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Plainsboro Township, NJ
Posted:
February 27, 2014

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Prerna Valecha Email

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Professional Summary

Prerna Valecha is a Microsoft Certified Professional with a multi industry

experience working in Microsoft Share Point Portal solutions & business

analyst capacity. An efficient team leader with a record of successfully

delivered projects in diverse industries. Responsible for solution

development, technical/business support, team & building. Expertise in

supporting custom solutions for various SharePoint applications. She has

rich experience with Share Point 2007/2010 in Pharmaceuticals, financial

services, and oil & gas domain.

. Rich Experience in supporting SharePoint 2007 & 2010 portal

applications & solutions.

. Expert in designing & creating workflows using Nintex /SharePoint

designer to automate the business processes.

. Provide out of the box solutions/workarounds to the users.

. Supporting the production SharePoint sites & fixing the low, medium &

high propriety issues.

. Develop governance standards & best practices for existing SharePoint

portals.

. Manage content by creating Content Types, Meta data & taxonomy.

. Trained the information workers on creating sites, document libraries,

lists, assigning permission to sites, sub-sites, folders, lists and

documents (item level security), configuring business workflows &

content management capabilities.

. Experience on multiple projects for gathering/managing requirements

and getting sign-off on requirement documentations.

. Excellent analytical skills in understanding the business

requirements, business rules/processes and design of the application.

. Translating business needs and objectives into business and technical

requirements. Creating Business Requirements Specification and

Functional Specification Documents.

. Proficient with HPQC Quality Centre tool.

. Define Test strategy, approach and execution plan for medium to large

scale system solutions.

. Monitor defect resolution process & assist in coordination/integration

between teams for defect resolution.

. Document test execution results and maintain defect logs.

. Develop processes and best practices to streamline test activities.

. Experience in all stages of Software Development Life Cycle.

. Ability to prioritize responsibilities, manage multiple projects and

keep close attention to details.

. Excellent written and communication skills.

. Participated in resource management activities & have participated in

performance moderation.

. Flexible to work on multiple time zones while working on

offshore/onshore model

Technical Skills

Microsoft Specific Skills Other Skills

MOSS 2007/2010 HPQC

MS InfoPath 2007/2010 HTML

MS Visio Hypertext Markup Language

MS Share Point Designer C++

NET Framework Microsoft office applications

C#

Microsoft Visual Safe Source Jquery

ASP. NET JavaScript

Microsoft IIS Web server Remedy Support Tool

Team Foundation Server Nintex

Current Company: SBP Consulting (USA)

Project:

Global Pharmaceutical client - Novartis ( Cambridge, MA)

Duration : May 2013 to present

Title : SharePoint Lead

Client : Global Pharmaceutical Client

Role & Responsibilities

As SharePoint Lead my role involves

. Analyse and document the System specifications, Business requirements

and detail design of the software for full understanding of the

business.

. Map the business requirements into the process flow diagrams.

. Create & design workflows using Nintex to automate the Day one

Transformation business processes to address the fragmented and

uncoordinated set-up process for new personnel into the centralize and

link related business functions and activities to improve the set-up

of new employees and contractors.

. Develop governance standards & best practices for existing Share Point

portals.

. Manage & organize content by creating & using search scopes, content

types, meta data,publishing features, record management

capabilities.

. Create surveys & conduct meetings with the business to understand the

requirements on the existing portal

. Create and configure workflows using Nintex and SharePoint designer.

. Created browser compatible forms using InfoPath 2010 and deployed to

Form Library in share point sites.

. Maintain, configure SharePoint sites using Metalogix Migration third

party tool

. Integrate applications using client side scripting languages like

Silverlight, JavaScript, and Jquery.

. Design, develop & support Share Point deployment, configuration and

customization of projects.

. Create functional specification documents and guide technical team.

