Professional Summary

• 24 years Information Technology experience
• 5years of SharePoint experience including implementation, architecture and developmentof custom solutions
• Project Manager of 35+ successful SharePoint Projects (MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010) including portals/collaboration, SharePoint migrations and training
• Experienced with all aspects of Central Administration, Site Collection and Site Administration
• Experienced with complete application development life-cycle including requirements gathering, analysis and design, coding, testing and deployment
• Excellent communication and project management skills

Areas of Expertise – SharePoint 2007/2010

Project Management

• Business requirements
• Statements of work/proposals
• Project planning
• Change management
• Technical resource management
• QA/testing
• User acceptance testing
• Production planning
• Maintenance/support

Architecture and Design

• Configuration
• Site taxonomy/navigation design
• Technical design
• Security design

Content Management

• Document management
• Personalization/targeting
• wDocument Sets
• Expire/Archive Content
• Content Deployment

Enterprise Search

• Meta data modeling
• Content type/site column design
• Indexing/crawling
• Custom UI
• Scopes
• Property Mapping

Business Intelligence

• KPI/scorecards
• Excel Services
• Reporting Services

Collaboration

• Blogs
• Discussions/Surveys
• Comments/ratings
• Custom workflows
• Wiki

Certifications
MICROSOFT CERTIFIED TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST 
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 - Configuring, 2012 
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Configuring, 2009

Professional Experience 

Confidential, Hicksville, NY 
2007 – Present
SharePoint Project Manager / Consultant

• Manage all aspects of 35+customer and internal SharePoint projects
• Managed 15+ MOSS 2007 -> SharePoint 2010 migration projects
• Communicate with Sales, Development Team and Customer to ensure client expectations are met
• Gather requirements for custom SharePoint applications
• Coordinate testing and implementation of custom SharePoint solutions
• Manage change request and change control processes
• Conduct status meetings, create status reports and update SharePoint project sites

Key Customer Projects:
APEX Healthcare: MOSS 2007 to MOSS 2007migration necessary due to relocation of the company’s Data Center. Project focus was on the 13 known custom applications which required performance review, code level documentation and validation of supportability and upgrade path following the relocation. 
New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation: Upgrade from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010 Enterprise solution should achieve a unified environment to manage projects more effectively and provide a foundation for the management and dissemination of information throughout the organization. More than 30 specific requirements were outlined including the following which were identified as highest priority:

• Planning, configuration, implementation and production go-live of a corporate wide Enterprise SharePoint 2010 v1.0 Intranet solution
• Design/delivery of a robust, scalable, highly available, fully redundant centralized enterprise server mediumfarm including Logical and Physical architecture designs and SQL optimization.
• Compilation of a fully defined Governance Plan to facilitate system management and ensure use in accordance with its designed intent.
• Documentation and execution of a well-defined Information Architecture Plan/Classification and management of enterprise content (enterprise taxonomy, guidelines, metadata, content management, document/information life cycle, etc.)
• Configuration of a ‘searchable’ document repository (provide the ability to locate relevant data and content distributed across a wide range of sites, document libraries, business application data repositories, and other sources)

Confidential: Implement a SharePoint 2010 Enterprise class solution to facilitate collaboration across the enterprise. Project deliverables included a full assessment of the MOSS 2007 environment, capacity planning, design of a new Information Architecture; documentation and installation of multiple 2010 farms (i.e.: large farm production, dev, staging, test) and ultimately migrate from MOSS 2007 to the new SharePoint 2010 environment. Project also required design and implementation of a customized Project Management Portfolio site for non IT project managers. The PM Solution would takeadvantage of the Bamboo Project Suite components. Customize codeplex SharePoint 2010 site directory solution to provide simple navigation UI to sites located across multiple web applications.
NPD: Project objective was to upgradeto SharePoint 2010 and migrate existing content from their MOSS 2007 environment. Activities included a Pre-upgrade assessment, installation of a small farm and configuration of services, multiple trial migrations, recommendations for resolution of identified migration issues and final production migration using database detach/attach approach. A new Information Architecture (IA) was introduced that included a new web application and multiple site collections.
Patriot National Insurance Group: MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010 Migration project that included installation and configuration of a small production farm, 2007 farm assessment and remediation documents, customized Master Page and CSS (for 2010), multiple trial migrations and final production content migration.
Procure Treatment Centers: Project was to install MOSS 2007 medium farm, configure Shared Service Provider and design and implement a corporate intranetincluding 2 custom applications:

• Policy and Procedure site to facilitate policy document collaboration (item level permissions and custom permissions levels), automated approval process and renewal notifications.
• Legal Document Repository to manage requests to legal department taking advantage of metadata, InfoPath (2007) forms, SharePoint Designer workflows and custom search functionality.

