PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

·         10 years of experience delivering secure, scalable, and reliable infrastructure solutions with a primary focus on Microsoft technologies and virtualization. Also excel in problem analysis and resolution along with .NET coding experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

·         Operating Systems: Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, VMware ESX

·         Server Applications: SharePoint Services 2, SharePoint Server 2007, MetaStorm BPM 7.6, Team Foundation Server 2008,  SQL Server Reporting Services, InfoPath, SharePoint Designer, DocAve,

·         Web Servers: IIS, Apache, Tomcat

·         Databases: SQL Server, MySQL

·         Programming Languages: C#, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, HTML, PowerShell, WMI, VBScript

·         Networking: TCP/IP, ATM, Nortel Alteon Load Balancers, SSL, Kerberos, Routing and Switching Theory

·         CLOUD: Microsoft Azure, SharePoint Online Services, Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing

·         Miscellaneous Applications: Visual Studio, BDC MetaMan, MS Deploy, MS AppFabric, MediaWiki, HP Insight Manager

EXPERIENCE

JPMorgan Chase – Chicago, IL December 2007 – Present

SharePoint and .NET Administrator

• Technical lead on a four person team that supported a division-wide Microsoft .NET environment based on SharePoint Server, Team Foundation Server, and MetaStorm BPM. The SharePoint farm contains approximately 100 site collections, 15,000 users located on 3 continents, and 400GB of content.
• Worked closely with business users to match their needs with SharePoint capabilities.
• Wrote documentation covering Backup/Restore, Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity, and Developer Guidelines.
• Developed an InfoPath onboarding application with an approval workflow.
• Developed custom SharePoint Application Pages to display a workflow’s history in C#.  Other developed projects include building Proof-of-Concept applications around SharePoint specific features such as Web Parts, Event Receivers, InfoPath Forms, Excel Services, and the Business Data Catalog. These were written to assist new .NET developers gain knowledge in the SharePoint development model.
• Wrote auditing, monitoring and alerting scripts using Microsoft PowerShell. An example of one script utilized Google’s Charting API and jQuery to graphically trend SharePoint content usage based on data in a SharePoint list.
• Built the developer virtual machine template used by all SharePoint developers in the division. Tools included the complete SharePoint Stack, Visual Studio 2008, TFS Team Client, Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint Services, WSPBuilder, and other CodePlex utilities.
• Led infrastructure team during a 1.5 year project to implement a global application to automate the handling of incoming fax messages which used SharePoint as its UI and MetaStorm BPM as its workflow engine.
• Led project to migrate 75 Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 site collections – totaling about 35GB in content – with AvePoint’s DocAve Migrator module.

JPMorgan Chase – Chicago, IL May 2006 – December 2007

Infrastructure Engineer

·         Lead engineer on a team that provided end to end support for a datacenter consisting of 10 VMware ESX servers, 150 virtual machines, and 20 additional physical servers. 

·         Primary duties included providing engineering support for the network equipment, load balancers, server hardware, Active Directory, Team Foundation System, SharePoint, and Operating Systems (Microsoft Windows and RedHat Linux).

• Secondary duties included providing SQL Server database administration for supported ASP.NET applications. Typical activities included installation, patching, transaction replication setup, log shipping setup, and application monitoring.
• Developed data loading ETL jobs using Microsoft’s SQL Server Integration Services for ASP.NET applications.
• Consolidated 20 VMware ESX servers and their virtual machines running on ESX 2.5.x to 10 ESX3.0x servers on more powerful hardware. Performed initial hardware and software research, developed build scripts, wrote documentation/migration plan, and managed team during the execution phase of the project.
• Automated numerous manual activities to ease administrative workload. These activities included monitoring, alerting, virtual machine deployment, and operating system install.

ABN Amro – Chicago, IL October 2002 – May 2006

Senior Technical Business Analyst

·         Worked closely with Business Analysts to architect infrastructure solutions to meet application requirements. Developed documentation for operation teams. Automated routine administration tasks. Provided Level 3 and Level 4 support where required. Researched emerging technologies to understand how they can better benefit business applications.

• Designed first virtualization environment.  First implemented on VMware GSX and then migrated onto VMware ESX 2.1 and 2.5. Also, conducted training seminars on virtualization.
• Supported the deployment of ABN Amro’s Check 21, Small Business, and Automated Clearing House (ACH) systems that were a part of the commercial banking web portal Cashproweb (http://www.cashproweb.com)
• Worked closely with a team of engineers to develop the division’s first .NET hosting environment. It was intended to support a check processing application rewrite from Microsoft FoxPro to ASP.NET and SQL Server.

Marconi Communications – Pittsburgh, PA June 2000 – October 2002

Software Test Engineer II

• Software test engineer for Marconi’s line of ATM core and edge network switches (ASX line).
• Developed a web application to track test case results using Perl and Apache.
• Automated test cases using TCL/TK and Perl scripting languages

EDUCATION

·         DeVry University – Masters of Business Administration March 2007 – December 2009

·         The Pennsylvania State University – Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering September 1995 – May 2000

CERTIFICATIONS

·         Microsoft Technical Specialist – SharePoint Server Configuration

·         Microsoft Technical Specialist – SharePoint Services Configuration

·         VMware Certified Professional

·         Red Hat Certified Engineer

·         ITIL Certified

SIDE PROJECTS

·         November 2009 – Present – Learning SharePoint2010 through self-study.

·         January 2007 – Present – Maintained a Wordpress blog.  The topic of the blog is how to use scripting to automate system administration.

·         December 2009 – Developed web chat application in ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, and SQL Azure which was hosted in Microsoft Azure cloud service.