*rd Dharmesh Desai

Team Lead, SharePoint Development and Production Support

Location

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Industry

Computer Software

Overview

Current

Team Lead, SharePoint Development and Production Support at K&L Gates

Past

Sr. Web Application Architect at K&L Gates

Programmer Analyst at K&L Gates LLP

Web Engineer at Orrick

Consultant at Ciber

Sr. Consultant at Alcoa

Sr. Consultant at Advanced Software Applications

Sr. Analyst/Programmer at Federated Investors

Sr. Consultant at Development Dimension International

Software Engineer at Candid Corporation, Portland, OR

Sr. Software Engineer at Mahindra ASYST

Manager at OTCEI

Customer Support Engg. at Uptime Computer Services Pvt Ltd

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Education

University of Pune

Kalyani School Atul

Connections

500+ connections

Public Profile

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Summary

Over 18 years of experience in the information Technology.

Over 5 years of experience as a SharePoint Architect/SharePoint Developer/SharePoint

Administrator.

Outstanding ability to understand customer requirements and recommend the most

appropriate technology solutions.

Extensive experience in all aspects of business management, collaboration, knowledge

management, executive decision support, business intelligence, data warehousing, data

definition and mapping with broad experience in multiple industries

Recognized e-business expert offering fresh insight and passion for innovation, proven

track record in planning, analyzing, developing and implementing successful, high profile

intranet site as well as e-Portal.

Training:

10175 - Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development

10174 - Configuring and Administering Microsoft SharePoint 2010

Specialties

Technology: SharePoint 2010, MOSS 2007, Hubbard One, Sharepoint 2003, Plumtree 4.5,

Interwoven (Mail Site, Desk Site), Interaction 5.0

Web Based Technology: Visual Studio 2010/2008 (ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET), Power Shell Scripts,

SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, Crystal Report 9.0, XML/XSL,

Microsoft Enterprise Library.Languages : Oracle Pro*C, Oracle PL/SQL, T-SQL

Database : SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2005, Oracle 8.0Experience

Team Lead, SharePoint Development and Production Support

K&L Gates

Partnership; 1001-5000 employees; Law Practice industry

March 2012 Present (3 months) Greater Pittsburgh Area

Enhance overall team accomplishments and competence by planning delivery of solutions

Answer technical and procedural questions for less-experienced team members, teach

Improved processes, mentor team members.

Improve information usefulness by tracking emerging technologies, evaluating their

applicability to business goals and operational requirements.

Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading

professional Publications, maintaining personal networks, participating in professional

organizations.

Manage customer relationship by communicating SharePoint architecture standards and

Frameworks, answering questions, resolving concerns and issues.

Sr. Web Application Architect

K&L Gates

Partnership; 1001-5000 employees; Law Practice industry

August 2009 March 2012 (2 years 8 months) Greater Pittsburgh Area

Creating general systems analysis documentation in regards to consultation, scope

statements, design specifications, project work-plans, project reports, cost analysis,

test scripts, system documentation, etc

Installed, configured, and supported Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010 and

migrate/upgrade the corporate Extranet Sites from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010.

Involved in projects to migrate/upgrade the corporate Extranet Sites from SharePoint

2003 to SharePoint 2007.

Custom Web part development using SharePoint Object model with C#.Net for SharePoint

2010 & 2007.

Custom Web part development using SharePoint Object model with C#.Net for SharePoint

2007.

Developed a custom web part to search the employee s profile data from the database and

retrieve the AD security group/distribution list information from the active directory.

Using .Net web services developed a custom web part to display the world clock with

different time zone on firm s intranet site.

Using .Net update panel (for AJAX functionality) developed a document type look up web

part to search the doc types from the firm s document management system database.

Developed .Net Console app using the SharePoint web service to find the missing photos.

Developed a .Net Console app using the SharePoint object model to add the user into the

multiple sites.

