AVANI SHAH

Over ** years of extensive experience in the IT industry, Involved in analysis, design, development, testing, documentation and maintenance of Client/Server and Web applications with extensive knowledge of project life cycle and related processes.

Extensive experience to work for various clients in Telecomm, Healthcare, Government and Educational sectors for the web based & Service based Applications Using Microsoft Technologies.

Extensive experience in implementing the Intranet and Extranet portals using the Microsoft SharePoint Technologies with Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience in Analysis, Installation, Configuration, Customization, Designing, Administering and Managing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2013/2010/2007.

7+ Year Experience in Microsoft SharePoint technologies with SharePoint Server 2013, 2010, SharePoint 2007/2003, with proven knowledge of the server architecture, server setup and SharePoint Implementation in the Large Organization.

Migration Experience from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010, from 2003 to server 2010, SharePoint 2003 to SharePoint 2007, and Migrated Confluence to SharePoint wiki pages.

Hands on Experience on SharePoint 2013 online and SP 2013 On-Premises on Development Farm.

Proven Knowledge to utilize SharePoint out-of-box functionality to implement business requirement using, SharePoint Designer for page layout site template, JQuery & JavaScript using Content Editor Web part, InfoPath form, Workflow using SharePoint designer. Utilizing third party/open source control on SharePoint farm for best performance with minimal risk

Configured third party tools and implemented an advanced facility using Quest Webpart and Nintex Workflow, AE Google Chart Webparts.

Extensively worked on Web Content management, Branding corporate portal by creating and manipulating site definitions and Customization of the Share Point Portal using Mater Pages, Custom CSS, using Share Point designer 2010/2007.

Expert level Understanding of Site Definition, Site Template, Audiences, Security and Search for SharePoint Services as well as Expert Knowledge on working with custom Lists, Libraries, Wikis, Blogs and Workspaces. Hands on Experience in providing Workflow Solution using SharePoint 2010

Experience of working on Customized Web Parts in .Net 2.0/3.0/3.5, Custom Workflow development, Business Data Catalogs, and Browser based InfoPath forms.

Actively worked on Object Model of SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint services to leverage the information residing in the portal’s content database. Worked with SharePoint web services, and custom web services for sharing the information from SharePoint across various system or applications.

Practiced to Design InfoPath Form for Internet Survey & Request and attach those forms to the List attached with Workflow to meet the Business process requirement.

Good knowledge of working with field personnel to meet the business requirements, and circulate proof of concepts, business plans and materialize data to different level of people to follow business process and planning before executing the process or final implementation of project plan.

Excellent team player, good communication and interpersonal skills with solid team leading capabilities, logical and analytical approach. A conscientious professional committed to excellence and continuous improvement. Recognized for assertiveness and diligence.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

Microsoft Office SharePoint 2013 Online, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 – WSS 3.0, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 – WSS 2.0, MS Office 2003/2007, InfoPath 2003/2007, C#.Net, VB.Net, ASP.Net, VB 6.0, HTML, JavaScript, C, C++, PL/SQL, ASP.NET, Web Services, ADO.Net, Java Script, CSS, VB Script, ASP, DHTML, SOAP, MS Visual Studio.Net 2003/ 2005, SharePoint Designer 2010, SharePoint Designer 2007, MS-Office, Visio, SQL Reporting Services, Crystal Reports 10.0, 9.0, and 8.0, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Win 98/NT/2000/XP, UNIX, MS SQL Server 2005 / 2000, MS Access, Internet Information Server 7.0/6.0/5.0, Visual SourceSafe 6.0, Visual SourceSafe 2005, Visual SVN [TortoiseSVN], XML, XSL, XSLT, MS XML, Crystal Reports 9.0 / 9.2 / 10.0, SQL Reporting Services, Active Reports 2.0, DocAve 4.5/5.0 by AvePoint, Quest Web Parts, Nintex Workflows, Metalogix Migration Tool.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

AT&T, San Ramon, CA May 2013 to till Date

Senior SharePoint Consultant

Installed, configured, deployed, patching, system monitoring, and performance of two SharePoint farms.

Worked on installation and configuration of SharePoint 2013, Windows Server 2012 and SQL Server 2012 Enterprise edition.

Analyze, plan and perform Migration from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013.

Responsible for a mixture of SharePoint architecture, administration, development, project management, business analysis and development of a SharePoint website

Review business process within the organization and recommend use of SharePoint to replace manual tracking when and where possible.

