SUMMARY:

• I am an experienced Admin with 10+ years of expertise in infrastructure and supporting highly visible applications. Proficient in supporting and designing MOSS 2007, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013 Active Directory, SPS 2003, IIS6, IIS7 infrastructures.
• I am an excellent communicator, providing constant focus on customer satisfaction, with a background acting as liaison between technical staff and senior management.
• Demonstrated talent as an analytical and rapid troubleshooter with the ability to quickly analyze a problem and resolve it minimizing the impact to customers. I exhibit strong technical leadership and project management skills with a track record of successful projects on an enterprise scale.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SKILLS: MOSS 2007, SharePoint 2010 & SharePoint 2013 Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 Active Directory Microsoft SQL Server (SQL) 6.5/7.0/2000/2005/2008 Content Deployment tool, SUSHI, SP designer, SP manager, DocAve

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston Tx

Sr. SharePoint/System Admin/SME/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Handling SharePoint 2007 environment, this involve:
• User profile handling,
• Search service optimization,
• Security trimming and optimization.
• Server level patching,
• Installing Service packs and cumulative updates and testing.
• Supporting end users with their day to day queries and issues
• Involve in System administration of SharePoint servers, this includes Windows Server R2 Installation, windows patching, Memory configuration and Server level troubleshooting.
• Involved in all admin activities in SP 2007 to SP 2010 upgrade project:
• Planning for Server Architecture this involve Prod / Test / Dev / DR / and Developer machines
• Installing all required software and updates for SharePoint 2010
• Installing SharePoint 2010 product and latest patches
• Planning security structure and installing SharePoint with Microsoft Best Practices and with minimal permission criteria.
• Creating and Managing SharePoint Audiences and secure certain web parts by applying Audience filtering.
• Implemented Kerberos Authentication for SharePoint install and configuration but changed it to NTLM based on business needs.
• Created secure site with SSL for providing access to external users on internal site.
• Managing SSIS packages and SSRS integration.
• PowerShell scripting for automation of processes, Installation and troubleshooting.
• Installing all third party tools and integrates with SharePoint
• Configuring Service applications and Testing.
• Working with DBAs to attach databases to 2010 environment web applications and upgrading them.
• Working with Developer team to install custom solutions and features and testing them.
• Implementing Disaster Recovery strategy and configuring environment for Disaster Recovery.
• SharePoint 2013 upgrade project: In Progress, this Project involves upgrading SharePoint 2010 environment to SharePoint 2013.This Project is in Testing Phase.
• Installing SharePoint 2013 on Development / Test and production multi server farm.
• Configuring services like User Profile / Search / BCS etc.
• Leveraging new ideas introduced in SharePoint 2013.
• Discussion with end users and Business to improve SharePoint functionality as per their needs and technology feasibility.
• Created Nintex Workflows for complex business needs, also worked on project to convert existing SharePoint designer workflows to Nintex workflows.
• Created Nintex Forms for critical business Applications like HR / SOX and financial application.
• Handling third party tools like DocAve content manager/Migration, Pentalogic reminders, BisCom / FaxCom, NibusSoft, Nintex forms and workflows.
• Worked as Business Analyst (SharePoint) on various projects, this involves Understanding Business needs, processes and data gathering.
• Working with Developers and support persons to understand feasibility and developing custom solutions to full fill business needs.
• Configured F5 load balancer for SharePoint front end servers with F5 GUI and iRules.

Environment: SharePoint 2010, MOSS 2007, SP 2013, Server 2008 R2, sql2008 R2, DocAve 8.5

