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Gerald Asogwa · Power Platform Engineer
Career Summary
Currently a Power Platform Specialist for the City of Cleveland, Ohio, and previously a Power Platform Consultant for Parker Wellbore, a multinational company based in Houston. At the City of Cleveland, I am the sole Power Platform Specialist and administrator, tasked with specifying, building, customizing, and maintaining our MS 365 developer environment. This role has given me diversified knowledge of app development and administration, including SharePoint Online, Dataverse, Teams, Power Apps, Power Automate, OData, SharePoint Migration, Modern Sites, HTML, and CSS.
Work Experience
Power Platform Specialist
City of Cleveland — Cleveland, OH
Sole Power Platform Specialist and administrator for the City of Cleveland, responsible for specifying, building, customizing, and maintaining the Community Development team's MS 365 developer environment.
Develop Power Platform apps and manage Community Development's Microsoft 365 environment to meet business needs and strict UI requirements, including building Power Apps, Power Pages, and Dataverse solutions and using Power Automate to streamline automation.
- Develop and launch custom business apps as needed using Power Apps, including a Job Ticketing App that lets anyone in the department log issues and chat in real time with assigned specialists.
- Configure Dataverse tables, columns, and business process flows to meet requirements.
- Build custom workflows and automation with Power Automate so inspectors can print specification documents and details directly from Dataverse.
- Apply best practices in Power Apps to avoid or reduce delegation, such as using collections and variables to store data locally.
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to gather requirements and design solutions that meet their needs.
- Update legacy Power Apps to accommodate new needs, such as adding print functionality to a table.
- Monitor the daily operation of apps and troubleshoot app services as needed.
- Conduct training for end users on how to use Power Platform apps.
Power Platform Developer
Parker Wellbore — Houston, TX
Power Platform consultant for this multinational drilling company, building canvas and model-driven apps, automations, and portal solutions that replaced legacy SharePoint and InfoPath processes.
- Generated and upgraded interactive paginated reports and dashboards from SharePoint and SQL Server databases.
- Designed intuitive canvas Power Apps tailored to individual user requirements and optimized for effective data presentation and visualization.
- Built scalable model-driven Power Apps solutions to streamline business operations and enhance user efficiency.
- Set up Microsoft Power Automate to provide auto-approval and status update features based on predefined criteria.
- Built PowerApps forms for an equipment app and safety reports.
- Replaced customized InfoPath forms from 2013 with more interactive, responsive SharePoint forms built in Power Apps.
- Built an app in the PowerApps Portal that lets users independently manage cases — creating, reviewing, and adding notes and attachments — with a custom search results view and an export-to-Excel action.
- Provided ongoing assistance and upkeep for Power Platform applications to ensure smooth, long-term operation.
Education
Enugu State University of Science and Technology
Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Enugu, Nigeria (2015)
Certifications
- Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals