SUMMARY

• Provide Professional Digital Transformation Services to mid - size and Enterprise companies focusing on technology enhancements by upgrading and improving software and infrastructure capabilities. Manage both onshore and offshore assets, technical direction, assessing the requirements and providing guidance team on Microsoft technologies. Utilize best practices methodologies for Business Analysis, Solution Architecture and Enterprise Architecture.
• Self - motivated Architect / Lead / Consultant / Admin with 8 years of experience in system design, development, analysis and implementation using Microsoft Technologies for enterprise applications.
• Experience in Microsoft Technologies products including Microsoft Azure, SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013/2010/2007 , IIS, .Net and Office 365.
• 5 MS Certifications including AZ 300, SharePoint and Office 365 and ITIL Certified.
• Expertise in planning, executing & spearheading IT Infrastructure Projects and developing & streamlining systems with skills to enhance IT infrastructure operational effectiveness.
• Azure experience - extended working knowledge in cloud service, IaaS, PaaS, SendGrid, worker role, service bus, queue, azure blob and table storages and API Management. Configured NSGs for two tier and three tier applications. Experience in integrating on premises servers to Azure. Configured VNETs and subnets as per the project requirement. Configure Azure blob storage and Azure file servers. Configured private and public facing Azure load balancers etc.
• Strong expertise in MS Azure security and identity services including but not limited to Azure Active Directory, Domain Services, Azure Security Center, Azure Governance, Security, Authentication, MFA, Authorization, B2C, Data Privacy, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Cryptography / Key Management, Access Controls and Security Protocols
• Hands-on experience in managing configuration, Windows Azure Migration, Deployments, maintenance, software application and hardware devices with a focus on systems and Windows Azure environments.
• Used knowledge of identity and access management in on-premises solutions and the cloud inclusive of Azure AD Connect, ADFS, and third-party identity providers.
• Expertise in creating app services, serverless and containers etc. Worked on Logic apps and Functions and used in the applications by introducing no code for some of on-premise workflows.
• Expertise in driving the deployment of customers’ workloads into Azure and increasing their consumption of the platform by providing deployment guidance, supporting development of the customers’ cloud adoption model and providing appropriate recommendations to overcome blockers.
• Worked in Software development practices like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains (i.e. Azure DevOps and GitHub). Introduced the same in EOY application which saved operational cost of the project.
• Displayed quality skills in planning & designing servers for backup & recovery in Azure; restoring application/VMS etc. in case of crash/ emergencies & maintaining high availability with configuration and Resourceful in delivering System/Applications maintenance support and responding to outages during off-hour software deployments within established Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Collaborate with other Cloud Solution Architects in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform.
• Expertise in installation, configuration, architecture, taxonomy, content management, collaboration, workflow (including Nintex), custom web parts, reports, business data catalog, search, InfoPath forms, master pages, ADFS integration, LDAP configuration and content types.
• SharePoint Experience as subject matter expert (SME) in implementation, Infrastructure architecture, Business analysis and migration.
• Extensive migration experience with content DB attach/detach and tool-based migration using Sharegate for SharePoint 2007 to 2013, 2013 to Online, 2010 to Online.
• Configuring Service Applications like PowerPivot, Business Intelligence, user profile synchronization, incoming and outgoing email settings, Search, Usage Analytics services, Diagnostic logging etc.
• Exploring to learn new emerging Technologies with strong Analytical skills.
• Well versed with ITIL processes of Service Request, Change, Incident and Problem management and have experience working in Agile Scrum based project.
• As a Software Professional I have been fortunate to be a part of over 15 Azure/SharePoint projects delivery with various clients across different industry sectors. This has provided me a valuable insight and experience especially in successful implementation of Azure and Microsoft based solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• IaaS, PaaS, VM Migrations, VNet, Traffic Manager, Azure Cloud Services.
• SQL Azure, Active Directory, HDInsights, ExpressRoute, Power Shell, OMS, Security Center.
• Service Bus, Blob Storage, Table Storage, Azure App Proxy, Key Vaults and SendGrid.
• AD Connect, Storage & Disaster Recovery, Infrastructure Management and Configuration Management
• SharePoint 2016/ 2013/2010/2007 , Office 365
• Administration: Installation, Configuration, Upgrade, Architecture
• Nintex Workflows and Coaras Webparts
• Azure Storage Explorer, BMC Remedy and ServiceNow, TFS
• Azure AD Connect
• Fiddler, PerfMon and App Center.
• Sharegate - SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint Online
• Metalogix Migration Manager
• Active Directory
• GitHub, DevOps
• Microsoft SharePoint Designer (2010 and 2013)
• Agile/SCRUM and Waterfall.
• ASP.Net, C#.Net
• PowerShell
• SQL Server DB, SQL Server Reporting (SSRS), SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
• HTML, CSS, XML, InfoPath, SharePoint Designer
• Visual Studio 2010/2012
• Windows 2016/2012/2008/2003/ XP
• SQL Server 2008/2012/2016 , IIS 7, 8, 8.5 etc

