Summary

Innovative IT professional with 15+ years of experience in software architecture and development. Reputable for delivering user friendly solutions for complex issues, thinking out-of-box, implementing new technologies that make an impact. Strong record of success in creating robust IT solutions, proven ability to bring the benefits of IT to solve business needs while managing cost and risk. Excellent problem solving skills. Training and mentoring successfully a team environment while maximizing individual efforts.

Technical Skills

• Sharepoint: SharePoint 2010 , SharePoint 2007, WSS, QuestSite Admin, Quest Information Portal, Avepoint, Docave, Longitude, Lightning Conductor, Websio, ECTS, ExCM
• Web development: ASP.NET (C#, VB), IIS 6/7, SQL, Access
• Client Code: HTML/ DHTML, CSS, XML, SXSL, XSLT, Web Services, JavaScript, ASP, CSS
• IDE: Visual Studio 2010 / 2008 / 2005. Sharepoint Designer, SQL Management Studio, MS Project
• Graphic tools: Adobe Photoshop, Image Ready, Dreamweaver, Macromedia Fireworks, Flash

Leadership and Management Skills

• Manage teams comprised of engineering, support, developers and web designers.
• IT project life cycle - experience managing all phases: analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and post-production support
• Identify root causes of problems, and develop and implement creative and pragmatic solutions
• Suggest areas of continuous improvement, find innovative ways to improve existing processes, introduce new technologies to provide uninterrupted, scalable and flexible solutions consistent with business needs
• Replatform the entire collaboration and communication system at TCP
• Led Macy's IT team to achieve MyMacy's Recognition award.

Director Business Applications, Confidential, Secaucus, NJ

• Lead the Business Innovation Team at The Children's Place, introducing Sharepoint Server 2010 and Microsoft technologies in a company where all legacy systems were developed, supported, and hosted by IBM. Developed the roadmap for SharePoint architecture for both intranets (2) and extranets (4) and re-platformed wepshere portals into Sharepoint 2010. Developed technology strategy, diagnosed and mapped user requirements. Recommended strategic approaches, aligning business requirements with suitable web based solutions.
• Portal platform for the future, identifying areas of improvement in legacy architecture, creating recommendations for the system. Design SharePoint2010 architecture by using capacity and performance planning load balancing and best practices. Defined rules and policies for a Web Application, Team sites, Site collections, users, lists and libraries.
• Introduced Communication and Collaboration tools, achieving high degree of customer satisfaction by connecting with all areas of business; helping users attain and achieve development plans, schedules, training and project outcomes, ensuring success with difficult IT projects.
• Managed and delivered multiple large scale projects on time and within budget. Prepared time and cost estimates, planning full project life cycle. Maximized productivity and reduced costs by improving, introducing or implementing technical and business solutions including Microsoft SharePoint technologies, Kinect and Microsoft Surface.
• Implemented best practices on centralization of data, data security, record management and retention policy using Filenet, and Governance methodology (using Quest and Avepoint products) for enterprise applications.
• Responsible for driving quality and enabling technical innovation. Lead development of standards and practices for SharePoint development including out-of-the-box SharePoint features, SharePoint Designer-created applications, and custom component development in Visual Studio
• Lead status meetings and conference calls, responsible for project status reporting, providing clarity and transparency on project health. Evaluate planned versus actual performance and communicated to the senior management.-Define core objectives, strategy and priorities. Collaborate with all levels of the business area and IT management on feasibility of system design, capability, and cost benefits. Partnered with ll levels of IT technicians and management on system details, problems, and areas of improved operation.
• Evaluate and identify performance and design issues with SharePoint - based solutions for a user base of intranet communities of over 1,000 users in US, Canada and Asia.
• Converted paper-based processes into automated sharepoint applications, increasing user effectiveness.
• Frequent hands-on software development and defect correction. Created custom sharepoint brand-appropriate skins (master pages and layouts), created varius content types and site templates, created multi-steps workflows for process and document approval, data collection, for item updates, data migration, developed highly customized feedback tools for field managers to better communicate with corporate employees, implemented wikis, blogs, custom lists with custom forms, custom views, customization of SharePoint templates, themes, as well as libraries by utilizing SharePoint Designer, Photoshop, Flash. Developed custom webparts, features and features receivers using Visual Studio 2010. Implemented BDC to connect sharepoint farm to the HR proprietary system (DB2). Created and administered wiki's, site templates, library templates, blog's, custom libraries, list, and columns.
• Robust expertise with sharepoint administration: Installed and configured SharePoint Server 2010 and services (utilizing multi layer environments). Installed, defined and configured admins, developers, and users for farms, web applications, and site collections including: site quota templates, site templates, library templates, list templates, backup /restore utilizing: Power shell, STSADMN tools, SharePoint designer, SharePoint GUI Interface and custom tools (Avepoint and Quest). Content Deployments from Dev to QA and QA to Production Environments. Measuring and fine-tuning server to optimize performance. Moving sites across the different web applications, setting up content deployment. Configures Alternate Access Mapping for external sites, configured Office SharePoint Server Search, configured User Profile import from various user repositories (AD multiple domains, LDAP, FBA). Overseen metadata management, permissions management, auditing requirements.
• Tested new Sharepoint 2010 features, like Sandbox Solution, Client Object Model, Web provisioning events. Used Web Services and Sharepoint Object Model for custom solutions.
• Implemented 2 external Vendor sites for collaboration with internal users and one Business Continuity extranet.
• Collaborated closely with the Legal and Human Resources department to implement the external site for the TCP Board of Directors. This initiative led to cutting costs by eliminating the 3rd party host.
• Managed the full life cycle of a Kinect & MS Surface multi-user touch screen application, designed to increase traffic in stores by tying children's entertainment to the TCP inventory. Application uses .net framework, silverlight, surface and kinect SDK. POC implemented successfully on Smart Touch Screens and Kinect.

