Resume

Cecil John
Tel: 717-723-9524
Twitter: @virtualcea
FaceBook: http://facebook.com/officialvirtualdeveloper
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cjjohn
Email: cj@virtualdeveloper.com

Summary

I have over 20 years’ experience as an Architect, Senior Developer, Administrator and Project Manager for the delivery of enterprise IT systems for Federal government (Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)), official development agencies (World Bank, IMF) and large corporations (Deloitte Consulting, Freddie Mac, and America Online). My core competencies are enterprise search/knowledge management, cloud computing and content management systems.

Education

·   University of North London (UK), 06/85, BSc. Honors Degree in Architecture

·   University of Central London, 06/89, Post Graduate Diploma (Masters) Architecture

·   University of Central London, 06/93, Royal Institute of British Architects Certification (RIBA III)

Training

•                     Advanced Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013

•                     Developing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Advanced Solutions

•                     Developing ASP.NET MVC Web Applications

•                     Project Management Professional (PMP), 04/07

•                     Autonomy IDOL Server Essentials/Advanced, 11/07

•                     Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (Exam 70-533)

•                     Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions (Exam 70-532)

•                     MCSA: Office 365

o Part 1: Managing Office 365 Identities and Requirements

o Part 2: Enabling Office 365 Services

•                     Autonomy IDOL Server Essentials, 11/07

•                     Microsoft Office Server 2007 (SharePoint Portal) Search Professional, 2008

•                     Advanced Autonomy IDOL Server, 09/09

Employer/Client List

·   United Therapeutics (11/14 – 02/16)

o   Project: HR & Staffing Web Site Migration to O365

o   Responsible for taxonomy, site, categorization and classification development

o   Responsible for developing SharePoint Apps to integrate with legacy systems.

o   Responsible for migrating site content

o   Responsible for Azure cloud management, architecture and development

o   Responsible for Office 365 architecture, administration and development

o   Responsible for development, architecture, administration and configuration of the Social Intranet on SharePoint Online.

o   Responsible for Yammer Integration with SharePoint Online

o   SharePoint Online Responsive UI Branding

o   Disaster Recovery Management (Backup/Restore using DocAve AvePoint Manager and DocAve Online)

o   Responsible for development, architecture, administration of Yammer integration, People Search, Content Search with SharePoint Online Social Intranet.

o   SalesForce Integration with SharePoint using FORCE Rest API

o   Using OKTA (SAML) for Single Sign On between SharePoint Online and SharePoint On Premise.

·   Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Arlington VA 07/14 -  4/15

o   Senior SharePoint 2013 Architect, Administrator & Software Team Lead

o   Advanced workflow design and development using SharePoint Designer 2010/2013 and Visual Studio

o   Responsible for migration of SharePoint 2010 Intranet to Office 365/SharePoint Online in the cloud.

o   Architecture of SharePoint 2013 Site Collection, Search and Taxonomies to replace OpenText Document Management system.

o   Migration of Open Text Records Management for SharePoint data to SharePoint 2013 Records Management Site Collection.

o   Responsible for corporate branding of Intranet using SharePoint 2013 Design Manager, SharePoint Designer 2013.

o   Responsible for maintaining Azure Platform As A Service Development environment

o   SharePoint 2013 Records Management and EDiscovery

o   SharePoint 2013 Enterprise Search, Managed  Metadata and Content Type Hub.

o   Project Online integration with Office 365 web sites

o   Team Foundation Server (TFS) installation & configuration.

·   MyCOM Inc, London, UK (Remote Project) 4/14 – 5/21

o   Senior SharePoint Administrator & Architect

o   Project: Migration of SharePoint 2010 farm to SharePoint 2013

o   Responsible for architecture and development of migration plan.

o   Responsible for upgrading SharePoint 2010 branding to SharePoint 2013

o   Responsible for architecting the site collection navigation to maximize scalability and usability.

o   Migration of SharePoint 2010 content to 2013 using ShareGate migration tool.

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·   Freddy MAC, VA 02/14 – 06/14

o   Senior SharePoint 2010 Architect , Administrator & Software Developer

o   Project: Architecture, administration and development of migration from legacy visual basic Access application to linked SQL server DB and SharePoint 2010 on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

·   Promontory Financial Group, Washington DC 09/12 – 03/14

o   Senior SharePoint 2010/2013 Architect , Administrator & Software Developer

o   Enterprise Autonomy IDOL 10 Search and SharePoint Architect

o   Project: Architecture, administration, development and technical team leadership for corporate on premises Intranet. SharePoint 2010 search was also integrated with Knowledge lake enterprise search. Migration of on premises SharePoint 2007 environment to SharePoint 2010. Migration of SharePoint 2010 on premises trial to SharePoint 2013 Online/Office 365 and SharePoint 2013 On Premise.

