Project Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TIAA-CREF January **** to Present

Senior Sharepoint Administrator in a corporate Finance and Insurance IT

environment with responsibilities for managing enterprise-wide applications

accessed by thousands of global users. Responsibilities include

maintenance, upgrades, troubleshooting, back-up and recovery, project

planning, daily management of existing portals, performance tuning and

capacity planning. Perform installation, configuration, upgrades, and

testing for Development, Integration, Testing and Production environments.

Provide Senior Management Demonstrations to include drafting and producing

prototype models for new portal capabilities. Coach site administrators on

how to administer, create new subsites, and manage permissions on their

site collection. Support Business Units with custom workflows and site

designs to translate and map Business Unit processes into Sharepoint.

Creating Proof of Concept sites for demonstration to business units.

Identify opportunities to improve or automate business processes and new

ideas and technologies to meet or exceed business objectives. End User

training, coaching, consulting both Executive and Business level users.

Currently implementing migration of all SharePoint 2007 Portals to

SharePoint 2010. Design transition and upgrade of system hardware layout

and software for SharePoint 2010. Coordinating with Networking, Database,

and Server Engineering teams to plan migration milestones. Review existing

confirguration to determine risk factors for project upgrade. Testing and

reviewing 3rd party applications for compatability upgrade. Budget

planning for software, hardware, maintenance, and support.

Project Lead for SharePoint 2007 Pilot deployment. Created policy and

procedure for promoting code between environments Software Development Life

Cycle (SDLC). Design upgrade for hardware and manage migration from pilot

program to complete enterprise roll out of SharePoint platform. Architect,

design, install, administrate and maintain corporate SharePoint site

hierarchy. Collaborate with Information Security to create standards,

governance, and policies for usage of the corporate wide Sharepoint

platform. Monitor, troubleshoot and problem solve SharePoint

infrastructure and service application. Install new software releases,

system upgrades, evaluate and install patches and resolve software,

hardware and security related issues. Integrating 3rd party applications

into the SharePoint System hierarchy. Designed and implemented daily

metrics and health checks for SharePoint systems to report to upper

management. Research, select, document, and source for the Backup

Management Systems in support of SharePoint. Assisted with designing

Disaster Recovery policies and procedures. Administer the annual Disaster

Recovery systems check and report with a complete data analysis. Manage

and test disaster recovery strategies.

Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc. January

2001 to January 2008

Senior System Administrator in a corporate IT environment with

responsibilities for managing enterprise-wide applications accessed by

hundreds of users. Responsibilities include hardware & software

installations, maintenance, upgrades, troubleshooting, end user account

administration, backups and recovery, project planning, auditing (SOX)

compliance and customer consultation under stringent deadlines in a fast

paced, 24x7 environment. Administer SQL Server, Webservers, Oracle IAS,

Oracle Databases, HP DataProtector, Veritas Netbackup; build workstations,

servers and racks; troubleshoot internal & external users' problems.

Communicate with customers to ensure all issues are quickly resolved to

maintain optimal system performance.

Senior Administrator for 2001/2003/2007 SharePoint Window Services and

MOSS. Responsibilities include consultation and training for portals,

daily management of existing portals, performance tuning, and capacity

planning. Perform installation, configuration, upgrades, and testing for

Security, Proposal Center, HR, Finance, Auditing, Contracts, and Subsidiary

group portals. Provide Senior Management Demonstrations to include

drafting and producing prototype models for new portal capabilities.

Implement migration and upgrade of all SharePoint Portals to the latest

version. SharePoint upgrade includes parallel SQL Server upgrade from 2000

to 2005. Project Lead for backup software migration from HP DataProtector

5.0 to Veritas Netbackup Enterprise 5.1. Perform research on backup

software, wrote justification for migration, installation, configuration,

testing, migration, and disaster recovery testing. Migration allowed

necessary consolidation of company backups to a single software product.

Redesign the backup software system to increase efficiency and incorporate

a disaster recovery plan.

Management responsibilities include technology assessments, system

architecture and engineering, disaster tolerance and recovery planning,

project forecasting, and budgetary inputs. Submit project proposals and

justifications to illustrate reduction to cost and risk impacts. Coach

employees to expand skills and knowledge base through cross training.

TECHNICAL

Microsoft Windows; HP/UX; Microsoft SharePoint 2001/2003/2007/2010;

SharePoint Designer; Microsoft SQL; Active Directory; Oracle IAS 9i/10g;

Oracle DB 9i/10g; Oracle Grid Control 10g; Microsoft Exchange; K2

BlackPearl;

AvePoint DocAve; Axceller ControlPoint; Autonomy for SharePoint;

Microsoft ForeFront; HP DataProtector; Veritas Backup Exec & Netbackup;

Webtrends Web Analytics; Microsoft Project Server; Microsoft Systems

Center;

HP Storageworks VA/MSA; VmWare ESX;

EDUCATION

B. S. B.A Management Information Systems (2000)

University of Alabama in Huntsville

References Available Upon Request

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