HERSHEY, KEVIN PATRICK.

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SUMMARY:

SharePoint Architect with 20 years of experience in requirements gathering, analyzing, designing, programming and implementing enterprise level SharePoint based solutions and tools that successfully answer corporate goals. Meticulous, results-oriented, ethical and trustworthy; committed to superior customer service. Confident and poised in interactions with individuals at all levels. Experience tailoring SharePoint solutions to support Agile, Pmbok, CMMI, ITIL and ISO based initiatives, methodologies and best practices.

SKILLS IN TOOLS, TECHNOLOGIES AND STANDARDS:

Advanced Skills [7 or more years of experience]:

HTML, CSS, Microsoft SharePoint Server, SharePoint Online, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office, Hyper-V and VMware Virtualization, Nintex Workflow, Adobe Fireworks

Intermediate Skills [2-7 years of experience]:

Visual Studio, JQuery, javascript, XML, Oracle, PowerShell, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Captivate, WordPress, K2 for SharePoint 2013, SalesForce Administration, Microsoft Project & Project Server, Jive, Confluence, Jira, Microsoft CRM

Novice Skills [Less than 2 years of experience, or not recently used]:

ASP.NET, .NET, ITIL, ISO, AGILE, Pmbok, ColdFusion, CMMI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Verisign, Inc., Reston, VA

[Software Engineer IV & BSA Analyst III, 03/16-Present)

Responsible for development of the Corporate collaboration platforms; Jive, Confluence and SharePoint 2013. Worked with Departments to build out and customize their division portals, as well as numerous subsites for dedicated to specific areas.

Responsibilities:

-Managed day-to-day requests for new Confluence Spaces, pages and permissions management.

-Trained Users and Power Users for commonly requested features and maintained a wiki of system continuity and training materials.

-Worked on the team responsible for moving from a standalone, single-server deployment to a DR multi-node system spread out over 3 datacenters in the US and Internationally located. Each datacenter had 2 confluence nodes, 2x synchrony nodes, and a MySQL server which were load-balanced.

-Managing monthly patching and plug-in updates.

-Managed the Corporate Jive instances, and backend hardware. Performed Yearly updates to the newest version and handled day-to-day requests.

-Primary contact for Vendors, responsible to maintaining business relationships with key vendors

-Worked as part of a 4-person team to update and configure K2 BlackPearl 4.7 to 5.0 and the subsequent upgrade to 5.2.

-Handled day-to-day requests for SharePoint development, which included Forms Automation using InfoPath and K2 SmartForms. Designed workflows based on SharePoint Designer, Visio Studio and K2 BlackPearl

-Implemented solutions using SharePoint and SQL

Technologies Used:

03/16 – Present: SSMS, RESTful web services, SOAP web services, HTML 5, JSON, XML, XSL, Javascript, JQuery, SharePoint 2013/2016/2019, K2 SmartForms, K2 BlackPearl, Office 2013/2016, Visual Studio 2016, PowerShell, Active Directory, Windows Server, SQL Server, BI, Excel, Gimmel, ShareGate, Atlassian Confluence DR, Jive, Jira

SalientCRGT, INC., Fairfax, VA

[SharePoint Architect, 08/14 – 02/16]

Responsible for Administration, Development and Architecting SharePoint 2013 on premise solutions to meet CRGT Corporate goals, and to increase user adaptation of the SharePoint and Office platforms. Handle day-to-day administration and maintenance, work with stakeholders to design SharePoint based applications and tools, work and converting existing pen-and-paper processes

Responsibilities:

Successfully implemented a cloud based SharePoint 2013 Farm using a Rackspace hosted solution consisting of a virtualized Web Front End, Application Server and a Backend SQL Server. This public facing SharePoint instance services CRGT’s Employee’s, Contractors, Partners, customers and vendors. External users are managed via guest accounts.

oMigrated company from SharePoint 2013 On-Prem to SharePoint Online

oConfigured a One-Way trust between our hosted solution at Rackspace and the CRGT domain with the support of the Network Services team.

oSetup and configured IIS 7.0, generated CSRs and applied SSL certificates in order to implement HTTPS

oWorked with content stakeholders and QM to migrate CRGT content databases over a 30 day period from SharePoint 2010 Standard to SharePoint 2013 Enterprise edition using SQL Management Studio. I then proceeding to update the SharePoint site collections to the 2013 format using PowerShell.

oSuccessfully migrated from SharePoint 2010 Standard to SharePoint 2013 Enterprise.