·   MicroTech Corporation, Mclean, VA 12/11 – 04/12

o   Enterprise Autonomy IDOL 10 Search and SharePoint Architect

o   Project: Solution architecture for social media brand optimization and management tool that leveraged crawled and indexed social media metadata from twitter, Facebook, YouTube and blogs and integrated for search federation with corporate structured and unstructured data.

·   DirecTV, Los Angeles, CA 01/11 – 12/11

o   Enterprise Autonomy Search and SDL Tridion Architect

o   Project: Solution architecture and development for integration of Autonomy IDOL server with SDL Tridion content management system (CMS)

·   Synteractive Corporation, Washington DC 07/10 – 01/11

o   SharePoint Architect and Technical Project Manager

o   Project: Architecture and development for the migration of Department of Treasury (DoT) on premises SharePoint 2007 servers (as the Federal Governments first cloud initiative) to Amazon Web Services.

·   Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/IBM, Arlington, VA 10/10 -07/11

o   Enterprise Search SME and SharePoint Architect

o   Project: Architecture and systems integration of Autonomy IDOL server with SharePoint 2010 CMS.

·   Deloitte Consulting, Tysons Corner, VA 01/10 – 04/10

o   Enterprise Search Subject Matter Expert & Lead Developer (J2EE)

o   Project: Architecture, software development and systems integration of Autonomy IDOL Server with Java based UI leveraging Google Toolkit.

·   International Monetary Fund, Washington DC 06/08 – 12/09

o   SharePoint Architect, Team lead and Project Manager

o   Project: Architecture, administration and development for corporate SharePoint 2007 intranet. Migration of SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010.

·   Internal Revenue Service (IRS)/IBM 07/07 – 06/08

o   Enterprise Search SME (Autonomy) & SharePoint 2007 Architect

o   Project: Architecture, administration and development of integration of Autonomy IDOL server with SharePoint 2007 CMS. The objective was to crawl, index and retrieve all IRS forms submitted in the preceding 10 years.

·   Systems Engineering Systems (SESC), Lanham, MD 03/06 – 07/07

o   Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Architect

o   Project: Architecture, administration and development for the migration of legacy ASP.NET application into a SOA paradigm.

·   America Online, Sterling, VA 03/06 – 02/07

o   Enterprise Search SME, SharePoint/.NET Architect

o   Project: Architecture, administration and development of a multimillion dollar education search portal.

·   US Customs and Border Patrol, Herndon VA 10/05 – 02/06

o   IBM Websphere CMS Architect

o   Project: Architecture and development of J2EE portal using IBM Websphere.

·   Federal Burea of Investigation (FBI)/Sapient Corporation 03/05 – 10/05

o   Solution Architect (SharePoint/WebSphere/Remedy)

o   Project: Architecture and administration of crisis management portal for agents that leveraged occasionally connected computing paradigm. The project also used a hub and spoke model for synchronizing connected laptops.

·   InnovaSys Corporation, San Diego CA 12/04 – 03/05

o   Senior VB Developer

o   Project: Architecture, administration and development of intranet for army client.

·   Virtualdeveloper.com, LLC 07/03 – 11/04

o   Training Course Director

·   Department of Defense (DOD)/EDS Alexandria, VA 12/03 – 11/04

o   Senior J2EE Architect & Developer

·   Litton PRC, Mclean, VA 09/01 – 12/03

o   Architect and Systems Administrator (ColdFusion)

·   Winstar Communications, Tysons Corner, VA 09/00 – 12/00

o   Web Developer (ASP.NET/IIS)

·   Deloitte Consulting, Tysons Corner, VA

o   Web Developer (ColdFusion)

