KRISHNA KUPPA
US Permanent Resident
OBJECTIVE:
To work in an organization which offers me a challenging and rewarding career with sufficient opportunity to apply my abilities, work with latest technologies and make a difference to the organizations.
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:
More than 30 implementations of SharePoint [2003, 2007, 2010] & POCs Pre-Sales and Post Implementations. Many of these are challenging with Open bidding competition from other products in the same space like Documentum, Oracle Portal, and Filenet for the Business Requirement etc.
Twelve years of professional experience. Made difference to more than 30 organizations in helping them achieve their complex business objectives by means of making organization ready for latest technologies including but not limited to Office SharePoint 2003, 2007, 2010 Versions, OCS, SSRS, integrations & migrations with/from Domino, ADAM through meetings with CTOs, CIOs & business stake holders, proof of concepts, architecture design sessions. Architected, designed & implemented intranet, extranet, internet (with custom authentications) solutions around Office Sharepoint and also complex integrations.
Clients have included:
Univ. of Tenn. (Microsoft Case Study)
World Bank (Microsoft Case Study)
United Nations (Microsoft Show Case)
Wharton Executive Education
ORNL
OPM
OCC
NJ DHS
BOCES
Central Bucks School District
Arlington County
Fairfax County
Monroe County
Education Summary:
Masters in Information Technology (Major in Software Applications), Gujarat University, India
(1999-2001)
Bachelor of Engineering, Sardar Patel University, India (1991-1995)
Experience
2006 - present Planet Technologies
Sr. Solutions Architect
Sr. Solutions Architect, Project Lead [Custom Development], Infrastructure & Design Architect for the University of Tennessee (March 2010 – till now)
Portal for 70,000 users [Microsoft and Planet Case Study]
This highly available, mission-critical portal is one point entry to 20 odd applications for students, Staff, faculty at UT.
• Large Server Farm – 30 server farm.
• Integration with Banner, SAP, Exchange, Lotus Notes and many other applications.
• Single sign on for all web applications – LDAP, UAG 2010 ,AD
• Migration from 2007 to 2010
Architecting, designing and implementation heavily customized SharePoint2010. Portal has customized site templates, list templates and custom Components.
Environment: SharePoint 2010, Moss 2007, SQL Server 2008, SharePoint 2007, UAG 2010
Vendor Bidding system for Hudson County (1/10 -3/10)
Custom Application Component Development on MOSS 2007.
Roles: Requirements gathering, Project Management, Implementation
Environment: Moss 2007, SQL Server 2008
Enterprise Portal Implementation for the Wharton Business School (1/09 – 12/09)
https://ExecutiveEducation.Wharton.upenn.edu
Architecting, designing and implementation of Enterprise Large Deployment of Custom MOSS 2007 for Executive Education. Portal is heavily customized.
Environment: Moss 2007, SQL Server 2008, UAG, Big IP F5, Extranet Authentication,
Portal Implementation for the Virginia Dept. of Transport (7/08 – 12/08)
Architecting, designing and implementation of Dept. of Treasury heavily customized portal in production from SharePoint 2003 to MOSS 2007 without downtime. Portal has customized site templates, list templates and custom web parts.
Environment: Moss 2007, SQL Server 2005, SharePoint 2003
Portal Migration for the New Jersey State Dept. of Treasury (1/08 – 6/08)
Architecting, designing and implementation of Dept of Treasury heavily customized portal in production from SharePoint 2003 to MOSS 2007 without downtime. Portal has customized site templates, list templates and custom web parts.
Environment: Moss 2007, SQL Server 2005, SharePoint 2003
For ORNL - ORNL Workflow – MOSS & Ascentn BPMS Evaluation POC (11/07-
12/07)
Workflows framework and solution design, implementation which is technology agnostic and generic for their problem set.
Environment: Moss 2007, SQL Server 2005, Ascentn AgilePoint BPMS, AgilePoint Envision
Role:
• As an architect providing the most technology agnostic and cost effective solution taking into account the limitations of their cross department dependencies and providing a solution which fits systems from variety of platforms and technologies.
• Design, Development & Implementation of Business Process Models.
For the World Bank - Customer Management Platform (10/07-11/07)
Architecting the client Management Platform Solution for World Bank Treasury group.
