Derek Smay
SharePoint Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Smay is a SharePoint Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft with seven years focused on SharePoint development and administration across 2007, 2010, and 2013 platforms. He brings deep on-premises SharePoint expertise from a long IT career that began with 15 years as a systems consultant at PPG, combining practical operations experience with customer-facing troubleshooting and deployment skills. At Microsoft he pairs field engineering with contributions to the popular Microsoft365DSC open-source project, adding PowerShell-based Teams and tenant configuration resources that help automate Microsoft 365 management. Based in Pennsylvania, Derek is skilled at turning complex SharePoint and Microsoft 365 requirements into repeatable, auditable solutions and tools. He blends hands-on scripting and resource development with real-world enterprise consulting, making him a go-to engineer for migrations, governance, and automation.
7 years of coding experience
Duquesne University
Github Skills (12)
powershell10
microsoft-teams10
microsoft10
configuration-as-code9
system-configuration9
configuration-file9
autoconfiguration9
custom-configuration9
azuread8
office3658
devops7
exchange-online7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/Microsoft365DSC
Dec 2018 - Oct 2022
Manages, configures, extracts and monitors Microsoft 365 tenant configurations
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 41 reviews, 411 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Derek's contributions focused on adding and modifying resources related to Microsoft 365, primarily working within the PowerShell framework. They added a new resource for Team Fun Settings and developed a new resource for Teams management. The user also made minor changes involving whitespace removal, and initial setup of tests and code updates.
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desmay/Office365DSC
Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
Manages, configures and monitors Office365 Tenant configuration
Contributions:10 PRs, 102 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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