. Review the Share point related tickets in the remedy tool to

understand the on-going issues & provide trainings to the business

users and create useful repository for the users documenting the

common issues & there resolutio

SBP Consulting

Project:

Global Pharmaceutical client- AstraZeneca ( Wilmington, DE)

Duration : November 2012 to April 2013

Title : SharePoint Lead

Client : Global Pharmaceutical Client

Role & Responsibilities

As a SharePoint Lead my role involves

. Developed and implemented web parts and customization of Share Point

sites using Visual Studio and .NET technologies to supplement out-of-

the-box functionality.

. Developed applications using Visual Studio .NET, Share Point Designer,

and XML including the design and implementation of custom web parts

and other programs utilizing the Share Point object model using C#.

. Participate in the migration of the documents from eRoom to Share

point discussing the retention policies of the documents & the

archiving process.

. Assist the developers on enhancing the existing share point sites in

the USIS Test environment that can be migrated to production.

. High level client exposure and interaction with manufacturing

leadership from both the business and IT areas

. Designed and conducted testing of the developed functionality using

tools like HPQC, WatiN

Past Professional Experience: Accenture

Project

Global Pharmaceutical client- Bristol Myers Squibb (Princeton,NJ)

Duration : April 2010 to October 2012

Title : Sharepoint Lead

Client : Global Pharmaceutical client

Role & Responsibilities

As an onsite Sharepoint Lead my role involves

. Develop governance standards & best practices for existing SharePoint

portals.

. Trained the information workers on creating sites, document libraries,

lists, assigning permission to sites, sub-sites, folders, lists and

documents (item level security) & content management capabilities.

. Support the existing applications through tickets & provide the users

creative solutions & workarounds to resolve the issues.

. As a Share Point administrator was responsible for provisioning the

share point sites, configuring workflows, web parts, workspaces,

permissions etc.

. Use discussion forums to support users with there Share Point problems

using out of box feature & provide solutions using client side scripts

like jquery or JavaScript for quick resolutions.

. Create permission matrix for the user access & Used Audience Targeting

for Web parts.

. Participated in various business workshops to understand customization

requirements for SharePoint Portals.

. Conduct JAD (Joint Application Development) sessions with SMEs to

discuss requirements and Identified Use Cases from the requirements.

. Translate business wants, needs, requirements, and objectives into

Functional and technical requirements.

. Creating Business Requirements Specification and Functional

Specification Documents.

. Responsible for new process development, fit gap analysis, training

business users for new process implementation.

. Develop communication plan and materials Develop Test Scripts for

integrating FAST enterprise Search & Yammer the enterprise social

network with Share Point environments.

. Managed test reporting, defect resolution, results analysis and

metrics.

. Test and support Change Controls during production Implementation and

troubleshoot any issues that come up during the production

Implementation.

. Analyze and ensure non-functional test results and changes/defect are

reflected in the test case and test cases are updated appropriately

based on

. supporting both pilot launch and global launch.

. Create computer-based training modules supporting global roll-out of

SharePoint.

. Interact with the off shore delivery team for smooth delivery.

. Manage SharePoint Support Team, consisting of onshore and offshore

resources.

Project

Global Pharmaceutical client (Bristol Myers Squibb,India)

Duration : April 2009 to April 2010

Title : Senior Analyst

Client : Global Pharmaceutical client

Role & Responsibilities

As an Off Shore Senior SharePoint Analyst my roles & responsibilities

included:

. Support, maintain & monitor the SharePoint 2007/2010 portal

applications & ensure the solution is leveraged effectively to meet

the needs of the client.

. Constant interaction with business end users to understand and

resolve issues.

. Proposed creative solutions to resolve the issues related to

SharePoint.

. Ability to test and evaluate third party web parts for Share Point.

. Involved in enhancements for existing applications.

. Lead multi vendor team (HP, Accenture) for various production

releases.

. Created & Designed Test Plans, Test strategy, Test Closure Memo &

traceability Matrix.

. Monitor defect resolution process & assist in

coordination/integration between teams for defect resolution.

. Responsible for validating the automated regression test results for

new enhancements, and deployments.

