Sharepoint Office

Baskar Vijay Bsc., MCTS

647-***-**** ******.*****@*****.***

Mississauga, ON

Experience Summary:

In charge of Award-winning SharePoint Projects:

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2006 Partner of The Year (Technology Innovation)

2007 Microsoft Partner of the Year Finalist (Technology Innovation)

2007 Microsoft Impact Award Winner (Information Worker Solutions)

2008 Microsoft Impact Award Winner (Technology Innovation)

2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year Finalist (Information Worker Solutions)

15+ years of work experience in all aspects from stakeholder meetings, directing, managing, consulting, solutions architecture, requirement analysis, information architecture, identifying project needs and deliverables

15+ years of combined work experience in enterprise solutions consulting, development, testing, data migration, implementation and maintenance using InfoPath, SharePoint 2003/2007/2010/2013/2016, O365, SharePoint Designer, MS Flow, SQL Server 2005/2008

15+ years of proven experience in implementing software release process and testing methodologies

10+ years of work experience in project management, designing, documenting, and resource management

10+ years of experience in quality assurance, preparing test plans, scripts, and test cases

Excellent Individual performer as well as a team player

Excellent written and oral communication skills

Work Experience

Nov. 2016 – July 2020 TJX Group of Companies, Inc. Mississauga, ON

Roles: Sr. SharePoint Enterprise Solutions Engineer/Migration Architect/Project Lead

Led focused engagements to assess organizational capabilities and technology readiness as well as make strategic recommendations in customer relationship management, enterprise mobility, consumer portals, mobile communication tools, knowledge management, and IT governance settings.

Involved in various Project Management related activities such as Project Proposal, Scope Definition, Cost Estimation, Requirements Gathering, Development Activities, Business Practices, Project Roadmap, Project upgrade plan, Operating Level Agreement and Technology Operations, System Support Guides, and executing project dashboard, and status calls

Accountable for managing multiple digital transformation projects directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives with Microsoft Cloud Solutions (O365 Power Platform, SharePoint, Dynamics 365)

Managed project and program expectations while delegating and managing deliverable with team members and stakeholders

Presented periodic Dashboard reports on the current program, future opportunities, and client issues to Senior Leadership

Guided direct reports to develop PowerApps with Power Automate to automate and digitize business processes for cross-functional matrix environment (IT - Shutter scheduling / Logistics - Freight Arrivals /Planning – Store Sales Program Campaigns)

Responsible for leading and guiding the team with best practices in applying custom branding to departmental team sites.

Duties also include maintaining continuous alignment of program scope with strategic business objectives and make recommendations to modify the program to enhance effectiveness toward the business result or strategic intent

Operated as a liaison between stakeholders, business groups and technical team to elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate requirements

Directed and Architected and led migration projects to move over 250K documents from old legacy systems, Lotus Notes, Network Drives, and other SharePoint sites to O365 with ShareGate

Led the development team with planning migration strategies, process flows, design and UI wireframes and mockups using Balsamiq, Visio, PowerPoint, and Snagit

Duties also include providing key recommendations on policies and governance to comply with company policies

Managed Agile process in JIRA/Confluence/MS Kanban Board to run scrum board tasks including but not limited to task grooming, prioritization, backlogs, roadblock impediment removal etc.

Evaluated various Document Management solutions including OpenText CS and assisted enterprise stakeholders in choosing product to fulfill business requirements (for Australia Division)

Enforced process automation with Capital Expenditure Approval (CapEx) with multi-approval levels up to President

Directed legacy systems to be incorporated into cloud solution with MS Power Platform for entire TJX CA Finance

Guided Analytical Excel reports of financial data from CapEx application including creating dashboard of expenses

Architected GEO location sales application using PowerBI and Map feature for Finance Department

Managed and developed enhancements for Merchant Requests (MARS) with automation using Power Automate

Developed Digital Thank You Cards for TJX Recognition Program for HR and IT with MS Forms and Power Automate

Directed and Managed Production Servers and DMZ servers including deploying, configuring IIS app pools, web applications, and task scheduler

Consulted various TJX Departments (Finance, Planning, HR, IT, Planning, Logistics, Talent Development) in providing solutions and recommendations on departmental sites as Subject Matter Expert

Handled and triaged issues that related to applications with development team and Microsoft

Provided in-depth training on usage of meta data, tagging and helped businesses to adapt to term store and management

Created bi-weekly analytical reports consisting of in-takes, completed, and accepted stories to Sr. Management

Assisted in providing Mandatory SharePoint Site Owner Training for onboarding new site owners

