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Introduction

  • Well - rounded, hands-on, results-oriented Professionalwith 15 years in Microsoft Enterprise Technology experience.A consensus builder with a strategic architectural perspective, and mature business technology acumen.
  • Experienced in SharePoint 2013 Architecture, designing, solutioning, and implementations, in on-premises/hosted and in Azure IaaS Cloud, in intranet, extranet and public facing scenarios.
  • Hybrid expertise inCore IT infrastructure, software development, related disciplines. Designed, implemented, integrated,delivered,and operated large and complex SharePoint internet, and intranet environments.
  • SelectSkills Areas of Expertise
  • SharePoint 2013 Architecture
  • Assessments Gaps Analysis
  • Cloud Computing IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
  • Internet Cyber Security
  • Identity Access Management
  • Software Solutions Development
  • Strategy, Planning Execution
  • System Architecture Engineering
  • Information Architecture Taxonomies
  • SP Governance Best Practices
  • Solution Architecture
  • Audit Compliance
  • Center of Excellence COE
  • Management Strategy Consulting
  • Business Continuity Disaster Recovery
  • Transformation Initiatives
  • Vendor Technology Product Selection
  • Intranet, Extranet Internet
  • Infrastructure Platform Technologies
  • Technology Team Leadership
  • SharePoint 2013 Business Intelligence
  • Deployment Implementation
  • Operations Administration
  • Requirements Gathering Analysis
  • Delivery Management
  • Risk Mitigation Remediation
  • Technical Writing Documentation
  • ALM, SDLC, DevOps
  • Integration Technologies
  • Enterprise Architecture Practices
  • SharePoint Operation Administration
  • Third Party/ISV SharePoint add-ons.

SelectTechnologies Areas of Competencies

  • SharePoint Development: Programming Models APIs, Web Parts, Solutions Features, SSOM, CSOM, Full Trust App Model, Managed Codes, JavaScript OM, REST/oData WCF. Site Development, Information Architecture, Managed Metadata, Terms Store Navigation, Cross Site Publishing, Master Page, Content Layout Pages, Content Types, Content Search Web Parts, WCM, ECM, Device Channels Responsive Web Design, SharePoint Designer Design Manager, and other.
  • SharePoint Farm, Platform, Services: Farm Topology, Performance High Availability, Business Intelligence, WCM Publishing, Service Applications Web, Search, Excel, Visio, Work Flow, User Profile, Performance Point, Access, SQL ReportingServices SSRS, SQL Server Analysis Services SSAS, PowerPivot, Secure Store . Authentication Services classic, Claims, Tokens, FBA, Kerberos, PKI/Certificate, Federated, Managed Metadata Taxonomies, SharePoint 2013 external Workflow Services.
  • General Web Development:Microsoft Visual StudioIDE .NET Framework 2 4.5, TFS, Services Oriented Architecture SOA, Web Services, WCF, Web API, REST, oData, oAuth, ASP.NET Forms MVC, C-sharp C, T-SQL, LINQ, Entity Framework EF, HTML5, JavaScript Libraries Frameworks,JQuery UI, AJAX, XML, JSON, Web API, HTML5, and other.
  • Infrastructure Networks, Platforms Enabling Technologies: Windows Server Operating Systems 2008 2012 R2. Active Directory Domain Services AD DS, Certificate Services AD CS, Federation Service AD FS, Azure AD ACS .Server Storage Clustering, Web Network Load Balancing. TCP/IP Networking, Routing, Switching, VLAN, SDN, DNS, VPN Technologies. Power Shell. Firewalls Forefront Threat Management Gateway, PIX F5 .Windows Hyper-V VMWare Virtualization.Authentication Integrated, Kerberos, NTLM, FBA, Federated, SAML, WIF, SSO .System Center Operations Manager, Configuration Manager, Virtual Machine Manager . BizTalk Commerce Server.SQL 2008 2014 Database Server, Analysis Services, Reporting Services, Integration Services .SQL High Availability Clustering, Mirroring, Log Shipping . OLTP OLAP Data warehouse, DataMart, etc . Cloud Computing, Azure Cloud IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Mobility, and other.

