Viji Anbumani
732 589 6374
vijay.anbumani@gmail.com

SharePoint Solution Architect

·   19 years of experience in IT and Software Engineering.

·   Office 365, SharePoint online and Project Web App architect

o   Provider and SharePoint hosted apps development for Office 365

o   Single Page Applications on SharePoint online using Angular JS

o   Migration from SharePoint 2010/2013 to SharePoint online

o   Project Web App (PWA) application development in SharePoint Online environment

o   SharePoint Online branding

o   Social networking integration with SharePoint online environment

o   Client applications development for SharePoint online using CSOM, REST and JSOM

·   Cloud Architecture

o   Design, planning, preparation, and implementation experience of Office 365 infrastructure based on ADFS and Azure AD authentication framework.

o   Design of cloud application on Azure and SQL Azure platform.

o   SSO implementation for corporate users to access Office 365 and Azure web sites.

·   SharePoint Solution Architect with experience in implementing following types of solutions

o   Information Architecture

o   Enterprise Content Management

o   Document Management

o   Records Center and eDiscovery for Regulatory and Compliance requirements

o   Collaboration and Social Networking

·   Document Imaging and Document conversion for compliance and legal requirements.

·   SharePoint Governance model and Culture planning.

·   Architected multiple Enterprise SharePoint solutions, design of server farm topology and performance analysis of SharePoint deployments.

·   Management of SP 2010 / 2013 Application Development projects.

·   SP 2010 / 2013 server farm setup and configuration.

·   SharePoint Search and Indexing planning.

·   SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010 / 2013 migration experience.

·   SharePoint disaster recovery and planning.

·   POC creation to determine the

·   Expertise in Directories (AD and LDAP).

·   Experience in Domino architecture.

·   Management of distributed development team – onsite and offshore.
 

SAI Innovations Inc
January 2009 – Present
July 2004 – May 2008
SharePoint Team Lead / Solution Architect

As Team Lead, was responsible for the delivery of Office 365, SharePoint 2013, 2010, MOSS 2007, Project Web App (PWA) and Dynamics CRM 2011 projects and managing 15 SharePoint consultants.  The following are the overview of responsibilities

·   SharePoint 2013 Apps Model application design and development

·   Development of SharePoint 2013 Provider Hosted Apps

·   SharePoint 2013 migration planning of farms and applications

·   Migration of Lotus Notes applications to SharePoint environment

·   Requirements gathering from the clients and writing functional specifications for the projects.

·   Design and review of Technical architecture with the technical team.

·   Design of enterprise SharePoint solutions including server farm topology and search infrastructure.

·   Methodology for automatic deployments of SharePoint features across multiple farms.

·   Conduct focus meeting with stake holders to design Taxonomy (top-down and bottom-up approaches) for existing and new contents created.

·   Implementation of semantics web for automatic tagging of contents.

·   Top-down classification with bottom-up social space for implementation of social taxonomy tagging.

·   Follow-up on the traceability matrix to obtain project sign off from the clients.

·   Worked with sales team on presales activities.  Helping clients realize their pains and propose SharePoint business solutions.

·   Review and manage work load among various resources.

Client Name: Cornell University
Project Name: Project Dashboard

Project Management Office (PMO) of Cornell University, in collaboration with the Best Practices Team of Planning and Program management, provides Project Online and Office 365 expertise to address the needs of Planning and Program Management. Solutions were developed based on the Best Practices that is focused on a meeting the needs of the team with functionality that will help ensure a high adoption rate of Project Web Application and Office 365 environment.   

Following SharePoint Online solutions were developed

1.                       Project Sites - Project site template in accordance with the PMO best practices.

2.                       Project Dashboard - Track and display Project KPI with ability to analyze data and review in a collaborative environment.

3.                       Toolkit -  Document Management solution was developed starting from IA, Content Analysis, Workflow for Approval and ability to declare contents as records. Legacy data were migrated from File system

4.                       Document Assembly - Solution for assembling different documents from versioned components (document sections) of those documents that are developed over the course of the project lifecycle

5.                       Reporting - Development of reports utilizing Project Online BI infrastructure 

Technology used: SharePoint 2013, Office 365, REST, CSOM and JSOM

Client Name: International Flavors and Fragrance
Project Name: SharePoint 2013 Single Page Apps

SPA was developed in Office 365 framework based on Angular JS framework

·   Provider Hosted Apps developed for document processing and imaging

·   Single R was used for push technology.

·   Dashboard and reports presented using Power BI technology

Technology used: SharePoint 2013, Angular JS, JQuery and REST

Client Name: Cushman & Wakefield
Project Name: SharePoint 2013 Migration

Consolidation of existing legacy applications namely SharePoint 2010, and Lotus Notes in SharePoint 2013 environment

·   Assessment of existing applications to determine the effort estimate for the migration

·   Technical and Logical architecture of SP 2013 farm

·   Development of SP 2013 apps to support migrated SP 2010 web parts

·   Planning of change management for user and business community

·   Wave based migration planning of legacy applications to SP 2013 environment. 

