Ganesh Thirunavukkarasu
Email: *************@*****.***
Cell: 206-***-****
SUMMARY:
Over 12 years of IT experience in working with SharePoint, O365 and Azure Administration, Migration and development projects
Worked across multiple domains – Insurance, Manufacturing & Life Science.
Played multiple roles in different projects as an Administrator, Architect, Developer, Project Manager.
Hands on experience in writing PowerShell scripts for various automations, migration and inventory generation. Hands on experience in using Sharegate, DocAve and Metalogix tools.
Worked directly with customers, handling projects from requirement analysis stage to implementation and support. In depth knowledge on SharePoint Server 2010/ 2013/ 2016 & SharePoint Online.
Experience on working with the SPFx Web Part, Power apps, power automate (flow) & Modern SharePoint site.
Hands on experience in managing Azure/Office 365 infrastructure and platforms including Azure DevOps, Azure Active Directory, App Services, Data Warehousing, and Virtual machines.
Worked closely with IT Infrastructure and Program management team in determining environment requirements for solutions in Azure
Experience working with Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Hands on experience in Administering major components in O365 stack.
Have knowledge on Azure DevOps and Pipelines, experience working with SDLC and CI/CD tools, Terraform.
Experience in handling 24/7 support projects including OnCall support during weekends.
Good team player with effective communication skills and highly motivated with a passion to learn something new every day.
SKILLS
SharePoint Server.
PowerShell
Microsoft 365.
Microsoft Azure.
SharePoint Online.
SharePoint PnP
Microsoft Teams.
Exchange Online.
Power Apps.
Power Automate.
C/C++, C#
TFS, Azure DevOps,
GitHub
Terraform.
Python (Learning)
SQL Server.
Power Shell,
JavaScript,
Service Now,
PowerShell ISE
Visual Studio Code.
HTML.
DocAve.
Sharegate.
Control Point.
Content Matrix.
Nintex Workflows.
K2 for SharePoint.
SPFx
CERTIFICATIONS:
AZ-103 Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate.
AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals.
Managing Office 365 Identities and Requirements.
Managing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016.
Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013.
Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuration.
Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development.
ITIL Foundation 2011.
ORGANIZATIONS:
Cognizant Corporation, US January 2016 – Till Date.
Cognizant Corporation, India March 2009 – December 2015.
EDUCATION:
Master of Science in Software Engineering, BITS Pilani, India.
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, Valliammai Engineering College, Chennai, India.
Diploma in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Govt Polytechnic College, Nagercoil, India.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Rebuilding SPDesigner Workflows using Power Automate & Oct’20 to till date.
COMPsys Application Enhancement
Alcon. Fort Worth, TX -USA
Role: SharePoint Architect / Sr. Developer.
This project involves the enhancement of COMPsys application which is built on SharePoint online and rebuilding the SharePoint Designer 2010 workflows using Power Automate.
•Rebuilt complicated SharePoint Designer Workflows using Power Automate. Planned and executed the whole migration process. Coordinated with Offshore team and internal stakeholders.
•Involved in creating multiple proof of concepts required for the enhancement and migration Project. Created multiple Apps using Power Apps.
•Created detailed project plan. Reviewed the Requirements Specifications, Design Specifications, IQ test scripts, UAT scripts. Involved in Project management.
Tissue Portal Automation - LCTI Number Tagging & Support Sep’19 to Sep ’20
Allergan Inc. Madison, NJ -USA
Role: Cloud Solution Architect / Azure Administrator.
Tissue Portal website is an Azure hosted web app for SharePoint Online. Both internal and external users are using this portal. LCTI Number tagging automation is an additional functionality that we have added in this portal to print the number on top right corner of all the pages of all the documents uploaded by the Tissue Bank Recovery Partners.
•Designed the automation system and security. Involved in all SDLC phases. Prepared the Requirements Specifications, Design Specifications, IQ test scripts, UAT scripts. Worked closely with business throughout the project.
•Created the required Azure resources involved in this automation. Created Azure Data Factory pipelines, Logic Apps, Function Apps, BLOB Storage.
