SUMMARY:

• Enterprise Architect, responsible for Technology roadmap recommendations, technology enhancement recommendations, Governance roadmaps and strategies/approaches; managing vendor relationships and providing guidance for continuous improvement of enterprise solution implementations.
• Enterprise Architect assisting post - merger/acquisition technology road maps and related architectural recommendations, right from consolidating the Active directory to evolving the operational applications and infrastructure to new Enterprise Standards.
• Enterprise Architect creating and managing Architecture artifacts - E. Confidential . Vision and Goal statements, Stake holder decision points and strategy diversions(corporate/IT strategy),Business cases, Use Cases, information/knowledge management plans, Application/systems architecture documents, Infrastructure /applications inventory etc..
• Assisting clients with GAP analysis/ business requirements gathering for Enterprise information management solutions, and guidance on right solution approach, appropriate information architecture and organizational taxonomy.
• Ensuring architecture and technology standards are enforced during Architecture Review meetings where project designs and technical initiatives are reviewed.
• Architectural recommendations to reduce the administrative cost by ECM platform consolidation approach to support 90% of process centralization capabilities and increased operational efficiency >25 %
• Providing clients with architectural governance - i.e. Architecture review, Architecture Health check of existing solutions to ensure alignment to the architectural and technical strategy of organization & managing artifacts in a centralized repository.
• Facilitating communications between business and technology stakeholders to ensure desired business outcomes.
• Providing recommendations on the Customer Digital Experience solutions to enhance sales
• Responsible to provide analysis & insights supporting Enterprise road map towards cloud architecture, office productivity solutions, Data Archival, System decommissioning, Adoption of IaaS and SaaS solutions.
• Providing guidance on vendor evaluation using vendor score card and technology fitment by performing due diligence activities
• 10 years of experience as Technical Architect in architecting and implementing COTS Enterprise Solutions and custom web based solutions using Net 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, Angular JS,CSOM; JSOM &SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2012/2014
• Providing Architectural recommendations on storage virtualization, load balancing, proxy, RAID, SAN, NAS, fault tolerant architectures, high availability (HA) & business continuity / disaster recovery (DR) architectures etc.
• Performing technical evaluations of new technology and acquisition candidates within Organization as required by client.
• Designing Information Architecture, Structuring Enterprise Taxonomy model and providing Best practices guidelines for Enterprise Search
• Mentoring/Creating architect pillars within teams through guidance on best practices/right approaches for solution designs, root cause analysis & understanding the impact of evolving technologies etc.
• Responsible for designing/managing scaled-out and distributed applications at large scale.
• Providing information management optimization approaches through an understanding of evolving business needs and technology capabilities.
• Contributing to the Technical and financial assessment of enterprise solutions to finalize the go-forward technology platform before end of financial year
• Architecting Content upgrade/migration to Private/Public cloud platform
• Providing Architectural workshops/handholding at Confidential center to clients on need basis as Confidential ’s preferred partner representative
• Designing and recommending security models, ADFS/AD /LDAP reviews for SharePoint, O365,Hybrid Search & other legacy applications(Tableau/SAP/Workday) integration/ implementations
• Sr. Technical Architect for Digital Solutions & Confidential COE practice team ensuring best practices are followed in deliveries to client
• Experienced in designing and delivering solutions in SDLC methods-Waterfall/Agile/Factory
• Designing office productivity solutions in SharePoint/O365 hosted scenarios(Provider Apps/Auto Hosted Apps/SharePoint Hosted Apps) with best practices guidelines /design patterns
• Expertise in Technical designing, capacity planning /sizing big SharePoint farms with 15+ server components/Huge data store in TB’s with failover clusters.
• Integrating/migrating Workflow solutions to desired BPM platforms
• Evaluating and designing solution approach for content archival, Records management, historical data/content capture and migration.
• Architecting, designing, developing and deploying Innovative products build on top of SharePoint framework.
• Evaluating & designing Migration /upgrade approaches for enterprise information management solutions
• Deploying Enterprise solutions in Physical, vSphere/VMWare/ESX & Hyper-V Infrastructure.
• Working in co-ordination with Confidential team for pilot /POC projects for client requirements.
• Experienced as Solution Architect in mapping business processes and requirements, Solution Design/architecture, effort estimates & work breakdown structure.
• Experienced in imaging and ECM Solutions like Xythos, ABBYY Imaging, IBM Content Manager, FileNet, Enterprise Scan, Captiva, OpenText - ICC,ECC, VIM, xECM for SAP,OTMM, Archive server, Content Server etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Domain experience: Manufacturing, Energy& Utilities, Telecom, BFS, Insurance, Electronics, Retail & Consumer goods, Food &Beverages, Media & Entertainment