Client Name: Consumers Energy, Jackson, MI
Project Name: Information Architecture

Consumers Energy is a Michigan based utility provider and wanted to provide uniform experience for users to access their collaboration, document management and social networking sites. As a solution architect following tasks were performed

·   Explain the business value of implementing IA to stake holders

·   Plan and conduct workshops with different departments to understand the ILM process

·   Determine the record types for creating File Plan

·   Design of Managed Metadata and Enterprise Content Types

·   Content Governance for managing IA with changing business needs

·   Review and implementation of Search architecture

Project Name: Lotus Notes Migration

Consumers Energy had legacy applications in Lotus Notes and wanted to migrate to SharePoint 2010 environment.

·   Assessment of Louts Notes applications to understand the effort for actual migration

·   Development of disposal plans for all applications based on business requirements and usage data

·   Planning of migration wave based on business partner involvement

·   Identifying SharePoint templates to be developed to host the migrated applications

Project Name: Records Center

ECM platform is implemented based on Flexible Compliance model involving both Hierarchical File Plan and Big Bucket approach.  Meta data and Taxonomy management was used resulting in Navigation based on Taxonomy and effective search.  Information Management Policies for various contents are applied based on business rules and legal requirements.

Following types of contents are managed, namely Email, Papers, Documents and Faxes.  Record center was provisioned for legal contracts.  eDiscovery process was designed for compliance team.  Legacy data in network share, cabinets and Lotus Notes were migrated to SharePoint on day zero.

Technology used: SharePoint 2010

Client Name: E&Y
Project Name: Information Architecture for E&Y web site

Responsible for dealing with the structure and use of information within the organization, and the alignment of information with the organization's strategic, tactical, and operational needs.  As part of discovery phase, contents and information entities relationship from business process was identified.

EY is a leading accounting firm and the current website has 90K pages, across 160 countries and contents in 16 languages. Providing consistent navigation for the website visitor and ability to retrieve stored data is very important to improve the user experience.

Taxonomy was developed based on EY business model, which starts with Industries served and multiple sub categories bases on top level verticals.  Automatic tagging was implemented based on Taxonomy categorization selected by the authors.  Content classification can also be done by the content authors to additional Meta data for their contents.

Consistent user experience was provided based on concepts of sections and subsections, which automatically creates user objects in the web pages.  Breadcrumbs were placed in all pages to track the user path during their travel.

Project Name: Site Governance

A leading garment importer had their sales opportunities managed through a legacy CRM application.  When a new lead is created in the CRM and on meeting certain criteria, a new MOSS site must be created.  Various business rules were to be followed in creation of the new sites.  The rule engine developed was highly customizable by Business Analyst, during the course of the execution.

MOSS web service was used in the site provisioning.  Because of the high transactions, multiple content databases are used by the farm and round robin mechanism is followed during site creation.  The sales team from CRM was given various roles in the newly created sites for security.  When the sales team for the lead is changed in CRM, the security of the respective site for that lead is also updated automatically.

Rollup web parts were implemented for sales people to view their tasks, documents and events from multiple sites to which they have access to.

Project Name: Performance Reports Portal

Hedge Fund Company wanted to publish the performance reports of their customers to a secured Intranet portal.  The fund managers will enter the fund details in an InfoPath form.  The customer investment details were available in a different LOB application.  The report templates were developed for the reports to be developed.  Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly reports are generated and published automatically to an Intranet Portal.  Reports were available in PDF and DOCX format.

SharePoint Charts Web Part was used to display the SSRS reports   Users can do a data drill down and export to Excel.  KPI can be set by the customers and displayed using the KPI Web Part either as Traffic light indicator or custom presentation formats.

Technology used: Office Automation, SharePoint 2010

Client Name: Brother Industries
Project Name CRM Implementation

Service and Sales module were implemented for 4 countries of a leading Service company.  CRM was rolled out for about 170 users based on customized business process across various business units with the organization.  The system tracks the complete customer experiences, in providing Service for various types of customers, namely, Phone, Walk In, On Site and Web.

Invoices created are integrated with SAP and NAV.  Custom Inventory module was developed to track the stock movement and also the loaner machines.  Employees and external users can request for parts for every repair and is tracked automatically during the billing section.

CRM data was exposed to non employees like external service technicians through a web application.  License fees for the external users were saved using this approach taking advantage of CRM external data connector.  Customer Portal allowed the online warranty data creation by end users avoiding manual data entry of sales data.

Legacy data from Lotus Notes were migrated to CRM.  Contacts, Cases, Invoice and Activities entity records were transferred to CRM for all the 4 countries   Management report developed in SSRS were published to a SharePoint portal.

