Professional Experience

Confidential

2009 – Present

Principal Application Architect (Application Migration / On-prem and on Cloud Implementation / Ecosystems)

•         Serve as Principal SharePoint Architect leading Global SharePoint Migration Projects. Migrating SharePoint Collaboration Farms, SharePoint Portal Farms and SharePoint Services Farms from on-Premise, SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 to on-Premises, from on-Premises to SharePoint online Office 365, from on-Premises to SharePoint on MS Windows Azure and other Private cloud (iStructure).

•         Architect, Design and implement Business solutions to address requirements spanning various industry verticals and domains including Legal, Finance, Pharma, Retail, A&D, etc.

•         Execute DR strategy based on SLA and governance established with the application owners and stakeholders working directly with various other network operations and infrastructure teams.

•         Deploy Large Scale infrastructure Architecture, load-balanced and High availability sets, SharePoint/Exchange/AD/Lync implementation for global European Company with global Data Centers in South-Africa, Brazil, Czech, Canada, Poland, Romania, Spain, Ukraine, and the USA.

•         Architect Large topologies of various server Farms of (40)+, load-balanced Web Front Ends (WFE) Virtual servers, Virtual Application Servers for various dedicated SharePoint Services and Third Party utilities Virtual servers (Search, DocAve, Metalogix, SSRS, Dexter, K2, KnowledgeLake Capture, Nextdoc DPS, Etc.), Clustered Physical and Virtual SQL Servers with High Availability set, dedicated Shared Services Farms on VM Ware IBM and regional data centers.

•         Complete Global “As Is” SharePoint Server 2007 and 2010 Assessments, and issue Remediation document in preparation for Global on-prem migration of 19+ SharePoint Collaboration and Intranet Portal Farms to SharePoint 2013 on-Prem and SharePoint online.

•         High familiarity of monitoring tools such as SCOM, EndPoint Configuration management tools such as Systems Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), or IBM Tivoli End Point Manager (BigFix).

•         Server as Principal Consultant leading a team of systems engineering experts to manage 3000+ servers and 3PB of storage across 8 global data centers to support web applications that serve millions of customers every day.

•         Leverage PowerShell to automate and orchestrate systems provisioning, administration, and routine operations tasks.

•         Build Business Process Applications aggregating data from various line of Business applications leveraging various data objects to read and write info to/from one or more systems using SharePoint Designer and other Business Process Systems such K2 Business Process Automation suites (Smartforms, Smartobjects, Workflows, and Reports) tying together various asset tracking systems such as Systems Center, Active Directory, User provisioning, Contracts Management,

•         Use various migration suites (Dell, ShareGate, Metalogix, DocAve) to Migrate various Microsoft Legacy applications

•         Setup and Configured SharePoint Server 2013/2010 Application Management, App Catalog (Hosted), App Store, Enterprise Search; then configured Best bests, Keywords, Scopes, Crawl rules, Search Refiners, Search connectors, Federated locations and content sources, Information Architecture..

•         Perform overall SharePoint Administration tasks including but not limited SharePoint installation, setup and configuration, Patch installation, WSP Package Deployment and solution promotion, Task Automation through PowerShell and STSadm, Server upgrade, SQL Server scripting and administration for SharePoint, DNS Configurations, Firewall rule definition and implementation, Database backup and restore, STS installation and configuration, Information Architecture implementation, Web applications, Site Collections, List, libraries creation, IIS Configuration, Identity Management configuration, ADFS configuration, Web config modifications, Configuration documentation, Evaluate tools and identify ways to streamline, and improve day-to-day operations and administrative tasks.

•         Travel internationally (Bangalore, India – Luxembourg, Luxembourg – London, England – Amsterdam, Netherlands - Johannesburg, South Africa – Berne, Switzerland, Brazil, etc) to Respond to Customer RFPs, Drive Proof of Concept (POC) and Proof of Technology (POT) evaluation on interoperable technology platforms, Hire and Train junior developer and Systems administrators.

•         Serve as Program Manager for a large utility company in New York managing a 23 million dollar portfolio of projects and implementing the mobile account management platform for all their customers.