Treasury has a business case for an integrated IT solution for their customer Relationship Management, document management and communications management for their group which has clientele all over the world.
Environment: Moss 2007, SQL Server 2005, Lotus Notes Domino R5 , MS CRM , MS Exchange, MS CRM Router
Role:
• As an architect providing the most technology agnostic and cost effective solution taking into account the limitations of their cross department dependencies and providing a solution which fits systems from variety of platforms and technologies.
• Mentoring/Leading a team of 20 people
For OCC - Portal (9/07-10/07)
Project involved building all the portal capabilities like knowledge sharing, Experience definitions and federated search. Development and implementation of composite applications in the portal.
Environment: Moss 2007, C#, VB.net, InfoPath 2007, office 2007, Windows Workflow foundation, SQL Server 2005, VS 2005, Share point Designer 2007, SQL 2005 Analysis services, SQL 2005 Reporting Services
Role:
• As an Architect/ Sr. Developer involved in maintaining the Code Standards (including Performance Maintenance) and meeting the deadline.
• Extensively worked on the customization and integration with Reporting server etc.
• Ajax Webparts and Federated search custom development
For the FCA - Enterprise Portal and Lotus Domino Application Migration (6/07-
8/07)
Project involved migration of the Lotus Notes Databases to the MOSS 2007, apart from building and deploying the enterprise portal.
Environment: Moss 2007, C#, VB.net, InfoPath 2007, office 2007, Windows Workflow foundation, SQL Server 2005, VS 2005, Share point Designer 2007
Role:
• As an architect involved in maintaining the Code Standards (including Performance Maintenance) and meeting the deadline.
• Extensively worked on the Business Data catalog.
• Involved in Database Design & Project Documentation
For the United Nations - MOSS Implementation for Low bandwidth and High
Latency [56 KBPS] (5/07)
Solution for Portal involved the response time of page rendering from 100 secs to 10 secs.
United Nation Operations teams are spread out on a WAN network and are sometimes placed where there is a low bandwidth and high latency.
Environment: Moss 2007, C#, VB.net, InfoPath 2007, office 2007, Windows Workflow foundation, SQL Server 2005, VS 2005, Share point Designer 2007
Role:
• Extensively worked on the customization of Share point portal server master pages
• Output caching, page caching, browser caching and delayed download of the JavaScript files, techniques have been used.
For Digital Infuzion - Enterprise Portal and Web services (11/06-4/07)
Enterprise portal solution involved these following features:-
* Dashboards showing real-time reporting of analytical data from various sources including that of non- Microsoft applications like HR Office, QuickBooks etc
* Role based applications – Sales, etc, Central Calendar, are among to name the few of the features
* Web Services consumption application for receiving the data from web services which broadcasts the analytical data regarding AIDS, global contacts etc.
* CMMI process automation
Environment: Moss 2007, C#, VB.net, InfoPath 2007, office 2007, Windows Workflow foundation, SQL Server 2005, VS 2005, Share point Designer 2007
Role:
• As an Architect/ Sr. Developer involved in maintaining the Code Standards (including Performance Maintenance) and meeting the deadline.
• Extensively worked on the customization of Share point portal server.
• Business Data catalog, Enterprise Search, Group Board Workspace etc
• Involved in Database Design & Project Documentation
• Configured IIS using Net Directory Services
• Used Html & JavaScript for client side validations
For Planet Technology - Name Moss07 - InfoPath Workflow - Board of Governors Federal Agency (8/06-10/06))
For Planet Technology - Portal for USDA–RMA - Federal Agency (3/06 – 12/06)
1999 - 2005 Consultant (details available)
For Rethinkit – Manhattan, NY - Enterprise Portal, www.paperhive.com, Drop shipment Manager, Return Authorization (1/05-2/05)
For Rethink - LDP Costing, ASN Parser, SQL Builder, GSI Parser (11/04-1/05)
For Hadlock Law Office – MA - Sharepoint Portal - Company Intranet Portal; Real Estate Regulatory and compliance (1/04-11/04)
* Previous work detail available
Blogs on Sharepoint:
http://krisblogs.blogspot.com/
http://kuppas.spaces.live.com/
http://sharepointaltima.blogspot.com/
Contribution to Codeplex: http://www.codeplex.com/ECTSNoGroupPolicy