About Barry Turnmeyer
Barry has built his career around designing, building, improving, and supporting SharePoint environments from the ground up. His experience includes architecting and implementing SharePoint farms, leading migration efforts from on-premises SharePoint to SharePoint Online, building custom solutions and workflows, mentoring development teams, and supporting complex enterprise collaboration environments. He has over 20 years of SharePoint development experience, more than 10 years in management, and hands-on work across SharePoint on-premises, SharePoint Online, Microsoft 365, Teams, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Sharegate, Metalogix, Nintex, and related tools.
In prior roles, Barry served as a senior SharePoint SME and graphic designer for BAE Systems and Perspecta, where he stood up SharePoint 2016 farms, led migrations from SharePoint 2010 to 2016 and then to SharePoint Online, and guided development teams and enterprise users. He also served as a Sr. SharePoint Solutions Architect at Integrity Applications Inc., where he architected and built a corporate intranet portal, led migrations, deployed custom tools, and trained users through documentation, presentations, and tutorials. Earlier in his career, he supported SharePoint development, program management, and training for government environments, including the National Reconnaissance Office and HSIN-related work.
Barry’s experience is especially valuable for organizations that need both strong technical architecture and practical post-launch guidance. He understands how to turn a SharePoint or Microsoft 365 initiative into something sustainable — not just something that gets delivered.
Areas of Expertise
Barry helps clients shape the structure, strategy, and operational direction of SharePoint and Microsoft 365 environments.
- SharePoint Discovery and Readiness
- SharePoint Strategy and Roadmapping
- SharePoint Site Architecture
- SharePoint Information Architecture
- SharePoint Migrations
- Microsoft 365 Solution Architecture
- Permissions Planning and Governance Support
- Adoption and Change Management
- SharePoint Training and Enablement
- Client Success and Post-Launch Advisory
Barry’s Approach
Barry believes the most successful SharePoint and Microsoft 365 environments are built through strong planning, practical architecture, clear ownership, and continued guidance after launch.
That means starting with the right discovery process, understanding what the business is trying to solve, designing site and information architecture that can scale, planning permissions and governance carefully, and helping users adopt the environment in a way that makes the platform more valuable over time. It also means recognizing that go-live is not the finish line. Without the right follow-through, even strong implementations can drift.
At dataBridge, that often means helping clients answer questions such as:
- Are we ready for this migration or implementation?
- Is the site and information architecture strong enough to scale?
- Are permissions and governance decisions being handled correctly?
- What do users and site owners need in order to adopt the solution well?
- What should we review after launch to keep the platform healthy and improving?
Barry’s career reflects that full-spectrum perspective. His background includes end-to-end solution design, custom development, training, migrations, team leadership, contract oversight, and post-deployment support.
What Barry Helps Clients Solve
Barry works with organizations that need a clear path through SharePoint and Microsoft 365 planning, architecture, rollout, and long-term improvement.
That often includes clients who are:
- Starting a SharePoint or Microsoft 365 initiative and need structured discovery
- Planning a migration and want to reduce risk before moving forward
- Reworking site structure, information architecture, or permissions
- Trying to improve adoption after launch
- Looking for clearer priorities and a stronger roadmap
- Trying to make SharePoint and Microsoft 365 function as a governed, improving business platform rather than a one-time project
For organizations in these situations, Barry’s focus is not just on getting the solution launched. It is on helping clients make better decisions before launch, strengthen adoption after launch, and create a platform that remains useful, healthy, and aligned to business goals over time.
That same thinking supports dataBridge’s work in areas like SharePoint consulting services, SharePoint strategy and roadmapping, SharePoint information architecture and metadata, SharePoint migrations, SharePoint training, and SharePoint support.
Barry’s Role in the dataBridge Advisory Partnership
As Director of Client Success, Barry leads the dataBridge Advisory Partnership, dataBridge’s proactive advisory service designed to help clients protect momentum after launch and continue increasing business value over time.
The purpose of this partnership is straightforward:
- Keep people using what was launched
- Keep the environment healthy and governed
- Keep improving the solution over time
The dataBridge Advisory Partnership helps clients turn SharePoint and Microsoft 365 into a managed, improving business platform instead of a one-time project. Through ongoing strategic guidance, governance reviews, adoption support, roadmap alignment, and recurring advisory check-ins, Barry helps clients reduce drift, solve issues earlier, clarify priorities, and continue improving long after go-live.
This role is a natural fit for Barry because his background combines architecture, training, operational thinking, user enablement, and long-term support. His experience has consistently centered on helping organizations move from implementation into sustained success.
Thought Leadership and Insights
Barry contributes practical guidance and strategic perspective across dataBridge, especially in areas such as SharePoint discovery and readiness, solution architecture, migrations, information architecture, permissions, adoption, training, and long-term client success.
His perspective is especially valuable for organizations that want to make better decisions early, reduce risk during implementation, and establish a stronger model for post-launch improvement.
Readers exploring Barry’s perspective may also want to review the SharePoint & Microsoft 365 Knowledge Center, the SharePoint & Microsoft 365 consulting solutions hub, and Industry-Specific SharePoint Intranet Solutions for examples of how these ideas are applied in practice.
Reviewed by Barry Turnmeyer
Barry also reviews selected dataBridge content related to SharePoint architecture, Microsoft 365 readiness, discovery, migrations, site and information architecture, permissions planning, adoption, training, and post-launch advisory strategy.
Where dataBridge content includes a reviewer attribution for Barry, it reflects topics that align directly with his consulting background, architecture leadership, and client success role at dataBridge.
Professional Background
Barry’s background combines senior SharePoint architecture, enterprise development, migration leadership, user training, program management, and management oversight. His resume highlights SharePoint on-premises experience spanning more than 23 years, SharePoint Online experience, Microsoft 365 expertise, Power Platform development, and years of experience leading teams, managing projects, and supporting enterprise collaboration environments. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems from Strayer University, graduating magna cum laude.
About dataBridge
dataBridge is a consulting-first SharePoint and Microsoft 365 firm focused on helping organizations build structured, scalable, and sustainable digital workplaces.
Our approach emphasizes strategy, architecture, governance, and practical execution. We help clients create environments that are easier to manage, easier to use, and better aligned to long-term business needs.
Through services such as SharePoint Consulting Services, Microsoft 365 Consulting & Strategy, SharePoint Support, and SharePoint Training, dataBridge helps organizations improve collaboration, governance, usability, and delivery across the Microsoft 365 platform.
You can also explore our Resources, browse our broader Solutions, see how we support organizations through SharePoint Intranet by Industry, or Contact Us to start a conversation.
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