Select Accomplishments

  • Served in SharePoint including 2013 roles such as, SME, tech lead, SharePoint/solutionarchitect, developer, engineer, admin, and Prod/Dev Manager. With critical analytic qualities builtconsensus, strategies to deliver results on targets.
  • SharePoint 2010/2013 lifecycle experience in architecting, designing, solutioning, operating, support.Demonstrated thorough knowledge of SharePoint OOB features capabilities, and associations between application design infrastructure environments.
  • Rescued and turned around multiple troubled SharePoint implementations. Analyzed and developed detailed assessments, remediation, and follow-up tunings, governance plans, strategies.
  • Recognized opportunities and took appropriate action/initiative working with stakeholders, with often incomplete, ambiguous, and conflicting requirements. Identified opportunities, developed prototypes, and POCs to bring clarity.
  • Built technical design approaches for redeployments, green-field implementations, and lift-n-shift on-premises SharePoint implementation including SharePoint 2013 to co-lo and Azure Cloud.
  • Designed infrastructure and SharePoint extranet in Azure IaaS Cloud. Integrated Azure IaaS SharePoint extranet with on-premises network utilizing S2S VPN and Active Directory Trust, AD-FS and Azure AD.
  • Identified architecturally significant requirements and their ramifications. Formulated presented architecture decisions and their rationales to business and delivery teams.
  • 80:20 rule, promoted OOB features, lead and mentored developers for best practices, patternsto minimize costly custom code development and 'run-away' implementations.Challenged, engaged, lead and contributed in software/solution life cycle stages including:solutioning, development, testing, deployment,and operations.
  • Challenged developers to re-think user experience by utilizing cheaper web components e.g. Telerik Controls, JQuery UI and SharePoint/SQL BI features verses a wholesale run-away implementation integration of third party BI products.
  • Established and rationalizepowerful SharePoint 2013 features like taxonomies, metadata, data-models, data classification, User Profiles, and Searchfeatures to drive SharePoint IA, WCM, and UX.
  • Built full SharePoint 2013 Business Intelligence capability suite including SQL Reporting Services SSRS, SQL Analysis Services SSAS, PowerPivot, Business Connectivity Services BCS, External Content Type ECT, Excel Services, and PowerPivot.
  • Integrated SharePoint with external identity providers like Azure AD, Social and AD-FS/SAML federation.
  • Leadlocal, remote, offshore development teams often working with incomplete/ambiguous requirements. From solution architect to contributor, and tiebreaker, playedmany roles in software engineering bringing clarity, authority, responsibility, and accountability for continued progress and delivery.
  • Selective Experience, Achievements Career Progression 2000 current

Confidential

Professional Services

Principal

  • A consulting practice that performed several engagements listed on this resume.
  • Select Projects Activities
  • SharePoint 2007 2010 upgrades to SharePoint 2013
  • SQL 2008 to SQL 2014 upgrades
  • Systems Center 2012 R2 upgrade
  • Windows AD integration with Azure Tenant AD
  • Microsoft Azure
  • AD-FS 3.0 implementation with Azure AD/ACS
  • Branding: HTML5 JQuery, CSS, Bootstrap, UX Work
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 Cluster and Hyper-V updates
  • UX: Twitter Bootstrap integration with SharePoint