Automated the Non-Disclosure and Teaming Agreement forms for the Contracts Department utilizing InfoPath services and browser-based forms to allow specified individuals the ability to submit NDAs and TAs to Contracts for approval based on a pool of available resources.

Automated Employee Offboarding Process utilizing a custom made web service that interacted with the UltiPro Restful web service.

Automated the Non-Employee Access process for the Security department.

Created a workflow template that was utilized on many InfoPath enabled lists that allowed attachments to be extracted from the form using SharePoint web services and uploaded to specific libraries and set designated metadata.

Automated the site creation process using a custom list, InfoPath browser-based form and Nintex workflow. A custom approval workflow generated and assigned tasks to QM Resources who approved new project sites based on specific actions being completed by the requesting business unit. The site directory was updated with the new site information when approved and a notification was generated and sent to the sites owners.

Converted existing ASP.NET applications to codeless solutions utilizing SharePoint lists & libraries, InfoPath Forms Services and the Nintex Workflow engine.

oDesigned a Nintex site workflow utilizing a RESTful web service to connect to Taleo Business Edition and download new hires based on an 8 day period of time. That data was then fed to Dell KACE Help Desk to create tickets and begin the onboarding process. Notifications were generated and sent to HR staff who monitored the process.

oDesigned a Nintex workflow utilizing a SOAP based web service to connect to Salesforce and create new list items for all new opportunities. A second workflow using the same principle to sync updated opportunity records. This data was utilized across multiple site collections via data connections embedded in InfoPath Browser-based forms.

oCreated a workflow to parse a .csv report from ADP and the update designated Active Directory data for each employee specified in the report.

Technologies Used:

08/14 – Present: SSMS, RESTful web services, SOAP web services, HTML 5, JSON, XML, XSL, SharePoint 2010/2013, Nintex Workflow, Office 2013, Visual Studio, PowerShell, Active Directory, Windows Server, SQL Server, BI, Excel

Systems Made Simple, Inc., McLean, VA

Senior SharePoint Administrator, 02/12 – 08/14

Managed the SMS SharePoint infrastructure and worked with stakeholders and the development team to implement solutions and feature enhancements. Developed Visual Basic application to track sales for the world’s largest maker of microchips. Application was installed and used by a team of 4,000 sales professionals throughout the world.

Responsibilities:

Successfully configured/implemented a cloud based SharePoint Farm consisting of a virtual WFE/Application Server and a Backend SQL Server 2008 database. This public facing SharePoint instance services SMS Employee’s, Contractors, Partners, customers and vendors and utilizes two separate Active Directories via a one-way trust.

Responsible for the maintaining the implementation and configuration of the SMS SharePoint Infrastructure and associated Active Directory OU’s.

Created and maintained custom list views utilizing jQuery and Javascript to perform various functions, such as highlighted rows based on status, or updating the KPI Icons when specific actions were completed.

Provide daily SharePoint technical and development to all SMS employees

Worked as part of a team to create a robust solution for the SMS Proposal Department which allows them to track proposal progress via SharePoint and utilize the various collaboration components it offers.

oCreated a unique site collection for the Proposal department and migrated all content to the new site collection

oCreated a dynamic workflow that maintains the synchronization between lists that are located in different site collections.

oCreated a dynamic workflow that has the ability to create a set of lists based on unique templates and once created install and activate a custom workflow to manage folder level permissions.

Successfully integrated DocAve for Salesforce v2.1 into the SMS SharePoint infrastructure. Data from the Salesforce cloud is incrementally synchronized daily and a full synchronization occurs on weekends. Created site columns so this data could be utilized by other.

Provide Salesforce Administrator with integration and technical support as needed.

