Jacobus Blake
Modern Workplace Consultant
Paarl,WC
Summary
I work well under pressure and is very focus on service delivery.
I have almost 10 years experience in the SharePoint space and excelled in growing as Modern Workspace Consultant.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages
Work History
Modern Workspace Consultant
Northern Data-Consulting
06.2021 - Current
- Manage, maintain, and administer multiple client’s SharePoint infrastructures, including Teams and OneDrive
- Conducting assessments of existing SharePoint environments and providing recommendations for improvement
- Designing and implementing out-of-the-box SharePoint solutions tailored to meet clients’ needs
- Providing training and support to end-users on SharePoint best practices
Modern Workspace Consultant
UrbanNerd-Consulting
04.2021 - 05.2021
- Managing and Maintaining SharePoint 2019 High Availability Cluster
- Configuring Forms Based Authentication for SharePoint 2019
- Installing and configuring Workflow Manager
- Building OOTB Apps with Power Platform
- Creating Workflows with SharePoint Designer
- Daily Health Checks
- Monthly Reporting on SP Farm health
- Creating Modern Experience Intranet for business.
SharePoint Specialist
BCX
08.2015 - 03.2021
- Experienced with SharePoint 2013, 2016, 2019 and SharePoint Online(M365)
- Manage, maintain, and administer multiple client’s SharePoint infrastructures
- Analysing and gathering of requirements from non-technical/technical business users
- Solution proposals, designs, and documentation
- Facilitate user adoption, change management and training
- Enforce governance rules, e.g Permission levels
- Informing business and ECM team of SharePoint best practices, tips, and tricks
- Experienced with SharePoint 2010 and 2013 Workflows (SharePoint Designer)
- Experienced with Power Platform (Power Automate, PowerBI and Power Apps)
- Design and Branding (look and feel) of SharePoint Sites
- Building and implementing custom UI designs for SharePoint with Adobe Photoshop, CSS, and HTML
- Creating and managing web applications and site collections
- Configure, deploy, and maintain Teams, site collections, sub-sites, features, document libraries, lists, Custom Forms and Surveys
- Support custom SharePoint master pages, page layouts and custom site templates
- Functional and Technical documentation, e.g
- Business processes, permissions, and workflow architecture
- Experienced in various Migration projects e.g
- SP2013 to SP Online, Google My Drive to Microsoft OneDrive and Shared Drive to Teams
- Server health maintenance and Maintaining SQL Databases
- Monthly Reporting
- Troubleshooting and resolution, e.g
- Workflows and Event viewer errors
- General users support and training.
Education
Microsoft MCSE SharePoint – 2016/2019 -
Torque IT, Bellville
International Certificate in Computer Arts and 3D Animation - 2004 - undefined
UCAA, Cape Town
Certificate in Graphic Web Design - 2001 - undefined
Prestige College, Bellville
Matric - 1999 - undefined
Paarl Boys High School, Paarl
Badges
Microsoft Badges
Applications
- SharePoint 2013
- 2016
- 2019
- SharePoint Online
- Microsoft 365
- Microsoft Power Platform
- Google Suite
- ShareGate
- Mover.io
- Cloud Migrator
- Adobe Photoshop
- Visio
- AD Integration / Azure security
- PowerShell
- DocAve
- 3D Studio Max
- Nintex
- Maya
- Blender
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Premier
- Adobe After Effect
- Adobe Flash
- DeliverPoint
- Dreamweaver
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 10/22/81
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: South African
Timeline
Modern Workspace Consultant
Northern Data-Consulting
06.2021 - Current
Modern Workspace Consultant
UrbanNerd-Consulting
04.2021 - 05.2021
SharePoint Specialist
BCX
08.2015 - 03.2021
Microsoft MCSE SharePoint – 2016/2019 -
Torque IT, Bellville
International Certificate in Computer Arts and 3D Animation - 2004 - undefined
UCAA, Cape Town
Certificate in Graphic Web Design - 2001 - undefined
Prestige College, Bellville
Matric - 1999 - undefined
Paarl Boys High School, Paarl