·   Bell Atlantic (Verizon) Corporation, Alexandria VA 02/98 – 11/98

o   Web Architect

·   US Office of Personnel Management (OPM)/RMCI Corporation 11/98 – 07/03

o   Senior Architect and Project Manager

·   Anteon Corporation, Fairfax VA 09/96 – 11/98

o   Web Developer and Systems Administrator

·   Primanet Communications, Silver Spring, MD 07/95 – 03/96

o   Help Desk Hardware and Software Support

·   ADA Communications, London, UK 04/91 – 03/96

o   Desktop Publisher/Help Desk Support

Skills Summary

1.                      Azure Platform As a Service

a. Azure (Platform As a Service – PaaS) development environment to include:

b.Azure web sites

c.  Azure cloud services

d.Azure SharePoint 2013 Farm

e. Azure VM’s

f.   Azure/SEND GRID SMTP functionality

g. Azure Domain management

h.Integration of Azure Directory Services with On Premise Active Directory Domain

i.    Azure Backup/Recovery

j.    Azure Storage Solutions

k. Azure Web Service Architecture and Development

l.    Azure Georeplication/Geolocation of Data

m.                    Azure Traffic Routing/Load Balancing/Failover

2.                      Project Management:

a. Full life cycle management and development of CMM/CMMI documentation including Federal LCMD. Documentation include Documents include:

                                                           i.         Governance plan (metadata and taxonomy management, information management, architecture and enterprise search plan.)

                                                         ii.         Configuration management plan

                                                       iii.         Software development plan

                                                        iv.         Miscellaneous design documents: Interface, database, software etc.,

                                                          v.         Capacity and performance plans

                                                        vi.         Project plans (work breakdown structures, SOW)

                                                      vii.         Requirements specifications, requirements traceability matrix

b.RFI/RFP proposal writing

c.  Managing procurement processes for 3rd party software development contractors, search engine vendors (Autonomy), and backend content providers.

d.Managing the application for various federal government certifications including hubzone, 8(a) and GSA schedule.

e. Writing business plans and viability proposals including marketing strategy and plan and financial forecasts including cash flow and profitability forecasts.

f.   Responsible for authoring comparison trade studies between different vendor products and services. Analysis and specification of requirements, evaluation criteria and weighted score matrix (WSM) comparison.

g. Agile management methodologies such as SCRUM, XTREME PROGRAMMING as well as the traditional waterfall approach.

h.Management of up to 30 local, national and offshore developers, analysts, testers, information architects. technical team, system administrators, firewall administrators and, database administrators.

i.    Liaison with corporate executives, stakeholders and business information managers.

j.    Change Management with Remedy CR

k. Architectural design: Unified Modelling Language (UML) design patterns and design documentation, rapid prototyping and information architecture including wireframes and Adobe visual design.

l.    Specification, installation and configuration of Microsoft Project Server and Project Online 2013 for integrated project/task management and automated timesheet management.

m.                    Integration of Project Online with Visual Studio Online/Team Foundation Server.

n.Team Foundation Server administration and integration with SharePoint 2013.

3.                      Social Media Management

a. Social Media marketing, product/service monitoring and brand optimization (sentiment analysis, reputation analysis) from popular blogs, facebook, youtube, twitter, google + and LinkedIn •             

b.Reviewed social networking, social bookmarking and content aggregation strategies for project.             

c.  Experience with tools for social media marketing and analysis such as (TweetDeck, Radian 6, HootSuite, Twiends, Hashtag, slacksocial)

d.Responsible for performance marketing strategy for integration of SDL Tridion with SDL Smart Target and 3rd party geolocation API

4.                      Systems Administration

a. Architecting local and geographical distributed server architectures

b.Linux, Solaris systems administration.

c.  Apache HTTPS, TomCat J2EE Server Administration.

d.Architecting, configuring and administering cloud computing platforms (Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure and Rackspace)

e. Integrating Ecommerce customer sites with third party transaction processing providers.

f.   Administering miscellaneous web servers including Apache and Internet Information Server

g. Specified and designed technical architecture, technology, hardware and software for various platforms including .NET, SharePoint, Autonomy, J2EE.

h.Designed and managed the development of XML/RPC, REST and XML web clients and payload technologies, security and authentication layers for access to corporate web services

5.                      QA/Testing Management

a. Stress, load, performance, continuous integration and regression testing, using tools such as Mercury LoadRunner, JMeter and Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate edition.

b.Change Management with Remedy CR

c.  Unit and mock interface testing.

d.Development of test cases, scripts and test plans.

