Solutions Architect Resume
SUMMARY
- Senior level IT Professional with over 19 years’ experience. Develops and manages enterprise implementations of collaboration systems.
- Expert in gathering, analyzing and defining business and functional requirements; creating global metrics, trend charts and other decision - making tools; leading data-modeling and process-mapping initiatives; and designing/re-engineering processes.
- Confidential with PowerShell and scripting automation skills. Results-oriented mission critical systems thinker with the ability to translate complex solutions, ideas and processes into technical facts or persuasive non-technical presentation; able to “bridge the gap” between technical and non-technical persons.
- Extensive experience with Information Assurance (IA) and Network Security. Excellent at communicating with stakeholders and partners to provide accurate reporting and information regarding the ongoing projects and initiatives.
- Seasoned IT professional, capable of project planning, development, execution, monitoring and resource balancing with the ability to support multiple simultaneous projects.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- PowerShell Scripting
- SharePoint Architecture (Development, Configuration and Engineering)
- Data/Business/Systems Analysis
- Data Flow & Process Mapping
- SQL Queries & Data Modeling
- ASP.NET, C#, JAVA, HTML, DHTML, XML, CSS and JAVASCRIPT
- SCOM and Orchestrator
- SCCM, SCVMM and Hyper-V
- VMWare
- High Availability and Load Balancing
- Visual Studio
- SharePoint Designer
- ERP-Link (SAP Integration for SharePoint)
- Angular, Vue, React and Modernizer
- Network Security/ Information Assurance
- Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
- Systems Security & Disaster Recovery Planning
- Testing/Scripting/Documentation
- Technical Writing (Manuals/System Specs)
- Window Server 2003, 2008, 2008R2, 2012, 2012R2
- Exchange
- Problems Analysis
- Cross Platform Migration
- Clustering and Mirroring
- Azure ASR
- InfoPath 2010, 2013
- Visio 2010, 2013
- CSOM (for office365)
- Responsive web design
- REST API
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential
Solutions Architect
Responsibilities:
- Created many Office 365 tenants focusing on SharePoint Online for many clients through assessment.
- Designed many Azure infrastructures (lift and shifts) for multiple customers in the cloud from on-premises systems.
Confidential
SharePoint Developer
Responsibilities:
- Designed information architecture, and migration strategy for SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 enterprise infrastructure for supporting Intranet and Public.com security Confidential .
- Migrated intranet from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 hybrid enterprise farm.
- Converted the hosted public .com site from Drupal to SharePoint 2013 on-premise in pixel perfect migration.
- Designed back-end SharePoint repository for custom web applications using Remote BLOB storage(RBS) and Distributed cache for graphical files and documents at high speed transfer rates.
- Integrated and implemented RBS repository using REST API for CRUD operations using custom web applications with Angular
- Created custom workflows to further collaborative data automation.
Confidential
SharePoint Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Created case logic automation from metadata content from SAP for SharePoint 2013 with document sets.
- Designed and deployed multiple workflows in SharePoint Designer and PowerShell for custom automation.
- Deployed and created SharePoint Portal Farms for development pre-production and production.
- Created portal architecture implanting Secure Socket Layer (SSL).
- Created SQL server configuration and backup strategy for SharePoint content.
- Installed and configured Gimmal compliance suite software in SharePoint 2013.
- Installed and configured Gimmal ERP-Link for SAP integration with SharePoint 2013.
- Created content types and metadata for multiple lists and libraries.
- Integrated light-weight branding for out of the box (OOTB) out-of-the box SharePoint look and feel using SharePoint core CSS.
- Conceptualized and prepared design documents.
Confidential
SharePoint Architect
Responsibilities:
- Planned and executed migration from SharePoint 2007 to Office 365 SPO.
- Created PowerShell custom content migration tools implementing CSOM (Client Side Object Model)
- Executed and created custom PowerShell tool to migrate 8000 users, permissions and profiles using conditional logic to office 365 SPO from on premise SharePoint 2007 farm .
- Defined and created plan and schedule for phased migration using SharePoint 2013 project templates.
- Created and defined global and structural navigation.
