Sympraxis Consulting

Marc is the Co-Founder and President of Sympraxis Consulting LLC, located in the Boston suburb of Newton, MA, USA. Sympraxis focuses on enabling collaboration throughout the enterprise using the SharePoint application platform. Marc is a two-time recipient of the Microsoft MVP award for SharePoint Server (2011 and 2012). Marc has almost 30 years of experience in technology professional services and software development. Over a wide-ranging career in consulting as well as line manager positions, Marc has proven himself as a problem solver and leader who can solve difficult technology problems for organizations across a wide variety of industries and organization sizes.

Prior to cofounding Sympraxis Consulting, Marc was Director of Operations at Jornata, a Boston-based technology consulting firm, which was acquired by Vitale, Caturano (now Caturano and Company) in the Spring of 2008. Marc has also held positions at world-class services firms such as Bain and Company, KPMG, and Renaissance Solutions. Marc also had a "real job", managing the systems for Staples' delivery business as it grew from a $30 million "experiment" to an over $1 billion main line business unit. Having started his career as an assembly language and FORTRAN programmer, Marc truly knows what life is like "in the trenches" and brings that perspective to bear for all of his clients.

Marc has a Bachelors of Arts in Computer Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH.

Lately, aside from client work, Marc has been:

• Developing the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices) and The SPXSLT Codeplex Project
• Faculty member at the USPJA Academy
• Speaking at SharePoint events and conferences
• Writing here at Marc D Anderson's blog