SharePoint Product Manager/Senior SharePoint Solution Architect

Pramod Attarde

Lead SharePoint Architect/Project Manager/Product Manager

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• Total of 16+ years of IT Experience as SharePoint Admin/Architect, Business Analyst, Developer

• Strong 5+ years of Experience as Product Manager, Practice Lead/Project Manager, SharePoint 2010/SharePoint Portal 2007 Architect, System Designer and Developer in major software, financial, Telecom, Retail

• Strong experience as Business Analyst

• Experience with Microsoft Share Point Portal Server 2003 (Setup, Configuration, Customization & Development )

• Experience with SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Setup, Configuration, Customization & Development) on Windows Server 2003/2008 and SQL Server 2005/2008

• Experienced in analyzing and implementing Microsoft Enterprise Technology based solutions into complex environments. My core technologies are SharePoint Server 2003/2007, Workflows, Search Server, Windows SharePoint Services 2.0/3.0, IIS 6.0, SQL Server 2000/2005, SQL Reporting Services, InfoPath 2007 and SharePoint Designer 2007, in their current and previous versions. Technical Experience includes Planning, Gathering and Analyzing requirements, Estimating Project Cost and Duration, Customizing, Developing and Deployment, maintenance, day to day management and operations.

• Experience with all the phases of Software development life cycle including Object Oriented Analysis Design, Development and Documentation using UML with MS Visio.

Skills Summary

Internet Tools ASP.NET, ASP, HTML, DHTML, VBScript, JavaScript

Microsoft Technologies ADO.NET, ActiveX, ADO, RDO, DAO, ODBC, OLEDB, MS-Office, MS-Visual Source Safe, MS Share Point Server 2003 /2007, MS Project Server 2003 /2007, MS Performance Point Server

Languages VB.NET, C#, C, C++, VC++,VB 6.0,XML, XSLT, SQL and PL/SQL

Web & App Server IIS 5.0 / 6.0 /7.0, Visual Studio.Net 2003 /2005 /2008

Middleware COM, COM+, DCOM, Web Services

Databases MS SQL Server 2005 / 2008, MS-Access, Oracle 9.x/ 8i, My SQL

Development Tools Visual Studio.NET 2005 /2008,SharePoint Designer,

BI Tools Performance Point Server, Excel Services 1.0, BDC with MOSS 2007

Operating Systems Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows 2003, Windows 2008 Server

Training:

SharePoint 2010 Ignite Training by Microsoft, TX (Only by Invitation) - Exposure to SharePoint 2010 Architecture, Installation and Configuration, New features, Service Applications, Health and Monitoring, Server Hardening, Usage Reporting, Upgrade, Enterprise Search, ECM, BCS

Certification:

• Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist MOSS 2007 Configuration (70-630)

• Brainbench Certified in C#

• Brainbench Certified in ASP.NET

Connections:

Website: http://www.sharepointproficient.com

White Paper: http://www.orioninc.com/CaseStudies.asp or www.sharepointproficient.com/wp/default.aspx

Blog: http://sharepointproficient.spaces.live.com

SharePoint 2010 Discussion Group - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2265830&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr

References: http://www.linkedin.com/in/pramodsharepoint

Professional Experience

Client: Federal Reserve Bank of NY Oct 2010 Nov 2011

SharePoint Product Manager/Senior SharePoint Solution Architect

• Involved in Designing Information Architecture

• Developed and Mange team of 10+ designers, Architects

• Involved in designing Governance Plan Document – Align meeting with Stake holders, Steering committees, SharePoint Service Team, Roles and Responsibilities, Develop and sign off Governance plan

• Developed 24 months roadmap mapped to service offerings

• Developed Service management lifecycle

• Developed SharePoint Service– various tiers OOTB, SPD Customization, Development

• Developed Best Practice Document

• Establish multiple Policies and Process – Steering committee process, tools, security, request process, SPD etc

• Involved in designing Site taxonomy, Out of Box Capabilities

• Key Projects: File Share Migration, Document Management, ECM, Extranet, Analysis and Design Solutions for Credit Payment Risk Group, TALF Group, SIMG Group

• Write Project Plan of SharePoint Implementation and manage the SharePoint Service Team

Client: KPMG, NJ Dec 09 Sept 2010

SharePoint Architect/Technical Project Manager

• Manage several teams working on various SharePoint projects, ensuring timely delivery, work with various stakeholders to determine new projects and priorities globally, for the overall high level architecture

