RICHARD MILLER

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Security Clearances:  

Security Clearances: Top Secret/SCI 

Security Clearances Status: Active

 

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY            

        

•              Over 7 years of experience in analysis, design, development, testing and maintenance of object-oriented, client-server multi-tier web applications.

•              More than Three years experience as a SharePoint Developer in installing, configuring, and developing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (SPS 2003) with Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS 2.0) and more than four years experience as .NET Developer in designing and implementing WebPages using Visual Studio in C#.NET, XML, ASP.Net, Web Services, SQL, ADO.Net.

•              Hands-on experience in designing and implementing various SharePoint Web Parts, Event handlers, Features, Workflows, Content Types, Custom Document Libraries and Lists.

•              Strong proficiency in designing and developing InfoPath 2003/2007

•              Implementation of Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) platforms including PerformancePoint Server 2007 (PPS)

•              Working Knowledge of SharePoint Administration

•              Worked in different areas including Collaboration, Document Management, Portal and Web Content Management

•              Proficient in ASP.Net, C#.Net & Web Services technology.

•              Experience in Design, Development and Implementation of various Client/Server and Web applications using .Net Framework 1.1/2.0/3.0.

•              Knowledge of custom error pages and exception handling.

•              Experience in database development, Installation and Maintenance of SQL Server 2000,

SQL Server 2005

•              Good experience in database design and development in writing SQL Queries, Stored Procedures,

 

Cursors and Triggers.

 

•              Hands-on experience on SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS).

•              Having knowledge on Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

•              Proficient in problem solving, self-motivated, driven professional, able to work with minimal supervision, and able to exercise good judgment to keep critical systems operational.

•              Created reports using Visual Studio Business Intelligence and Crystal Reports.

•              Involved in Unit testing, System testing and Integration testing of system interfaces.

•              Commitment and conformance to delivering quality applications adhering to deadlines and hardworking, enthusiastic and highly committed to the growth and success of the organization.

•              Result oriented software developer with excellent track record of successful completion of projects, project milestones, and quality standards.

•              Ability as a quick-learner about new technology and self-starter about new environments.

 

Certifications

 

•              Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) – Share Point Server application Development

•              .Net 2.0 web based client side development

•              SQL Server 2005 implementation and maintenance

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

 

•              SharePoint Technologies: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007), Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (SPS 2003), MS SharePoint Designer 2007, Excel Calculation Services, MS InfoPath 2003/2007

•              Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98/2000/XP/2003, DOS

•              Front End Tools: Visual Studio 2005/2008, Visual Studio .Net 2002/2003

•              Version Control Tools: Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 2005/6.0

•              Development: C, C++, C#.Net

•              Web Technologies: ASP.Net 1.1/2.0/3.0, HTML, XML, Web Services, AJAX, Silverlight, CSS.

•              Middleware: ADO.Net

•              Scripting Languages: Java Script

•              Web Servers: IIS 4.0/5.0/5.1/6.0

•              Databases: SQL Server 2000/2005, Oracle

•              Reports: SQL server reporting services (SSRS), Crystal Reports.

•              ETL Tools: SQL Server 2005 Integration Services(SSIS), SQL Server Analysis Services(SSAS)

•              Other Tools: SQL Server Management Studio,U2UCAML

 

Experience:

 

Client: Confidential

Location: Hartford, CT             

Role:  Sr. SharePoint Developer                                                                    

Duration: Jan’ 08 to Present          

                                                                                    

It is an innovative financial company that provides a large family of mutual funds, distributors and investment advisors, as well as providing discount brokerage services, retirement services, wealth management, securities execution and clearance, life insurance and a number of other services.

It has a SharePoint 2003 implementation which it wants to migrate and also use the new capabilities of SharePoint use it as a platform for Business process applications involving InfoPath, Workflow Foundation apart from using it as Portal, Collaboration and Project sites. There is also strong desire to use BI capabilities of SharePoint.

 

•              Involved in gathering and analyze all requirements and created project specification documents.

•              Configuration and Installation of SharePoint on developing/building production and other environments.

•              Installed MOSS on multiple environments Development, Testing, Staging and Production.

•              MOSS Advanced installation on 64 bit environment with Content Database on 64 bit clustered SQL Server for production environment.

•              Organized the code in Team Foundation Server with well defined structure in different branches for different environments.

•              Trained business analysts and company users to use SharePoint 2007 and InfoPath.

•              Identified the new features to be implemented for the portal sites.

•              Designed and implemented new custom features for user value-assistance using Visual Studio .NET 2005.

•              Designed and implemented Dashboard functionality using Excel services in Business Intelligence and enabled the users to explore the data using the browser. 

•              Involved in preparing planning worksheets including planning for overall design, server farms, web site structure, and workflows, InfoPath Forms, Search and Business Intelligence.

