Gregory Dean Guth
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software and Power Platform Developer
Frisco, TX, United States
Toptal member since March 18, 2024
Greg is a Microsoft Power Platform developer with extensive experience in Microsoft Power Apps, Power Pages, and Power Automate. His excellent communication skills and design degree sets him apart from other developers—enabling him to build exceptional applications without relying on a designer to define their look and feel. Greg develops with the end user in mind, designing and optimizing for efficient UI/UX.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Microsoft Power Pages
The most amazing...
...work I've done is an integration application, where I combined Power Pages, Power Apps, and Power Automate to streamline the peer review process for the FDA.
Work Experience
Microsoft Power and SharePoint Developer
Nucraft Furniture Company
- Developed custom regular expressions to make sure job numbers were entered in accordance with their requirements.
- Created custom approval processes that saved and tracked the comments of each approver to SharePoint.
- Researched changing the fundamental business process of approvals to allow every approver the ability to complete their review regardless of rejection.
Lead Developer
GEICO
- Deployed model-driven and canvas Power Apps across the corporate enterprise.
- Supported internal departments using Power Platform as they built solutions for their processes.
- Developed Power Pages solutions to support external customers as they worked with GEICO internal applications.
- Created extensive Power Pages branding and dynamic data with custom HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Facilitated fast solutions to many departments across GEICO by deploying Microsoft template applications.
- Drove large projects using model-driven and canvas apps that work with Power Automate.
- Enabled real-time reports in Power Apps, pulling live data from Microsoft Dataverse.
- Led application development with other business units, ensuring they could easily maintain the apps with Power Platform.
- Created SharePoint departmental sites and SharePoint training in an LMS format, which is step-by-step. The training was for Power Apps.
Senior Technical Sales Specialist
Microsoft
- Supported customers by educating them on the benefits and power of the Power Platform.
- Helped organizations understand the Microsoft licensing model and increase their sales.
- Grew Power Platform sales to never-seen-before numbers.
- Created a Microsoft Dynamics dashboard to display monthly sales target numbers using model-driven Power Apps.
- Developed complex Power Pages solutions to surface reports and forms for external users.
Senior Consultant – Power Platform
Blueprint
- Connected directly to the SQL Server using Dataverse from Power Automate and Power Apps.
- Created a proof of concept for an invoice processing application that uses Microsoft AI Builder to process invoices. Gained deep knowledge of AI Builder after meeting with its actual development team about my project.
- Built Power Apps application using location services to display map locations in real time to calculate rates.
- Developed Power Automate to connect Power Apps to handle approval processes on invoices.
- Wrote all code-taking invoices from AI Builder to Power Automate through Power Apps, then through the multi-level approval process with Power Automate, and saved the results to Dynamics 365 Business Central.
- Migrated legacy Nintex, K2, and InfoPath solutions to Power Apps and Power Automate in the cloud.
Senior Consultant – Power Apps and SharePoint
Southwest Airlines
- Migrated on-premise Nintex, InfoPath, and Sitecore content to the Azure cloud using Power Apps and Power Automate.
- Led the citizen developer team for Power Apps and SharePoint solutions to automate business processes.
- Created Power Apps training to help citizen developers effectively use Power Apps and SharePoint.
- Built out 27 Power Apps based on existing forms, including drop-downs from SharePoint list data.
- Developed complex hidden sections in Power Apps for improved end user experience.
- Defined best practices and governance documentation for Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Power Apps.
- Prepared a complete roadmap for Office 365 migration in line with corporate IT security policies.
- Designed a corporate governance plan around SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, and Yammer.
- Communicated effectively to stakeholders across the organization, including communications, marketing, governance, legal, and IT.
- Provided online material for communicating the value of Office 365 with the entire organization.
AVP Software Engineer
Caliber Home Loans
- Managed the migration of the entire SharePoint 2013 using K2, Nintex, ShareGate, and Simego data sync tools.
- Hired and built a team of complementary skill sets and managed project load across members based on individual strengths.
- Utilized ServiceNow IT Service Management for the change and release management of all projects and deployments.
- Supervised employees. Selected and trained staff, planned, assigned, and directed work, and handled performance reviews, employee rewards and disciplines, and complaints and issue resolutions.
- Developed custom SharePoint, InfoPath, K2, Nintex, and data solutions to automate manual business processes across the organization.
- Project-managed the team on the microservices architecture, coordinating various endpoints across the application.
- Led a team of developers using .NET Core and React with Scrum-Agile deployment across the organization.
- Evaluated the performance of direct reports and provided ongoing coaching and staff development.
- Drove the Power Apps development of the employee directory released on iOS and Android devices.
Experience
Power App to Automate Invoice Processing
I created an AI model that handles all recurring bills received monthly, auto-imports the relevant fields, and passes them onto accounting for processing. I also included an email approval process based on the invoice amount that automates the approval process using Power Automate. The accounting department had five people to handle invoices; after our automation, they only needed one person to handle all invoices within half the time it used to take.
Automated Peer Review Process for the USDA
https://usda-ars-osqr.powerappsportals.us/I built an automated system with the Canvas app in Power Apps, and the review forms are surfaced to external peers through a Power Pages portal. The result was an automatically generated Word document they could review live on the call with peers.
This met the desired outcome—reducing the teams' work time from days to minutes. I created a SharePoint site to document the entire app process and to provide training on the application developed.
Waste Innovations Sales Tool in Power Apps
https://www.win-waste.com/Waste Innovations' sales tool was written in Excel. This application contained all the calculations used to determine the cost of their services to customers. This put the organization at high risk because its entire business model was defined by a non-secure application that could easily be taken outside the company.
I replaced the Excel tool with a complete Power Apps solution, moving all propriety calculations to the back-end Dataverse database.
We streamlined the front end and introduced location services to auto-calculate the distances from dump sites to the client's location used in fees. This minimized the many calculations that salespeople had to do on-site. The new application eliminated the client's risk factors and simplified their manual process, making their sales teams' jobs easier. The company also looked more professional as the application was expertly designed to use the company's new branding, colors, and look. My degree in design absolutely paid off on this application, as it looked amazing.
Power Pages Search for AbilityOne
https://www.abilityone.gov/index.htmlThe site has complex HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I had to match the existing HTML site perfectly, pixel by pixel. The CSS classes did not work in Power Pages as advertised, so every element of the entire page had to be manually copied line for line matching the HTML, CSS, graphics, and everything else perfectly. I learned many workarounds in Power Pages to overcome the inability to load the CSS libraries into Power Pages. Mapping the images was also a tough one to figure out. Ultimately, I developed the page to match the site identically per the customer's specific demands.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Architecture
Arizona State University - Tempe, AZ, USA
Certifications
Exam PL-900: Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals
Microsoft
Skills
Libraries/APIs
OneDrive, React
Tools
Microsoft Power Apps, Canvas, Microsoft Power Pages, Microsoft Power BI, K2 Blackpearl, Microsoft Dynamics, Dynamics 365 Business Central, Nintex, K2, InfoPath, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Yammer
Languages
HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, HTML
Frameworks
Bootstrap 3, .NET
Paradigms
Architectural Visualization, Visual Design, Scrum, Agile
Platforms
Microsoft Power Automate, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 365, Azure, Nintex Workflow, Microsoft Power Platform
Storage
Azure SQL, Azure Cloud Services
Other
Communication, Project Leadership, IT Management, Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, Microsoft Dataverse, Tech Sales, Common Data Service, Microsoft Planner, SharePoint Online, Proof of Concept (POC), Sitecore, Office 365, SharePoint UI
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