Confidential

Principal Technical Architect Lead

  • DEP BEDC has an active construction contract portfolio of 10B and has an additional 3B in contracts in the Planning Design phase. Served in a stretched Technical Lead role across multiple technology domains to define and implement a common Service Delivery Extranet forBEDC business.
  • Technology Design Concentration
  • SharePoint 2013 Enterprise based Service Delivery Portal running in Azure IaaS Cloud. Workloads include, full SharePoint 2013 SQL 2014 BI features including SSRS, SSAS, Excel Services, PowerPivot, and other third party products for UX. Federated Identity utilizing Azure AD/ACS, SAML, and AD-FS. Managed metadata, Taxonomies. Integrated Profiles, Self-Service features. Document management, Forms and Web Publishing. Other technologies included BizTalk and Azure SaaS Service Bus for integration with other SaaS and internal partners in federation.
  • Select Accomplishments Activities
  • Worked across teams to capture business objectives, requirements, organizational practices, capabilities, and constraints.
  • Conducted numerous ad-hoc white board sessions, presentations, and IT topic including SharePoint 2013, Cloud Security driven deep-dives to evangelize, and articulate a commonly understood and agreed upon SharePoint 2013 Cloud centric Reference Architecture Concepts of Operations.
  • Tying up large set of technologies developed detailed documentation for solution utilizing SharePoint 2013 and Azure Cloud IaaS .Provided critical reviews/inputto key deliverable like: vendor proposed technical solutions, scopes, SOW,and deliverables.
  • For Azure Cloud IaaS based SharePoint 2013 implementation, tackled complexNYC Security Accreditation, and Identity Federation / SSO integration requirements. Solution included Azure AD/ACS, Forefront Identity Manager FIM and AD-FS based architecture.
  • For data warehouse, data marts, business intelligence, reporting, UX/UI related requirements worked with client and teams of developers for third party product vendors. Guided teams in assessments, evaluations, and integration with SQL and SharePoint BI related capabilities. Products reviewed include, Microsoft, Tableau, Spotfire, and QlikView.
  • Lead and succeeded in recovering of a business critical prior third-party botched SharePoint 2010 implementation effort. Assessment and remediation included all areas including Network, VMWare, SQL, SharePoint Farm, and Custom Codes. Work performed resulted in stabilized farm and response time dropped from minutes to 2-3 sec.

Confidential

Project Consultant

  • Worked on a remediation effort that resulted from FCC audit. On an aggressive timeline, worked to rectify/comply critical business SharePoint implementation for a federal audit mandate.
  • Turned around an unmaintained and over-engineered SharePoint environment into a highly functioning performing success.
  • Completed project on time, within budget, and above expectations. Delivered a high performance, redundant, up-to-date fully patched, fully functional and leaner environment with a stand-by fail-over farm.

Confidential

Delivery Lead / Architect

  • Advised and influence a team of 20 dedicated professionals. Managedtechnology, directed development, technology operation, and outsourced development/delivery vendors.
  • Viewed and respected as a key technical expert critical resource in the management of multiple vendor delivery streams through design, implementation, and operations across multiple practice areas including performance, security, and infrastructure.

Select Accomplishments Activities

  • Supported business and technology leaders in developing roadmaps, budgets, staffing plans, and strategic alignments. Defined enforced strategies, technology requirements solutions, release management, financial market data exchanges.
  • Worked with corporate IT teams for production operational issues.Designed and implemented new technologies. Worked with internal teams, business technology vendors, and offshore partners on design proposals, SOW, and deliveries.
  • Partnered with business for maintenance releases. Delivered on new major initiative like iPad app using SharePoint as backend,SharePoint sites rebranding, social media, micro-blogging, and ReSTintegration with market data providers Morningstar .

Confidential

SharePoint Consultant

  • Filled a challenging and escalated SharePoint consultant role with high expectations to assess, advice, and resolve poorly performing SharePoint - Duck Creek intranet and broker-agent extranet.
  • Select Accomplishments Activities
  • Uncovered instabilities, implemented quick tactical fixes, restored critical operation. Conducted detailed assessment/RCA and remediation implementation.Scope included infrastructure, global network, custom codes, SharePoint implementation.
  • Worked with Duck Creek SharePoint developers for integration optimization best practices for efficient WAN bandwidth utilization caching. Reviewed and provided feedback on new vendor proposed SharePoint 2010 upgrade design strategy.
  • Trained SharePoint Admin. Examined SharePoint DR that resulted in significant rework to meet business technology objectives.

Confidential

Senior Architect Manager

  • At a flux of time, joined ALICO A spinoff of AIG's multi-billion dollar international business and assumed technology ownership of global SharePoint implementation, development, and operation.
  • Select Accomplishments Activities
  • Advised senior managers and supervised a skeleton staff of developers and support analysts. Maintained 24x7 global operation and prepared for IPO or takeover target.
  • Represented the head-office web data team and worked with country/region teams for technology consolidation, data roll-ups, network services, and Active Directory consolidation to build a robust AIG independent infrastructure.
  • After MetLife's acquisition, worked with MetLife M A to transition ALICO's into confidential. Worked on organization technology integration streams including architecture, engineering, operations services, and global technology strategy.