6.                      Autonomy Enterprise Search SME

a. Specification, installation and configuration of Autonomy IDOL 7/10 Server

b.Design and configuration of distributed architectures using Autonomy DISH/DIH/DAH

c.  Installation and configuration of various data fetch connectors: File, XML File, HTTP, ODBC, Database, Oracle, Social Media, Multimedia, Audio/Video.

d.Installation and configuration of 3rd Party connectors: SharePoint, Lotus Notes, WebSphere, SDL Tridion

e. Security integration with OmniServer for ACL restricted search result access

f.   Configuration for search federation

g. Installation, configuration and administration of Autonomy Business Console (ABC), Retina and Portal in a Box.

h.Integration with enterprise content management systems: SharePoint, SDL Tridion, IBM WebSphere

i.    Installation and configuration of Autonomy Explore: Brand management with sentiment analysis

j.    Architecture and development of Integration with J2EE/.NET/Google Toolkit User Interfaces (UI)

k. Taxonomy, categorization, automatic query guidance, link analysis

l.    Autonomy Platform as a service (cloud offering)

7.                      SharePoint  2007/2010 Architect, Administrator and Developer

a. Taxonomy, Ontology management

b.My Sites design and development

c.  Design and configuration of forms Based authentication (FBA)

d.Integration of 3rd party applications with single sign on

e. Development of applications using Business Data Connectivity (BDC/BCS)

f.   UI design of Master Pages and Page Layouts using SharePoint Designer 2007/2010

g. Software Development using SharePoint server and client Object Model

h.Design, development, testing and deployment of web parts, features, custom lists, site templates/definitions custom

i.    3^rd party tool integration including Knowledge Lake, Metalogix, Schemalogic, PeopleSoft

j.    Active Directory Rights Management (Information Rights Management) integration with Adobe PDF rights management

k. Integration of MS Project Server with SharePoint Task lists and MS Project.

l.    Configuration of search UI and developing with query API and languages

m.                    Migration of SharePoint 2007 on premises to 2010 on premises using Metalogix and to AWS cloud

8.                      SharePoint 2013/SharePoint Online/Office 365

a. SharePoint 2010/2013 Workflow development with SharePoint Designer, Visual Studio, Workflow Manager

b.SharePoint APP Model Architecture & Development

c.  SharePoint Online Responsive Branding

d.SalesForce integration with SharePoint

e. SharePoint On Premise BootSTtrap Responsive Branding

f.   Quest Migration of on premises to SharePoint online, remapping 200+ users to new Microsoft Online domain

g. Installation, configuration and administration of On Premises SharePoint 2013

h.Configuration and administration of SharePoint Online/Office 365

i.    Architectural design and capacity, performance planning for On Premises SharePoint 2013

j.    Configuration of Service Applications

k. Claims Authentication and Oauth configuration

l.    SharePoint 2013 Administration with PowerShell

m.                    Management and Configuration of SharePoint 2013 Apps

n.SharePoint 2013 Branding (Master Pages, CSS, Page Layouts)

o.Office 365 Planning and Purchase Management

p.Migration of On Premises SharePoint 2010 users to SharePoint Online/Office 365 two way hybrid model

q.SharePoint Online Public Web Site Branding and Development

r.   Office 365 Administration

s.  Compliance and Data Loss Prevention

t.   Office 365 DirSync, ADFS, Single Sign On and Exchange Federation Administration)

u.Development of migration plan to Office 365 (email migration, account migration, DNS configuration for mail and public web site)

v. Office 365 website configuration, design and deployment.

w.                     Office 365 compliance and data loss prevention.

x. Software development using the SharePoint app model

y. Configuration of app manifest and app hosting model.

z.  Creating and debugging Office 365 Apps

aa.                  Managing the APP Life Cycle

bb.                 Programming client side logic with JavaScript, JQuery, HTML 5

cc.                    SharePoint App Security

dd.                 Integrating Office 365 apps with SharePoint 2013 search

ee.                 Leveraging SharePoint social features with Office 365 apps

ff.                       Installation, configuration of Records Management and EDiscovery.

gg.                  Architecture and development of C# application for programmatically uploading documents into SharePoint 2013 Records Management repository.

hh.                 Architecture and development of SharePoint 2013 Internet web site utilizing custom tree view for document libraries.

ii. OKTA integration with Office 365 and SharePoint On Premise

jj. OKTA integration with SalesForce and SharePoint On Premise

9.                      Endeca Architect

a. Deployed and configured SharePoint object model connector to crawl document level ACL properties for Oracle Endeca Server

b.Deployed and configured Oracle Endeca Information Discovery to build interactive data visualizations in context to quickly identify root causes, identify exceptions and surface new concepts.

