SUMMARY

• Solutions - focused, team oriented Senior SharePoint Architect with Project Management experience and hands-on skill in the successful implementations of highly scalable SharePoint solutions. With proven strengths in managing cross-functional teams to achieve optimal business outcomes within mission-critical initiatives.
• Over seven years' experience designing SharePoint business productivity solutions and managing projects in challenging, fast-paced consulting environments. Innovative problem solver, able to see the business and technical sides of a problem. Proven leadership, negotiation and problem resolution abilities. Over eighteen years of Information Technology (IT) and business management experience in both the public and private sector.
• Proven ability to successfully analyze an organization's critical Information Architecture requirements, identifies deficiencies and potential opportunities, and develops innovative solutions for increasing business productivity and information search-ability.
• 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.
• Developed Project Plans, determine scope of projects, and coordinate all project related resources throughout the implementation phase. Responsibilities also include providing LAN/WAN network and Application system diagrams of client sites, as well as managing time frames, status reports, resources, and implementation. Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple related projects, directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives.
• Conducting Information Architecture and Taxonomy Design workshop to provide the necessary alignment between the organization, the users, and the arrangement of data in a way that is rigid enough to provide consistency of user experience, yet flexible enough to endure reasonable change over time.
• 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.
• Creating Information Architecture blue prints for large internet/intranet/extranet web sites that provide functional navigation, structured user interfaces, and custom branding to meet the client’s needs.
• Broad communication skill set, with emphasis on building strong client relationships, comfortable and capable of making professional presentations to Executive-level clientele. A trusted advisor who can assess, research, and create solutions for clients’ long term needs. Build and ensure internal and external infrastructures that provide scalability, security and usability to enable business. Deliver projects consistently on budget and schedule.
• Create vision and mentor team to own the development of architectures to integrate products, processes and solutions, resulting in additional business advantages and opportunities for revenue.
• Providing Best Practices Design directions for SharePoint Products and Technologies solutions, with a strong understanding of solution development life cycle (SDLC), Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF), Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Cloud Computing Amazon ec2
• Rackspace
• Go-Grid
• Fujitsu Cloud
• HP Cloud
• Openstack
• Virtualization VMware
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• PowerShell 2 & 3
• SharePoint 2013
• SharePoint 2010 Enterprise and Fast Search for SharePoint 2010
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007)
• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0)
• SharePoint Portal Server 2003
• Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS 2.0)
• Installation
• Configuration
• Migration
• Upgrade
• Architecture Design
• Site Template Customization
• Site Definition Customization
• Taxonomy
• Content Management
• Collaboration
• Windows Workflow Foundation
• Custom Web Parts
• Reports
• BDC - Business Data Catalog/ BCS 2010
• Search
• InfoPath 2007/2010
• Forms Server
• Master Pages
• Content Types
• Features
• Excel Services
• Interactive Media Manager (IMM) and Branding/CSS.
• Microsoft Office 2007/2010
• SharePoint Designer 2007/2010
• InfoPath 2007/2010
• Project Server
• Microsoft Performance Point
• Active Directory
• ADAM
• Exchange 2007/2010
• Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2 and Quest Software SharePoint Tools.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Woodbridge VA

Sr SharePoint/Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager/Technology Lead - Sub-contracting to Confidential - Department of Labor(DOL) email infrastructure migration 20,000+ users from on Premise Microsoft Exchange to Office 365, delivering turnkey Office 365 solution with the following products, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online. Designing an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform providing DOL with Enterprise SharePoint 2013 and orchestrating the integration between SharePoint Online and Enterprise SharePoint. Working with the various sub-departments at DOL to assess and evaluate on premise SharePoint applications and other Enterprise applications to the DOL Cloud Platform.
• University of UTAH Principal Architect working with Summit 7 Systems to design a digital records repository for the University and all the Clinics connected with the University, using SharePoint 2010 enterprise and FAST Search for SharePoint 2010.
• Nova Chemicals worked with Summit 7 Systems to design a global Enterprise collaboration solution. Provided training and on Information Architecture to the Nova Chemicals Team.
• Co-authored Chapter 7 for the new SharePoint 2010 Administrator Companion with Bill English for Microsoft Press.
• Chief SharePoint Solution Architect for the Confidential (USACE). Lead Solutions Architect responsible for overall architecture, design and deployment solutions built on the SharePoint platform. Responsible for the operations and Management of over 5 SharePoint farms with approximately 40,000 users. Collaborating with the development teams on solution deployments and enforcing solution development lifecycle governance.

