SUMMARY

• 7 years of total IT experience in analyzing, designing and development of web - based applications, client/server applications, n-tier distributed architecture, web designing, and object-oriented programming.
• Expertise and proficiency in administration and design of SharePoint SP2013/SP2010/MOSS2007/WSS3 applications.
• Excellent working experience with MS Visio, Microsoft SQL Server and other Internet related HTML/DHTML, AJAX, ASP, CSS, XML, XSLT, VBScript, JavaScript technologies.
• Strong working knowledge of Relational Databases (MS-SQL Server, T-SQL, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL), database design, data modeling, query optimization, stored procedure, triggers and scheduling DTS.
• Hands-on skills in Business system analysis, re-engineering, project management and business process management.
• Experience in the field of Software Quality Assurance and Application Testing and well versed with structured QA methodologies.
• Hands-on experience in configuring, using and administrating version control systems like Visual SourceSafe 6.0/2005, Microsoft Team Foundation Server and Project Tracking Tools
• Having exposure to and involvement in different phases of the SDLC including Strategic systems planning, testing, installation and user training of software and database design
• Expertise in preparing and performing seminars and client demos.
• Able to work on tight deadlines and for extended hours. Continually provide value added services to the client through thoughtful experience, productive software design habits, excellent logical aptitude and good written and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Web Tools (CGI): JavaScript, AJAX, PHP, VBScript

Reporting Tools: Crystal Reports, BI Data Reports, SSIS Reporting services

Middle ware: ActiveX, DLL, COM/COM+, DCOM, ODBC

Databases: MS-SQL Server 2000/2005/2012 , Oracle 9i, MySQL, MS Access

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, UNIX/LINUX, Windows 2000/NT/XP/Vista/7/8.1, Macintosh

Application Tools: VS 2005/2008, MS-Visio, WSS 2.0/3.0, MOSS 2007

Microsoft Team Foundation Server:

Markup Languages: HTML, CSS, DHTML, XHTML, XML, XSLT, XLink, Xpath and DTD’s

Others: Macromedia Dreamweaver, Sharepoint designer, Adobe Photoshop

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Boston, MA

SharePoint consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created and fostered an environment to evangelize SharePoint and played a pivotal role in increasing SharePoint adoption and engagement for functional/business users outside ITS.
• Led migration project for converting existing SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 platform and also from MOSS 2007 to SP2010 environment. The new SP2013 platform has been implemented with Improved Search experience, Office Web Apps, Metadata and tagging, enhanced social networking features, Project Server and Business Intelligence.
• Utilized V-model testing methodology in SP2013 upgrade project. Responsible for Compatibility and Cross Browser testing, Mobile testing, Regression testing, System testing, Integration testing and non-functional testing on the new SharePoint 2013 platform.
• Designed and implemented farm and server topologies for development and test environments that include Web Front ends, Index and Query VMWare Servers, Backup and Recovery strategies for SQL. SQL Server 2012 has been configured with high availability cluster nodes to failover in case of a disaster scenario.
• Designed and developed enterprise-wide solutions for SharePoint document management, User interface, custom lists, Infopath forms, BCS, Excel Services, SP Designer Workflows, Master page and site customizations, security and permissions etc.
• Design and assist in automating roll out of 250+ team sites for 26 US locations on a yearly basis and archiving at the end of the year. Administer MySites, community sites, project sites, team sites and publishing sites and user security with SharePoint and Active Directory groups.
• Act as primary point person for all SharePoint administrative activities such as site creation, user training, backup, restore, performance analysis, security vulnerability mitigation, disk management, load balancing needs, problem & incident analysis and resolution.
• Responsible for daily triaging of high volume Service desk cases and providing level 3 support as needed for 3600+ internal users in 32 site collections with 1200+ sites.
• Automated daily monitoring activities using Powershell and STSADM. Daily monitoring of SQL Servers, IIS, WFE’s and App servers for load, usage and performance issues including troubleshooting issues and RCA.
• Strong working experience with integrating 3rd party admin, analytics and migration tools such as Metavis, Metalogix ControlPoint, Fileloader, Webtrends etc into SharePoint. Assisted in integration of SharePoint with a Learning Management System (LMS) system.
• Good working knowledge of enterprise cloud application CMS tools such as Salesforce, ERP systems such as Workday and SSO solution such as Okta. Intermediate level understanding and exposure to Office 365, Azure and PowerBI

