Ashar KHAN
SharePoint Architect
Houston TX, 77002
Phone: 312-***-****
*****.****@******.***
Seasoned professional and Information Worker Solution Specialist with experience of building intranet & extranet portals for over 7 years using SharePoint technologies involving highly complex customizations for enterprises in order to deliver specialized business outcomes. With strong focus on .net frameworks 4.5 using C# and background in developing with Microsoft technologies I have developed various custom components and led complex deployments for SharePoint Server, Office 365 and Azure Cloud SUMMARY
With 15 years’ experience in software development and consulting, including:
10 years of SharePoint solution design & development experience
10 years of professional consulting experience in corporate space
5 years of team leading experience
6+ years of application development experience in Microsoft .Net using C#
Exhaustive experience of analyzing complex system requirements and providing subject matter expertise
Across-the-board knowledge of Object Oriented Analysis and Design & Software Development Life Cycle
Thorough experience of Analysis, design, development, deployment and maintenance phases
Experience in design, development and implementation of SharePoint/MOSS solutions, including web parts, site definitions, content types, metadata, BDC, InfoPath and workflow
Proven skills in installation, deployment, configuration, administration, migration and upgrade of SharePoint Products and Technologies
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Currently working on: Office 365, Enterprise SharePoint architecture planning, portal configuration, design and development, administration, packaging & deployment. Cloud based application development using Microsoft Azure, ASP .Net Programming/Designing: Enterprise web application development using ASP .net & WCF Web Services with Visual Studio 2015 hands on C#.
Microsoft Server Technologies: SharePoint Server 2013, 2010, InfoPath, Silverlight, WWF, Windows Server 08, Hyper V, VMware, Forefront Identity Manager 2010,
SQL Server 2005/2008, IIS 7, SharePoint Portal Server 2003, MOSS 2007/2010/2013, Project Server 2003, BizTalk Server 2006 Programming/Scripting Languages: Visual C#, C/C++, Visual C++, Visual Basic / JavaScript (JQuery, AngularJS, Knockout, Node)
Project Management Tools: Microsoft Project Server, TFS, JIRA, RallyDev, XPlanner, ScrumWorks, Selenium, NUnit, NAnt, Team City, Jenkins and VisualStudio Team services. Process Engineering: Agile software development with Scrum, Member of Agile Manifesto & Scrum Alliance, CMMI Process Improvement
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Perficient, Inc. May 2018 – Present
www.perficient.com
Solutions Architect
Duties & Responsibilities:
Understand enterprise customer’s needs, conduct pre-sales, write SOW and provide solution approach along with scoping and budgeting for implementation of enterprise intranet and custom solutions using SharePoint and Office 365
AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES
Redesign of HR Portal and content migration planning from custom build CMS into Office 365
Navigation modeling and information architecture using Optimal Sort and TreeJack
Content Inventory and Audit for findings and recommendations Arnold & Porter January 2018 – May 2018
www.arnoldporter.com
Lead SharePoint Developer
Duties & Responsibilities:
Development of intranet portal and legal applications using SharePoint and ASP.net. During my tenure, I have developed the following applications: ARNOLDPORTER.INTRANET.COM
Migration of a large SharePoint 2010 and 2013 intranet into SharePoint 2016 on premise and porting over line of business applications and integration with in house record management solution.
Capacity Planning for setting up new SharePoint 2016 Infrastructure/Topology using MinRole Strategy
Rebuilt Information Architecture and logical structure of SharePoint web applications and site collections using HNSC (Host Named Site Collection) as per Microsoft recommended guidelines
Migration of a large SharePoint 2010 and 2013 intranet into SharePoint 2016 on premise and porting over line of business applications and integration with in-house record management solution. ATTORNEY LEGAL SURVEY APPLICATION:
The legal team at Arnold & Porter required a custom survey application which is fully customizable so legal reps can create survey questions with multiple types of answers including text, multiple choice and preconfigured lookups. Technologies: ASP.net Core 2.0 using C#, MVC, Entity Framework, TFS, Azure DevOps, SQL Server 2018 INTAPP LEGAL SYSTEM:
On-going development and maintenance on custom built legal application. Technologies: IntApp application server, ASP.net C# NuAxis, LLC. January 2016 – January 2018
www.nuaxis.com
Team Lead Web Applications
Duties & Responsibilities:
Responsible to consult with clients and understand business needs to propose solution approach, design, develop and provide architecture analysis and lead the team of developers to implement complex solutions. I worked with following clients while at NuAxis:
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: Built, modernized and migrated a legacy tax incentive system for Dept. Of Interior, NPS cultural resources to manage rehabilitation of buildings across the country. Leading a team of two developers enhancing and supporting TaxAct as well as modernization of HPF (Historic Preservation Fun Grants) system for the Park Service. Responsible for setting up CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins Technologies: AngularJS, Asp.Net Core, MVC, SQL Server, Jenkins INETERNAL PROJECTS
Office 365 Outlook Plugin to create a ticket in JIRA and notification to assigned personnel. Azure application development and deployment
Office 365 SharePoint AddIn, Automation using Flow and Client Web Parts using SPFx. Infusion March 2015 – Present
www.infusion.com
Senior Technical Consultant
Duties & Responsibilities:
Responsible for analyzing business needs in various markets prominently O&G and Insurance, and provide technical leadership & support in building software programs, tools, websites utilizing cloud platform. I worked with following clients while at Infusion: SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL: Built a sales dashboard SPA to help sales team at SCI reach their goals in timely manner and assess overall sales volume and monitor sales progress. Technologies: AngularJS, WCF, SQL Server
BANK OF MONTREAL: Developed a community portal for distributed teams to collaborate efficiently. Technologies: SharePoint Online (Office 365), Knockout, REST Apis CENTERPOINT ENERGY: Developed a tool for www publishing team to check integrity of content so that only approved, relevant and accurate information is available on their website. Technologies: SharePoint 2013, Knockout, ASP .Net MVC & Web API 2.0. PRICE WATERHOUSE COOPER: Involved in the development of a POC of multitenant SaaS for PwC’s customers to manage invoicing in the cloud.