Confidential:Project 1 wasto provide proper education and knowledge transfer to QC IT staff in preparation for supporting a MOSS 2007 large farm Internet environment. Produce farm design and capacity document (13 total WFE and Application servers), hardware recommendations and SharePoint installation, configuration of Shared Service provider, security recommendations and on- going support following production implementation. Reviewed wireframe designs provided by an outside vendor to identify incompatibilities and recommend alternative recommendations to ensure compatibility with SharePoint Master Page and CSS best practices. 
Project 2 was to design and install medium farm Intranet infrastructure, taxonomy and IA, navigation and configuration of Intranet portal with customized mySites.

Confidential, Jericho, NY
2001 –2007
EDI Project Manager / Business Analyst

• Coordinate all project related development tasks
• Create project Scope of Work documents
• Communicate with business units, development group and customer
• Work with VAN to set up and test interconnects,
• Coordinate business testing and implementation.
• Transaction monitoring, auditing and troubleshooting
• Recommend corrective actions based on issue ‘root cause’ analysis

Key Projects Include, but are not limited to:

• EDI transaction sets 940/945 to automate fulfillment of Warehouse Shipment Orders with many of our top vendors
• Proprietary XML EDI interface with a leading electronics company to automate Warehouse activities including Shipment Orders and acknowledgements, Warehouse Transfers, Receipts and acknowledgements.
• Proprietary XML EDI project with a leading electronics company interfacing data into their Nextlinx system. Transactions include Model Master data, Shipment Order, Shipment status, delivery instructions and acknowledgements.
• Proprietary XML EDI project with the global industry leader in measurement tools and solutions. Automated integration of US Customs related documents to/from their “Trade Import” system (Nextlinx). Transactions included Commercial Invoice, product details and Entry Summary data.
• Proprietary flat file EDI transactions with multiple customers to interface Commercial Invoice data into Customs Brokerage system
• Other projects include 856, 214/315, 944, 315, 110/810, 824, EDIFACT INVOIC

Confidential., Jericho, NY1994 - 2001Manager, Development

• Manage daily activities of various development groups ranging in size from 1 to 10
• geographically diverse staff members
• Perform annual staff reviews
• Create job descriptions, classified ad copy and perform candidate interviews
• Create and develop department budgets
• Write customer proposals

Project Manager

• Create and maintain life cycle project plans using MS Project (both application
• development and other project types)
• Initiate communication with customer to establish a rapport
• Compose weekly status reports for both the customer and executive management
• Responsible for escalation and ultimate resolution of all project related issues and/or risks
• Coordinate and facilitate design and development meetings
• Monitor staff time charged to projects to ensure budgets are not exceeded

Key Projects Include:

• Software Internationalization Project
• Manage development of an ‘international’ version of proprietary Air Freight software
• Manage requirements meetings and testing sessions w/customer visiting our offices
• Overall responsibility for application lifecycle development
• Travel overseas to supervise software installation/training at 3 separate Thailand locations.
• Y2K Compliance Project
• Project included compliance of all customer systems
• Coordinate replacements, development and/or maintenance of internal and external systems.
• Coordinate systems shut down/ start up procedures for 40 locations across the US and Canada
• Ensure customer’s international Y2K protocol processes were met
• GMT Project
• Project required all computer systems to convert to Greenwich Mean Time
• Responsible to determine re-scheduling of batch processing jobs and system backups
• Met with system developers to determine and coordinate necessary programming changes

Confidential., Jericho, NY 1991 – 1994Systems AnalystClipper – Summer ‘87WAN/LAN/Token Ring/Ethernet in a Banyan Vines Environment

• With 3 other team members, designed and developed a client/server version of existing, proprietary Air Freight software system
• Provided on-site for support and guidance at customer locations during parallel system testing
• Responsible for developing a training plan for 40 offices across the US and Canada. This included training in the following areas:
• The proprietary system itself
• How to use a Personal Computer 
• WAN/LAN, Client/Server fundamentals and system admin functions
• E-mail training

Network Administrator 

• System Adminstrator for a 30 server, 400 user, Banyan Vines Network
• Researched and initiated the purchase of a software package that automated the delivery of software updates to all servers, eliminating the need for operator intervention and monitoring
• Second level support technician for administrative and general network problems

Confidential., Garden City, NY 1988 - 1991 Computer Programmer Series/1 – IBM Mini-Computer EDX EDL

• Maintenance, support and continuing development of proprietary Air-Freight system
• Data Entry screens for output of industry standard Air Freight documents
• Reports for accounting and sales personnel
• Provide telephone customer support

Education BA, Economics Diploma, Computer Programming