Environment: SP2013, SP2010, MOSS 2007, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2012/2008, MS Office 2013, PowerShell, InfoPath, Excel Services, VMWare, Project Management, Bug tracking, Procedure documentation, Salesforce, Workday, eNews, Powershell, STSADM

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Senior SharePoint Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing multiple large-scale farms in production and non-prod environments that span across government, healthcare and technical.
• Responsible for applying CU's, Hot fixes, patches and other ongoing Windows 2003 and 2008 server maintenance and installations.
• Created web applications, managed Central Admin, IIS application pool configurations, setup Active directory groups, managed NTLM authentications, and administered SSP's, My Sites, user profiles.
• Successfully migrated databases from Sql 2005 to Sql 2008 for all SharePoint farms and implemented clustering of databases and SharePoint web applications for higher availability. Load balancing of servers is handled using NetScaler.
• Single-handedly responsible for providing 24x7 production support to close to 2200 users on various issues across platforms ranging from WSS 2.0, WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 and thousands of sites under these platforms. Ticketing system is utilized to track user issues and resolution
• Provided and participated in developing intensive on-going training to users with varied levels of sharepoint knowledge on topics such as workflows, out of the box enterprise features, SharePoint designer, infopath forms, webparts, excel services, BDC, Project Server etc. Also managed user licenses, security and site provisioning across multiple SharePoint farms.
• Actively developed plans to migrate WSS3.0 sites to MOSS 2007 and to SharePoint 2010 and implemented them to a successful extent.
• Acted as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on all SharePoint related issues for the firm. Also developed, maintained and enforced policies and procedures for SharePoint use and maintenance in an effort to establish governance policies.
• Handled backup and recovery, auditing, site moves, solution deployments, third-party tools and webparts deployments from the development team. Automated daily monitoring activities using powershell and STSADM.
• Configured and Installed SharePoint and added new servers to prod/non-prod farms to support load and swapped existing VM’s with physical servers to upgrade to Windows server 2008
• Collaborated with multiple teams firm wide such as development, engineering, business analysts and business users to identify challenges and solution opportunities within SharePoint. Presentations to firm executives were regularly required as a part of this process.
• In conjunction with the technical support team, executed and verified successful refreshes of various SharePoint environments. Coordinated changes to the SharePoint farms with the Change Management team.
• Other responsibilities include working with SharePoint designer, Jquery, JavaScript languages to provide custom applications as requested by end-users.

Environment: MOSS 2007, VS 2008, SharePoint 2010, WSS 2.0/3.0, Windows Server 2008/2003, Exchange Server 2003/2007, SQL Server 2008/2005, Requirements gathering, SSIS, SSRS, C#, MS Office, Web parts, InfoPath, Excel, Access

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Utilized Telerik Sitefinity CMS tool to build the web application. dataview webparts to pull data from PeopleSoft and other backend custom applications into SharePoint portals.
• Managed site map navigation, user logins, dashboards, template editing etc within the application.
• Contributed for migration from WSS to MOSS 2007 and create document libraries, setting properties for individual files, adding/uploading multiple documents etc.
• Performed site template customization, site definition customization, custom web parts and created custom Master pages and custom page layouts.
• Created dashboards using Excel 2007 with SSAS 2005/2008. Responsible for creating wikis, blogs, surveys and other Web 2.0 social collaboration tools.
• Validated design approach by tracking user interactions with sites before and after an implementation.
• MOSS 2007 Master Template Design Updates and trained site administrators and business users. Identified site collection owners across various web applications and assigned tasks for daily maintenance of SharePoint portals.
• Set site quotas, generated reports via weblog expert tool for SharePoint sites apart from out of the box usage reports, managed web application features.
• Hands-on exposure to SharePoint administrations tools such as Avepoint, Axcelers’ Controlpoint and Qwest modules.
• Managed projects using JIRA issue tracking software and followed Scrum style project management with daily project updates
• Acted as MS Project Server administrator maintaining both back-end and front-end. Acted as an escalation engineer for Sharepoint portal server and WSS.

