Mark Dutton

Power Platform Lead @Chess

Manchester, GB

Silversands Ltd Acquired by Chess, November 2024] My expertise includes solution & ecosystem architecture, knowledge sharing, pre-sale activities, and professional services development. Solution Architecture: Design, develop, and deploy client solutions as part of full “end-to-end” client engagements. Includes requirements gathering, process mapping, delivering high-level design documents against client objectives, and helping organisations review existing solutions against Power Platform Well-Architected design principles. Ecosystem Architecture: I support organisations with sustainable environmental administration and governance initiatives. This involves conducting tenancy and environment health-checks, reporting, and deploying Microsoft Centre of Excellence (COE) Starter Kit core governance components. I have successfully implemented solutions across the public (fire & rescue organizations, councils) and private sectors (port authorities, housing/construction).🧑‍ Knowledge Sharing: Mentor and coach for internal Power Platform Developers. Prepare Statements of Work (SoW) and plan resourcing for delivery. Delivery of knowledge transfer, webinars, and product awareness sessions to clients across all sectors. Topics have included as Platform Admin & Governance, ALM for Power Platform, Environment Strategies, and sustainable delivery & support models.🤝 Pre-sale Activities: Participate in pre-sale activities, including webinars, demonstrations, and “art of the possible” across platform products and Core Administration programs. Professional Services Development: Develop professional services related to Power Platform Solution design and sustainable ecosystem architecture. This includes managed services for Microsoft COE Starter Kit, and tenant and environmental health-checks and best practice maturity assessments.

ITEC North East

NVQ L2 Information Technology