Confidential

Group Manager Architect

A multi-million dollar multi-year multi-vendors initiative lead by Accenture to implement Enterprise Services Platform eSP framework by integrating CMS, SSO and other components utilizing SharePoint as front end. Assumed a transitional backfill SharePointlead role to assist in integration a set of SharePoint based product brand sites.

Confidential

Enterprise Architect SharePoint .NET Technologies

  • Hired into a newly created strategic EA role to work with confidential Business School's CIO Managing Directors for a technology-transformation initiative shift from Java to Microsoft, and to provide leadership toSharePoint solutions implementations.
  • Select Accomplishments Activities
  • Shepherd several highly visible public facing sites
  • As Enterprise Architect Lead member of Steering Committee, worked with vendors on technical designs, architecture, and proposed solutions alignments to best practices organization capabilities.
  • Developed SDLC practice. Lead and aligned delivery release management work across infrastructure and development teams, defined and enacted procedures, R R, and necessary infrastructure.

Confidential

SharePoint Solution Architect

A technology consulting advisory role tokey business decision makers. Evangelized,advised, and strategized best practices to leverage newly rolled-out SharePoint for its capabilities for Divisional Portal, Business Process Integration, and Master Data Services.

Confidential

Collaboration Services Architect

  • A SharePoint Lead SME role for 65K users IS GS organization to assist on new programs, initiatives and re-tooling of existing ageing products and solutions.
  • Select Accomplishments Activities
  • Provided architectural development guidance for large SharePoint initiatives. Areas included core infrastructureengineering, security, compliance monitoring, and .NET/SharePoint application development.
  • On CIO's imperative, contributed to cloud strategy and 3 years roadmap for operational efficiencies, new services, and products. Defined scopes of capital expense projects with IS GS strategic alignment.
  • Lead the Assured Identity Information Security efforts for SharePoint extranet solutions using federated identity. Worked with enterprise Identity Management team to drive certify federation requirements utilizing ADFS SAML.
  • Participated, represented, and contributed in Architecture Review Board ARB and SharePoint Center of Excellence COE .

Confidential

Managing Consultant/Regional Lead

  • Enterprise Architect and Service Lead to build new competencies for newly created Solutions Services consultancy practice.
  • Leveraged and trainedLarge Account Reseller LAR - software sales organization and National Practice team to help tap into existing customer base for new service revenue.Created collaterals and marketing material for sales selling solutions.
  • Institutionalized Microsoft packaged offerings like SDPS SharePoint Deployment Planning Services, Microsoft Assessment Planning MAP, and Infrastructure Planning and Design IPD .
  • Represented Insight Enterprise in Microsoft sponsored client events, demos, and conferences. Collaborated with Microsoft Sales and delivered on customers like Thermo Fisher Scientific, NY Life, and Houston MTA.

Confidential

Managing Consultant/ Microsoft Practice Lead

  • SharePoint Infrastructure Architect SME/Lead supporting high profile initiatives including,, confidential Components included SharePoint, BizTalk, Commerce Server, third party catalog, payment processing, fulfillment services.
  • Select Accomplishments Activities
  • For, in a complex multi-vendor deployment, represented PMI infrastructure operations team for production rollout, production readiness go-live.
  • Worked on a new initiative to design standard based canned micro-site solution for global PMI communities and local chapter sites, hosted by PMI and provided as a value add service.

Confidential

SharePoint Consultant

  • Developed and implemented multiple departmental SharePoint applications for Customer Services, Sales, Product Development, Plat Operations. Examples include Distributor Pricing Contract support, Statement Generation Distribution, Customer Services Call Center Dashboard, Inventory, Manufacturing Plant Pipeline Tracker, Customer Complaint Tracking, Quality Control Center.
  • Select Accomplishments Activities
  • Data warehouse DataMart aggregating feeds and surfacing aggregates in SharePoint based visual and drill-down dashboards.
  • Eliminated data discrepancies, processing delays, MS Access Excel type apps, and mainframe jobs. Eliminated many legacies including fax systems, paper processes, mainframe printing processing.
  • Recognized in annual business for innovation, saving operating cost eliminating legacies.

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