Operating Systems: Windows Server: 2000-2012/R2, Windows XP/ Professional /NT, 98,Vista/Windows 7/8 /10

Languages/MS Technologies: C, FoxPro, Visual Basic, ASP .Net, VB .Net, C# .Net( 2.0/3.0/3.5/4.5 ), HTML & XML, JQuery, AngularJS, JSOM, Windows PowerShell(PS),PS for SharePoint On-Premises & SharePoint Online-O365

Confidential Office /Servers: MS office 2013/2010/2007/2003 , MS Visio, Confidential Office communication Server 2007/2010,SharePoint Designer 2007/2010/2013

Methodologies/ Tools: Visio 2013/2010/2007/2005 , Visual Basic 6.0, Version control VSS 6.0, Visual Studio 2005-2015, TFS, GitHub,Node.js, TOAD DBA suite 12.10, MS SQL Management studio 2014,Oracle SQL developer, Aginity Workbench for-Netezza, RedShift, SharePoint /O365

Web Application Servers: IIS 6.0, IIS 7.0,IIS 7.5

RDBMS: MS Access, MS SQL Server 2000,SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008/R2,SQL Server 2012.SQL 2014 Oracle 9i, 11g

TECHNOLOGIES:

• OpenText /Livelink /Hummingbird
• SP 2016/SP 2013 & O365/SPD/Infopath Forms services/SPS 2010 /MOSS 2007
• Xythos
• IBM FileNet/IBM Content Manager
• ABBYY Imaging,
• SAP xECM/VIM
• Alfresco
• DotNetNuke
• Jhoomla
• Data Archival - Symantec, SAP ILM, InfoArchive
• AD- Windows 2000-2012
• Novell Directory
• NTLM, Kerberos, SSL
• MS IAG/UAG/TMG,IBM Tivoli
• SSO, SAML, OAuth
• VMWare -workstation, vSsphere ESXi
• MS Hyper-V
• Confidential SharePoint Designer
• Adobe Photoshop, CorelDraw
• Macromedia- Dreamweaver
• MS Azure, AWS
• Tableau

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

ECM Architect

Responsibilities:

• ‘Facilitate communications between business and technology stakeholders to ensure desired business outcomes are met through adoption of right technology platform
• Ensure clear understanding of business’ transformation strategy/programs and how Enterprise Information management and centralized content management rationalization will fit into their roadmap.
• Provide guidance for vendor evaluation and selection of right technology by performing due diligence activities
• Supporting the solution hosting decision based on cross functional dependencies and technology roadmap of a business function
• Provide recommendations on hardware sizing as needed
• Providing guidance on AD user group management to support road map for enterprise wide information management solution implementation across 168 operational companies.
• Reviewing and Supporting the enterprise wide strategy/approach for decommissioning outdated information management systems
• Architectural evaluation of multiple ECM footprint in existing landscape (across 168 operational companies in US and 30 plus companies spread across Globally) for the Enterprise wide content management solution implementation by narrowing down to a single ECM solution
• Responsible for discovering potential operational, security requirements and identifying integration points with existing content management systems and integrated products.(SalesForce, HighRadius check solutions, ChesaPeake, Bectran, Liberty, Kofax, Captiva, SAP VIM,ICC, Documentum, Active Directory, OpenText, MDM, Ariba sourcing, ERP system on AS 400 and SAP)
• Providing enterprise wide content management optimization approaches through an understanding of evolving business needs and technology capabilities.
• Evaluating the Enterprise data archival needs and recommending the right approach and solution guidance by reviewing industry recommendations
• Leading the Enterprise wide Contract Management Solution technology requirement to provide technology evaluation and right product fitment to meet the Business need as per the existing process optimization roadmap.
• As an Architect contribute to solution approaches, reviews, recommendations, estimates and implementation guidelines to internal and/or external solution provider/vendor teams, as well as cross-functional teams consisting of Business Architects, Business Analysts, Infrastructure, Security, Application Architects, Change management teams, release management and technical training development teams to ensure successful deliveries.
• Provide recommendations for centralized digital asset management solution enhancements to Increased Customer adoption and customer experience support by enabling more customer choices through right digital solution
• Point of contact for early design and vendor analysis. initial requirements for security, maintainability, monitoring, data retention, scalability, reporting and performance
• Provide architectural handholding to team members and third party vendor resources where need the technical guidance for product implementations
• Provide active guidance and handholding / review of estimations and time lines by vendors
• Evaluating Integration/migration of Workflow solutions to the right ECM Technology platform
• Evaluating and designing solution approach for content archival, Records management, historical data/content capture and migration.

