15+
Years of Experience
Enterprise Intranet and Collaboration Platforms
Spenser Davison
I design and build enterprise intranet and collaboration platforms. I help organizations modernize intranets, improve business processes, and create better ways for users to access, manage, and work with information across enterprise and regulated environments.
- 15+ years building enterprise SharePoint and collaboration solutions
- 10K+ users supported across enterprise platforms
- 40–50 custom solutions delivered
- Improved business processes through workflow automation and custom applications
- Enterprise and regulated environments, including DoD Secret clearance experience
Focus: Collaboration, ECM, intranet design, workflow modernization, and solution delivery
Current Role: Senior Collaboration Engineer
Location: Florida / Remote
At a glance
40–50
Solutions Delivered
10K+
Users Supported
5
Industries Served
About
Building practical solutions that people actually use
I work at the intersection of business needs, user experience, and technical delivery. My background spans SharePoint, knowledge management, collaboration engineering, automation, and software development. I specialize in helping organizations improve how information is organized, surfaced, and used across intranets, extranets, and internal platforms.
I am especially strong in enterprise content management, intranet design and administration, custom business solutions, and partnering directly with users and stakeholders to deliver tools that support real work.
Across my career, I have focused on building systems that are structured, maintainable, and aligned with how people actually work. I care about long-term usability as much as delivery.
Experience
Recent roles and impact
Husch Blackwell
Senior Collaboration Engineer
2025 – Present
Lead development and support of enterprise intranet and extranet solutions, focusing on SharePoint Online, SPFx development, and business process automation.
- Build and maintain SPFx solutions supporting intranet functionality and user experience
- Manage and enhance the firm-wide intranet, “The HuB,” used by more than 10,000 users
- Design and support extranet and client portal solutions with complex permission models
- Develop Power Apps canvas apps and Power Automate workflows for business processes
- Integrate systems with SQL data sources and external APIs
- Serve as a primary escalation point for high-level support and solution design
- Rapidly became a go-to engineer across multiple departments within the first year
- Collaborate directly with stakeholders across legal, business, and IT teams
Slalom Consulting
Technical Architect / Software Engineer
2021 – 2025
Delivered enterprise collaboration, intranet, and search solutions across multiple Fortune 500 clients, with a focus on SharePoint architecture, custom development, and platform modernization.
- Built enterprise intranet solutions for healthcare organizations, supporting architecture and delivery
- Developed complex custom search solutions within SharePoint Online environments
- Designed and implemented intake and workflow systems for large enterprise clients, including Amazon
- Supported secure collaboration platform setup aligned with high-compliance environments
- Built SPFx solutions including custom language translation components
- Led migration efforts from SharePoint 2016 to SharePoint Subscription Edition
- Designed and implemented records management solutions using Power Apps and SharePoint
- Provided architectural guidance across multiple concurrent enterprise engagements
- Developed strong expertise in SharePoint PowerShell automation and administration
Electric Boat (General Dynamics)
Software Engineer → Knowledge Management Lead
2010 – 2021
Began as a tactical software engineer supporting U.S. Navy nuclear submarine systems at a Department of Defense contractor, then transitioned into leading enterprise knowledge management and intranet development initiatives.
- Designed and built Java-based control interface for submarine bow plane systems used in operational environments
- Applied secure coding practices and introduced concepts like cyclomatic complexity across the team
- Developed internal web applications using PHP, Perl, and Oracle SQL to support business operations
- Built workflow-driven systems for internal processes, including intake and reimbursement
- Maintained and enhanced C++ systems tied to power conversion and hardware integration
- Designed and wired large-scale hardware test rigs based on engineering schematics
- Transitioned into knowledge management leadership, helping define enterprise ECM and KM strategy
- Built and managed enterprise intranet using SharePoint 2010, 2013, and 2019
- Developed custom SharePoint master pages, layouts, and JavaScript-based solutions
- Integrated SharePoint with external systems via Apache services and SQL backends
- Built a full project and program management system within the SharePoint environment
- Worked within highly regulated, secure environments requiring an active Secret security clearance
Personal Projects
Independent Developer
Ongoing
Designed and built multiple full-stack and data-driven applications focused on automation, personal finance, education, and data analysis.
- Built a personal finance tracking platform with Supabase, PHP, and Chart.js
- Developed a livability database for evaluating regions based on environmental and lifestyle data
- Created homeschool tracking and education management tools
- Built a custom website portfolio with dynamic content architecture
- Developed automation tools and bots, including social media integrations
- Designed data models, APIs, and visualization layers for multiple applications
Case Studies
Selected solutions and platform outcomes
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Content Strategy
Featured Case Study
Enterprise Content Management
Enterprise SharePoint environments, primarily on-premises implementations within highly structured organizational settings, with continued application of these practices in SharePoint Online
Challenge
The organization relied on traditional shared drives and unstructured content storage, making it difficult to consistently store, organize, and retrieve information. There was no unified approach to taxonomy, metadata, or content lifecycle management, leading to inefficiencies and poor discoverability.
Approach
Led the design and definition of a comprehensive enterprise content management framework within SharePoint. Conducted extensive research and stakeholder alignment to establish standards for taxonomy, metadata, content structure, and retention. Built a structured system focused on putability, findability, and searchability, ensuring users could easily store, locate, and manage content within a cohesive architecture.
