site) for students, parents, staff members, vendors and public visitors
- Spearheaded Governance Model to manage content authors, ownerships and management policy for SharePoint 2007 Enterprise corporate intranet
- Architected medium server farm architecture for search/content access

SharePoint Consultant

Dapasoft Inc.

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

January 2009 – April 2009 (4 months)

Was brought on board to help with you two high profile projects. One dealt with accessbility features for a SharePoint 2007 public facing site and another was architect for biomedical company.

SharePoint Consultant

WolfBridge Solutions

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry

July 2008 – November 2008 (5 months)

SharePoint Consultant

Jabil

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; JBL; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry

January 2008 – July 2008 (7 months)

- Developed event handlers, web parts and pages to automate a “Netflix” type of listing to prioritize Helpdesk tickets for 80,000+ users
- Developed Nintex workflows to automate purchase request and correlated approval based on purchase amount, location, etc.
- Developed and configured custom FAST ESP Web Parts
- Developed custom master page design for corporate intranet site with custom themes developed for different departments
- Developed custom dashboard to integrate SAP applications

SharePoint Consultant

Cyberplex

Public Company; 51-200 employees; CX; Internet industry

2007 – June 2008 (1 year)

SharePoint Consultant

Eidenai Innovations (acquired by Cyberplex)

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

2007 – 2007 (less than a year)

SharePoint Consultant

Fanshawe College

Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry

2007 – 2007 (less than a year)

- Developed a Teachers Online Portal with custom Blogs and Wikis configuration, Single Sign on (SSO) integration, custom site definitions, custom web part and branding

SharePoint Consultant

Ontario Media Development Organisations

Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Government Administration industry

2007 – 2007 (less than a year)

- SharePoint Architect for the OMDC Research Library that leveraged SharePoint Advanced Search
- Built custom search BDC web parts to search SQL database
- Developed custom SharePoint 2007 master page adheres Ontario Disability Act (ODA) accessibility standards; similar to Section 508 WCAG standards

Business Process Analyst

Progressive Moulded Products

January 2006 – December 2006 (1 year)

Automating business processes using iMarkup (workflow automation).

Technical Support Analyst

Siemens Business Services

Privately Held; 10,001+ employees; si; Industrial Automation industry

2000 – 2005 (5 years)

English
(Full professional proficiency)
Punjabi
(Native or bilingual proficiency)
Hindi
(Professional working proficiency)

Optimize Private or Public Cloud Deployment of SharePoint
- Riverbed Webinar with BrightStarr
- October 2011
Authors: Kanwal Khipple [SharePoint MVP], Dormain Drewitz

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
- Microsoft
- August 2009
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Application Development 70-542
- Microsoft
- April 2009
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Configuration (70-630)
- Microsoft
- October 2007
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Configuration (70-631)
- Microsoft
- October 2007