Confidential, Houston

Responsibilities:

• Support as Certified Enterprise Architect for consulting assignments on Architecture guidance, developing business cases for project approvals, Technology roadmap guidance, and Information governance best practices.
• Providing consultancy support and issue resolutions as an Architect for ongoing projects based in US and Europe in Manufacturing, Utilities, BFS and Insurance domain
• Supporting mission critical solution implementations on critical technical issues as needed
• Designing Information Architecture and Organizational Taxonomy
• Sr. Architect in the core team of Digital Solution, Confidential COE and IoT team to implement Innovative Product (IP) tools developed internally
• Providing technology road map and recommendations for cloud adoption and hybrid implementations
• Efforts Estimation & Technical Response to RFP to US and Europe based clients
• Designing and implementing POC solutions as a part of pre sales technical support
• Preparing BRD, Functional Requirement document and Technical Specification Document
• Capacity Planning & Designing deployment Architecture
• Technical approach and design for application integration of other LOB applications with SharePoint - Tableau, Commerce Server, LiveLink etc.
• Working on best practices guidance for SharePoint Implementation
• Analysis and solution recommendations for SharePoint Archival solutions and Records management
• Design Model for Intranet and internet site solutions
• Requirement gathering, Implementation and migration recommendations for BPM workflows
• Evaluating ECM products to recommend the right solution for customer needs
• Implementing Enterprise solution in Physical, VMware infrastructure

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Sr. Consulting Architect

Responsibilities:

• As an architect for the pre-migration activity to Analyze and define the migration roadmap for SharePoint 2010 sites for a POC sample of 420 GB size.
• The farm has a user base of 293,000 with ~ 5000 user groups which are hosted on a 31 server farm environment supporting the implementation.
• The existing Farm includes customized web parts, InfoPath consuming Services, workflows and custom application pages
• . The objective is to execute in built migration and analysis tool P2P for SharePoint applications in multiple runs.
• Post execution activity involves analyzing the information and preparing a detailed report highlighting the complexities, customization and recommend approach for migration.
• Providing Implementation insights on Enterprise Search migration design approaches & Best practices guidelines (Custom apps, CSOM solutions, AngularJS usage). Consultant Architect to provide Seamless search solution recommendations as a part of Migration from SharePoint 2010 to O365.Provided recommendations on Hybrid search implementation for future road map.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. SharePoint Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architect to perform Due diligence, estimation for conversion and migration of existing content management solution .
• Evaluation was done on the custom solution packages deployed within 48 sites to categorize sites that would be candidates for migration to Cloud .Analysis was performed using inbuilt migration tool.
• External tool SPCAF was used for a more detailed analysis for complexity of customization
• Technical Findings/Observations to consider for migration approach, Analysis report, SPCAF report, Migration Approach/Recommendations for custom apps into multiple environments, New Architecture approach (for each application),Justification, Impacts/Challenges & Action plan for migration, Risks and Mitigation plan, Effort estimates by app model