• Design Information Architecture, Governance plan, Workflow designs and Taxonomy, Design POC and proposed solutions. Prepared Architecture diagram from existing environment Manage offshore team of seven developers and four onsite SharePoint professionals

• Write and Implement Best Practices for performance optimization for various country portals

• Drive multiple projects – New Design and Development, Support, Performance issues for various member country firm

• Implemented Enterprise Search, Information Management Policies, Various permission levels, Content Types, Manage Implementation from classic ASP applications to SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 installation and configuration in dev environment and extensively worked on Portal Performance optimization

Client: Averion International, MA Sept 09 Nov 09

SharePoint Architect/Admin – Consultant

Averion International Corp. is a full-service international CRO with proven expertise in supporting global clinical trials for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies. Well-designed trials span the development lifecycle from first-in-man through regulatory approval and beyond. Averion specialize in oncology, cardiovascular, medical device and dermatology studies. Averion’s core competencies are in product agency registration support, trial design, site selection, project management, medical and site monitoring, data management, biostatistical analysis, Pharmacovigilance, medical writing, metrics development and full clinical trial management and consulting services.

• Create the architectural deliverables for the project.

• As a technical leader, ensure smooth and top-quality delivery of project in collaboration with IT Director and the project team

• Build new Production Environment with SP2, April and June Cumulative updates

• Implemented Information Management Policies on various Quality System Documents

• Write Keywords and Best bets for Search, Refine Search, Created new Search Scope for Internet sites, File Server

• Write Governance Plan and Best Practices

Client: Aruba Networks, Sunnyvale CA June 09 till Sept 09

SharePoint Architect/Admin - Consultant

With more than 7000+ customers worldwide, Aruba is publicly traded provider of Secure, Reliable, Manageable and Scalable, Wireless Enterprise Infrastructure, having offices more than 25 countries. Aruba Networks delivers an Enterprise mobility solution that enables secure access to data, voice applications across Wireless and Wire line enterprise Networks

• Work with Client’s Project Team to understand Business Requirements. Help client to understand proposed solution and provide details about customization requirement.

• Extensively involved with project from working with Project Team in defining Infrastructure Architecture Deployment of Production Servers Configuration of SharePoint Servers defining Roles for the servers.

• Extensively worked on Governance Plan & Documenting the Plan.

• Extensively Involved in Planning for each and every stage of Project & working on Execution Plans.

• Extensively worked with Project Team to Install and configure SharePoint Farm as Defined in Infrastructure Architecture & support suggested Information Architecture.

• Worked on Defining Process for any Hotfix Install on SharePoint Environment.

• Worked on Documenting Backup Restore Procedure & Several other Planning documents & Architecture Documents.

• Involved in Performance Tuning by installing SP2, Enable caching on Site Collection level

• Extensively used Event Viewer, Fiddler, httpwatch and tools from CodePlex various tools

• Responsible for site migration to new Site Collection as top level site to provide Extranet Access

• Configured Information Policy Management for SharePoint

• Helping Client in Resolving Issues with their existing MOSS environment.

Client: ITR, NJ Feb 08 till May 09

SharePoint Architect/Admin - Consultant

ITR is the HR Management and Internal Recruiting Portal to manage the entire recruiting and placement process while enabling recruiters to confidentially match their job orders, search resumes, post jobs. ITR has internal, extranet users including Partners, Vendors, Recruiters, Clients, and Consultants. With the growth has come from 5000 users to 50000 users the need for Search of documents and unprecedented document management

• MOSS 2007 Implementation enabled increase collaboration and provides faster, easier information sharing and increased search relevancy “astronomically”

• Extensively involved with project from working with Project Team in defining Infrastructure Architecture Deployment of Production Servers Configuration of SharePoint Servers defining Roles for the servers.

• Extensively worked with Project Team to Install and configure SharePoint Farm as Defined in Infrastructure Architecture & support suggested Information Architecture.

• Involved in Designing Infrastructure Architecture for the Project.

• Worked on Logical Architecture Design.

• Worked on Execution Plan for the Project.

• Conduct focus meeting with stake holders to design Taxonomy (top-down and bottom-up approaches) for existing and new contents created.

• MOSS 2007 Installation, Configuration, Site Template Customization on Windows 2008 and SQL 2008

• Extensively worked on Governance Plan & Documenting the Plan.

• Utilized central administration site to manage corporate server farm and created /extended web applications to isolate SharePoint sites.