Mar. 2016 – Nov. 2016 Therapure Biopharma Inc. Mississauga, ON

Roles: Sr. SharePoint Migration Architect / PM

Main duties include but not limited to architecting Therapure’s O365 Intranet and Extranet Portals and leading the customization of the departmental sites

Provided specialist advice and counsel to functional/ and non-functional user personnel and projects teams on the technical specialty

Worked collaboratively with stakeholders, provided advice to business on best demonstrated practice for the SharePoint Document Management and Records Management Systems

Duties also include engaging with client and business infrastructure needs/request and evaluating the design and support consideration; assessing the degree to which any enhancements, changes or configuration can be completed

Sets guidelines for end to end supports, maintenance and administration

Engaged and explained systems from a deep technical as well as business value perspective

Participated in SharePoint project initiatives to deploy new functionality and/or enhance existing SharePoint functionality

Matched and built SharePoint solutions using Out of the box features, InfoPath Forms, Workflows, Business Connectivity services, Custom Web parts and SharePoint designer

Duties include gap analysis, requirement gathering, mapping contents, and planning Information Architecture

Duties also include providing key recommendations on policies and governance to comply with company policies

Providing workshops and custom branding solutions to Therapure Intranet departments with Master page updates

Responsible for creating Policy and Governance documents, training materials, and training the Therapure Staff for Office 365

Duties including revamping the site structure and adding branding to new department site with Master Page and Page Layouts changes.

Providing training on corporate policies, site creation, governance, permissions, and content authoring

Extensively used ShareGate to lead and assist migration projects for Therapure’s Intranet and provided guidance in content auditing and retention policies

Provided guidance in designing and architecting sharing contents with external vendors via Extranet Portal

Responsible for architecting and creating approval workflows and tasks for IT department

Analyzed and created taxonomy and folksonomy terms and incorporated in Term store for tagging

Architected and created search scopes and search web parts to cater department requirements to refine search

Designed and Created custom search pages with refiners to help finding documents easily

Oct. 2014 – Mar. 2016 ShawCor Group of Companies, Inc. Toronto, ON

Roles: SharePoint PM / Migration Architect / Solutions Consultant

Main duties include but not limited to leading global O365 project in requirement gathering, planning Information Architecture and implementing Quality Management System(QMS) Portal for all of ShawCor’s 9 Divisions and 125 Locations to centralize document management and approving quality documents

Designed and configured Managed Navigation with page term filtering to accommodate ShawCor’s many Division/Region/Location with three respective templates for ease of maintenance

Also Responsible for gathering requirements, and creating Solution Requirement document with use-case and workflow diagrams for BID Approval System

Designed and implemented custom search page with managed properties to filter relevant content to the division/region/location

Also responsible for designing and developing Nintex workflows to automate reviewing and approving documents

Leading the design in converting documents to PDFs and providing watermark solution to all controlled documents when printed

Responsible migrating sites using the migration and reporting tools Metalogix ControlPoint and Content Matrix to aid in moving SharePoint sites, and for maintaining Governance and Security.

Duties include but not limited to leading the meeting with each divisional quality team to implement Quality Council to review, provide feedback and signoff on QMS Portal

Provided guidance on migrating documents from Lotus notes to O365 SharePoint Online

Assisted in migrating over 100, 000 documents from SharePoint 2010 and shared drives to O365 and SharePoint 2013 using ShareGate

Also responsible for creating design and use-case documents, wireframes using Balsamiq, workflow diagrams using visio, and reviewing with the Quality Council to get the final approval

Also created customized training slides and provided SharePoint training to divisional team leaders and end users

Acted as the SME to provide recommendation and creating POC on special business requirements

Duties include planning and implementing SharePoint 2013 environments for staging and prod

Created Disaster Recovery documents and guided admins on backup and restoration process for SharePoint

Provided train-the-trainer sessions on SharePoint 2013 and Office 365

Oct. 2012 – Oct 2014 TJX Group of Companies, Inc. Mississauga, ON

Roles: Sr. SharePoint Solutions Consultant / Lead Migration Specialist

Main duties include but not limited to requirement gathering, and providing expertise on designing and delivering enterprise solutions on Office 365 SharePoint Online

Responsible for migrating, requirement gathering, writing use cases, functional requirements, creating flow charts, analyzing, designing, and developing Change Management Request Process workflow with InfoPath in O365

Duties include but not limited to leading requirement gatherings, documenting, and planning Global and Regional TJX information architecture with site taxonomy, metadata, enterprise and department term sets, document sets, content types and custom search page with managed properties