•              Created a Deployment document guide to help the software release management team to deploy the builds on to different environments.

•              Developed reports using SSRS and integrating them in to SharePoint portal.

•              Designed and created new workflows to automate business processes related to several different types of corporate documents using SharePoint Designer 2007.

•              Modified and customized master and content pages using SharePoint Designer 2007 to enable conditional formatting and implement consistent look and feel for corporate SharePoint sites

•              Designed and developed InfoPath forms for “New Business” and “State Specific Forms”.

•              Developed Browser enabled InfoPath forms using UDCX files accessing the web services.

•              Designed and developed site pages by using controls like Custom controls and user controls.

•              Responsible for deployment and taking snapshots of the server and rollback to earlier state in case of errors.

•              Used TFS for code development, version control and deployment of the project.

 

Environment:

 

ASP.NET 2.0, C#.Net, VM ware, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0, Microsoft Office 2007, SharePoint Server 2007(MOSS), InfoPath 2007, SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005/2008, SQL Server Reporting services, Team Foundation Server, IIS 6.0, SharePoint Designer 2007

 

 

Client: Confidential

Location: Hopewell, NJ             

Role: Sr. SharePoint Developer                                                                                   

Duration: Feb 2007- Dec 2007   

                                                                                           

Merrill Lynch is one of the world's leading financial management and advisory companies, providing financial advice and investment banking services.

Project: This is an intranet application allows the user to manage the Performance review process. Allow manager to add/update the objectives to his team, track the status of each team member in this process. Allow the user to define a Proxy for him, user can give feedback on others depending on request, implemented the automatic mailing system depending upon the status of review application will send mails to users etc .My particular responsibilities included site branding, navigation, site construction, custom web part development & excel services implementation. 

 

•              Worked on enhancing and upgrading existing SharePoint 2003 portal sites to new MOSS 2007 and prepared migration and upgrade plans.

•              Involved in setting up a staging environment to test the overall upgrade process from SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007.

•              Developed InfoPath Forms to create specialized XML forms for emailed enabled applications and published it to new MOSS 2007 portal sites.

•              Involved in content management for newly upgraded SharePoint portal sites to form a custom team workspace.

•              Managed group security credentials for the newly upgraded MOSS sites. 

•              Utilized the different security accounts to manage different web application pools, SQL service, shared service providers and Office SharePoint Search service.

•              Managed Site Quota templates, config dbs and content databases for web applications using central administration client.

•              Designed and implemented new custom features for user value-assistance using Visual Studio .NET 2005.

•              Deployed features using stsadm.exe tool at different levels including web application, site collection and site level.

•              Developed Workflows, Customized Master Pages, Pages using CAML in SharePoint Designer

•              Generated reports using SSRS and published in the SharePoint portal.

•              Designed and created new Document Libraries and Lists to store corporate documents and records.

•              Created new site content types and columns and associated with new Document Libraries. 

•              Enabled version controlling for newly created Document Libraries and enabled information policy management including labels, expiration periods and barcodes for corporate documents.

•              Designed and created new workflows to automate business processes related to several different types of corporate documents using SharePoint Designer 2007.

•              Deploy enterprise MOSS features Forms Services, Excel Services

•              Extensively used BDCs and Excel Calculation Services to optimize business performance. 

•              Configured Search Crawl rules and scope and scheduled jobs for regular crawling of content. 

•              Involved in creating custom site templates and list templates. 

•              Created and deployed new web parts using Visual Studio .NET 2005 and implemented web part connections. 

•              Performed backups and restores of entire Farm and web applications. 

•              Involved in troubleshooting issues related to web applications and site collections. 

 

Environment:  

 

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, InfoPath 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Windows Server 2003, IIS 6.0, C# .Net, Visual Studio .NET 2005 and MS SQL Server 2005.

 

 

Client: Confidential

Location: Kenilworth, NJ             

Role: SharePoint Developer                                                                                                      

Duration: Aug 06 – Jan 07                                                                                               

 

The Project was to build a user friendly interface for requesting IT services build in SharePoint. The Project included Development of Custom WebParts for Users to make a Request (Wizard Request form), Developing custom interface for uploading multiple Documents in document library, Event handlers for various List and Libraries and Dashboard.

 

•              Customized the feel & look of SharePoint based Web site using FrontPage 2003 and Custom Site Definitions and Templates (ONET.XML, WEBTEMP.XML, SCHEMA.XML).

•              Ensured appropriate permissions are set and Portal is available to desired audiences.

•              Configured and maintained Document libraries, Form libraries & created Custom Views.

•              Created a single level document approval workflow in Share point 2003

•              Assisted users in the creation and management of team sites and site templates

•              Configured and maintained document libraries, lists, and WSS site collections.

•              Provide configuration and maintenance support of user accounts.

