SUMMARY

• A hands - on solution architect experienced in building enterprise class SharePoint solutions in large intranet, extranet & Internet scenarios.
• Experienced in planning, designing, customizing & implementing SharePoint Solutions (SPS 2003, MOSS 2007, 2010 & 2013) and enabling infrastructure & server technologies (Windows ‘03/’08/’12 IIS, SQL ‘00/’05/’08/’12).
• Extensive experience in core networking, virtualization & cloud computing, solution in on-site/off-site hosted and service delivery model implementations. This includes web server farms, SQL clusters, DR and Business Continuity.
• Innovative in fresh ideas & approaches with a desire to deliver & exceed customer expectations, and to address business problems with sound technical solutions. Highly respected among peers as a quick learner, with exceptional writing skills, and a problem solving & analytical aptitude.
• Twelve plus years of technical experiences in large corporations. In addition to holding 8 Microsoft certifications.
• Senior SharePoint Architect with multi-industry experience across complex, large-scale IT and business programs/projects. Oriented towards successfully leveraging clients’ technical specifications to maximize operational efficiencies and exceed expectations. Led domestic and international full life-cycle development projects with highly-skilled, cross-functional project team members.
• Providing best practices on creating Records management and Information Archival solutions that meet corporate compliances (HIPPA, SOX, and FERPA). Large scale content migration from various environments such as Network Shares, existing intranets, and Lotus Notes/Domino environments, creating Document Management solutions to host migrated data.
• Providing direction and leadership with strong interpersonal and team building skills
• Successfully worked with people within and across organizational boundaries to build agreements, guidelines, and standards in order to resolve issues and create consistent practices.
• Strong practitioner of clearly written purposeful communication and direction
• Developing solutions to deliver quality products to clients through people and processes

• Information Technology
• Project Management
• Client Relationships
• Team Building
• Process Improvements
• Taxonomy Workshops
• Metadata Workshops
• SharePoint Governance Workshop
• IT Strategy Development
• Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization
• Migrations/Upgrades
• Operations Management
• Change Management
• Technical Analysis
• Document Management Solutions
• System Integration
• Network Engineering
• Best Practice Implementation
• Disaster Recovery and Contingency Planning
• Records Management Solutions
• Microsoft Solution Framework

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Reston, VA

Sr. Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Make strategic decisions to improve efficiency of managing enterprise environments
• Contribute to strategic discussions/decisions on Cloud strategy and support
• Perform technical project management duties
• SharePoint Farm Administrator of 4 environments
• Prioritize multiple tasks while exercising good judgment
• Problem solve under pressure of deadlines
• Provide technical guidance, support and best practice leadership/mentorship to members of an existing team
• Establish technical procedures, guidelines, protocols and templates
• Create SharePoint solutions roadmaps and architecture diagrams
• Work directly with stakeholders to analyze the current architecture and provide implementation plans for upgrade and various deployment scenarios
• Ongoing research to determine what SharePoint can do to address business issues
• Liaise with IT groups regarding the migration and restore of sites when necessary
• Liaise with IT regarding the creation of AD security groups on behalf of business

Confidential, East Norriton, PA

Sr. Enterprise Solutions Architect \ Lead Requirements Manager

Responsibilities:

• Management of projects and engagements of various types and sizes
• Playing a primary role in support of new business development
• Creating thought leadership materials (e.g. webinars, published articles, white papers, and capabilities presentations)
• Contributing to HighPoint organizational vision and strategies
• Creating wireframe mockup’s for client projects
• Creating IA with Mindmaps
• Mentoring junior level consultants
• Give sales team crash course on SharePoint
• Worked with our sales team on demoing our services and helping close the deal
• Worked with the visionary team looking at where the market is headed and what we could do to stay ahead
• Participated in project prioritization and viability assessments

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

Sr. Enterprise Solutions Architect \ Lead Requirements Manager

Responsibilities:

• In charge of all cloud efforts in DC2 for DHS
• Working with DHS to better understand their environment and communicating that to our teams
• Manage 5 Business analyst
• Facilitate meetings between client teams and Confidential teams to make sure we are all on the same page
• Implemented the HP Tool Suite for requirements gathering, performance testing and application testing
• Worked with BMC on a new Portal where we will deliver all cloud services
• Worked as the SharePoint and Cloud advocate
• Gave our sales team a crash course on cloud
• Trained our sales team on our cloud services and how best to pitch them
• Worked with our sales team on demoing our services and helping close the deal
• Worked with the visionary team looking at where the market is headed and what we could do to stay ahead
• Architected deployed and implemented our cloud DR solution for all cloud services
• Reported up to the VP of NPS letting her know how our teams were doing and where we could improve
• Participated in project prioritization and viability assessments