Responsible for documenting the manual process of collecting and approving TJX access request forms and automating with 3-stage SharePoint approval workflow process and configuring custom content type search via Content Search web part for auditors and compliant officers to perform audit

Also responsible for planning and configuring enterprise metadata term sets in termstore management for tagging

Duties also include but not limited to gathering corporate business requirements, brand requirements, writing functional requirements, Test Plans, Test Scripts for TJX Team Sites and Publishing Portal

Designed and configured global TJX Corporate document metadata with content types, taxonomy, and folksonomy

Responsible for gathering and documenting TJX document retention requirements with Records Management team for documents, records, and legal holds

Also responsible for translating TJX document retention requirements into automatic enterprise records management solution by leading the design and development with publishing content types via content type hub in SharePoint

Responsible for analyzing, documenting, designing, and migrating Lotus Notes Vacation Applications into Team Sites as one single source application with workflows

Also responsible for reviewing, documenting the manual Lieu Time Logging & Approval paperwork process, and designing and developing automated paperless workflow process using Visio and SharePoint Designer and Nintex

Performed content audits, identified content types, and made recommendations on migrating Lotus Notes Team Rooms to Team Sites

Also Responsible for leading meetings with corporate Governance Council Committee to gather requirements, draft, review and approve governance policies and guidelines for core features within SharePoint

Duties include but not limited to reviewing corporate Compliance Policies with Regional Compliance Managers and related Office 365 features and analyzing, documenting, designing, and implementing compliance solutions for MySite, OneDrive for Business, MySite Profile, and Social Computing

Responsible for gathering TJX security compliance requirements and analyzing, documenting, designing and configuring IRM(Rights Management) for SPI data on document libraries to provide further encryption and download control in Office 365

Responsible for gathering business and legal requirements and designing and showcasing solutions to corporate Information Management Security Council Committee (IMSC) and getting final approvals to launch O365

Responsible for gathering and documenting TJX document retention requirements with Records Management team for documents, records, and legal holds

Also Responsible for leading the design, development, and implementation of enterprise records management solution with content type hub in Office 365

Responsible for planning IA for TJX departmental site collections and creating custom executive sites

Designed and Created processes with SLA for Global Support Model for Team Sites

Responsible for gathering requirements, and leading developers in creating the Team Site Request workflow Responsible for setting up pilot workshops and gather requirements, creating ready-to-use Team Site templates with Document Retention (Team Site, Project Site, Support, Community Site, and External Vendor Site) as a launching pad for new Team Sites Owners

Provided 2nd and 3rd level training to Site Owners and Advanced Level to TJX Associates

Created customized TJX Team Site Training contents in SharePoint wiki pages

Acted as the SME to provide technical details on Office 365 issues to Microsoft Support to assist TJX SP Admin Team

Duties include working with Global team in Boston, provide training and to work closely with the design team and the business to provide presentation, and to gather business requirements

July 2011 – Oct. 2012 Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario North York, ON

Roles: Sr. SharePoint Business Analyst

Provided governance requirements gathering workshops to determine site hierarchy and structural design, naming and labeling conventions, global navigation, search, site definitions, security, and customization requirements

Responsible for designing and developing master page, web parts, workflows, site definition, content types, and wiki pages for AGCO intranet portal

Responsible for planning and providing guidance for virtualization, installation, and configuration of SharePoint 2010

Duties include but not limited to identifying over 70 content types, designing, developing the Document Management System for AGCO documents

Creating technical documents for content types and modules for the Document and Record Management System

Responsible for creating deployment packages to add sites, lists, documents, content types and contents to over 40 different department sites

Responsible for coordinating, designing, and leading feasibility SharePoint prototypes for incorporating Liquor and Gaming establishment profiles into SharePoint from AS/400

Created BCS search web parts for the SharePoint portal to search content and display Results from AS/400 and other data sources

Designed and implemented InfoPath forms with custom workflows for IT Departments

Analyzed and provided recommendations on improving current Crystal Reports for the SLOT Approval System

Feb. 2011 – June 2011 The Cable Shoppe Inc. Toronto, ON

Roles: Sr. SharePoint BI Architect / Project Manager

Designed and developed KPI Reporting System for the field managers and executives to visually see the products timeline and to improve the efficiency of each station of the company production line

Responsible for gathering requirements, designing, and building OLAP (online analytical processing) cubes, applying data mining algorithms, writing queries, and designing reports

Duties also include but not limited to gathering data from external data sources and using Microsoft PerformancePoint to building dashboards, reports, scorecards, and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Extensively used SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) functionality such as Cube Designer and Attribute Relationship Designer and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) to migrate data into the Dashboard Designer