• 3rd Level support on all farms. Worked with Microsoft Support Team to resolve outstanding SharePoint issues

• Created Site Collections and Web Applications for various departments and users

• Installed Authoring and Staging SharePoint Farm on multiple Servers

• Implemented and Administered MOSS 2007 for Corporate Portal and Content Management.

• Configured Shared Services Provider for Profiles, Searches, Indexing, Audiences

• Created InfoPath form to capture the metadata from a resume and implement a workflow process

• Created Business Data Catalog’s for importing user profiles.

• Created scripts using STSADM utility to perform various Admin tasks such as Solution Deployment, Site Creation, List and Document Library Creation

• Created SharePoint Lists for Subcontractors, Clients, HotList Candidates etc, Created the Document Libraries for Signed Contracts documents, Original Resumes, HR Documents, Time Sheets and Knowledge Portal Related Documents

• Created the Workflows using SharePoint Designer on the SharePoint Lists for Addition of New Subcontractor and New HotList, Personal Information etc. Created Workflows using SharePoint Designer on the Document Libraries for Contract documents, New Job Positions, New Resume Additions

• Extensively used Event Viewer, Fiddler, httpwatch and tools from CodePlex various tools

• Used an Excel Service to report the status of all the candidates in the interview process.

• Set up extranet for clients using forms based authentication (FBA)

• Managed security group & user roles naming conventions & security assignment processes.

• Created Database maintenance plans, Scheduled Jobs & Log shipping for Prod server.

• Created & Configured Websites for applications with SSL & SSO Siteminder Single Sign-on.

BNP Paribas, NYC Feb 2007 – Jan 2008

Sr. SharePoint Admin/Architect - Consultant

BNP Paribas Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) have the expertise and global reach to deliver precise solutions. BNP CIB adopted SharePoint for one of their internal project; this was focus to develop an internal support site to facilitate their financial advisors. The company needed a better way to enable collaboration, document management, and enterprise search among thousands of documents and 28 offices worldwide. I took additional responsibility towards bring Governance for SharePoint deployment and usage. New notification framework was designed to keep everybody informed about new reports published on site. Groups of investment bankers, traders, and researchers use the blogs to comment within their groups on specific securities, trends within and across securities, and related interests.

• Installed, Configured, and Deployed SharePoint 2007 Server Farm, Configured Authentication and Security Configuration, Created multiple Data view web parts using SharePoint Designer 2007, created new .aspx and web part pages to access data from other SQL server databases and SharePoint lists.

• Review of Technical architecture with the technical team.

• Best Practices for developers

• Involved in studying what can be achieved with Out of Box Features of MOSS and which functionality will require Customized Development. Further Defining Development into SharePoint Designer, InfoPath and Visual Studio Based Development.

• Work with Client’s Project Team to understand Business Requirements. Help client to understand proposed solution and provide details about customization requirement.

• Performed System Monitoring, Analysis and Tuning and log Analysis, Implemented Disaster Recovery and High Availability Planning, Configuration, and Testing

• Created InfoPath 2007 forms for R & D data entry and implemented as content types which can be activated or deactivated from a given site collection, Deployed and configured Sites Collections, sites, lists and web parts, converted to XSLT views by SharePoint Designer 2007.

• Designed, developed and implemented Workflows in SharePoint Designer 2007, configured out of box Workflows to route draft content to managers for approval before posting Since the financial services industry is subjected to government regulation, workflow and document retention are important to the company.

• Extensively involved in defining Taxonomy & Information Architecture for the SharePoint Deployment.

• Installed and used separate server called DocAve 4.5 for maintaining the Application Back-up and Recovery.

• Worked on Documenting Backup Restore Procedure & Several other Planning documents & Architecture Documents.

• Installed & Configured Team Foundation Server 2008 with SharePoint Server.

• Implemented Project Server 2007 along with MOSS 2007

• Involved in SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007 upgrade process.

• Planning Content Types and Worked on Documenting & defining Backup Restore Procedures.

AT&T, NJ Jan 2006 – Jan 2007

SharePoint Architect /Administrator - Consultant

Responsible for understanding the client requirements and provide System Requirement Specifications (SRS) and Functional Requirements documents for the technical team. The documents were created following modified RUP methodology. Various UML artifacts for HLD like use cases; sequence diagram and class diagrams were developed.

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering from the clients and writing functional specifications for the projects.

• Installation, Configuration SharePoint Portal Server 2003

• Implementation of semantics web for automatic tagging of contents.

• Providing status reports for the clients.

• Follow-up on the traceability matrix to obtain project sign off from the clients.