Technology Used: Plug-in, Workflow, SSRS reports, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4

Project Name: Collaboration Portal

Intranet Portal was developed for employee collaboration across multiple departments for a pharmaceutical company. Employees can access various contents for their day to day work.  Questions in form of discussion can be posted to various departments.  Subject Matter Experts (SME) will monitor the forums and answer these questions.  This becomes a Knowledge Base which includes various categories like self service section, commonly asked questions and videos in the media library. Blogs and My Sites were provisioned for power users and trained to publish various KPI reports.

Web Parts were developed to list the sites users belong to which will be updated dynamically once the sites are created.   Hot discussion and commonly asked questions were shown prominently based on the custom web parts developed.

Technology Used: SharePoint 2010

Project Name: Intranet Portal

Secure and personalized portal was developed for a university, which acts as Intranet for Employees, Staff, Students and Visitors.

Quick launch bar was customized to use ASP 2.0 menu.  InfoPath forms allow visitors to apply for job openings and Work flow was implemented using WWF.  Customized Master Pages were used and deployed through Site definitions.  Authentication is handled through LDAP (Domino directory) and Authorization through custom role provider.

Custom Meta data field controls were created in the publishing pages for the authors and editors to select the Taxonomy hierarchy during content creation.  These field controls were also used in the content deployment process between authoring and publishing servers in the farm.

Technology used: MOSS 2007, WWF, InfoPath, and LDAP authentication.

Project Name: MOSS 2007 Rollout

New MOSS 2007 server farm was setup for a Media Company.  Architecture was developed using 2 Web Front servers, 1 Application server and a database cluster.  SAN storage was used for storage.  Maintenance policies and SLA were implemented.

Training was provided for administrators to create Team Sites and Project Sites.

Search was configured with multiple crawl rules being set for various sites.  Faceted search results were provided for end users, for automatic grouping of results.  Security trimming was applied for the search results.

Custom ‘Report web parts’ were created to provide rollup from lists across various sites.  Consolidated Tasks and Calendar web parts to display data from multiple sites were developed.

The client had about 126 paper forms and changed to Electronic Forms (InfoPath).  Multi-level workflow was implemented for the forms using WWF.  Item level security and some reporting were also provided using workflow.

Project Name: SPS 2003 migration

Custom migration plan was developed for an Oil company.  The SPS installation had about 300 top level sites and had performance issues.  Migration tool was developed which will allowed the clients to move only specific sites with the ability to create a separate content database for the migrated site.

The overall migration plan was similar to Microsoft suggested in-place migration, with few custom changes to suit the client environment.  New MOSS 2007 environment with NLB WF and database clusters were implemented.  After migration, MOSS enterprise search was deployed.

Project Name: Dashboard (MySites) deployment.

Dashboard functionality was provided for different types of users using MySite Role based template implementations.  Custom master pages were developed and deployed using MOSS Feature functionality.  Based on the user roles, users will have access to different web parts.  Web parts provide personalized data based on the user responsibilities like budget information, help desk ticket status and employee leave requests.

Project Name: Document compliance management.

As business analyst, reviewed the compliance requirements for the current industry LOB.  Workflow was implemented based on the metadata values for the documents being uploaded.

Custom document library search web part was developed to display the search results in a grid format with all the Item tasks links available in the search results.

Technology used: SPS 2003, Web parts using C#

Project Name: Department Portals

Team Site was customized using Site definitions for branding information to include Themes and custom Master page.  Data consolidation web part to provide rollup of documents from multiple document libraries across various sites was developed.

Custom aspx form pages were developed for user registration and deployed through site definitions during new site creation. Quick item list creation tool bar was developed for the users to create item without using the default SPS entry forms.

Server farm was implemented with 2 NLB web front end servers, 1 index server and database cluster.

Technology used: SPS 2003.

Allianz Global Investors
May 2008 - December 2008
Business Analyst

High assets individual department was interested in implementing a business process and a SharePoint application was developed using InfoPath to obtain user data inputs and Workflow to implement the approval rules.  Web service was developed for presenting the LOB data in InfoPath forms.  InfoPath views were developed for security and custom workflow for AD lookup and workflow steps like modifying the security of SharePoint list items.

Technology: InfoPath, Custom Workflow, SharePoint 2007

Bright Consulting
January 2003 – May 2004
Business Analyst

Responsible for understanding the client requirements and provide System Requirement Specifications (SRS) and Functional Requirements documents for the technical team.  The documents were created following modified RUP methodology.  Various UML artifacts for HLD like use cases; sequence diagram and class diagrams were developed.

Traceability matrix was created for the projects which were used for sign off from the clients during project completion.

During testing phase, responsibilities include coordination with QA team, to confirm that all business requirements and rules were followed and implemented by the development team.

ePresence Inc.
July 1998 - November 2002
Domino development team

Played various roles like Domino developer, Domino architect and Domino Administrator.  Development of Collaboration, Content Management, and Team Workspace and Portal applications for various industry verticals.