Sr. Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager on various Cisco Unified Communication projects. Creating statements of work (SOWS), Project Charter documents, Risk analysis Matrix and Project plans.
• Lead SharePoint Architect and Project Manager, designing large scale web content management, records management and document management solutions
• Designing and implementing Collaborative Portal solutions to meet organizational business objectives. . Conducting SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS) with Enterprise Microsoft clients.
• 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. Working with clients to create portal governances based on real world experience, to comply with organizational objectives.
• Creating custom design options to deploy MOSS 2007 infrastructures to meet client’s compliancy and high availability requirements.
• Developed custom solutions using SharePoint Products and Technologies, custom workflows, information aggregation with Business Data Catalog services, and custom web part development.

Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Represented Microsoft Consulting Services as the Lead SharePoint Architect in SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS), providing the clients with a high-level Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization (BPIO) maturity model roadmap to deploy MOSS 2007, and best practice recommendations.
• Technical PM and lead SharePoint Architect, performed in-depth needs analysis on the client’s collaboration and network infrastructure environments. Served as technical lead and project manager for two BT resources and two client resources.
• Conducted Information Architecture and Taxonomy Design workshop to provide the necessary alignment between the organization, the users, and the arrangement of data in a way that is rigid enough to provide consistency of user experience, yet flexible enough to endure reasonable change over time.
• Lead requirements gathering sessions, using traditional and non-traditional elicitation techniques such as surveys, questionnaires, assessment of existing legacy systems, pain point discussions, prototyping and contextual requirements gathering.
• Sr. SharePoint Architect provided best practices guidance on selecting appropriate site templates, master page and content page, to meet various organizational and departmental requirements.
• Launched a high-productivity Business solution to enhance BT’s Global Business Productivity Portfolio, creating a potential $20-25 million revenue pipeline, at BT Global Services, with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server technologies to meet the demand.
• Optimized Business Productivity delivery methods and created additional guidance material for delivery consultation team, to ensure customer satisfaction and reference-ability, creating a repeatable process for delivering Business Productivity engagements.
• Conducted SharePoint Governance workshops, provided best practice and guidance in the creation of client’s governance plans. Creating SharePoint sites to facilitate the governance process.
• Designed custom deployment options to deploy global MOSS 2007 infrastructures meeting the client’s compliancy and high availability requirements.
• Designed and implemented a PMO Site and Project Dashboard for Microsoft’s Partner “Mayfly program” to track multiple projects with different clients. From client initiation to engagement close-out.
• Analyzed Lotus Notes/Domino environment, for content and applications to be migrated to the MOSS 2007 infrastructure, generating a $1.2 Million dollar migration engagement opportunity.
• Lead a diverse team of five BT resources to create a Million dollar custom MOSS 2007 and Commerce Server hybrid solution.
• Developed a custom Project management solution utilizing MOSS 2007, custom workflow, custom metadata design.

Sr. SharePoint Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead full life-cycle project management efforts for mission critical enterprise SharePoint Migration initiatives using the software development life cycle from project initiation to close-out. Content migration project for an 800 Million dollar Insurance company. Technical Project Manager responsible for meeting deliverable milestones for the content migration project.
• Establish strategic project goals, timelines, resource utilization, and performance criteria for project team activities to meet and/or exceed client expectations.
• Mitigated project risks, resolve issues and interact with senior executive management to communicate project benefits and status.
• Architected, designed and implemented Intranet based solution, provided best practices and guidance for migration of existing custom ASP.Net intranet to a collaborative SharePoint solution.
• Lead SharePoint Architect in the Worked with the IT, Marketing and Human resources departments to create a Portal Governance plan, which complied with corporate regulations and covered all aspects of the SharePoint solution, from portal usage to administration of the environment.
• Inherited a project that was in jeopardy of being lost due to Information Architecture design. Through a series of actions, lead team that subsequently delivered outstanding project that was completed on time and met customer's approval.
• Implemented enterprise search feature that increased accuracy and reduced research time by 50%, allowing client to handle more transactions with zero increase of personnel.
• Directed the coordination of all implementation tasks involving third party vendors as well as provided consultation to clients on solution implementation.
• Developed and published documentation regarding configuration, administration and training on SharePoint technologies.
• Created migration plan to move content from existing Intranet (ASP technology) to SharePoint Portal Server 2003.
• Created a SharePoint training rollout solution to provide initial content owners and content contributors with the required skill set to utilize SharePoint technologies.