• Review and manage work load among various resources.

• Upgrading and Patching of SharePoint and its' related systems

• Configured Authentication and Security Configuration (Active Directory and SharePoint)

• Designed Backup Configuration, Implementation and Monitoring

• Implemented Disaster Recovery and High Availability Planning, Configuration, and Testing

• Performed System Monitoring, Analysis and Tuning and log Analysis

• Involved in SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007 upgrade process

• Migration from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to MOSS 2007

Environment: Windows server 2003, .NET 2.0/3.0, C#, SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio.NET 2005, MOSS 2007 with service pack1 ,SharePoint Designer ,Office 2003 ,VS extension for WSS 3.0

Kanaga Network Solutions Jan 2004 – Jan 2006

Role : SharePoint Architect/Administrator & Business Analyst - Consultant

Responsibilities :

• Involved with entire project life cycle from requirement gathering to Deployment of project on production servers.

• Involved in gathering and preparing the Software Requirements Specification document.

• User account maintenance in Active Directory, including new account setups/deletes, password resets and computer management

• As an architect to the project worked on system design and written Design specs and prepared flow diagrams using M S Visio also involved in preparing database design diagrams.

• Managing Resources & entire Project Life cycle using MS Project

• Involved in entire project life cycle from requirement gathering to deployment of project on production servers.

• Involved in preparing requirement specifications, design specification and writing the test case documents for the QA team.

• Created a search center for easier navigation of the content on the server

• Installation of Share point Server, Back up and Restore of entire portal servers using SPS admin tool and SQL Backups.

Troy Bank &Trust, AL Jul 2003 – Dec 2003

.NET Developer/Business Analyst - Consultant

Troy Bank & Trust is one of the leading banks in southern Alabama. The bank deals with different clients from college students to large companies. Our team was involved in a small project of making web based application especially for new students. The client wanted to prepare a web based automated application that provided different facilities for new students such as direct deposit, campus edge checking accounts, loans, and fixed deposits.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Gathered user and business requirements through interviews, surveys, prototyping and observing

• Developed and Documented Functional requirement document and documented product design utilizing Rational Rose and the UML

• Used Rational Unified Process as the development life cycle, created Use Case Diagrams using UML to define the Functional requirements of the application

• Designed & Developed the UI Layer using ASP.NET web forms and C# using MS Visual studio 2005

• Developed Web user and Custom controls to avoid redundant designing

• Used the T-SQL to create the Stored Procedures in MS SQL Server 2000.

• Developed Web Pages using ASP.Net and C#.

• Implemented logging, validation, exception handling on the Web User Controls using C# controls.

• Created Style Sheets for the Application.

• Created Master Page for the Application pages.

• ADO. Net Objects are used for SQL Serve2000 database operations

• Used the ASP.NET features like page caching and trace

• Performed unit testing on the developed modules

Environment: .Net Framework 2.0/3.0, ASP, ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, JavaScript, XML, HTML, DHTML, SQL Server 2000, IIS 5.1, and Windows 2000 and Visual studio. Net.

Client: CDW, NJ Mar 2001 – Jun 2003

Business Analyst - Consultant

HWCMS is Hardware Customer Management System is Web Based Application which enables System Integrators and its client to manage all the tickets generated by the clients. Client can register the System Complaints and necessary action is taken, system also uses Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system to register the complaint. Client and Supplier can generate various reports.

Responsibilities:

• Translated business requirements into Design Document for functional coding.

• Identify research, investigate, analyze, define and document business processes.

• Preparation of Business Requirement Document

• Conduct Team review meetings.

• Preparation of Functional Requirement Document

• Designed Object Oriented Diagrams representing Use Case Diagrams and all necessary sub-features using UML

• Developed business process flow with UML and RUP methodologies/tools for work flow and case diagrams.

Environment: MS Access 2000, VB Script, ASP, HTML, MS Excel 2000, MS Word 2000, MS Power Point 2000, Windows 2000, MS Visio 2000

Client: Maharashtra State Electricity Board Feb 1997 – Dec 2000

Responsibilities

• Developed a package for meter reading software.

• Duties include working on Tenders, Estimates works, sanction of supply lines, power allocation

• Checking of relays and protection

• Designing and Drawings of Transformers, LT lines

• Maintenance of transformers, feeders etc

• Preparing Estimates for new project works

Environment: AS400/RPG400/DB2/400/CL400

Qualification:

• BS in Electronics Engineering - Pune University, India

• LEE (E) – VJTI, Mumbai, India

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