- Created custom style sheet for branding on top of OOB (Out Of the Box) Office 365 SPO
Confidential
Enterprise SharePoint Specialist
Responsibilities:
- Planned and executed migration from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2013, including governance, system architecture, information architecture, and migration strategy
- Built and designed the SharePoint 2013 farm that houses Intranet, Extranet, and Public .com. Migrate existing MOSS 2007 and SharePoint Server 2010 into the new architecture and design.
- Responsible for a mixture of SharePoint architecture, administration, development of a public facing SharePoint website.
- Hands-on migration of a highly customized SharePoint internet/intranet/extranet farm using PowerShell including setup of Active Directory trusts, SharePoint security, forms-based authentication, custom workflows, web applications, content deployment, SQL, IIS, security, managed metadata, service applications, features, event receivers, .dll and .wsp files Formulated proposed plans to provide solutions for different erroneous SharePoint services.
- Meeting with end users and stakeholders to gather requirements, create functional and technical documents, user acceptance test scripts and project implementations.
- Involved in creating the Reports using Report viewer Webparts by using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and PowerPivot.
- Designed and created software solution for SharePoint for sectional document development using word automation services with visual studio.
- Created customized SharePoint search engine for indexing SVN software repository, MediaWiki and other disjointed information portals both internal and external.
Confidential
Problems Analyst and Problems Manager
Responsibilities:
- Created automation for scripts for SCOM (System Center Operations Manager) and Orchestrator for creating automated analysis to monitor for the resurface of issues.
- Analyze reported problems with SharePoint 2010 from Office 365 customers through PowerShell scripting to gather data of multiple server farms in the “dedicated” (Office 365-D) space.
- Investigated root cause of issues through in-depth analysis to define solution plans.
- Formulated proposed plans to provide solutions for different erroneous SharePoint services.
- Defined solutions to provide value added services to customers and the organization.
- Authored many PowerShell scripted solutions for implementation with the build and audit teams to fix erroneous problems and build failures.
- Compiled and coordinated graphical presentations based upon scripted analysis for use with Office 365 organizational stakeholders.
- Working through Visual Studio TFS (Team Foundation Server) and Product Studio, cut tasks and bugs for the remediation of many SharePoint erroneous behaviors.
- Actively attended many Triage sessions and was instrumental in the remediation process.
- Provided business justification for documentation modification and deployment in “Ship-Room” meetings.
Confidential
SUPPORT ANALYST 2
Responsibilities:
- Configuration Information Owner for UAT (User Assessment Testing) and Production Product Activation in ITSM.
- Manager of all maintenance and security patching for 700 servers in multiple datacenters worldwide.
- Responsible for acquisition and decommission of servers of EOL (End of Life) servers.
- Scripting in PowerShell to automate maintenance tasks with Critfix and WSUS servers.
Confidential
BUILD\OPERATIONS ENGINEER
Responsibilities:
- Provided business consulting, knowledge expertise in strategic performance management methodologies, process assessment work, and the application of high availability technologies to the business model.
- Provided business justification through oral and visual presentations for hardware by analyzing and defining business requirements.
- Developed and presented presentations based upon performance metrics for use with senior management for procurement of new system hardware.
- Defined and refined Service Level Responsibilities to form Service Level Agreements with other teams across the organization.
- Managed the delivery of Windows Server Protocol Program (WSPP) and Microsoft Communication Protocol Program (MCPP) documentation builds to the customer through MS Connect online service and through the Microsoft Developers Network (MSDN).
- Actively attended many Protocol Triage sessions and was instrumental in the routing of bugs.
- Responsible for Daily Windows Protocol Builds and Maintenance and Management of build system.
- Administration and support of Hyper-V hosts using SCVMM (Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager.
- Use System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) to monitor VMs, and individual server resources.
- Creation and management of over 300 build VMs (Virtual Machines) employing Windows 2003Sever, Windows 2008R2 Server
- Extensive management and use of WTT (Windows Test Technologies)
- SQL server administration to include patching and backups and other maintenance.
- Management of internal File and Web servers.
- Network monitoring of server infrastructure with WhatsUp Gold, NetMon and other tools.
