Senior Premier Field Engineer
Microsoft
Total years of experience :27 years, 3 Months
Senior engineer specializing in integration and collaboration solutions utilizing Microsoft SharePoint and BizTalk server technologies
Expertise in modern Data Center virtualization and cloud technologies, including public, hybrid and private cloud.
Responsible for delivering Full-dedicated technical solution support to strategic Microsoft Services customers.
Lead special projects for developing new offerings, in coordination with other Microsoft departments including Consulting Services and EPG (Enterprise Product Group)
Collaborate on intellectual property (IP) covering technical best practices, including training workshops, and white papers to be delivered to various local and regional/global audiences.
Perform Risk Assessment Program (RAP) for enterprise BizTalk and SharePoint farms, assessing environments for operational health and risk issues, and recommend solutions for security, development, and high-availability and performance best practices.
Deliver Microsoft accredited advanced technology trainings for Cloud, SharePoint and BizTalk operations and development.
Consult with and present to senior executives and be their trusted advisor
Deliver timely, high quality incident resolution focusing on root cause analysis, prevention and knowledge transfer.
Articulated enterprise Business to Business (B2B) solutions to prospects. Solutions included secure data transfer, business process management, and application integration and associated solutions.
Presented technical value propositions for the proposed solutions, ensuring business win
Assisted Account Executives in formulating RFP responses for prospective deals of up to multi-million dollars by presenting innovative solution strategies.
Acted as a trusted advisor to the client, and help evaluate and suggest product and service solutions in line with client needs and requirements.
Conducted formal assessments, proofs of concept (POC), conferences, and demonstrations for clients to assess and implement product and service enhancements
Project management, software development, EAI, infrastructure, Web applications for various clients.
BEA/Plumtree Consulting Engagements
Client: Large national financial institution, online Banking Division. 1.5M users.
Corillian online Banking integration
o Developed a custom class library that processes the user login to the Corillian banking system upon successful login to the portal. User's credentials are passed to the Corillian Web Services to initiate a banking session. Portlets then utilize the session object for processing any transactions and retrieving account specific information.
Interwoven Integration
o Developed a custom Interwoven content crawler by extending the Plumtree NT Crawler Web Service. This allows indexing of custom metadata for the Interwoven files and their attachments (doc, pdf).
o Developed a secure Web Service for use by Interwoven content creators to link to other community pages in the portal.
o Facilitated transition of the client's development team from ASP/VBScript development to ASP.Net/C#.
o Provided case studies of application analysis and conversion to the new technologies.
o Provided initial training sessions introducing .Net framework and Plumtree portlet development using the provided Plumtree .Net APIs.
Client: National health care provider alliance. 25, 000 users.
o Facilitated custom database crawler development to index content and data stored in system wide databases.
o Assisted infrastructure team with network configurations and installations of various Plumtree server components in setting up the new development, testing and production environments.
Client: Large biotech products and research company. 3000 users.
o MS Live Communication Server 2005 Integration
o Developed custom portlets integrating LCS with employee directory to provide users' presence information.
o Provided click-to-chat functionality while maintaining privacy considerations.
Architecture, design and development of a .Net based portal solution to replace company’s Java-based Yahoo enterprise portal, since Yahoo ended their enterprise product lineup and support. Evaluated various solutions, and chose open-source Rainbow portal as the base platform to build upon due to its flexible architecture. Added Active Directory integration for user authentication, and instituted role-based security. Implemented object-oriented design concepts, design patterns to create a flexible and loosely coupled architecture. Used Factory design patterns for object creation. This application is written in ASP.Net and C#, with a SQL Server 2000 database as the backend.
• Design and development of a highly customized implementation of Verity's Ultraseek Enterprise search engine using XPA API. Used XML, XSLT, Web Services and Servlets extensively.
• Project management, design and development of an online quality improvement data submission and tracking application. The application tracks departmental quality initiatives, and allows data submission for the reporting periods to track progress. The application also provides real time charting of the submitted data and email notifications to the coordinators.
• Project management, design and development of an online application to allow for an enterprise-wide repository of Material Safety Data Sheets. The application allows quick and easy creation, storage and delivery of MSDS for all the chemicals used, through an intuitive online interface.
• Design and development of the wireless Online Change Control application for Baylor Information Systems. The solution incorporates a Java based application that pushes new Change Control requests to each of the required Directors' BlackBerry devices. The device notifies the user of the new request and allows them to approve, disapprove or send the request to a reviewer from the wireless device.
• Designed and developed an enhanced version of a business critical and highly available electronic reference application used by over 2500 call center users throughout the US, disseminating upto-the-minute information to customers.
• Managed and led a team of 2 senior developers through various phases of design and development.
• Provided design input to convert schema design from SQL Server to Oracle, ensuring data integrity.
• Spearheaded the project frond-end redesign effort, using advanced ColdFusion, DHTML and JavaScript techniques.
• Optimized application performance using advanced query caching techniques and state management.
• Carried the project forward from inception to successful deployment to production.
• Designed and developed the system architecture for a strategic web based 3-Tier Enterprise Portal application in line with the corporate vision.
• Lead a team of 4 to integrate various existing applications in the portal framework ensuring transparent operation to the end user.
• Designed database schema using Oracle 8i, server-to-server communication using XML, and business logic in ColdFusion and ASP.
• Enhanced application design to provide multiple levels of end-user authorization/authentication, customization, personalization, layout control, extensive administrative features, strong security, content syndication, ease of use and powerful reporting features among its core strengths.
• Lead the project through the complete Software Development Life Cycle successfully.
• Developed an online software request system for USAF Equipment Specialists using Cold Fusion, SQL server, PhotoShop and JavaScript.
• Created the mission critical support site, combining strategic, creative and technical skills to deliver solutions helping achieve business objectives.
• Managed design and development of key product applications in addition to managing site-wide standards for user interface for ease of use and consistency.
• Participated in structured walk-throughs and technical reviews while working closely with the team to define site functionality and scope.
• Ensured the technical vision of a project is retained throughout production.
• Designed and developed applications including project management system and an online video database.
• Developed transaction based systems, with high emphasis on sophisticated security techniques.
• Lead the full development cycle of the project including analysis, design, development and maintenance.
• Lead project development of document-routing workflow applications and project tracking database using ColdFusion, JavaScript, Access and PhotoShop.
• Instituted resource requirements estimation for new projects, and provided technical support for requirements analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance of intranet applications.
• Analyzed business requirements for a brand new site to disseminate data for the Hispanic Research Center.
• Translated objectives into effective information systems while analyzing and applying new internet technologies.
• Designed and developed the dynamically generated, database driven site with full text search capabilities utilizing Cold Fusion, Access and NetObjects Fusion.