Responsible for planning and successfully migrating the corporate intranet from SharePoint 2007 to 2010 with the Content Database attach approach

June 2008 – Feb. 2011

Rolta Inc. Richmond Hill, ON

Roles: Sr. SharePoint Developer/Project Coordinator

Duties include but not limited to consulting SharePoint 2010 out-of-box functionality, gathering requirements, mapping, and transferring to SharePoint functionality, experimenting special requirements and providing gap analysis and recommendations

Responsible for developing custom site request with 2-stage approval workflow, and an automatic site provisioning application featuring custom site templates, rules-based template selection, automatic enforcement of security and navigation policy, and automatic maintenance of farm-wide sites list used for governance

Also responsible for leading the project in Middle-East (Doha, Qatar) and implementing Contract Management Solution with InfoPath forms and escalating workflows to revamp the old paper work process to a collaborative electronic process

Duties also include working closely with clients and gathering business requirements, creating use cases, and workflow diagrams for automation of business processes

Designed and Lead SharePoint Migration Projects from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 64-bit

Responsible for providing clients with SharePoint 2007 and 2010 Training for Administrators and End-Users

Duties also include but not limited to designing and implementing secure bilingual English/Arabic intranet and extranet portals with Windows and Form Based Authentication(FBA)

Responsible for designing and developing Business Intelligence reports using SQL Server Reporting Services(SSRS)

Customizing SharePoint sites, creating web parts, mater pages, page layouts, site definitions, content types, workflows, wikis, and list templates with SharePoint Designer and VS 2010

Duties also include but not limited developing InfoPath forms and workflows for Complaint Management System

Responsible for gathering special requirements, analyzing and integrating GIS Silverlight application with SharePoint

Providing technical documentation and assisting in designing and implementation of SSL enabled SharePoint servers for staging and production environments

Worked closely in Agile Methodology with SharePoint Developers qualifying code, providing useful debug information and sharing test code/extending developer unit

Analyzed and created implementation documents, test plans, internal test scripts, UAT scripts and QC reports for SharePoint workflow solution with Language Packs (English/Arabic)

Configuring and analyzing SharePoint 2007 and 2010 64-bit environments with SQL 2008 in Windows Server 2008

Instrumental in designing and developing SharePoint Testing tools in .NET

Duties also include creating time-saving automation strategies, test harnesses, scripting, execution, and debug to perform Load and Performance Tests for SharePoint Solutions using TestComplete and VS.

Responsible for providing internal and UAT walkthroughs for senior management and the clients

Enhanced SharePoint Deployment Package to deploy multiple WSPs using Visual Studio 2010

Created quick SharePoint setup Configuration Wizard for new releases in VS

Responsible for reviewing documented/undocumented SRS and Technical Specs and translating them into feature

Involved in Tracking test progress, conveying results, forwarding forecast areas of risk and providing mitigation plans

Incorporating a customer-focused perspective with QC when designing test cases, and test plans

Providing insights and feedback from past project bottlenecks/lesson learned to the development team to build efficient processes while ensuring high development standards

Implemented SharePoint automation test environment that executes redundant manual testing to improve efficiency

Acted as the final gateway for deployment of production releases

Logging and assigning issues to developers in IBM ClearQuest System

Nov. 2004 – June 2008

Concept Interactive Inc. Mississauga, ON

Role: Sr. Solution Analyst/Project Coordinator

Duties include but not limited to designing and developing test plans, test cases for municipalities that include City of Waterloo/Brampton/Chatham-Kent/Greenstone/Guelph/Cambridge/Saskatoon (www.saskatoon.ca)

Responsible for design, developing test scripts and executing for Peel/Toronto/Upper Canada/Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (www.etfo.ca)

Designed and developed customized test plans for SharePoint intranet and internet for Corus Corporation (www.corusent.com)

Coordinated Testing for bilingual English/French Negotiation Provincial Portal (www.oescportal.ca) for Ontario Education Services Corporation (OESC) and Ontario Public/Catholic School Boards with SharePoint 2007 workflow, InfoPath, ISA Server, SSL and dual authentication providers(Windows and FBA)

Duties also include leading and managing the test team to deliver customized SharePoint solution to UCDSB (www.ucdsb.on.ca)

Worked with Sr. BAs and Project Managers to distill business requirements into Technical functional requirements

Participated in requirements analysis with clients and communicated the user requirements and business scenarios to the team

Identified and documented out-of-box SharePoint and Office 2007 functionality from SRS