Worked with the Contracts, Sales, Solutions Delivery and Proposal Departments to create a dynamic process that links information together between departments in a central location. Utilizing an InfoPath form based on a SharePoint list, and a series Nintex workflows we were able to create a robust model that is can accomplish the following:

oCreate and track automated tasks pertaining to a given project. This includes seeking review and approval from the Contracts, Finance and the Solutions Delivery departments.

oCreate a set of dynamic “canned” tasks that can be updated at any time. This type of task is based on a standard SharePoint task and does not have any automated tracking capabilities.

oSend automated notifications to involved parties, such as the Contract Award Notification, Task Notifications and Administration Guides.

oAutomatically create a custom site for each project based on information entered into the associated InfoPath form and driven off of a set of triggers. Once created a unique set of libraries are created using a simple internal name to keep URL’s short and then automatically renamed using a standard user friendly naming convention. Additional projects that may be associated (Mods) will be added to the active project and use the same library structure.

oAbility to manage permissions to a project site content using fields located in the projects contract startup InfoPath form that are tied to unique workflows/SharePoint groups. This allows Site Owners (Project/Program managers) to bypass the help desk for these types of requests.

Worked with the Quality department on a project to enable them to track and manage orientation events as well as send and track appraisal survey responses as related to the orientation event the user attended.

Technologies Used:

12/04 – 10/08: SharePoint 2010, SQL Server, ASP.NET, Nintex Workflow, XML, HTML, jQuery, Javascript, Excel, Word, Salesforce, DocAve, K2 for SharePoint

NCI Information Systems, Inc., Reston, VA

Senior Software Engineer, 03/01 – 02/12

Architected NCI’s SharePoint 2013 and 2010 virtualized infrastructure and worked with Marketing to design and maintain the corporate website and other contractually required websites for various projects. Trained corporate staff on best practices, worked with stakeholders to convert and automate pen-and-paper forms and business processes.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the design, development and implementation of NCI’s corporate SharePoint Intranet and Extranet Farms, supporting over 4300 active Employees, Consultants and Partners.

Web Master for over 15 different ASP.NET based web sites supporting various contracts as well as NCI’s corporate marketing website using Visual Studio 2008, light C# programming required. These sites consist mainly of marketing sites that are contractual requirements.

Manage 1529 Active Directory accounts for consultants and partners.

Provide daily technical and development support as well as end-user training for 131 active project sites, 115 active proposal sites, over 30 departmentally based team sites and 20+ miscellanies use Team Sites.

Created custom site templates for proposal collaboration and project execution use.

Created custom list and library templates for operational use.

Created customized SharePoint themes for the corporate intranet, extranet and a customized master page for the public facing web site. The look and feel replicated each year’s annual marketing brochure.

Automated the site provisioning process.

Automated the Procurement Requisition process using InfoPath Forms Services, Nintex Workflow 2007, custom web services and SharePoint Designer. The workflow accommodated a dynamic number of approvers and reviewers with delegation abilities as well as capturing metrics and driving multiple security trimmed dashboard views.

Automated the registration, approval and account creation process for the Procurement departments Small Business Vendors.

Designed & Implemented a Task Management System (TaMS) that is SharePoint based and can support Contract Vehicle activities between the PMO staff, consultants and partners. This site template consists of multiple workflows and custom content types that automate various tasks occurring during the partner registration, lead management and opportunity management phases of tasks released by the customer.

Technologies Used:

12/04 – 10/08: SharePoint Server 2010 & 2013, Microsoft Hypervisor, SQL Server, Nintex Workflow, ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, IIS

CERTIFICATIONS:

Avaya IP Office 500 Administration, 09/11, Active

Siemens HiPath Xpressions System Administration, 06/09, Active

EDUCATION:

TRAINING:

[Instructions: List all professional training activities by course name, training provider, and month/year of training.]

Connect Learning – “Fast Track” – Integrated xHTML and CSS Implementation, 08/09

Connect Learning – “Fast Track” – ColdFusion MX7.0 Administration, 04/09

InFocus ITIL v3.0 Jump Start, 03/11

CLEARANCE(S):

FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY:

English – Fluent verbal and written

CITIZENSHIP STATUS:

U.S. Citizen

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