Professional Profile

Senior Systems Engineer and Developer
Twenty-five years of computer information systems experience.
Recent assignments completed for US Army, Northrop Grumman, Dynegy, EDS, MNFI Iraq, Sharepoint360, U.S. Navy, Hospira, College Loan Corp, SDSU, California B& T, Duke Energy, Sempra Energy, Semtech Corporation, Ferring Research Institute, Cohu Electronics, Northrop Grumman, UCSD, County of San Diego, and Solar Turbines.
Specialist in Microsoft application servers including Windows Server 2000-2008, IIS, SQL 2000, 2005, 2008, Analysis Services, Reporting Services, Windows SharePoint Services, SharePoint 2001, 2003, 2007, 2010.

Confidential,Los Angeles, Ca October – December 2012 SharePoint Consultant
SharePoint Architect and Administrator
Redesigned and rebuilt the SharePoint 2010 farm while transferring knowledge to the Sys Admins and Help Desk. Addressed prior SQL Cluster and web front end Network Load Balancing issues.

• Consolidated site collections and established global navigation.
• Revamped the master page including navigation and quick launch.
• Established governance and delivered it with end user training.
• Segregated services among the application services.
• Redesigned Search and introduced Metadata navigation
• Established SharePoint Workspaces for VPN users
• Resolved ongoing Tier 3 support issues

Confidential,Los Angeles, Ca January – September 2012
Senior SharePoint Developer
SharePoint Administrator and Developer
Coordinated the migration of 670 site collections, 40 content databases and 4500 users from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 with a 8 member team. Have identified and initiated remediation of deficiencies in the current SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 configurations including farm, web application, site collection and storage.

• Addressed orphan sites, super sized lists, document libraries, and long url issues.
• Outlined a migration strategy to minimize file transfer.
• Evaluated Migration tools.
• Designed RBS solution to improve performance and optimize SQL file sizes.
• Developed PowerShell scripts to monitor SharePoint Health and test Perimeter rebuilds.
• Implemented additional farm features including business connectivity services.
• Delivered training workshops including site planning for the upcoming migration.
• Recommended and advised on development of a corporate taxonomy.
• Resolved ongoing Tier 3 support issues such as search crawl problems.

Confidential,China Lake, Ca August 2011 – January 2012
NAWCWD Information Technology/Information Management
SharePoint Administrator and Developer
Completed migration of EMC Documentum eRoom content and users to SharePoint 2007 sites; using the DocAve 5 tool and custom scripts. Identified deficiencies in the current SharePoint 2007 configuration and projected SharePoint 2010 upgrade plans.

• Trained SharePoint support staff and users on the use; and out of the box customizations available in SharePoint.
• Assisted the cold disaster recovery site with ESX issues and SharePoint/SQL Server disaster recovery best practices.
• Recommended courses of action to resolve site wide issues in user management, document organization, and certificate handling.
• Addressed document publishing and workflow scenarios.

Confidential,Djibouti January 2011 – March 2011
J6 HOA USAFRICOM
SharePoint and SQL Server Administrator and Developer
Resolved issues and repaired the USAFRICOM SharePoint Portal Server Farm installations. Fixed low disk, backup, SQL maintenance job issues, and repaired SQL Server database mirrors. Addressed central farm configuration and enabled out of the box features for SharePoint.

• Supported the J6 IMO staff on SharePoint workflow development and front end features of the portal.
• Addressed clustering and mirroring issues.
• Repaired databases, shrank log files, automated disk space recovery.
• Planned additional site collections to reduce the size of the content database.
• Recommended processes and procedures to insure Portal Health and Best Practices.
• Set up an ESX Server Virtual Machine Test Lab.

Confidential,Germany October 2010 – January 2011
KMO USAREUR 7th Army G3
SharePoint Administrator and Developer
Resolved issues and completed projects including improved navigation, search, publishing, and feature implementation for the USAEUR G3 SharePoint 2007 Portal.

• Activated additional unused features in the current portal starting with connecting web parts, rolling up calendars, and implemented print features.
• Developed a census of Portal Content and tested various search scenarios.
• Mapped new Content Types for Metadata Searches.
• Developed a master Garrison List based on the DoD Unit Identification Code UIC.
• Recommended processes and procedures to insure Portal Health and Best Practices.
• Outlined test system set up for an ESX Server Virtual Machine Test Lab.

Confidential,Ca. October 2008 – October 2010
Northrop Grumman Data Integration and Visibility
SQL DBA and Developer

• Developed a Historical Cost Data Warehouse to produce Cost Estimating Relationships integrated data from spreadsheets and SAP BW.
• Developed a data integration layer with SSIS to merge data for change management tracking for aircraft part manufacturing.
• Scripted queries against a linked Oracle 9.0 server.
• Advised on data integration with SAP BW and Oracle to SQL Server.
• Outlined test system set up for an ESX Server Virtual Machine Test Lab.

Confidential,San Diego, Ca. March 2008 – June 2008
EDS NMCI
Senior SQL DBA
Stabilized the SQL Enterprise environment for NMCI; corrected configurations, adjusted backup plans and improved query performance.

• Set up SQL Server Health and History tool to monitor 140 SQL Servers in the Enterprise.
• Developed a 15 step program to analyze and correct SQL 2000 and SQL 2005 configurations.
• Introduced Diskeeper to defragment existing servers and revised maintenance and optimization plans to improve performance.
• Resolved enterprise wide server configuration deficiencies.

Confidential,Baghdad, Iraq October 2007 – December 2007
MNF-I Multinational Forces Command Iraq
Senior SharePoint Engineer
Installed and configured a SharePoint 2007 medium server farm for portal migration from SharePoint 2003 to SharePoint 2007. Designed virtualization architecture to consolidate existing servers and enhance availability.

• Restored the SharePoint 2003 portal content to SharePoint 2007 using scripts.
• Tracked server health and diagnosed problems with the help desk.
• Deployed 64 bit servers for the new portal.
• Identified SAN optimizations by reducing storage utilization and specified new equipment.

Confidential,CA September 2007
Power Plant Operator
SharePoint Developer
Designed a SharePoint based environmental health and safety compliance tracking solution used by the plant. Used a Team Workspace in SharePoint WSS 3.0. Data from an existing database was imported into the workspace. Alerts and tracking features were incorporated for accountability.

• Trained network administrators on SharePoint backup and recovery.
• Demonstrated templates for additional application development.

Confidential,CA April 2007 – July 2007
SharePoint Hosting Service
Senior Systems Engineer
Initiated virtualization to support multiple front end and back end servers to host their specialized SharePoint Applications. Deployed 64 bit virtual servers to the development environment and hosting location.

• Identified security enhancements for their internal networks.
• Prototyped Microsoft Webhosting 4.5 solution for provisioning.
• Enabled SharePoint WSS 3.0 for AD based people picker.
• Reviewed Microsoft SPLA and developed hosting pricing model.

Confidential,CA January 2007 – April 2007
SPAWAR One-Net
SharePoint Architect
Designed and documented a solution for migration of a single server SharePoint Portal 2003 intranet to a multiple Portal Server Farm with Shared Services.
Set up the test network and Windows servers in accordance DITSCAP guidelines for DISA review.

• Identified a solution using ISA Server 2006 to provide a DMZ for their public facing web sites in accordance with DoD directives.
• Trained government civilian employees in Windows server setups.

Education
B.S. Mathematics