• Responsible for overseeing the Sharepoint 2007 corporate intranet: Architecture, Administration, Configuration & Customizations of a Moss 2007 portal on a medium scale farm consisting from 3 WFE, Index Server, Longitude Server and two sql cluster nodes, supporting 900 internal users and over 2000 external partners.
• Identified business drivers and desired outcomes of the SharePoint implementation based on user requirements, analyzed business process improvement made possible by SharePoint implementation, explore integration points, identify risk and concerns, document security and governance.
• Led and facilitated information gathering sessions to validate business cases, gathered and documented business and functional objectives, diagnosing and mapping client requirements; articulated solution risks and barriers, recommended project approaches. Trained tech support personnel in SharePoint.
• Administration of the extended intranet for external clients using forms based authentication (FBA) and External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint.
• Customizations of several large sharepoint web applications (900+ site collections, 120+ content databases), supporting AD internal users and ADAM external users.
• Configured Office SharePoint Server search and developed collaboration solutions using SharePoint and related technologies such as Web Services and .Net Framework.
• Developed solution for performance review process using Custom Lists and Custom Workflows in SharePoint. Extensive use of personalization, Content Types, custom Search Scopes, User Profiles, Site Templates, Site Definitions, Audience. Created custom workflows, developed and implemented custom webparts and features.
• Customized web parts, web templates, and themes to bring in external data, such as RSS, XML, videos
• Researched and tested other third party products for SharePoint (ControlPoint, ExCM, Quest products, BA-Insights, AgilePoint). Customizations of the metadata and upgrade of the Longitude search product as an enhancement for the sharepoint search layer, to provide dramatic improvement in usability.
• Trained end users, created demos and online presentations, built tutorials, created user and developer documentation. Developed videos and wrote how to guides for user friendly training
• Creating and customized KPI's and dashboards
• Defined Content Types, themes, libraries, site templates , as well as page layouts
• Creating and defined custom workflow, policies and security groups
• Created Usability walk-through, GUI test plans, flow diagrams, High-Level Design with technical methods to direct features and functionality's.
• Provided engineering support and technical project management support

July 2006 - July 2009

• Architected and developed enterprise-scale applications, including web-based (ASP.NET 2.0/SQL) software that provides business managers with the ability to track sales at an individual product level via integration with Teradata and other large data warehouses. Implement Windows/ SQL based Authentication and roles/security authorization for ASP.NET 2.0 applications. Played a significant role in deciding and designing the infrastructure plan for data, web and client/server applications.
• Architected, designed, developed and integrated the web 2.0 version of Macys Homestore intranet on a Sharepoint 2007 platform. Performed a complete redesign and reimplementation of the legacy intranet, provided day-to-day web development, system maintenance and user support of corporate intranet supporting over 600 onsite PS users, 200 Mac users and 10,000+ sales associates.
• Awarded for the Intranet project by the President of Macy's Homestore and selected among the top 16 people in the corporate for the Leadership Development Program.
• Managed Sharepoint security model based on both AD and sharepoint groups, with permission at Web, Site and Subsite level, as well as list/item permission when requested.
• Developed custom master pages, built custom lists, designed various Sharepoint layouts for 12 divisional sites and 10 subsites. Coded webparts and custom controls based on gatekeepers' requirements. Created custom filter views, SPD workflows, KPIs, exposure to Web Services, BDC. Integrated and implemented external Sharepoint Site Templates, customized site columns, sort and filter list views used in subsites or across multiple sites. Implemented surveys, forums, RSS, customize XSL.
• Scheduled meetings with the gatekeepers and business owners, on a regular basis, to collect feedback and increase awareness on newly developed products, choosing and implementing them the way that best fit the business.
• Led programming team in the development and integration of web-based business analysis and reporting tools (ASP.NET 2.0, T-SQL). Hands-on in all project phases: concept and architecture, GUI design; front-end coding; back-end development including data modeling, complex stored procedures, OO design, testing, integration, deployment and support/maintenance. Developed project schedules, monitoring team progress an meeting delivery schedules.
• Worked with Business Analysts, MCH Management, FOB Gatekeepers, and end users to review business requirements. Created user documentation and training materials. Led, trained and mentored programmers, motivating them to achieve their individual programming goals.
• Responsible for finding, diagnosing, and fixing content and data problems, interacting with end users and management. Code, test, document and deliver requested program changes to new or existing web applications. Create visual training materials and coach gatekeepers.
• Developed and supported both static and dynamic graphics with the use of Adobe Photoshop, Image Ready and Macromedia Flash. Track/analyze usage statistics using Webtrends.
• Brought the web applications to the next level by implementing an internal Quality Assurance group for the software development team. Responsible with writing, reviewing, testing and debugging object-oriented code and sharepoint web parts.
  