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Onshore - Portfolio Lead and Azure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of 15 members of Windows Azure migration & Cloud solution and acted as architect in applications like EY Velocity and Entrepreneur of the Year.
• Working as technology lead for the YPO events conducted with EY customers who are CEO’s and Partners of different companies. Pre-planning the events to ensure seamless accessibility of the application.
• Multiple Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as services (IaaS) & Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings were reviewed and the resulting report was used to inform the client about the risks related to these services.
• Collaborate with solution architecture and product development teams to design and implement the infrastructure required to support their vision and strategy.
• Meeting with clients to understanding their needs (lead architect assessment meetings), and determining gaps between those and technical functionality, and collaborating with all stakeholders to generate mutually agreeable and advantageous solutions .
• Act as a subject matter expert on cloud-native technologies to enable experience teams with training, enablement, and tools
• Configuring the Azure applications to get ready from on-premise environment to cloud.
• Working with Agile Product/Experience teams to design and support the evolution of infrastructure architecture based on conceptual design and business requirements.
• Leading team members to make sure 100% defect free deliverables.
• Leading the Operational Support and mentoring the team to broaden their technical skills, preparing standard operating procedure documents, KB articles along with taking ownership of priority issues and escalations.
• Working on AKS clusters, Kubernetes Services and managing the application Future Consumer Now and create docker images and uploading the images in Azure using kubectl.
• Collaborate with members of the Cloud Platform Engineering team to implement and support far-reaching strategic efforts, provide constructive feedback, and foster a collaborative environment.
• Handling the Application Insights configuration and integration with SCOM to generate incidents in SNOW in case of any failures.
• Handling the mobile applications by identifying issues either in Secure Hub or platform issues.
• Develop reference architectures, publish design patterns, and speak about these internally and publicly, drive technical designs to consensus and approval.
• Timely review and report the status of project.
• Published Microsoft Azure App proxy by configuring the applications in IIS to support Kerberos authentication and ready for Intune migration.
• Provide technical expertise and troubleshooting skills for large scale distributed computing systems and software.
• Lead GVM vulnerabilities and TLS remediation in Azure and on premise across all EY servers in our service line and remediated these security vulnerabilities to meet latest security needs.
• Build the automation process wherever required.
• Wrapping up the apple profiles using MDX tool kit and publishing them to have latest profiles on yearly basis.
• Conducted multiple End-User Trainings to adopt users in modernized experience.
• Lead the TLS remediation activities across all applications and planned for remediation without having Business impact and assessing to have no impact to SharePoint farms.
• Manages the operation of production, pilot, test, and development environments for SharePoint. Responsible for SharePoint Farm administration, including installation/deployment, managing Web Apps, Content Databases, Site Collections, Security, Backups etc.
• Worked extensively on PowerShell and developed scripts for Farm/Process Monitoring, Log rotation, Generating Farm inventory.

Confidential

Onsite Coordinator, Migration Lead and Microsoft Azure SharePoint & O365 Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Started Leading Azure Projects by administering the Azure based applications and making environment ready from on premise to Azure Migration.
• Create and maintain project related documentation (Statement of Work Document, Proof of concept document, technical design document etc.
• Azure Web apps and deploying the Azure Web sites.
• Azure VM on Azure portal and managing the azure subscription, Azure Web sites, Services, SQL databases, Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup plan per user request.
• Troubleshooting Azure VM connectivity, Azure Application and Azure Subscription, Developing Azure VPN as per the user request
• Analyzing and identifying applications for cloud assessment and fitment, mapping the workloads across IaaS, PaaS and private clouds.
• Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DNS settings, security policies and routing.
• Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets.
• Designed Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces (NICs), VMs and subnets.
• Setup Azure Virtual Appliances (VMs) to meet security requirements as software based appliance functions (firewall, WAN optimization and intrusion detections).
• Used Azure BLOB to access required files and Azure Storage Queues to communicate between related processes.
• Worked on Complete SharePoint Administration, configuring SharePoint Farm, Service Applications
• Analyze and prepare estimation for migration.
• Played onsite coordinator role by getting requirements from Business and working with Team to fulfil the requirements by completely assessing technically.
• Acted as Key member in configuring Confidential Shop applications and solved critical issues on Search and results count of products.
• Worked on running Data Collector tools SETH (SharePoint Engineer Troubleshooting Helper) and SharePoint Administration Diagnostic help tools with the help of Microsoft and diagnosed all the issues and fixed them in all SharePoint Farms.
• Managed Nintex and Coaras Workflows in SharePoint 2010 and 2013.
• Stabilized the SharePoint Farms and played a key role in identifying the long-term issues in Search and external sites of and applied the fixes.
• Worked in configuration and setting up new farms in SharePoint.
• Extensively worked on Search components and configured crawl, analytics, query components that meets business needs.
• Attended RAP program conducted by Microsoft along with Confidential and assessed all issues and recommendations on SharePoint Farms.
• Worked in migrating windows 2003, 2008 to windows 2012 IIS applications
• Worked on OLAP database management and cubes in Project Server 2010/2013.
• Build the automation process wherever required.

Confidential

Offshore - Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a key team member to monitor all Walgreens SharePoint & Stellent sites and Applications.
• Managed Office 365 environment and SharePoint Farms and monitoring alerts set on them.
• Configuring and managing SharePoint service applications.
• Supporting 300+ site collections in both on-prem and cloud environments.
• Worked with the Lists, Libraries and Apps in SharePoint 2010, 2013.
• Worked on the post migration activities of all SharePoint sites and provided technical education to users on how to use newly migrated sites.
• Analyze the system requirements with respect to the Business needs Create scripts, modify and test the execution of scripts in multiple platforms.
• Provided Access, License and Site customization of sites to the End users.
• Effectively resolved the issues that were raised during SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 upgrade by troubleshooting the cause of issue and fixing permanently.
• Provided log files from the servers as and when requested by the Development team and automated using PowerShell to shrink log files after retention period.
• Performed SharePoint site backup and restore activities and deploying the wsp solution packages in UAT and PROD environments.
• Automated monitoring the health check of SharePoint sites on daily basis using PowerShell.
• Automated sending Disk Space Utilization reports of all SharePoint farms using PowerShell for proactively deleting or moving the files to different folders.