•Involved in executing the IQ scripts in HPQC tool. Coordinated with Offshore team in assigning and verifying the development tasks.
•Provided support to the application and resolved critical issues. Maintained the source code in VSTS. Created build and release pipelines in VSTS for deployments.
•Created PowerShell scripts for various automation, Used ARM templates and Terraform to create Azure virtual machines. Migrated the on-premises workloads to Azure cloud based on the requirement. Azure Monitoring.
SharePoint Migration Apr ’19 – Aug ‘19
Celgene Corporation, Summit, NJ -USA
Role: SharePoint Solution Architect
SharePoint Migration : Scope of this project is to migrate the contents from SharePoint Server 2013 to SharePoint Online. SharePoint Server 2013 sites are functional sites and used to store specific functional area contents of all the Pharmaceutical compounds. SharePoint Online sites are Compound sites used to store all contents related to specific compound. The Migration activity involved content reorganizing, removal of duplicates and adding additional metadata information.
Involved in designing and providing estimate for the migration.
Created PowerShell scripts for batch migration, inventory reports for both SharePoint Server 2013 and SharePoint Online. Used Sharegate tool for the migration.
Lead the migration and involved in all migration activities. Resolved Issues during the migration. Designed and Communicated the migration plan with the customer and end users. Reorganized the content during the migration.
Coordinated with internal stakeholders for the migration. Involved in gathering metadata for the contents from the business. Executed base and delta migration on time. Provided support during the hyper care period after the migration Go-Live.
Business Process Automation Platform Support Jan ’16 – Mar ‘19
TIAA, New York City, NY -USA
Role: Sr. SharePoint / O365 Administrator.
Business Process Automation Platform (BPAP) is an internet facing intranet SharePoint site being used by Nuveen Investments (A TIAA Company) users (Internal) and vendors (External) for their real estate business. This project had multiple phases of migration, enhancements and maintenance of SharePoint 2016/2013 Farms and SharePoint Online (O365).
Created PowerShell scripts for automation, scheduled tasks, migration, inventory reports maintenance activities and code deployment, to manage O365 environment.
Installed SharePoint, Cumulative updates, security updates and Language packs. Installed third-party solution packages in the SharePoint farm. SharePoint deployments. Office Web Apps Farms. Add-ins configuration. Configured search scopes. Knowledge on Networking, DNS, Load Balancer, SQL Server, Active Directory.
Sharegate migration, Content db. detach and attach migration. Resolved critical SharePoint platform related issue. Resolved Nintex and K2 workflows related issues. Involved in splitting up the large Site Collections into multiple site collections across multiple content dbs. Used Fiddler, Wireshark tools for troubleshooting the issues.
Configured IIS for multiple applications, TFS Administration, DR Drill. Provided L3 support for the tickets logged by the business users in ServiceNow.
Administered and supported Office 365 and SharePoint Online. Configured security policies in O365 Admin center, Configured Azure AD connect, MS Teams. O365 Licensing. SharePoint migration from OnPrem to SharePoint Online. O365 Monitoring. Maintained Azure Active Directory for users and groups.
SharePoint Platform Support Oct ’13– Dec ‘15
Xerox Corp, Chennai, TN -INDIA
Role: Sr. SharePoint Administrator.
SharePoint Platform Support project’s goal was to maintain the availability of multiple SharePoint 2013/2010 Farms for 24/7 and to resolve user incidents. There are three Production Farms, three QA Farms and multiple development servers were in scope for this project. Users’ Incidents tracking was done using the BMC Remedy tool. SLAs were defined based on the severity of the issue. This project followed the ITIL Process.
Involved in configuration of various service applications in SharePoint Server 2013/2010.
Installed SharePoint, Cumulative updates, security updates and Language packs. Installed third-party solution packages in the SharePoint farm. SharePoint deployments. Office Web Apps Server.
Created PowerShell scripts for automation, scheduled tasks, migration and inventory reports.
Configured cross farm UPS Application and Search Service Application in the platform. Configured SharePoint Backup, Restoration Jobs and migration using DocAve Manager.
Coordinated with other stakeholders to configure backups and restoration, for infrastructure related issues and during some change activities.
