Norm Young
Power Platform Solution Architect
Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolNorm Young is a Power Platform Solution Architect and six-time Microsoft MVP who helps organizations adopt, govern, and get measurable value from Microsoft low-code and analytics technologies. With a two-decade background spanning manufacturing, higher education, and software, he combines hands-on data architecture and database experience with strategic consulting to deliver practical, team-empowering solutions. At AvePoint he translates governance and analytics needs into scalable Power Platform designs, building on prior leadership in collaborative analytics and data warehousing. Known for speaking and blogging, he amplifies best practices across the Microsoft community and brings a rare mix of enterprise-grade discipline and low-code agility. Based in Ontario, Canada, he pairs technical depth—from SQL-era DBA work to modern Power Automate and Power BI—with a focus on adoption and outcomes rather than novelty.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (Incomplete) History, Bachelor of Arts (Incomplete) History at Western UniversityComputer Programmer / Analyst Information Technology, Computer Programmer / Analyst Information Technology at Niagara College
Github Skills (19)
microsoft10
prose10
powerplatform10
user-experience10
cds9
powershell8
powerautomate8
microsoft-graph5
sharepoint4
dynamics4
sharepoint-online3
spfx3
openxml3
onedrive3
pnp2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nyoung30/sp-usage-docs
Sep 2019 - May 2020
SharePoint Documentation on usage and feature patterns for site owners and citizen developers
Contributions:4 PRs, 54 pushes, 5 branches in 8 months
citizen-developersownerspatternssharepoint
nyoung30/Power-Automate
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:54 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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