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Sr. Architect in Enterprise architect

Responsibilities:

• Client has SharePoint Portal deployed in its environment and shared across different locations and users.
• The vision for migration was to leverage technology stack and upgrade the stack to latest version of SharePoint. One of the migration and upgrade challenge included complex database designing for custom workflow migration for an integrated Workflow solution.
• The contract management solution migration design and migration implementation support was provided with a scalable solution to in corporate future application feature additions.
• Existing contract management solution required to design dynamic wizard templates (54 templates) to support custom workflow migration to SharePoint 2010.The solution design also included complex data model to support the integrated workflow process migration.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. Architect in Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Providing recommendations on the Taxonomy structure implementation as a part of information governance initiative
• Implementing and documenting Organization level Governance policies for SP on-premise and O365 implementations, Setting coding standards &guidelines for multiple development teams engaged in developing solutions for SP 2013 on-premise and O365.
• Review and design the Solution Architecture for SharePoint 2010 migration to SharePoint 2013
• Evaluating and designing internal collaboration portal (SP 2013 and O365), Migrating Legacy applications to SharePoint 2013/ O365 (Legacy applications were on SharePoint 2010, ColdFusion, LiveLink, Lotus Notes etc.)
• Reviewing and monitoring Development and test environment hosted on Azure Platform
• Designing custom apps using AngularJS & CSOM with best practices guidelines for organization defined hosting environments
• Analyzing existing Workflow solutions to migrate them to internally hosted SharePoint workflows.
• Architectural guidance and hand holding for project portfolio management system migration (content and historical data migration) into SP 2013 and Project Server online.
• Providing architectural guidance (in alignment with organization’s technology road map) to set up Information architecture and taxonomy guidelines that was missing for SharePoint implementations.
• Architectural guidance for taxonomy implementation, Managed Metadata recommendations, Search upgrade to SharePoint 2013,Optimising O365 site collections search center, Reviewing the site architecture and navigation for user experience, Search results output customization guidelines
• Evaluating each new application identified for application migration to recommend the best suitable technology platform while evaluating its feasibility on SharePoint platform investment done within Organization.
• Reviewing search server sizing/capacity planning and URL renaming as a part of migration from SharePoint 2010
• Architecting SharePoint Search solution with on-premise and O365 sites co-existing to address and support collaboration security concerns with ITAR documents/ content .Activity involved Outbound Hybrid Search architecture recommendations/guidelines with result source and query rule reviews.
• Design, evaluate and review of workflow solutions on SharePoint 2013 with best practices guidelines
• Design, evaluate and recommendation for Project server 2010 migration to Project server online

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Lead SharePoint Architect

Responsibilities:

• As Lead Architect for multiple site migration projects-Portals included Internal Customer Support Service sites, Merger and Acquisitions sites and CTO office portals migration from SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013 to O365.
• Migration also involved re-designing the taxonomy structure, Pre-Migration analysis and migration planning.
• Provide guidance to offshore team on the migration approach, technical issues, content migration to different development environment to Production release.
• Provide Technical road map guidance and implementation hand holding for SP 2013 in a fully owned cloud hosted environment which would be used as centralized content management across distributed geo locations.
• Client had their current environment redesigned with new SP 2010 templates and define architectural guidelines to upgrade into SP2013.While the current project is being done in SP 2010, the new fully function 6 server SP 2013 farm environment has to be set up for QA and production to start with planning the test lab and upgrade activities for internal team.
• Role involved hand holding implementation team, architectural guidance, installation and environment set up with Industry known Best practices for every component in SP 2013-Configurations,Governance,Performance tuning, SP 2013 custom service applications, workflow server etc.
• Deployed Search servers which were implemented to manage enterprise search requirement in new farm.
• Also did hand holding for client IT team on installation guidelines and provided deployment architecture and training on same. Responsibility included Search Implementation with metadata refinement guidelines, Index Partitioning for performance and crawling optimization