•              Implemented Share point Portal Server 2003 and configured Document Libraries, Web Parts, Custom Lists, Export Lists Data to a Spreadsheet, Creating Document workspace, etc

•              Created Views, Alerts and Custom Lists in SharePoint 2003 Portal Sites

•              Developed workflows using SharePoint designer.

•              Involved mostly in creating the reports using SSRS as per the Business Analyst Requirements.

•              Configuring User Authentication to applications and security configurations

•              Provided support for SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services based intranet sites, Portal Areas & contents, permissions & security, and managing ad-hoc/permanent Team Sites

•              Involved in Testing, Validating, Enhancing & Deploying Custom Web Parts

Environment:ASP.NET 2.0, .Net Framework 2.0, C#.NET, SQL Server 2005, Java Script, Windows SharePoint Services 2003,WSS 2.0,WSS 3.0, Visual Studio Team System, Visual Studio Tools for Office, Visual Studio .NET 2005, VSS 6.0.

 

 

Client: Confidential

Location: Dallas, TX             

Role: Sr. .NET Developer                                                                                              

Duration: Nov 04 - June 06   

 

Description: Policies and Procedures manual were developed to create and manage company policies and procedures. The system is capable of maintaining different versions of policies like state level policies, site level policies and core policies. Policies and Procedures were divided into two parts, which are Supervisor Application & Web Interface. Only super users, template Managers, supervisors and their assistants are authorized to use the supervisor utility. The web Interface is for all the other users. Users were categorized and grouped into different departments and templates. The user is able to see only the policies of his assigned template. The template manager, super user and supervisors can define the templates.

 

•              Used ADO to access data from backend

•              Developed Web forms using C#.

•              Implemented Authentication and Authorization

•              Developed middle-tier XSL files for transforming XML retrieved from ADO into readable XML for sending it to the user interface.

•              Created Use-Case Diagrams, Activity Diagram, Class Diagrams, and Sequence diagrams in UML using MS Visio and Poseidon.

•              Used Data Grid, Data List and Repeater Controls to display data in a customized format in the web pages

•              Used XSLT attribute sets to provide a standard user interface pattern in all screens

•              Used XPATH functions within client-side JavaScript for extracting distinct XML data before transforming into HTML

•              Developed SQL stored procedures for data manipulation and querying data from SQL Server database.

•              Wrote Complex Queries, Stored Procedures, Functions and Triggers.

•              Fine tuned application performance using Caching, View and Session and Application objects in Microsoft.Net framework

•              Set up the utilities using Visual Source Safe (VSS) to check-out and check-in the programs as per the terms of change for security purposes

•              Performed unit testing on every new version before sending it for User Acceptance Test (UAT).

 

Environment:

 

C#, ASP.NET, .Net Framework 1.1,  ADO, XML, SQL Server2000, UML, VBScript, IIS 4.0

 

Confidential

Location: Fairfax, VA

Role:  Developer                                                                                                

Duration: Aug 2002 – Aug 2004   

 

 

•              Analyzed the functional and business requirements.

•              Preparation of SRS, Database Design Document.

•              Involved in Developing, Maintenance, Add-on to Existing logical model and Physical database design.

•              Developed using ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, DHTML, IIS Server.

•              VBScript is used for server side scripting and JavaScript is used for client side scripting

•              Developed CSS to control the style and layout of multiple web pages.

•              Worked with External, Internal and Inline CSS.

•              Used DHTML extensively to hide and display HTML elements on the fly.

•              Involved in sending emails from ASP pages using CDONTS object.

•              Implemented security measures for objects and website on IIS 4.0.

•              Used Server Variables and ASP Objects in developing the application.

•              Retrieved data from MSSQL Server 7.0 using stored procedures to generate Reports.

•              Involved in QA testing and helped QA team.

•              Involved in deploying the project into the production server.

•              Implemented unit testing and Integration testing.

•              Actively involved in fixing bugs in the application.

Environment: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Active Server Pages, JavaScript, VBScript, Visual InterDev 6.0, HTML, MS-FrontPage, CSS, DHTML, Visual Basic 6.0,IIS 4.0, MS SQL Server 7.0,MS-ACCESS, 6.0/5.0, Crystal Reports 8.0.

 

Confidential

Location: Jonesboro, GA

Role:  Web Application Developer                                                                                                                         

Duration: May 2001 – Aug 2002   

 

Description

This system is a web based application. This application deals with Internet Banking access to the account via the internet for balance enquiries, transaction details, order a cheque book and find the status of the order, checking balances, Opening a New Account, Submitting Online.

 

•              Responsible for analysis, design & development of the project.

•              Designed and developed GUI screens, reports using crystal reports.

 

 

Environment:

ASP 2.0, VB Script, Oracle, HTML, _JavaScript

 

 

Education:

 

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science

Lourdes University, Sylvania, OH