Manage large SharePoint instantiation, with approximately 10,000 users for the extranet

sites and approximately 4000 users for the intranet.

Created deployable site collection, and Template\layouts.

Installed, configured, and supported Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), in

multiple complex instances/environments

Involved in automating the data and file transfer using the IntApp Appliance. Developed

various rules to find changes in the data and migrate the data from one data source to

another.

Programmer AnalystK&L Gates LLP

Partnership; 1001-5000 employees; Law Practice industry

October 2007August 2009 (1 year 11 months)

Web Engineer

Orrick

Partnership; 1001-5000 employees; Law Practice industry

April 2004 October 2007 (3 years 7 months)

Conduit for all the practice groups, marketing, HR and corporate portal design,

develop and support attorney s requirement and support all practice related features on

the Orrick portal.

Overhauled the Key areas of the marketing, attorney s biography and firm s document

management system.

Helped to integrate the portal with firm s existing document management system

(Hummingbird DocsOpen & Interwoven TeamSite and DeskSite)

Primary responsible for firm s CRM system, Partner-Non Partner review System & Attorney

Biography System.

Primary responsible for firms corporate web site http://www.orrick.com and subsidiary

BondLogistix's web site http://www.bondlogisitix.com

Worked independently with the hosting vendor of the firm and moved the corporate site,

test site and subsidiary firm's web site to a different hosting provider without any

downtime.

Developed a Reporting module for the Partners' performance review system using the SQL

Server 2005 Reporting Services.

ConsultantCiber

Public Company; 5001-10,

000 employees; CBR; Information Technology and Services industry

20022004 (2 years)

Sr. Consultant

Alcoa

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; AA; Mining & Metals industry

20022004 (2 years)

Worked on Alcoa s 100k employees Portal (myAlcoa.com) using Content Management Server

(CMS) and Plum Tree Systems.

MS CMS Technical lead. Involved in design and developing various gadgets for different

communities.

Helped completely customized the Plumtree and CMS UI to accommodate our business needs

as well as regional consideration.

Involved in Requirement analysis, system design and of the communities, folders,

channels and templates.

Involved in development of gadgets in various communities using CMS and Plum Tree. I am

also responsible of CMS administration and Plum Tree administration.

Sr. ConsultantAdvanced Software Applications

July 2000May 2002 (1 year 11 months)

ModelMAXr is an automated data mining application for predictive and descriptive

modeling. Robust, yet easy to use, ModelMAXr empowers business users and statisticians

alike to efficiently tackle analytical problems including predicting customer behavior,

profiling customers, assessing risk and fraud potential, and a host of other predictive

and descriptive modeling problems.

Responsibilities:

SQL Server 2000, Oracle 8 is used to store the input data and then import into

ModelMaxPlus using DDX component.

ActiveX DLL is developed using Visual C++. Different neural network algorithms are used

to create the predictive Model or Cluster.

Sr. Analyst/Programmer

Federated Investors

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; FII; Financial Services industry

November 1999July 2000 (9 months)

Sr. ConsultantDevelopment Dimension International

Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Human Resources industry

December 1998November 1999 (1 year)

Software EngineerCandid Corporation, Portland, OR

October 1998November 1999 (1 year 2 months)

Sr. Software Engineer

Mahindra ASYST

July 1997October 1998 (1 year 4 months)

ManagerOTCEI

September 1994July 1997 (2 years 11 months)

Customer Support Engg.

Uptime Computer Services Pvt Ltd

September 1992September 1994 (2 years 1 month)

Skills & Expertise

T-SQL

VB.NET

C#

Oracle Pro*C

Stored Procedures

SSRS

ASP.NET

Microsoft SQL Server

Crystal Reports

Visual Studio

SharePoint

.NET

IIS

ASP

SSIS

Education

University of Pune

B.E. COMPUTER, Computer Engineering

19881992

D.Y.Patil College of Engineering

Activities and Societies: D

Kalyani School Atul

HSC, Science

1977 1987

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