Outcome
- Established a standardized approach to enterprise content organization and governance
- Improved consistency in how content was stored, tagged, and managed across the organization
- Significantly enhanced discoverability and usability of internal knowledge
- Created a foundation for a successful, scalable intranet and long-term knowledge management strategy
- Developed best practices that have been carried forward into future enterprise implementations
Discovery
Enterprise Search and Discovery
Enterprise intranet environments across both on-premises SharePoint and SharePoint Online platforms
Challenge
In multiple environments, users either had no meaningful enterprise search capability or were unable to effectively search within large, content-heavy sites. This led to poor discoverability, fragmented information access, and low confidence in available tools.
Approach
Designed and implemented custom search experiences tailored to each environment. In on-premises SharePoint, built a structured search interface that organized results into distinct content areas with a clean, card-based layout. In SharePoint Online, extended and customized PnP Search using SPFx to support advanced tagging, filtering, and refined user experience requirements.
Outcome
- Introduced enterprise search capability where none previously existed
- Improved content discoverability across large, complex intranet environments
- Delivered structured, user-friendly search interfaces that increased usability and adoption
- Enabled more efficient navigation of high-volume content repositories
Internal Solutions
Featured Case Study
Intranet Applications and Business Solutions
Enterprise intranet environments across SharePoint on-premises and SharePoint Online, supporting organizations in defense, legal, healthcare, and enterprise consulting contexts
Challenge
Teams consistently required better ways to access, input, and visualize data within their intranet environments. Out-of-the-box solutions were often insufficient, leading to fragmented processes, inefficient workflows, and inconsistent user experiences.
Approach
Partnered directly with stakeholders to understand business needs through structured requirements elicitation, then designed and built scalable, extensible solutions tailored to each use case. Delivered a wide range of custom applications, including interactive dashboards, workflow-driven forms, data visualization components, and full system builds such as project and program management platforms.
Outcome
- Streamlined business processes through custom workflow-driven applications
- Improved user experience with intuitive, purpose-built interfaces
- Enabled more effective data access, input, and visualization across teams
- Delivered reusable solution patterns that scaled across multiple departments and use cases
Process Engineering
Automation and Workflow Engineering
Internal business processes built across SharePoint, Power Automate, and custom web applications, including form-driven and data-routing workflows
Challenge
Many teams relied on manual or inconsistent processes for handling requests, applying business rules, and moving data between systems. This created delays, increased administrative effort, and made it harder for users to get the right information at the right time.
Approach
Evaluated business workflow requirements and translated them into practical automation solutions. Designed and built workflows that enforced business rules, routed data between systems, and reduced the amount of manual effort required from end users. In some cases, this meant building full workflow solutions; in others, it meant improving how users accessed and received critical data.
Outcome
- Reduced manual effort by automating repeatable business processes
- Improved consistency in how requests and data moved through workflows
- Delivered faster access to information needed by end users
- Enabled teams to work more efficiently with better process reliability
Optimization
Platform Optimization and Tool Replacement
Internal business systems across SharePoint environments and custom web applications, including legacy workflows, shared drives, and form-based processes
Challenge
Many business processes relied on outdated or fragmented systems, including paper-based workflows, shared drives, and legacy applications that were difficult to maintain, extend, or scale. These systems limited efficiency, introduced inconsistencies, and made it difficult to evolve alongside changing business needs.
Approach
Evaluated existing tools and workflows through hands-on usage and stakeholder engagement to identify limitations and opportunities for modernization. Replaced or re-architected legacy solutions with scalable, extensible systems built on modern platforms, focusing on long-term maintainability and the ability to support future enhancements rather than one-off improvements.
Outcome
- Replaced legacy and manual processes with modern, scalable solutions
- Improved consistency and reliability of business workflows
- Enabled systems to evolve over time instead of reaching technical limitations
- Created foundations for additional tools and capabilities to be built on top of modernized platforms
- Increased adoption of new systems by delivering more intuitive and maintainable solutions
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Skills
Tools, platforms, and delivery strengths
Core Competencies
- Microsoft 365 Ecosystem: SharePoint Online, Power Automate, Teams, OneDrive
- Software Development: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React, SPFx, PHP, SQL
- Governance & Compliance: SharePoint governance, permissions, regulatory alignment
- Project Delivery: Agile, requirements gathering, process optimization
SharePoint & Collaboration
- SPFx (React) development and customization
- Intranet and site architecture design
- Workflow automation with Power Automate
- SharePoint migrations from on-premises to SharePoint Online
- Governance, permissions, and content lifecycle management
Knowledge Management
- Enterprise Content Management system design
- Knowledge capture, organization, and dissemination
- Governance frameworks for content storage and retrieval
- Platform design for long-term maintainability and usability
Education
Academic background
Master of Systems Engineering
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering
University of Rhode Island
Minors: Computer Science, Mathematics
Credentials
Additional credentials & distinctions
Secret Security Clearance
Active clearance obtained at Electric Boat (General Dynamics) supporting U.S. Navy submarine systems.
Eagle Scout
Highest rank in Scouting, demonstrating leadership and long-term project execution.
Contact
Get in touch
For opportunities related to collaboration engineering, SharePoint architecture, enterprise content management, intranet strategy, and solution delivery:
- Email: spenser.davison@gmail.com
- Phone: 401-595-1215
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/spenserdavison
- Resume: View Resume PDF