Sharepoint Administrator

Rituparn Tokekar

Ph: 832-***-**** Email: *********@*****.***

Houston Tx

Sr. SharePoint Administrator/SME/Lead

I am an experienced Admin with 10+ years of expertise in infrastructure and supporting highly visible applications. Proficient in supporting and designing MOSS 2007, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013 Active Directory, SPS 2003, IIS6, IIS7 infrastructures. I am an excellent communicator, providing constant focus on customer satisfaction, with a background acting as liaison between technical staff and senior management. Demonstrated talent as an analytical and rapid troubleshooter with the ability to quickly analyze a problem and resolve it minimizing the impact to customers. I exhibit strong technical leadership and project management skills with a track record of successful projects on an enterprise scale.

Areas of Expertise:

MOSS 2007, SharePoint 2010 & SharePoint 2013

Windows 2000/2003/2008 Active Directory

Microsoft SQL Server (SQL) 6.5/7.0/2000/2005/2008

Content Deployment tool, SUSHI, SP designer, SP manager, DocAve

Certifications And Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electronics. Nagpur

Key Proficiencies

Large-Scale Project Management Infrastructure Planning/Design

Global Applications & Networks Enterprise Architecture

Migration/Integration/Conversion Training & Team-Building

Disaster Recovery & Security Client Relationship Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Kennedy Soft, Houston Tx Sep 2012 – Sep 2014

Pyramid Consulting, Houston Tx Sep 2014 – till date

Client: Targa Resources

Role: Sr. SharePoint Admin/SME/Lead

Responsibilities:

Handling SharePoint 2007 environment, this involve:

oUser profile handling,

oSearch service optimization,

oSecurity trimming and optimization.

oServer level patching,

oInstalling Service packs and cumulative updates and testing.

oSupporting end users with their day to day queries and issues

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Involved in all admin activities in SP 2007 to SP 2010 upgrade project :

Targa Resources is in process of upgrading from SP 2007 to 2010 environment. We have adopted Database attach and upgrade method and content deployment using DocAve for this project.

My Work involves:

oPlanning for Server Architecture this involve Prod / Test / Dev / DR / and Developer machines

oInstalling all required software and updates for SharePoint 2010

oInstalling SharePoint 2010 product and latest patches

oPlanning security structure and installing SharePoint with Microsoft Best Practices and with minimal permission criteria.

oCreating and Managing SharePoint Audiences and secure certain web parts by applying Audience filtering.

oImplemented Kerberos Authentication for SharePoint install and configuration but changed it to NTLM based on business needs.

oCreated secure site with SSL certificate for providing access to external users on internal site.

oManaging SSIS packages and SSRS integration.

oPowerShell scripting for automation of processes, Installation and troubleshooting.

oInstalling all third party tools and integrates with SharePoint

oConfiguring Service applications and Testing.

oWorking with DBAs to attach databases to 2010 environment web applications and upgrading them.

oWorking with Developer team to install custom solutions and features and testing them.

oImplementing Disaster Recovery strategy and configuring environment for Disaster Recovery.

SharePoint 2013 upgrade project: In Progress, this Project involves upgrading SharePoint 2010 environment to SharePoint 2013.This Project is in Testing Phase.

My work involves:

oInstalling SharePoint 2013 on Development / Test and production multi server farm.

oConfiguring services like User Profile / Search / BCS etc.

oLeveraging new ideas introduced in SharePoint 2013.

oDiscussion with end users and Business to improve SharePoint functionality as per their needs and technology feasibility.

Handling third party tools like DocAve content manager/Migration, Pentalogic reminders, BisCom / FaxCom, NibusSoft, Nintex forms and workflows.

Worked as Business Analyst (SharePoint) on various projects, this involves Understanding Business needs, processes and data gathering.

Working with Developers and support persons to understand feasibility and developing custom solutions to full fill business needs.

Configured F5 load balancer for SharePoint front end servers with F5 GUI and iRules.

Environment: SharePoint 2010, MOSS 2007, SP 2013, Server 2008 R2, sql2008 R2, DocAve 8.5

L&T InfoTech May 2011 – Sep 2012

MARATHOIN OIL, Houston, TX

Role: Sr. SharePoint Admin/SME/Lead

Responsibilities:

Involved in all phases of implementation including requirements gathering, design, testing, deployment, maintenance and training in MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010.

Guiding offshore team with technical as well as statistical knowledge to improve their skills and meeting requirement and SLAs.

Providing knowledge transfer for new joiners and keep a track for their improvement.

Maintaining Knowledge base and updating it regularly.

Keep a track on day to day activity like: Daily status updates, Application readiness, Status Calls with client, High priority incidences, Server patching and changes schedule etc.

Providing SharePoint Application and SharePoint server level support for Marathon oil End users.

Planning for SharePoint Cumulative updates and Hotfixes.

This planning includes testing Cumulative updates and Hotfixes on various different environments before applying it on Production environment.