Confidential, Jacksonville FL

Sr. Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed client engagement services and solution implementations. Created and implemented infrastructure design procedures that increased efficiency, and accelerated customer satisfaction and slashed error rate.
• Provided SharePoint Technical and Business consulting for a variety of clients. Primary focus was the creation of interactive intranets and project extranets.
• Monitored project activities and advised clients of issues due to resource availability.
• Developed installation, configuration, administration & disaster recovery documentation for Windows SharePoint Services & SharePoint Portal Server.
• Designed and configured antivirus solutions using Trend Micro antivirus products suites.
• Managed Remote administration and monitoring solutions.
• Provided Active Directory design guidance and Security assessments.

Confidential, Miami FL

Sr. Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed development and the implementation of computer systems to enhance business performances. Provided "hands-on" training classes for clients. Performed general management duties including hiring/scheduling of personnel with oversight on accounting transactions.
• Initiated multiple technical projects that improved performance and business functionality.
• Managed IT budget for the organization to meet organizational goals and influence profitability.
• Resolved multiple issues to clients network systems to increase business functionality.
• Designed and Installed Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 Active Directory solution, providing desktop and server security with custom group policies, enabling organizations to manage software policies and corporate compliances.
• Managed the installation and configuration of Trend Micro Antivirus Products throughout organizations in the metropolitan area, providing end to end antivirus protection.
• Designed and installed Messaging and Collaboration solutions on the Microsoft Exchange 5.5/2000/2003 platforms.

Confidential, Miami FL

Sr. Network Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed 3rd level support for Miami-Dade County’s Internet Infrastructure, Messaging and Collaboration services Microsoft Exchange Enterprise Server 5.5. Produced project status reports, managed the team of 5 technical resources and resolved day-to-day issues with emphasis on Solution Development Life Cycle.
• Coordinated the transition from competing Antivirus product to Enterprise wide Trend Micro Antivirus solution; covering all desktops, Mail servers, File and Print servers, Gateway servers.
• Delivered $100K in cost reduction by leading cluster-wide project to centralize Database storage of desktop images used in the engineering process for client systems. Migrating and consolidating over 40% of the existing SQL and Oracle server platforms.
• Collaborated with IBM in the design and implementation of a Storage Array Network (SAN). Design requirements high-availability, scalability, and performance.

Confidential, Miami FL

Sr. Network Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed the installation and deployment of Windows 2000 Professional, Office 2000, and various custom applications, throughout Miami-Dade County to over 30,000 desktops.
• Interfaced with Hardware/Software Engineers to provide permanent solutions to recurring issues.
• Planned enterprise security policies for Windows 2000 Professional desktop clients and all Windows NT/2000 servers.
• Managed the Migration process of over 150 Windows NT 4.0 servers and their applications to Windows 2000 Server.
• Trained first and second level IT Support technicians on various Windows 2000 Pro desktop deployment methods, decreased deployment time from 3hrs to 1hr.

Confidential, Miami FL

Assistant Site Director

Responsibilities:

• Directed and managed all operations for Call Center, responsible for over 600 users and 150 programmers.
• Served as client manager to implement client-server billing and customer care solutions.
• Designed, developed and implemented several process that serve as foundation for department, including MIS reporting, and requirements for central call center desk.
• Managed 8 - 10 technical resources as well as authored Statement of Work for new and existing clients.
• Tracked software customization, defects and issues via the use of Software Development Life Cycle, reducing software defects by over 30%.
• Managed and planned the deployment of six call centers. Developed automated software distribution solution to handle custom software deployment requests to over 600 desktops per call center, this effort reduced the technical support requirements by over 45%.
• Led efforts to reduce overall circuits within facilities, which contributed to decreased operational costs.