Environment: MOSS 2007, Sitefinity, JIRA, Windows Server 2008, Agile Methodologies, Scrum, Exchange Server 2003/2007, Vision, Sharepoint Server 2007, SQL Server 2008, SSIS, SSRS, C#, MS Office, Web parts, Infopath.

Confidential, Beverly, MA

Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed functional requirements (Workflows, Use cases) and also business requirements for the application. Gathered requirements from users and designed the GUI
• Application Interface Components using VB as front end.
• Utilized Crystal Reports 11 in generating new reports and modifying existing reports according to user requirements. Also responsible for synchronizing development and QA environments with Production reports.
• Strong understanding of ITIL service management lifecycle, service catalogue and implementation in the project scope.
• Assisted in database migration from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005 by utilizing SSIS Import and Export wizards. Involved in creating new and re-designing or customizing existing Views and Stored Procedures to suit the reporting needs from users.
• Solely responsible for application build, coding and performing QA activities such as writing test cases, unit testing (NUnit), identifying bugs and fixing them simultaneously.
• Responsible for project planning, user acceptance testing (UAT), white-box testing, troubleshooting problems and providing on-going support for EM.
• Communicated directly with Clients to understand their business needs and resolve business issues. Trained and provided support to users in different locations.

Environment: Business process, Crystal Reports 11, .NET Framework 2.0, SQL Server 2005/2000, SSIS, Stored Procedures, Triggers, XML, DHTML, NUnit.

Confidential, Groveland, MA

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering the requirements and UI design and responsible for implementing 3-tier architecture.
• Involved in Globalization of the application which enables labels, messages, buttons and combo boxes to be shown in the language of user’s choice.
• Utilized Crystal Reports for .NET 2005 in generating reports to all the developed modules of User Management
• SQL Server 2005 has been used to store transactional data and responsible for writing stored procedures and batch processes.
• Extensively used COM+ components in building the business layer application for the Client.
• Designed and developed Web services to be used as a part of the 3-tier application.
• Responsible for writing test cases, perform regression testing and black-box testing for each software module and deploy the system.
• Paricipated in brainstorming on possible Sharepoint based portal development that would be integrated in to the company's website.
• Visual Source Safe 2005 used as the major version control system for the application.

Environment: ASP.NET, VB.Net, C#, VB6, WinForms, COM+, Crystal Reports for .NET 2005, .NET Framework 2.0, XML, HTML, DHTML, SQL Server 2005, Sharepoint 2007, XML Web Services, .NET Class Libraries, Visual Source Safe 2005.

Confidential, El Paso, TX

Web Designer (Graduate Assistant)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing and designing user interface using ASP.NET, HTML, developed windows desktop applications and performed client-side validations using JavaScript.
• Worked heavily with ASP.NET CMS software - DotNetNuke 3.0 (DNN) in implementing the website.
• Responsible for managing user accounts, news and image management, page templates, registration login form, community features etc.
• Responsible for load and performance testing the website to meet user
• Coordinated UAT testing with the IT team and business users before going live. Provided reporting and statistics on user adoption.

Confidential

QA Engineer/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in writing stored procedures, triggers and creating tables for the SQL database to test performance results.
• Enterprise manager and Query manager to create, maintain and backup database as a part of managing the website.
• Responsible for developing and executing QA test cases using VBScript and involved in extensive unit and stress testing. Logged errors using Clear Quest software.