Administration functions including deploying code solutions (.wsp), PowerShell scripts, server optimization, server management, term store maintenance, taxonomy, content deployment, web and service applications in Central Administration

Meeting with potential client and stakeholders to gather requirements, create functional and technical documents, user acceptance test scripts and project implementations

Created sites, built custom workflows, dashboard pages, and managed permissions and content as requested from customers

Provide Level 3 support for SharePoint and consultation for end to end business process.

Generate various types of reports as per requirements using the PowerShell script.

AT&T, Middletown, NJ May 2011 to April 2013

SharePoint Administrator

Install and configure SharePoint 2013 in development Farm. Analyze and plan for Migration from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013.

Administer and Maintain SharePoint 2010 farm as well as the DR Farm. Provide Security and support for SharePoint sites and content.

Implemented new solution in SharePoint 2010 to replace prior system for various Project Tracking requests. Provide support for all systems as well as improvements based on change of business processes. Also generate reports as per requirements.

Implement new SharePoint 2010 features and technology and encourage people to utilize the tool that provides maximum reliability and automation as well as reduce human effort for accurate and faster performance within the organization.

Review different business process within the organization and recommend use of automated tracking sites in SharePoint 2010 to replace manual tracking when and where possible.

Installed and configured SharePoint 2010 for a server farm environment. Configured and administered SharePoint 2010 environment including Search set up and User Profile configuration.

Migration from SharePoint 2003 to SharePoint server 2010 using DocAve 4.5/5.0 including SharePoint Content, Security and Portal Listing.

Successful Migration of Non SharePoint Application “Confluence Wiki Markup” (a Wiki Library) to SharePoint 2010 “Enterprise Wiki” using Metalogix tool.

Hands on experience on implementing new SharePoint 2010 feature with Using Service Oriented Architecture by implementing service applications in SharePoint 2010 Farm.

Successfully Implemented many new SharePoint 2010 features like Document ID, Implement Content type using Content Type Hub, Social tagging, enhancing SharePoint Ribbon experience by adding new Ribbon Tasks.

Experience on using Out-of-Box SharePoint 2010 workflows, Designed and implemented Custom workflow using SharePoint Designer 2010 with Reusable actions and Site level Workflows, Extensively used SharePoint workflow reusable Action and processes using SharePoint Designer 2010.

Complete Understanding & knowledge of new sp2010 concept of Taxonomy, folksonomy, Term Sets, Document Set, Record Management introduced in SharePoint 2010.

Extensive Knowledge on PowerShell script and small experience on creating Cmdlets as per requirements to run Batch Commands on SP2010 Servers.

Experiences to Manage SQL Server 2008 and successfully implemented SQL server Maintenance plans to optimize server performance for fast response on web request.

Responsible for defining Disaster recovery plan as well as taking Scheduled backup for all site collection and service applications on daily/Weekly bases using SQL Maintenance plans.

Apply changes on site pages using CSS, JQuery and java script without going in and changing in to Core.css.

Robin Hood Foundation, New York, NY March 2011 to May 2011

Part Time Sr. SharePoint Developer

Actively involved in administrative tasks and gathering the requirement of end users and providing optimum solution form SharePoint 2010 out-of-box functionality.

Working knowledge of SharePoint 2010 with strong experience in setting up SharePoint lists & libraries, implementing views, configuring Content Editor and other web parts, working with site, list, and library templates, managing site & list permissions.

Developed the timesheet portal in SharePoint 2010 which includes different lists, workflows, and content types.

Implemented media web part feature of SharePoint 2010. Responsible for other out-of-box development of SharePoint 2010

Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, NJ August 2010 to January 2011 SharePoint Developer/Administrator

Involved in out-of-box development of Moss 2007. Experienced in configuring and using Excel services to be able to share Spreadsheets and collaborate the work in the MOSS 2007 environment.

Hands on experience in various Quest web part specially QListView, QlistForm, and QCalendar providing advance abilities than out of box web part.

Hands on experience in providing Workflow Solution using Nintex on MOSS 2007, good understanding of designing InfoPath 2007 and attaching Nintex workflow with it.

Extensively worked on Content Editor Web Part to apply changes on site pages to customize page using CSS and java script without going in and changing in to Core.css.

Good experience to work on Site template and list template to provide good facility to site owner by providing Site Template with predefine list and library in it.

EZ Solutions, Piscataway, NJ March 2008 to July 2010

Administrator/Sr. SharePoint Developer

Installed SharePoint Server 2010 in a lab environment and configured search, User Profile Services, My Sites and blog sites with a Sql Server 2008 R2 on 64 bit small server farm.

Installed and configured MOSS 2007 for highly available large server farm environment and was responsible for administration and maintenance of web applications and site collections across the farms.