Technologies: Office 365, SharePoint, AngularJS, Azure Perficient, Inc. October 2012 – March 2015
www.perficient.com
Lead Technical Consultant
Duties & Responsibilities:
Responsible for understanding the client specific business and SharePoint technology needs to design technical architecture for the solution, including the user experience and Designing, coding and unit/integration testing using Perficient methodologies, technology and tools, Debugging and troubleshooting code related issues/defects. Also participate in team and customer meetings to gather business and technical requirements for projects and mentor project team members.
I worked with following clients while at Infusion: TRANSUNION: Developed employee portal to browse and search relevant information across departments. The portal also provides social features and integration with one drive. Technologies: SharePoint 2013, SharePoint Designer, Microsoft Bing Translator API, jQuery, Knockout.js, PowerShell
JONES LANG LASLALLE Custom SharePoint solution for JLL’s Project & Financial Management to track project tasks, risks, milestones, and to surface financial data and monitor project’s cost and budget. Technologies: Telerik Controls, SQL Server, Visual Studio, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Designer, PowerShell JOHN DEERE Performed migration of SharePoint 2010 sites to Office 365. John Deere required to migrate all of their internal and external collaborative sites and workflows to SharePoint Online. Technologies: Metalogix, SharePoint Online, Office 365, SharePoint Designer, Nintex. TURNER CORPORATION: Performed system wide migration analysis on Turner’s internal SharePoint sites and content in SharePoint to Office 365. I also performed a thorough gap analysis and provided recommendations to migrate 5+ TB of content and 20+ LOB applications using Metalogix and SharePoint App Model development. Technologies: Office 365, Metalogix, SharePoint Designer, Visual Studio. PA.GOV: Developed fully responsive public website for Pennsylvania government using SharePoint 2010 Technologies: SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio 2010, SharePoint Designer, PowerShell. CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE: Architected and developed Application Portfolio Management tool in SharePoint to help CHI portfolio team track new application requests and manage per site inventory for over 60 hospitals and cut back on the cost by reusing the application licenses. Technologies: SharePoint 2010, VS 2010, jQuery, SPServices.JS, PowerShell. SMITH & NEPHEW: Engaged as a technical lead to provide gap analysis, recommend optimum solution for content development and delivery of functional workarounds to existing S&N’s multi-lingual platform using SharePoint 2010 Variations and conducted end user training.
Technologies: SharePoint 2010 Variations, SharePoint Designer, PowerShell Australian Aid, Australia November 2011 – June 2012 www.ashark.net
Senior SharePoint Consultant
Duties & Responsibilities:
AusAID required redevelopment of its public website in SharePoint originally designed in ColdFusion which became inefficient and hard to maintain. I was hired to assist the team in migrating the site into SharePoint. The website is built on SharePoint CMS/publishing platform and utilizes search, taxonomy and metadata navigation capabilities. Technologies: SharePoint 2010, VS 2010, Metalogix Migration Manager, Powershell, AutoSPInstaller Unique World, Australia March 2008 – September 2011 www.uniqueworld.net
Lead Consultant
Duties & Responsibilities:
Analyze, design and implement technical solutions for enterprise information, knowledge management and collaboration systems by working closely with the SA and BA team to understand the project concept, scope and deliverables. As lead consultant apart from core development, I am also responsible to lead, mentor and guide technical delivery team assigned on the project.
