Solutions Architect

Microsoft Certified Professional with practical experience delivering high quality enterprise solutions to client organizations. Primarily focused on SharePoint and .NET technologies, leverages senior-level consulting skills to match business challenges with technology solutions. Experience includes: enterprise-level architecture, application design and development, relational database analysis and design, business requirements analysis, project management and problem resolution.

Summary of Qualifications

Planning and Architecture

• Leads planning and architecture of intranet, extranet and internet SharePoint deployments for client organizations. Activities include: scope definition, executive briefing sessions, architectural design sessions, project stakeholder interviews, hands-on workshops, and technical demonstrations.
• Provides functional and technical guidance related to the architecture and design of SharePoint implementations. Areas of expertise include: enterprise content management ECM , document management, records management, web content management and publishing, enterprise search, business intelligence, Excel Services, workflow, InfoPath Forms, information architecture, SharePoint governance, disaster recovery, Business Data Catalog BDC , licensing, installation/configuration and custom application development.
• Identifies and implements architectural and development best practices for SharePoint and .NET solutions.

Developme nt, Customization Deployment

• Develops proof of concept and pilot implementations to demonstrate and test advanced SharePoint capabilities.
• Leads internal and external technical resources in performing SharePoint customizations. Experience includes the development of custom content types, master pages, layout pages, cascading style sheets CSS , user controls, site definitions, list definitions, and workflows.
• Installs and configures internal, extranet, internet-facing SharePoint deployments. Also performs updates to existing MOSS and WSS installations.
• Performs enterprise software development life-cycle activities for .NET/SQL Server architecture and development. This primarily includes analysis, design, and development of internet, intranet and client-server applications.

Business Development Execution

• Acts as recognized speaker/presenter for sponsored Microsoft Events on SharePoint Technologies and Office Server solutions. Topics include: SharePoint Deployment Planning, Enterprise Content Management, Workflow, InfoPath Forms, Enterprise Search, and Application Development.
• Participates in recruiting process to attract and retain talented SharePoint and .NET development resources.
• Performs sales and marketing activities. This includes meeting with prospects, providing technical input to proposals, and delivering technical presentations.

Technical Skills

• Microsoft SharePoint 2007/2010 SharePoint Designer Visual Studio .NET SQL Server InfoPath Project Server PerformancePoint Server SQL Server Business Intelligence Analysis Services SSAS , Integration Services SSIS , Reporting Services SSRS Microsoft Visio Microsoft Office Mindjet MindManager Visual SourceSafe Microsoft Access STSDEV WSPBuilder Telerik RadControls CodeSmith Nintex Workflow Quest SharePoint Web Parts
• C VB.NET ASP.NET XML XSL/XSLT SQL HTML JavaScript AJAX Cascading Style Sheets CSS VBScript
• Windows 2003 Server VMware Microsoft Virtual PC Internet Information Services IIS Active Directory AD

Professional Experience

Confidential Solutions Architect/President

• Founded consulting firm to provide information technology services to clients in a wide range of industries including: pharmaceutical, financial, communications, human resources and healthcare. Recent projects include:
• Confidential - Design and deliver business-critical enterprise content management, collaboration, and search solutions for pharmaceutical research and business areas. These solutions leverage SharePoint 2007/2010, Quest SharePoint Web Parts, Nintex Workflow and Visual Studio to provide request management, document authoring, and document management capabilities.
• Confidential - Designed information architecture for corporate intranet based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MOSS . This implementation included a corporate portal to be utilized by ECFMG employees and an executive board portal to be utilized by executive board members.
• Confidential - Assessed existing Windows SharePoint Services WSS 3.0 implementation and provided recommendations related to SharePoint information architecture, development, deployment and customization. Also served as lead architect for a large-scale .NET/SQL Server application development project to provide an integrated document composition application. This implementation utilized a service-oriented architecture SOA .
• Confidential - Designed and developed database, business logic and user interface components for internet-based health plan information system. This .NET/SQL Server application enabled benefits specialists to organize and optimize 400 medical and dental plans offered to 750,000 Verizon employees, retirees and dependents nationwide.

Confidential SharePoint Practice Lead/Solutions Architect

• Established Microsoft SharePoint practice to enable clients to improve business performance through the use of Microsoft SharePoint Technologies and Services. As practice lead, responsibilities included marketing, resource management and technology leadership.
• In addition to practice lead role, was also responsible for successful delivery of Microsoft SharePoint practice services. As Solutions Architect, provided consulting services to the following clients:
• Confidential Designed and led effort to build client's internet-facing website. Utilizing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MOSS content management and publishing capabilities, this project provided a global marketing presence for the client.
• Confidential Assessed existing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MOSS portal, provided recommendations, and implemented improvements related to deployment, information architecture and branding/customization.
• Confidential Led planning and architecture for client's Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MOSS deployment. This implementation allowed the client to utilize SharePoint enterprise document management capabilities in an intranet/extranet environment to manage project documentation.

Confidential Programmer Analyst

Designed and developed healthcare information, employee/customer education, executive information, marketing support, and financial database applications.