Configured Incoming and outgoing email in the SharePoint Farm. Performed regular monitoring health check and cleanup activities in the Production Farms.
Interacted with end users directly via email/phone/IM to resolve their SharePoint site related issues and queries.
Involved in 24X7 support and responsible for resolving any user issues and educating them on the application. Handled escalated incidents with critical users.
SharePoint Platform Support Aug ’11– Sep ‘13
CSM Bakery, Chennai, TN -INDIA
Role: SharePoint Administrator.
Cognizant provided solutions to CSM’s business by maintaining their medium level SharePoint Farm, where their content management portals are hosted. The main objective of this project is to maintain the SharePoint farm in a healthy state. This is a 24/7 Support project. Tickets’ tracking was done by Service Now tool. SLAs were created based on the severity of the incidents. This project followed the ITIL Process.
Involved in configuration of various service applications in SharePoint Server 2010.
Installed SharePoint Cumulative updates, security updates and Language packs. Installed third-party solution packages in the SharePoint farm. SharePoint deployments.
Created PowerShell scripts for automation, scheduled tasks, migration and inventory reports. Configured Incoming and outgoing email in the SharePoint Farm.
Coordinated with other stakeholders to configure backups and restoration, for infrastructure related issues and during some change activities.
Interacted with end users directly via email/phone/IM to resolve their SharePoint site related issues and queries.
Involved in 24X7 support and responsible for resolving any user issues and educating them on the application. Handled escalated incidents with critical users.
D&G Accountability Apr ’11– Jul ‘13
3M, Chennai, TN -INDIA
Role: SharePoint Developer.
D&G Accountability is an intranet SharePoint site contains OOTB lists, document libraries, Workflows and Custom dashboards (site pages). This application is used by the Top-level management to monitor the status and the progress of the all the projects under their portfolio. This application involves SharePoint designer workflows for sending reminder e-mails and notifications, Custom site page for dashboards.
Performed activities like creation sub sites, lists, Document Library and Assigning permissions to groups.
Maintaining TFS for versioning of project source code
Functional Designing, High Level Designing, And Technical Designing.
Created event handlers, SharePoint designer workflows, custom Master pages, layouts, Custom search result pages with multiple refiners. Involved in defect fixing and testing of the D&G accountability portal
Enterprise Application Transformation (EAT) Sep ’10– Mar ‘11
Shell, Chennai, TN -INDIA
Role: SharePoint Developer.
Enterprise Application Transformation is an Application Migration project where the existing application was built using MOSS 2007 to be migrated to SharePoint 2010. The Single User Interface application (SUI) is aimed to provide a consistent look and feel across the shell applications which involve branding (Master Page, CSS, Global Navigation and Themes) for each of the Shell SIS Sites.
Requirements gathering, Functional designing, high level designing, technical designing for Single UI Module.
Branding (Master Page, CSS, Global Navigation and Themes) of the entire Shell SIS Sites.
Functional testing, unit testing of the entire Single UI Module.
Validating the code against MSOCAF tool and fixed all the error and warnings.
Maintaining TFS source control for managing and versioning of project source code.
Attending team meetings and client calls, managing work tracker documents and application deployment activities.
Created custom webparts, custom layouts, event receivers.
Created custom approval and Publish workflows using SharePoint designer 2010.
Intuit SharePoint Portal Jun ’09– Aug ‘10
Intuit, Chennai, TN -INDIA
Role: SharePoint Administrator.
“Intuit SharePoint Portal” is an intranet SharePoint site used by the cognizant employees who worked for Intuit customer and the top management of Intuit Inc to know the day-to-day project activities and the overall status.
Performed activities like creation sub sites, lists, Document Library and Assigning permissions to groups.
Involved in defect fixing and testing of the Intuit SharePoint Portal.
Performed administrative activities using STS ADM commands such as backup, patching, restore, installing Features, indexing and deployment of Solution packages.
Involved in 24X7 support and responsible for resolving any user issues and educating them on the application
Created a multilevel document approval workflow, SharePoint designer workflows in SharePoint 2007
•Configured Incoming, outgoing emails in central Administration.