Site Author, Confidential, Manhattan, NY

April2005 - July 2006

• Team lead, responsible with the development and maintenance of 4 e-commerce websites:catherines.com, lanebryant.com, fashionbug.com, figuremagazine.com and one corporate website, charming.com.
• Created new ASP.NET controls and forms, as well as converted classic ASP code to ASP.NET. Built database driven templates and static web pages used for multi-brand web purpose.
• Developed modules for customer registration, checkout, product landing and promotional pages.
• Collaborated closely with marketing, art, customer service and e-commerce teams to construct and translate graphical and functional requirements into user HTML/ASP interface.
• Rebuilt the site structure and defined naming convention, using source control and versioning procedures. As a part of a complete redesign, created websites from top to bottom, based on designers' PSD specifications.
• Quality Assurance and software testing. Responsible for QA of look and functionality, content and graphics of multi-brand websites, generating issue lists based on user-website interaction.
• Monitored web site usage and made recommendations for enhancements and improvements to better accommodate customers and web site visitors. Assisted in the creation of automated tools for dynamic uploading of images from Art Department to development and production servers.
• Daily maintenance and administration of the existing web site: graphic and content updates, in collaboration with Art and Marketing departments. According to the marketing requirements, creation of daily promotional pages and weekly marketing emails for the main website and for the satellite sites.

IT Consultant, Confidential, Little Neck, NY

November 2001 - April 2005

• Built web sites using hand coded HTML/DHTML, Java script, CSS and Dreamweaver for template generalization.
• Developed graphics using Fireworks, Flash and Photoshop.
• Managed web site optimization, banner placement, and Flash/Action Script based slide shows.
• Provided technical support for planning and design, maintenance and accuracy of CAD drawings; prepared design layouts; served as helpdesk and consulting for software problems.

Web Master & Web Developer, Confidential, Elmsford, NY

June 2000 - August 2001

• Build the web site architecture and developed from scratch pages and templates for the B2B version of the site, including client side/server side scripting, web tools setup, and architectural/technical aspects of the site.
• Responsible for daily site maintenance, web site administration updates and changes to the e-commerce web site based on feedback from management and users. Examined user statistic on various areas of the site and used conclusions to improve UI and content.
• Maintained and developed new website pages using hand coded HTML/DHTML/CSS/ASP, Dreamweaver and Homesite. Responsible for browser compatibility, CSS development, and image optimization using FireWorks. Developed scripts and applications for site maintenance, managing internal web reporting tools and applications.
• Responsible for coordinating the site product list with the external shopping cart database, and reviewing alternative shopping carts.

Web Developer, Confidential, New York February

2000- May 2000

• Developed e-commerce web site architecture; created diagrams for the web site flow and layouts.
• Created HTML / DHTML hand coded pages and Dreamweaver templates, worked with Homesite and Fireworks to conceptualize and develop graphical interface for the company's web site.
• Developed a demo CD, with company's web site layout, used for the advertising campaigns.

Structural Engineer, Confidential
October 1992-December 1999

• Project Manager for CAD (AutoCad Platform) software design, development and installation of the programs (VB5.0/VB6.0) used on the AutoCad Platform. Project manager for the design of 2 four-blocks hydro electrical powerplants and their waterfront civil buildings, including concrete/stone dams and their foundations, engine houses, turbine rooms, water spillways, cooling towers, weirs/coffer dams slots and other components of hydro electrical buildings. Responsible with the design and development of a CD catalog (VB6.0, ActiveX, HTML/DHTML, VBScript, CSS, Fireworks, Dreamweaver) used in the company's advertising campaigns. (CD's included company profile, competence domain, 3D products presentation, short movies, databases, diagrams and graphic animation).
• Created visual interfaces for import/export technical data between AutoCAD and finite element software. Created and developed HTML templates (HTML, CSS, Dreamweaver) and graphics (using Fireworks and Autocad import/export dwg files) for the company's advertising campaign. Designed graphic interface (Input-Output Data) used for seismic measurement and finite element programs.
• Create enterprise scale software to test foundation downstream sliding of waterfront buildings and dams. Conducted feasibility studies and prepared technical specifications, detail designs along with basic and general design for two arch dams. Extensive work with AutoCAD and finite element software (Ansys, Images 3D, Sap Liege, P-Frame) for technical drafting and structure design of water power plants, spiral chambers, draft tubes, headraces and tailwater galleries, creating diagrams and site plans. Structural analyses for both static and seismic behaviors.

Education

MS in Structural Engineering