•         Manage global team of vendors, contractors, international team members, IT departments and serve as central point of contact and liaison facilitating issue resolutions, communications and directions for Production, DR, Stage, and development environment problems quickly.

•         Deployed and configured SQL Server 2012/2008 R2 and 2005 for SharePoint Server 2013/2010 and MOSS 2007 in Primary and Failover Modes (Clustering, Log Shipping, Fail-over and Replication)

•         Experience dealing with remotely hosted Datacenter operations such as IBM for large SharePoint Farms.

•         Create and Implement Network Diagrams with solid understanding of network protocols, Ports, Firewall and Rules, URL traffic, Load Balancer, DNS, Proxy, Encryption, etc…

•         Automate Business Processes through K2 Blackpearl (Smartforms, workflows, Smartobjects, reports) and Business Processes to SAP, SharePoint Server, CRM Dynamics, Salesforce, and SQL with mobile ready integration for IoS, Android, Blackberry, etc.

•         Manage customer relationships and conflicts between stakeholders. Handle organizational politics and red tape; Implements knowledge management processes for the program. Conduct program level briefings for program board management.

•         Deployed Siteminder Identity Management (IdM) as SSO with SharePoint Server 2010 STS (AAM, NTLM, Kerberos and SiteMinder for SSO).

•         Implement Technology “Center of Excellence (CoE)” providing single point of entry for Training, Communications, Support, Governance, etc…

•         Published and delivered SharePoint Server 2010 Configuration and Build Standards document covering various topics such as Sizing requirements, Farm deployment and configurations, Design Best Practices, Using SharePoint Designer, SharePoint Server 2010 and Domain Tiers, Proxies, Load-Balancers, High-availability, Backup and Recovery, with design specs including Operating System, Memory, CPUs, VNics, System and Data drives (SAN) capacity.

•         Install and Configure SharePoint 2010 in multi-zones scenario, for Internet (Anonymous/ADFS Claims), Extranet (ADFS Claims), Intranet (Windows Claims/ADFS Claims).

•         Developed InfoPath Forms converting various paper processes and forms into browser accessible electronic process.

•         Leverage DocAve AvePoint SharePoint Site’s Administration module to Monitor, maintain, recover, issue reports for production, DR and QA farms.

•         Proven technical ability with strong leadership skills and solid technical customer relationship building skills, strong presentation, communication, analytical and problem solving skills with ability to work effectively under pressure with constantly changing priorities and deadlines

•         Design and maintain Visio diagrams of all environments, processes, integrations, network diagrams

•         Accountable for overall success of SharePoint services, meeting all aspects of the farms stated technical requirements and service levels as measured by negotiated performance criteria. Participate actively in consulting firm selection process.

 

 

Forest City Enterprises, Inc

2007 – 2009

Sr. Enterprise Content Management Architect (SharePoint Intranet / Extranet)

▪          Lead Enterprise Content Management (ECM) team managing, maintaining, supporting, and deploying out-of-the box and custom Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) solutions from Collaboration, Portal, Content Management, Search, InfoPath forms and Business Intelligence, Web Parts and features for company’s $9B portfolio intranet, extranet and internet platforms.

▪          Hands-On SharePoint Solution Architect, with effective communication skills to present SharePoint Solutions to all levels of management.

▪          Travel nationwide to present SharePoint solutions to key SBUs executives, work with different groups and levels of management for business requirements for out of the box and custom solutions. Work closely with all level of management to meet deadlines and deliver solutions on time and on budget.

▪          Extensive Hands-on administrative and management experience with MOSS (Collaboration, Web Content Management, Enterprise Search, Forms Server and BI), SharePoint Farms, IIS, Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2000 and 2005; In-depth understanding of SharePoint governance, Web based technologies and web services.

▪          Manage Multiple farms – Dev, Integration, Stage, and Production - for over 20000 users (Nationwide and London). Application server, Load balanced Front-Ends, Clustered SQL Server.

▪          Manage, Maintain and support the full suite of residential retail web sites including University Park Living – www.universityparkliving.com.