Configured and administered MOSS environments including configuring SSP’s, indexing and crawling rules, defining crawling and search scopes.

Created Site Definition for ETS Inside SharePoint Portal, also give created site templates, List Template, Column Template for distribution across teams for reuse so that Engineers, Technical team and Administrator can utilize it.

Set up the Content Deployment Path and Jobs which deploy the New letter and Publishing root site collection from Test environment to the Production environment everyday at certain time.

Developed custom Workflow and pages, attached with request form List under the Human Resource Site to help Employee putting their Live Request, Vacation Request, appear in Exam request, arrange Meeting Rome request etc.

Create the SharePoint InfoPath form with multiple views, bases on user Identity which follow the workflow and Business Rules and also integrated with Dynamic Web Services to get the data from the portal.

Developed Integrated Dynamic and Secure Web Services to provide data On Demand for the site which specified on Request. That web services provide data and information of the site, its content, document library, list and data from each element of the site.

Following best practice to implement Feature by Creating & Installing Solution package on production server and Installation/Activate any Features on Server provided by any developer or created by own.

Responsible for taking Scheduled backup for all site collection / SSP on daily/Weekly bases using Batch file with STSADM.exe, and encrypt those backup file for security purpose, also Restore any site as an when required for Important document or request comes from Helpdesk.

Environment: SharePoint 2010, MOSS 2007, SharePoint 2003, ASP.Net 2003 / 2005, SharePoint Designer 2007, Office InfoPath 2003/2007, Web Services, Framework 2.0 / 3.0, SSIS, SQL Server 2005, EmpowerID, DovAve 5.0

AW Chesterton, Boston, MA August 2006 to February 2008

Sr. SharePoint Developer/Admin

Installed and configured SharePoint Portal and manage portal and Web application as SharePoint Admin from phase one.

Customized the site by creating new Site Definition, Custom Template and also configured them to Template gallery.

Designed and applied the corporate look and feel (Branding of Site) to Meeting workspace by using CSS.

Identified the appropriate site structure and taxonomy to include site collections, top-level sites, child sites, and libraries.

Worked with publishing features in web content management and extend the publishing content types that define information on a page through the use of field controls.

Developed WCF services which communicate between Web application and External ATC Web Services and ATC internal Services.

Used the Visual studio extension for SharePoint templates to build the web parts for MOSS 2007. Also implemented the IConsumer and the IProvider interfaces to enable the communications between the web parts.

Developed Integrated Dynamic and Secure Web Services to provide data On Demand for the site which specified on Request. That web services provide data and information of the site, its content, document library, list and data from each element of the site.

Technically used Infragistic Grid Control to display data in list, also used Infragistic Web combo to display thousands of rows data in dropdown with paging facility, and some more AJAX enabled control like Synchronized Panel etc.

Design and Developed Web forms, Custom Controls and User Controls, also used Gridview, listview, third party controls like Infragistic controls in ASP.NET and C# using Visual Studio 2005.

Involved in writing stored procedures, function, trigger, cursors in MS SQL Server 2005.

Environment: SharePoint 2003, MOSS 2007, Project Server 2007, Asp.Net 2005, SharePoint Designer 2007, Project Professional, WCF Services, Framework 2.0 / 3.0, SSIS, SQL Server 2005.

Medcomsys, Gujarat, India November 2005 to July 2006 SharePoint/.NET Developer

mMD.net [Mobile Med Data]:

Involved in design of the portal, data structure and Business Workflow for mMd.net Portal.

Branding, Site definitions, CSS, schema and developed Master Pages and Themes & Skeen to make the similar look and feel consistent across the site

Created custom site templates, List Template, Column Template for distribution across teams for reuse so that physicians, physician, assistant practitioners can use it easily.

Customized the Business Process by building web parts and with the .NET Framework-based Object Model and command-line access to administration functions.

Customized various controls for Application by developing Custom Controls and User Controls for consistent look and feel.

Used Gridview, listview controls to display formatted data on the Web forms.

Developed Application Using Master Page, Themes & skins, Implementing Caching and use Administration and Management tools.

Developed Web Services which communicate between SharePoint and ASP (Application Service Provider) and provide security Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and firewall protection for transforming the data within the portal and Web services.

Used NUnit for unit testing of the application in .Net 2005.

Environment: SharePoint Server 2003, ASP.Net 1.1/2.0, SharePoint Designer 2003/2007, Web Services, Framework 2.0, SSIS, SQL Server 2005, Ajax, Microsoft Application Block

EDUCATION:

Master of Science, Gujarat University

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