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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);
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).
- http://partners.ts.fujitsu.com
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:

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.