▪          Hands-On knowledge of SharePoint infrastructure architecture, SharePoint deployment planning, SharePoint Installation, configuration, administration and support. Hands-On experience with Custom Solution deployment, troubleshooting, Central Admin, Content Deployment, SSP, Querry and Index servers setup and configuration.

▪          Accountable for overall success of SharePoint services, meeting all aspects of its stated technical requirements and service levels as measured by negotiated performance criteria. Prepare Proof of Concepts; participate actively in consulting firm selection process. Manage consulting partners (Local, nationwide and internationally – India – London). Promote solution (exe, wsp, dll, xml, etc)   deployments from consulting firms from integration, authoring to production. Provide infrastructure vision and problem anticipation/solving on an enterprise level. Anticipate IT industry future directions, relate those changes to current and future infrastructure needs and projects. Accountable for budgetary performance for the IT infrastructure related components (i.e. hardware, software, and labor) of the SharePoint environments and services along with the overall management of all projects under the ECM umbrella.

▪          Travel nationwide to present SharePoint solutions to key stake holders, and then meet with such to gather business requirements for out of the box and custom solutions. Work closely with all level of management to meet deadlines and deliver solution on time and on budget.

▪          Manage a team of developers, content authors, server administrators and consultants.

▪          WSS 2.0 to MOSS 2007 Migration - 150 WSS 2.0 Sites with data size of 200GB

▪          MCMS 2002 Intranet Site to MOSS 2007 migration

▪          Search and Crawl Configuration and troubleshooting

▪          Deploying solution packages, features and applications

▪          L3, L2, L1 level support for Production Issue, troubleshooting for MOSS 2007 Issues

▪          Content Database Management

▪          Document and Content Management

▪          Configuring Workflows and email notifications

▪          Deploying Master Pages, Site definition and Features

▪          Implementing and Managing Single-Sign on

▪          Implementing Information Policies, Content Type Management

▪          User Profiles, Audiences and Permissions

▪          Implementing, configuring and managing Excel Services and InfoPath Forms Services

▪          Managing Web parts and Site Contents

▪          Perform routine maintenance and support activities

▪          Perform STSADM backups of SharePoint systems and backend SQL databases back-up

▪          Excellent communication skills

▪          Being involved in interaction with customers, understanding customer requirements

▪          Fast learner and quick to adapt to situations

▪          Strong leadership qualities, good time management skills

 

 

Expertise

Windows Azure | SharePoint on Windows Azure | Cloud Application Migration | SharePoint On-Prem Implementation and Migration | SharePoint Online | Cloud Application Management | SharePoint Server 2013, 2010, MOSS 2007 |Windows Server 2012, 2008 R2, 2003 | SQL Server 2012, 2008 R2, 2005 | Reporting Services | Office 365 | iStructure | Business Process Automation| K2 Blackpearl (Forms, Workflows, Smartobject, Reports) | Data integration to Line of Business Applications (Salesforce, Dynamics, SharePoint, SQL Server, etc) | K2 APPIT | Technical Sales | Pre-Sales Engineer |Proof-Of-Concept (PoC)| Salesforce Leads Management |Microsoft Practice Management | RFP Response | Product Demonstration | Proof of Concept | Program Management | Mobile Application | HMTL 5 | Active Directory | FIM | ADFS | SiteMinder | AvePoint DocAve | SPAutoInstaller | PowerShell Automation | Powershell for Windows Azure | High Availability | Disaster Recovery | Network (DNS, Proxy, Firewall, DMZ, Load balancer) | Virtual Network | Hybrid Networking (Site-To-Site, Point-To-Site) | .Net (ASP.Net, C#, WSP, DLL, XML, WCF, WSDL)|HTML | Kerberos | SPN| SAML 2.0 |ARX CoSign | NextDoc | eTMF |Oracle |Java | Cloud Computing (IaaS – PaaS – SaaS) | Akamai | Azure | AWS | Domains: Retail – Pharma – Manufacturing – Utilities – Government

 

Education / Additional Information

▪          Masters, Information Management, UCLA Extensions

▪          Languages: English and French.

▪          MCP, MCTS, ITIL