SharePoint User Group UK

Hi All,

First of all apologies for creating duplicate forum posts for this, but I urgently need help with this issue, particularly from SharePoint professionals living in the Sheffield area.

I am an MCITP certified Server engineer and would really like to find a role working with SharePoint. I am currently working as a Small Business Engineer in Sheffield and have a strong background in Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, SharePoint 2007, and Networking. I have previously worked in Microsoft based Enterprise environments.

The problem is most of the jobs I see advertised are for SharePoint Developers with C#/.net skills.

My understanding of SharePoint is that someone needs to design and implement the SharePoint Infrastructure - is this done by SharePoint Developers as part of their roles, or are there dedicated roles to design and implement the Infrastructure. And more importantly, how and where can I find these roles advertised?

My ambition is to work in a role as a SharePoint Architect. I am currently debating whether to gain .net skills to work as a SharePoint Developer, or to build on my core skills and get certified as a SharePoint 2010 MCITP and focus on the SharePoint architecture.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Pritin 

Hi Pritin

I spotted your post by accident looking for the next Midlands user group.

You don't have to become a dev to become a SharePoint professional there is certainly need for IT Pro's as well as Dev to compliment each other.

I would attend a user group and speak to the orgainisers (Tony & Mark) as well as others such as my old company (Trinity).

Best of luck
Paul

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Paul Grimley
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Hi Paul,

That's great news! Is the website for Trinity - www.tesl.com? I will certainly try to attend a user group as soon as possible.

Thanks
Pritin