Responsible for editing automated scripts with logical commands to comply with the test scenarios

Delivered manual and automated testing in various client-server, web, online e-commerce, web-service, and financial applications using automation

Assisted in creating special test plans, test cases, and automated test scripts for Financial Applications (Chatham-Kent Property Tax, e-Commerce, Greenstone Parks & Recreation Booking, and Upper Canada Parking Ticket)

Responsible for planning and leading migration projects from SharePoint 2003 to MOSS 2007 for UCDSB

Monitored the creation of UAT scripts for clients, managed UAT and designated post-UAT support tickets to juniors

Created Change Request on new client's requirements

Generated Bi-weekly Status Reports on UAT process

Provided input on business configurations for performance and scalability tests for SharePoint

Coordinated during the creation of test and client SharePoint environments

Instrumental in reviewing the mockup designs and providing feedback

Reviewed Functional Specification/Statement of Work and assisted in creation of Test Plan/Test Script

Mentored developers in creating and executing automated scripts

Duties also include leading the offshore Production in China:

Creating, and assigning tasks to overseas branch (Team of 7 )

Providing technical documents and closely executing road map for the team

Provided a regular frequency of regression testing and load tests on the application as a whole

Diagnosed and helped to resolve quality issues: accuracy, usability, functionality and performance

Worked closely with other internal teams to establish requirements for testing tools and resources necessary for project testing

Coordinated verification and validation during defect resolution and ensured that the defect resolution makes sound business sense

Managed client installation and verifying it at client site with junior members

Analyzed client issues and took immediate action

Developed QC strategies to ensure adequate test coverage is maintained for through automated and manual test cases over the long term growth of the application

Sep. 2001- Nov. 2004

Newwave Medi Software Inc. Mississauga, ON

Roles: Sr. Software Developer

Responsible for carrying out all the implementation related activities including unit tests, statistical analysis and integration tests to ensure the development of high-quality application correction

Instrumental in designing and implementing many core software processes, such as coding standards, bug tracking, source code control, building and testing procedures, and documenting all the phases

Provided broad range of consulting on project implementation, software development lifecycle (SDLC), testing, documentation, and supporting procedures, and guidelines

Validated and reviewed all deliverables from other team members

Designed and implemented web application for clients to Search, Book, and Confirm appointments (ASP.NET)

Coordinated and lead a group of four Jr. members on developing Spyware application (Used: .NET and SQL)

Organized and assigned tasks with other team members to assure comprehensive, efficient and timely management of projects. This include Project assessment and initiation, implementation, and tracking, resolving project problems/issues, and acting as the primary conduit for new projects and new work on existing projects

Worked on designing and implementing a custom POS System using .NET and SQL Server

Developed multipart reporting tool for the POS Software in Crystal Reports

Responsible for modifying the software for specific clients’ requirements, creating installation scripts, writing Security Patches to protect applications, and providing extensive beta site support during product birth

Gave in-depth demo and training to Managers, Sales Reps, and new clients on how to use the new software and the POS system

Installed and maintained SQL Server databases duties include updating all the patches, hotfix and writing scripts to alter databases automatically

Wrote stored procedures, views, triggers, and restructuring, and repairing client databases

Documented all the version control numbers, error logs and bugs fixed

Well accustomed to change in customer requests and requirements

Gained extensive knowledge in writing User Requirements, Functional Specifications, Test Cases and other technical documents

Education

Project Management Professional Certification (PMP Candidate)

December 2020

MCTS

Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications (2010)

MCTS

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Application Development (2010)

MCTS

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 Configuration (2008)

.NET Certificate

Humber College (2004)

Bachelor of Science Degree (Honours Computer Science)

University of Ottawa (1997-2001)

Software / Hardware Experience

Content Management: OFFICE 365/SharePoint Online 2013, Microsoft SharePoint 2003/2007/2010/2013/16 /19

SharePoint Tools: Nintex, ControlPoint, Content Matrix, ShareGate

Programming: SPFx,CSOM, Powershell, SP Pnp, SP Azure Functions, .NET 3.0/3.5/4.6/, C#, XML, AJAX, JavaScript, JQuery, ADO.NET, Advanced-SQL

Database: SQL Server 2008, MS Access 2007/2010/2013, MySQL

Integrated Development Tools: O365 Power Platform, Visual Studio 2008/2010/2013, VS Business Intelligent Development Studio, SharePoint Designer 2010/2013, SharePoint Dashboard Designer 2010, InfoPath 2007/2010/2013, Microsoft Office 2003/2007/2010/2013, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), MS SQL Server Enterprise Manager

Reference

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