Planning on security structure, this includes changing service accounts and their security based on Microsoft Best practices and also revisiting user security and provided exclusive permissions to user accounts.

Creating custom permission levels based on business needs.

Pre and Post tests for any server level changes.

Advising end users for SharePoint usage and giving Product knowledge.

Site Backup and Restore activities in case of accidently site get deleted.

Monitoring SharePoint Applications and provide solution if any issue has been observed.

Split activity which involves planning and implementing steps for company split.

Architected/Engineered SharePoint Backup (DPM), Disaster Recovery and Redundancy strategies.

Design/Plan/Strategy for migration of SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010.

Collaborated with business unit Knowledge Mangers to enforce corporate policies and procedures.

Coordinated/conducted SharePoint training; provided support, training and technical reviews for SharePoint users.

Worked with DBA’s to manage SharePoint database clusters and content databases.

Environment: SharePoint 2010, MOSS 2007, Server 2008 R2, sql2008 R2, VS2010, ASP.NET3.0, VMware workstation 7

Veda Resources

Microsoft India Development Centre, Hyderabad, India June 2010 – May 2011

Role: Senior SharePoint Admin

Project: Unilever MOSS (June 2010 – April 2011)

Description: This is the support project for Unilever user base which is more than 90,000 end users across the globe. This Profile also includes day to day SharePoint server maintenance activities and critical server lever troubleshooting.

Responsibilities:

Providing support for Unilever End users for SharePoint related Activities.

Planning for SharePoint Cumulative updates and Hotfixes.

This planning includes testing Cumulative updates and Hotfixes on various different environments before applying it on Production environment.

Pre and Post tests for any server level changes.

Advising end users for SharePoint usage and giving Product knowledge.

Site Backup and Restore activities in case of accidently site get deleted.

Monitoring SharePoint Applications and provide solution if any issue has been observed.

Environment: SharePoint 2010, Server 2008 R2, sql2008 R2, VS2010, ASP.NET3.0, VMware workstation 7

Veda Resources

DELOITTE, Hyderabad, India Feb 2010 – Jun 2010

Role: Senior SharePoint Administrator

Project: Genzyme Gold Connect)

Description: Genzyme Gold Connect is an internal Portal for Genzyme to use is as collaboration portal between employees, doctors and scientists of Genzyme.

Portal will also be used as information exchange platform for research and development activities worldwide by Genzyme employees.

Responsibilities:

Planning SharePoint Farm Architecture depending on requirements and project goal.

Comparison between different Virtualization software for Dev environment.

Creating Dev and QA environment: SharePoint Standalone installation with supportive tools for development on VMware workstation.

Final deployment, testing and manipulation of developed web parts, Master pages and other functionalities.

Creating integration environment : SharePoint Farm Installation with following components:

AD / AD LDS / DNS

2 WFEs (Load Balanced)

Application server

SQL server

FAST search server

Configuring Claims based Authentication with FBA.

Configuring FAST search server.

Configuring TFS 2010 server to automate the WSP deployments.

Environment: SharePoint 2010, Server 2008 R2, sql2008 R2, VS2010, ASP.NET3.0, VMware workstation 7

WIPRO, Mumbai, India Sep 2006 – Feb 2010

Role: SharePoint Administrator/Technical Support Engineer

Description: My responsibility includes the role of a Specialist Support Engineer for Microsoft Professional Clients under their SharePoint administration technologies division. My working profile includes Administration, Installation and Troubleshooting of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Server (V2 & V3), SharePoint Portal Server 2003.

Responsibilities:

Guiding and helping customers regarding Installation and Planning of SharePoint and related products (SQL, Active Directory, DNS etc.) as per their Business requirements and available resources.

This also includes guiding customers regarding best practices to use SharePoint products

Trouble shooting issues related with SharePoint products like:

Product Installation issues.

Performance Issues.

Service unavailability issues.

Workflow related issues.

Search service related issues.

Intermittent issues.

Security trimming and user rights issues.

Custom application related issues such as InfoPath, Custom Work Flows, Third party web parts, Custom solutions, Custom search scopes etc.

Migration issues such as Migrating SharePoint sites from development to Production environment.

Backup and Restore related issues, this includes SQL, SharePoint and stsadm backup methods.

Content deployment related issues.

Issues related with upgrading Product from earlier version to new version or issues related with Hotfix and service pack installations.

Issues related with Interoperability of SharePoint with Microsoft Office products.

Issues related with BDC, SSO, Business Intelligence, and KPI etc.

Environment: SharePoint 2010, Server 2008 R2, sql2008 R2, VS2010, ASP.NET3.0, VMware workstation 7

Attended pre-Launch training for SharePoint 2010 and FAST search engine from Microsoft

Been awarded by Microsoft for reaching a 73% over-all customer satisfaction ratings for the year

PIX Transmission, Nagpur, India July 2004 – Sep 2005

Role: Windows Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

Providing Level 1 Support for Windows.

Running small projects on making the process customer friendly

Taking ownership of technologies for faster and effective resolutions

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