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. SharePoint Admin/SME/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of implementation including requirements gathering, design, testing, deployment, maintenance and in MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010.
• Involved in System administration of SharePoint servers, this includes configuring virtual servers with installation of Windows Server R2, windows patching, Memory configuration and Server level troubleshooting.
• Guiding offshore team with technical as well as statistical knowledge to improve their skills and meeting requirement and SLAs.
• Providing knowledge transfer for new joiners and keep a track for their improvement.
• Maintaining Knowledge base and updating it regularly.
• Keep a track on day to day activity like: Daily status updates, Application readiness, Status Calls with client, High priority incidences, Server patching and changes schedule etc.
• Providing SharePoint Application and SharePoint server level support for Marathon oil End users.
• Planning for SharePoint Cumulative updates and Hotfixes.
• This planning includes testing Cumulative updates and Hotfixes on various different environments before applying it on Production environment.
• Planning on security structure, this includes changing service accounts and their security based on Microsoft Best practices and also revisiting user security and provided exclusive permissions to user accounts.
• Creating custom permission levels based on business needs.
• Pre and Post tests for any server level changes.
• Advising end users for SharePoint usage and giving Product knowledge.
• Site Backup and Restore activities in case of accidently site get deleted.
• Monitoring SharePoint Applications and provide solution if any issue has been observed.
• Split activity which involves planning and implementing steps for company split.
• Architected/Engineered SharePoint Backup (DPM), Disaster Recovery and Redundancy strategies.
• Design/Plan/Strategy for migration of SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010.
• Collaborated with business unit Knowledge Mangers to enforce corporate policies and procedures.
• Coordinated/conducted SharePoint ; provided support, and technical reviews for SharePoint users.
• Worked with DBA’s to manage SharePoint database clusters and content databases.

Environment: SharePoint 2010, MOSS 2007, Server 2008 R2, sql2008 R2, VS2010, ASP.NET3.0, VMware workstation 7

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Providing support for Unilever End users for SharePoint related Activities.
• Planning for SharePoint Cumulative updates and Hotfixes.
• This planning includes testing Cumulative updates and Hotfixes on various different environments before applying it on Production environment.
• Pre and Post tests for any server level changes.
• Advising end users for SharePoint usage and giving Product knowledge.
• Site Backup and Restore activities in case of accidently site get deleted.
• Monitoring SharePoint Applications and provide solution if any issue has been observed.

Environment: SharePoint 2010, Server 2008 R2, sql2008 R2, VS2010, ASP.NET3.0, VMware workstation 7

Confidential

Senior SharePoint Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Planning SharePoint Farm Architecture depending on requirements and project goal.
• Comparison between different Virtualization software for Dev environment.
• Creating Dev and QA environment: SharePoint Standalone installation with supportive tools for development on VMware workstation.
• Final deployment, testing and manipulation of developed web parts, Master pages and other functionalities.
• Creating integration environment: SharePoint Farm Installation with following components:
• AD / AD LDS / DNS
• 2 WFEs (Load Balanced)
• Application server
• SQL server
• FAST search server
• Configuring Claims based Authentication with FBA.
• Configuring FAST search server.
• Configuring TFS 2010 server to automate the WSP deployments.

Environment: SharePoint 2010, Server 2008 R2, sql2008 R2, VS2010, ASP.NET3.0, VMware workstation 7

Confidential

SharePoint Administrator/Technical Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Guiding and helping customers regarding Installation and Planning of SharePoint and related products (SQL, Active Directory, DNS etc.) as per their Business requirements and available resources.
• This also includes guiding customers regarding best practices to use SharePoint products
• Trouble shooting issues related with SharePoint products like:
• Product Installation issues.
• Performance Issues.
• Service unavailability issues.
• Workflow related issues.
• Search service related issues.
• Intermittent issues.
• Security trimming and user rights issues.
• Custom application related issues such as InfoPath, Custom Work Flows, Third party web parts, Custom solutions, Custom search scopes etc.
• Migration issues such as Migrating SharePoint sites from development to Production environment.
• Backup and Restore related issues, this includes SQL, SharePoint and stsadm backup methods.
• Content deployment related issues.
• Issues related with upgrading Product from earlier version to new version or issues related with Hotfix and service pack installations.
• Issues related with Interoperability of SharePoint with Microsoft Office products.
• Issues related with BDC, SSO, Business Intelligence, and KPI etc.

Environment: SharePoint 2010, Server 2008 R2, sql2008 R2, VS2010, ASP.NET3.0, VMware workstation 7

Confidential

Windows Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Providing Level 1 Support for Windows.
• Running small projects on making the process customer friendly
• Taking ownership of technologies for faster and effective resolutions