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Sr. Enterprise SharePoint/Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designing High level Enterprise Architecture for Intranet, Extranet and Public facing Internet sites for the Federal Reserve System using SharePoint 2010 and cloud solution
• Migration of home drives into SharePoint over 25TB of data
• High level design of Lotus Notes migration into SharePoint 2010
• Migration of IBM Quicker Sites both internal and external into their Intranet and Extranet
• Help establish a governance framework and SharePoint road map
• Gathered requirements from all 12 banks and their business lines and communicated them back to the development team so that we could come up with the best solution possible
• Worked as the SharePoint and Cloud advocate
• Helped create solution blueprints for multi-phase enterprise rollouts
• Provided process and technical support to Sales Teams
• Participated in project prioritization and viability assessments
• Worked with the HP tool suite

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Sr. Enterprise SharePoint/Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing Intranet/Internet/Extranet SharePoint 2007 and 2010 Solutions
• Co-authored chapter 7 for the new SharePoint 2010 Administrator Companion for Bill English and Microsoft Press
• Providing a high level road map and best practice recommendations, to client’s with a Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization (BPIO) maturity model roadmap to deploy MOSS 2007/2010. Working with clients to create portal governances based on real world experience, to comply with organizational objectives.
• Custom designed solutions to deploy SharePoint 2007/2010 infrastructures to meet client’s compliancy and high availability requirements.
• Providing customized training to stand users and super users on SharePoint 2007/2010 solutions.
• Performed high level requirements gathering and solution design for clients

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

SharePoint Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead Architect to design new Extranet solution and responsible for the migration from the old platform
• Governance Planning, implementation and enforcement
• Working with clients and making alliances with key stakeholders in every department to be advocates for SharePoint
• Provide new Business solutions by gathering requirements and implementing best practices and processes
• Installation, configuration & maintenance of company Knowledge Base & Blogs
• Setup end user and super user training on the SharePoint Training Portal
• Recommendations and instructions on Deployment of solutions, features, web parts, etc.
• Configuring and maintain Microsoft Search (6 farms)
• Gatekeeper for all things deployed (6 farms)
• Backups and Maintenance (6 farms)
• SharePoint Update & Patching (6 farms)
• Create site collections, web applications (6 farms)
• Configuring and monitoring MySites (3 farms)
• Tier 3 support (6 farms) 10,000 users
• Responsible for change management (6 farms)
• Maintaining Farm Documentation such as implementation, web parts, etc… (6 farms)
• SharePoint maintenance and backups (6 farms)
• Extranet support and maintenance (1 farm)
• 24-7 Support for (6 farms)
• Worked directly with the different business lines to gather requirements and communicating them back to the development team

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

SharePoint Architect

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated closely with the Lead Architected and Lead developer in developing solutions
• Responsible for Configuring and maintain Microsoft Search (7 farms)
• Gatekeeper for all things deployed (7 farms)
• Backups and Maintenance (7 farms)
• Windows Update Patching (7 farms)
• Create site collections, web applications (7 farms)
• Configuring and monitoring MySites (5 farms)
• Tier 3 support (7 farms) 60,000 users
• Responsible for change management (7 farms)
• Maintaining Farm Documentation such as implementation, web parts, etc… (7 farms)
• Maintain SQL Server clusters (5 farms)
• Skills in AD and DNS (7 farms)
• Database maintenance and backups (7 farms)
• Exchange (1 farm - Test)
• Extranet user provisioning tool and maintenance (1 farm)
• 24-7 Support for all three farms
• Governance Planning and enforcement
• Recommendations and instructions on Deployment of solutions, features, web parts, etc.

Confidential, Plymouth Meeting, PA

Sr. SharePoint Farm Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Initial configuration of WSS 3.0 & Moss 2007 in a single server and multiple server Farm
• Scenarios based on client needs. This includes Enterprise & Standard level.
• Administrative duties of all Farm & Site collection tasks.
• Installation, configuration & deployment of Ajax across multiple Farms
• Installation & configuration of Enterprise Search
• Installation, configuration & maintenance of company Knowledge Base & Blog
• Recommendations and instructions on Deployment of solutions, features, web parts, etc.
• Meet w / business on “how-to” accomplish tasks
• Provided Site Admin and power user training as needed.
• Tier 3 support for 4 farms 10,000 users

Confidential, West Point, PA

SharePoint Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting and troubleshooting all MRL Applications & Portal issues
• Troubleshooting website registrations
• Resetting passwords in AD so clients could access SharePoint sites
• Helping users with navigation in SharePoint Sites & Portals
• Reconfiguring security for SharePoint sites, list & libraries
• Troubleshooting problems on applications like Commit, ISIS, Chemdraw, Chemcart
• Remote support using net meeting
• Escalating tickets to other support groups using PeopleSoft call tracking system
• Lead person in iLink project, a remote & video conferencing software to replace WebEx
• Administration of company SharePoint portals

Confidential, Malvern, PA

Help Desk Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting and troubleshooting all software and operating system issues.
• Supported Microsoft office 2000 Suite, XP and 2003
• OS/Windows 2000 Pro and XP
• Remote support using Novel Console One and Net Meeting