- Automation scripting with Batch, Power Shell, VBS (Visual Basic Script) and XML.
- Server monitoring and management with internal tools such as Microsoft’s DAD and RDCman.
- Spearhead and manage the troubleshooting of DNS, DFS and other global infrastructure issues for the Protocol team.
Confidential
SYSTEMS ARCHITECT/SYSTEMS ANALYST
Responsibilities:
- Created Secure Web Applications for MOSS using (AES), (3DES) encryption technologies, behind Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS).
- Installed SSL Certificates on Network Load Balanced clustered IIS Web Front-Ends.
- Created custom web parts for the Joint Base Lewis-McChord I-Corps SharePoint NIPR site.
- Provided technical support for Joint Base Lewis-McChord System Administrators, Information Management Officers, and Information Security Officers.
- Use of VMware V-sphere, and Virtual PC to automate the build, development and testing process.
- Created the initial project scope by defining requirements around business processes interpreted by high ranking officers and GS officials.
- Created Design Specification for MOSS Enterprise Solution through business analysis.
- Designed and Created VMWare infrastructure working closely with the Confidential Corporation and their onsite representatives.
- SharePoint Office Sever System Architect for Joint Base Lewis McChord NIPR and SIPR Collaboration Production Portals using VMware’s V-Sphere.
- Designed geographically dispersed SQL Mirroring system with High Availability and redundancy for automatic fail-over during catastrophic disaster.
- Employed SQL Server 2008 mirroring though Power Shell scripting and SQL aliasing.
- SQL Database Administrator for SharePoint High Availability system.
- Created Network Load Balance Clustered Web Front Ends with high availability.
- Worked with Network Enterprise Center (NEC) /Directorate of Information Management (DOIM) Web admin team and Confidential to build out NIPR and SIPR SharePoint portals, to help them meet their deadlines.
- Designed and Created Joint Base Lewis-McChord taxonomy
- Supported the administration of Joint Base Lewis McChord portal
Confidential
BUILD ENGINEER/QA ENGINGEER/IT SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
Responsibilities:
- Integration Build Engineer for all software products.
- Extensive work with Installshield and Installscript for software installation customization.
- Responsible for testing of all software products before it is released.
- Use of VMWare, MS Virtual Server 2005 and Virtual PC to automate the QA testing process.
- Responsible for all firewalls rules and routing and switching.
- Managed the companies entire IT infrastructure to include Exchange, File Shares, SAMBA, SharePoint and Web based ASP.Net servers in the domain forest.
- Developed and maintained all Internet security and Public Key Infrastructure on site.
- Developed and Deployed Exchange 2007 Email Server Farm to replace aging 2003 farm through migration.
- Maintained all SharePoint Servers and developed web parts to meet the needs of specific activities of the executive staff and Program Manager.
Confidential
SYSTEMS ENGINEER
Responsibilities:
- Analyzed and evaluated customer requirements and suggested best system solutions.
- Worked with many small business clients fixing different software and hardware problems.
- Worked with Windows Active Directory and Confidential Hardware on break/fix contracts.
- Managed and monitored IT environments through WMI, SNMP and SYSLOG with custom management software.
Confidential
CONTRACT QA ENGINEER
Responsibilities:
- Software testing of Confidential clustering software in both Windows and Linux.
- Tested multi-node clustering configurations with SAMBA for high availability.
- Used virtualization of Linux platforms such as SUSE, Red Hat and Ubuntu to build multi-node clusters.
- Use of bash and tcsh scripting to build and modify Linux based Confidential clusters using NFS and SAMBA using kickstart.
- Worked with many different Fiber-Channel and ISCSII SAN configurations for testing of the Confidential product.
Confidential
SYSTEMS ANALYST
Responsibilities:
- Served as MOSS consultant for large companies such as Intel, Providence, Sunwest, Health Level Seven and Far West Steel.
- Analyzed and evaluated customer’s business requirements and suggest best MOSS system solution.
- Defined requirements for design specification based upon business analysis.
- Implemented many MOSS solutions while working with large Enterprise Environments.
- Attended SCRUM meetings while working in an AGILE environment.
- Specialize in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Collaboration Infrastructure.