. Proactively lead analysis to identify, evaluate and resolve complex

problems during testing.

. Used the Quality Centre tool to accomplish basic yet critical tasks

such as monitoring test progress.

. Enhanced and extended use of SharePoint by creating widgets using

client side tools like jquery, Java Script and silver light.

. Contributed to development of knowledge base for SharePoint

Operations Support team.

Project

Global Financial Services Client- RSA (Royal and Sun Alliance, Sweden)

Duration : Nov 2008 to March 2009

Title : Senior Programmer

Client : Global Financial Services Client

Roles and Responsibilities:

As a Onshore Senior Software Developer

. Gathered all the relevant information regarding data and analyzed it

to identify the pain-points of the prospective clients.

. Clarified client requirements, business needs and project objectives,

via feedback sessions and client meetings, in collaboration with all

stakeholders.

. Analyzed and documented the System specifications, Business

requirements and detail design of the software for full understanding

of the business.

. Created UI Mock-ups according to end user requirements.

. Designed the technical solutions to use SharePoint 2007.

. The customization involved like development of user controls, Site

Definitions, Content Types, Lists, and Event Handlers, Web parts in

Visual Studio 2008 using C Sharp.

. Developed a Shared Services portal using Microsoft Office Share Point

Server 2007. The development of Web parts and page layouts involved

use of SharePoint designer, C#, JavaScript.

. Enhanced and extended use of Share Point by creating widgets using

client side tools like jquery, java script.

. Deployed custom features using STSADM commands tool at different

levels including site collections, web applications and site level

. Participated in End-to-End testing of the portal.

. Involved in defect fixing and UAT.

Project 5

Global Oil and Gas Client - Shell

Duration : March 2008 to Oct 2008

Title : Senior Programmer

Client : Global Oil and Gas

Roles & Responsibilities:

. Participated in the meetings with stakeholders and managers and

understood various process plans, business process, and functionality

in detail.

. Developed a Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and ensured its

timely update.

. Took part in the preparation of Project plan.

. As a Senior Programmer was involved in the customization for many

modules in Visual Studio.NET 2005 using C sharp and XML to create

different lists, Document library, Sites, Sub sites, blogs and wiki

Sites.

. Deploy custom share point solutions in development environment using

STSADM utility & coordinate with infrastructure team for solution

deployment in UAT & Production environments.

. Involved in end to end testing of portal (Manual testing).

. Actively involved in walkthroughs and meetings with development team

to discuss defect fixes and retesting.

Project 6

IDCFS Portal: Accenture

(Intranet Web Application)

Duration : Dec 2006 to Feb 2008

Title : Associate Software Engineer

Client : Accenture Internal Project

Role

. Gathered business requirements for custom SharePoint features,

including dashboard and KPI development.

. Developed Share point collaboration Portal & Customised master page

and style sheets, content types, features, solutions, Excel Services

& UI Branding.

. Involved in the creation of different lists, Document library, Sites,

Sub sites, blogs and wiki Sites, Used all out of the box features for

workflow and security issues, Created dashboards using excel services

2007.Customised master pages, style sheets, themes, workflows using

Share Point designer.

. Involved in acquiring complete knowledge about the application, from

the SMEs and transition it to offshore team.

. Derived Use Cases and Use Case Models from Business Rules and

Business requirement documentation.

. Developed & maintained the knowledge management portal for

organizational capabilities.

. Created the user manual for the end users to understand the overall

functionality of the portal.

. Involved in Unit Testing and User Acceptance Testing.

Professional Certifications

Microsoft Certified Professional MCPD - Enterprise Application Developer

3.5

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 - Application Development

Professional Membership

Member of Women's Active participation in discussion forum on issues

Networking forum like work/life balance.

Member of CSR As member of Corporate Social Responsibility we

donate our time & help to people in old age homes

& educate children in orphanages

Organized blood donation camps in our company

Highest degree of Education Uttar Pradesh Technical

University

Bachelors of Year of completion 2006

Technology in with 85%

Computer Science

Engineering.



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