c.  Configured role based access control for Oracle Endeca Information Discovery

d.Assigned groups of users with different levels of access to certain applications

e. Configured Oracle Discovery Studio application data source to control who can view the data based on user roles.

f.   Developed dynamic business rules to allow the promotion of specific endeca records for spotlighting.

g. Developed Endeca pipeline components for tasks such as loading, standardizing, joining, mapping and exporting data.

h.Configured access rules for restriction of user groups to specified records.

i.    Integrated external taxonomies with Endeca Guided Navigation to implement full multifaceted search

 

10.               SharePoint Online Compliance

a.                      Using Office 365 Protection Center to manage compliance/audit reports.

11.               SOA Architect

a.                      SOA analysis of legacy .NET applications

b.                     Proposed systems that included segregation of business, application and orchestration services layers.

12.               SalesForce

a.                      SalesForce REST API integration with SharePoint On Premise

b.                     Connecting to SalesForce REST API using Business Connectivity Services (BDC)

13.               Ave Point DOCAVE

a.                      Disaster Recovery (Backup/Restore) with DocAve

b.                     Backup/Recovery of SharePoint On Premise using DocAve Manager

c.                       Backup/Recovery of SharePoint Online/Office 365 using DocAve Online

d.                     Backup of SharePoint Online/SharePoint On Premise to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Bucket and Azure Blob.

14.               SDL Tridion Architect, Administrator and Developer

a.                      Installation, configuration and maintenance of SDL Tridion

b.                     Installation and configuration of Experience Manager, Outbound Email and Audience Manager

c.                       Development of Templates, Modular Templates, Template Building Blocks

d.                     Development of C# Fragments, Bundles and Workflows, Page and content types and XML schemas

e.                     Architecture and design of Blueprinting

f.Content classifications and taxonomies

g.                      Installation and configuration of Content Manager and Experience Manager

h.                     Management of  developers using Tom.NET API to create custom functionality for generating XML files from taxonomy schemas for component/page templates used for search crawling and indexing

i. Developed event handlers for auto generation of XML files from component/page metadata.

j. Developed taxonomy structures to incorporate categories and keywords. Taxonomies facilitated dynamic faceted search for navigation.

15.               Amazon Web Services Administrator

a.                      Responsible for building and administering full development and production environments in Amazon Web Services.

b.                     Provided cloud solution architecture on Amazon Web Services

c.                       Made heavy use of Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, & RDS in particular)

d.                     Administered various Amazon Web Services, concentrated, but not limited to, Route 53, Auto scaling, and Elastic Load Balancing.

16.               J2EE Architect

a.                      Designed and developed documentation and applications for the following:

                                                              i.      Struts J2EE enterprise health benefits application.

                                                            ii.      •Oracle 9i database integration using DAO J2EE design pattern.

                                                          iii.      •Web based Struts J2EE application for the management of employee insurance benefits.

b.                     Port of existing Java MVC applications entirely to Struts framework.

c.                       Designed and developed Rational XDE UML models for unified J2EE common health application interface.

d.                     Designed and developed software to interface with leading security/authentication API; Common Access Card (CAC) and Defense Authentication Systems (DFAS) for single sign on to web applications.

e.                     Designed and developed J2EE web services to interface with transaction processing gateway such as Authorize.net and third party contractor gateway.

f.Implemented Java Design Patterns for the software architecture.

g.                      Developed J2EE portlets for the WebSphere Portal Server.

Programming Languages

·   C#

·   Microsoft ASP.NET

·   Java/J2EE

·   JavaScript

·   JQuery

·   CSS/HTML 5

·   Ruby on Rails

·   PHP

Software

·   SQL Server

·   Oracle

·   Autonomy IDOL Server

·   SharePoint 2007/2010/2013

·   Oracle Endeca Server

Partnerships

·   HP Partnership

·   Microsoft  Silver Partner (Content and Collaboration)

Security Clearances

•                     Internal Revenue Service - Interim Clearance.

•                     Department of Homeland Security (DHS) - Public Trust background investigation.

•                     Department of Justice (DoJ) - Public Trust background investigation.

•                     IRS – MBI Clearance (applied for)

Last Updated

2/19/2016