- Responsible for the configuration and architecture of production and development server farms.
- Maintained MOSS/WSS 3.0 Systems and Severs in high availability scenarios with network load balanced clustered frontend servers and fiber channel backend clustered databases for mission critical applications.
- Installed Created and maintained PKI with Certificate Authority on Windows 2003 Server for various clients.
- Worked with large, medium, small and standalone MOSS topologies.
- Custom developed Forms Based Authentication (FBA), membership providers for commercial environments implementing ASP.net.
- Incorporated LDAP with Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) and SQL for MOSS for custom role and membership providers in custom web.config file.
- Customized sites using SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio.
Confidential
SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR/ANALYST
Responsibilities:
- Team Lead defining requirements for back-up plans and network architecture and implementation of updated hardware and software.
- Direct implementation and design of new technologies for the Army’s Command Information Center.
- Provided updated accurate reports on my network infrastructure and its dependencies using a combination of Visio and PowerPoint.
- Exploited deliverable security patches and updates for proper network distribution to clients from the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) advisories, Information Assurance Vulnerability Alerts (IAVA), and Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)).
- Project Designer for a collaboration system for the Army encompassing SharePoint Portal Server 2003, SQL Server 2005, Exchange Server 2003 and Live Communications Server 2005.
- Created DNS and WINS servers to manage forward and reverse Confidential for multiple subnets in globally geographically dispersed active directory domain forest.
- Lead administrator for the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)/Active Directory for real time collaboration.
- Designed and instituted the approved architecture following strict DOD security guidelines for the entire SharePoint Server Farm.
- Experienced with all forms of Kerberos and NTLM authentication protocols.
- Instituted Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) using Certificate Authority Services for secure cryptographic transfers for SharePoint Portal Server with Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) for real time collaboration.
- Implemented Network Load Balance Server Clustering for Internet Information Server (IIS) front-end web servers for faster more reliable connections for larger server farm capable of supporting 50,000 concurrent connections.
- Employed Microsoft Operations Manager to help manage multiple Microsoft Servers in a high availability environment (MOM).
- Installed and configured Confidential fiber-channel SAN to be used for data collection for collaboration portal.
- Created High Availability Server Clustering using Microsoft Cluster Service with Microsoft SQL Server for minimal downtime or maximum uptime. Developed geo-cluster for maximum redundancy.
- Expert in various Operating Systems installing supporting & managing clients and servers for Windows Server 2003, XP, DOS, Linux server, and UNIX server.
- Applied Enterprise Grade Collaboration system geographically dispersed for redundancy and efficiency.
- Responsible for managing all of the team sites and SharePoint content on the SharePoint Portal Server.
- Customized and designed various web parts for use for the Army’s simulation training using ASP.NET, C#, JAVA, HTML, DHTML, XML, and JAVASCRIPT.
- Manipulated various scripting languages for automation to include batch files, VBScript, all forms of Shell (BASH, TCSH, KSH), Perl, and CGI.
- Utilized skills for cross platform migration to allow Linux to run Microsoft products for Office automation collaboration and network compatibility.
- Used basic client-server networking protocols SMTP/POP3, Telnet, FTP, SSH and SNMP to ensure and multi-platform interoperability and security.
- Utilized networking skills and troubleshooting abilities with CISCO switches and routers to ensure proper LAN/WAN connectivity including firewalls VLANs, IPSec and IP tunneling.
- Experienced with daily use of Linux, Sun Microsystems UNIX for monitoring network operations.
- Very familiar with VOIP technologies, CISCO based systems and Nortel call centers.
- Supported Army proprietary Linux based platform software for the ARMY used for Battle Simulations by means of Apache Server, Tomcat, Postgres,and MySQL.
- Maintained Army proprietary Red Hat Enterprise Linux based software using programming languages C, C++, TCL, Java, and source code repository CVS.
- Tracked bugs, other abnormal software behaviors and feature requests with Bugzilla.
- Worked with VMWare and Virtual Server R2 to create testing environment for SharePoint Portal Server farm and Linux Desktop’s integrated with Cross-Over Pro and WINE for MS-Office Products. Deployed this “virtual” system and used it in production for development.