During my stay at Unique World, I worked with following clients: TELSTRA (ENTERPRISE & GOVERNMENT): Delivered enterprise-wide SharePoint rollout and business intelligence and built custom SharePoint application to store and search for business proposals and automate building of new proposals based on historic data
Technologies: SharePoint 2010, Continuous Integration using TFS, Selenium Suit, JIRA DEPT. OF BROADBAND, COMMS AND DIGITAL ECONONMY: Primarily responsible for administering, supporting and customization of 2007 & 2010 SharePoint Server farms. Provided technical leadership for department’s various applications including Corporate Directory, LegalPoint, SMS and Entry/Exit System. Technologies: Forefront Identity Manager, SharePoint, HP Trim NRMA INSURANCE AUSTRALIA: End-to-End SharePoint WCM implementation including branding, custom content types, workflows, custom security/site configuration scripts, features, CQWP and WSP deployment. Technologies: Visual Studio 2005, SharePoint Designer 2007, PowerShell, WSPBuilder NUPLEX AUSTRALIA: Developed policy workspace solution using existing SharePoint Intranet to provide various levels of access on NuPlex policy documents in 6 different countries Technologies: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Visual Studio 2005, SharePoint Designer 2007, SharePoint Manager 07, WSPBuilder
HOMESTART AUSTRALIA: Engaged as development lead through the life cycle of HomeStart Intranet development project and implementation of EDRMS for electronic records management. Technologies: Office SharePoint Server 2007, SQL Server 2005 and SharePoint Designer 2007, WSPBuilder, U2U CAML Query Builder SharePoint
GOODMAN INTERNATIONAL: Worked as SharePoint developer to implement new features and maintain MOSS based Intranet and Internet websites. The customizations include custom web parts, features, timer jobs, solution packaging, configuring and customizing search and various UAT and production deployment scenarios. I was responsible for managing complex infrastructure architecture to support a cross regional, multi-language replicated intranet and Internet websites
Technologies: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and SharePoint Designer 2007, SharePoint Manager, WSPBuilder
NIB HEALTH INSURANCE: Revamped existing online presence and customization of online customer services to provide better support to their customers using SharePoint. Technologies: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and SharePoint Designer 2007, WSPBuilder
NuAxis, LLC. October 2006 – March 2008
www.nuaxis.com
Senior Developer
Duties & Responsibilities:
Provide Design & Development services relating to web/desktop/n-tier/distributed software applications and managing change control with customers collaboration With NuAxis, I have worked on following accounts:
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: Responsible for customer interfacing, requirements management, development, testing, deployment and configuration of software applications/websites Technologies: SharePoint Server 2003
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT PORTAL: Built a company’s intranet portal and business process tool by developing forms and web parts by providing governance and customization of SharePoint Server Technologies: SharePoint Sever 2007
BUDGET EDGE: Built a custom website to enable users track their spending and evaluate the aggregate standing in the society. Main features include budget panel, assets, savings, future projection, personal and overall residual charts, ads/campaigns.
Technologies: Web 2.0, Ruby on Rails, AJAX, MySQL, XML/SWF Charts, SVN DataFocal Systems February 2005 – November 2006
www.datafocal.com
Software Engineer
Duties & Responsibilities:
Design and Develop custom software solutions for web and desktop and lead the team of developers and testers. During my tenure, I worked on one major client:
SIMPLY WIRELESS: Spearheaded the analysis and architecture design of a point of sale operation at the company and conducted heavy telecommunication with client resources including consultants and IT managers offshore. HanCom Systems March 2001 – January 2005
Software Developer
Duties & Responsibilities:
Worked on Client / Server, Scheduling and Web enabled applications. Implicated in various multi-tier, desktop applications and utility projects using Visual C++ 6.0 & 7.0 and Visual Basic 6.0 as the development tool and back-end integration with MS Access, MS SQL Server and Oracle. EXAN SOFTWARE: Lead the development efforts in developing a product with a team of 5 developers and 3 testing engineers. Main responsibilities were estimating the development effort, discussions with the offshore Project Manager and development of core system modules including the application framework Technologies: Visual C++ 5.0, 6.0, ATL/MFC/STL, Dot Net 1.1, MS Access, Oracle 8 Softech Systems September 2000 – March 2001
www.softech.com.pk
Software Developer
Duties / Responsibilities:
Worked on a project for offshore client as Business Layer and User Interface developer. Involved in Client / Server development using VC5/6 at front-end and ORACLE at back-end and used Seagate Crystal Reports 8.0 to develop management reports.
DAY TRADING: Built a COM based client/server application that presents the real time stock market data. Technologies: Visual C++ 6, Oracle 8
QUALIFICATION
Bachelor of Computer Science
DISTINCTION
Placed on Dean’s Honor Role for 6 semesters
Got 30% scholarship at the university
MCP in Web Development using ASP.net (Visual C#)
MCTS in MOSS 2007 Configuration
Certified ScrumMaster
CONTRIBUTIONS
SharePoint Task Manager http://wsstaskmanager.codeplex.com SharePoint UI Comments http://spcomments.codeplex.com Direct Show Application http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/g-m/directx/article.php/c4359