About Me - Professional
Personal details
My name is Paul Hefford, and I'm originally from south-east London, England.
I enjoy mountain biking, action films, Formula 1 and British comedy. One of my ambitions is to lap the Nürburgring in a Porsche 911. The details on this page are correct as of September 2009.
Industry Certifications
I am a Microsoft Certified Master. More details...
Current position
I work for Fujitsu Technology Solutions (FTS, formerly Fujitsu Siemens Computers) in Munich, Germany. I form part of a team responsible for sales and marketing related web projects and systems supporting critical headquarter functions.
I specialise in Microsoft ASP.NET and SharePoint Server technologies, especially configuration and architecture.
My job role involves:
- Planning and executing major upgrades and migrations of the FTS Internet, Extranet and Intranet platforms;
- Managing the release process of software applications, including the FTS web CMS;
- Liaising with Microsoft engineers, both on- and off-site, to carry out preventative maintenance, implement best practises and solve issues;
- Consulting and supporting FTS colleagues during web-related projects.
- Directing near-shore software development colleagues.
Recent projects include:
- Migration of over 40 FTS corporate Internet web sites to a Fujitsu BladeFrame platform (April 2009);
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Re-branding of FTS web CMS, which feeds over 40 corporate Internet web sites (March 2009);
- http://ts.fujitsu.com, http://de.ts.fujitsu.com, http://uk.ts.fujitsu.com amongst others.
- Migration of FTS corporate Extranet platform to MOSS 2007 (April 2008).
- Roll-out of FTS corporate Intranet and Extranet collaboration platforms based on MOSS 2007 (September 2007);
Experience
I regularly work with the following Microsoft technologies:
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Windows Server 2003 (4+ years experience) and 2008;
- IIS 6 (4+ years experience) and 7;
- ASP.NET 2.0 (4+ years experience, since ASP.NET 1.0);
- Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (2+ years experience, since beta);
- Office SharePoint Server 2007 (2+ years experience, since beta);
- SQL Server 2005 (4+ years experience, since SQL Server 2000);
- Visual Studio Team System 2005 and C# (4+ years experience, since Visual Studio 2002);
Education
I graduated with honours from the University of Reading with a first class BSc degree in Computer Science.




