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Microsoft Certified Professional SharePoint Solution Consultant; With more than 13+ years of progressively responsible experience, offers distinguished career earmarked by accomplishments responsible for a variety of roles.
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Microsoft Certified Professional SharePoint Solution Consultant; With more than 14+ years of progressively responsible experience, offers distinguished career earmarked by accomplishments responsible for a variety of roles.
Startup type: Company
Status: Active
Stage: Just An Idea
WORK EXPERIENCE
Employer:
D4Dental Association (Lahore, Pakistan)
Position:
Senior SharePoint Consultant
Time period:
September 2008 - Present
Description:
development of custom functionality and modifications to SharePoint controls to render accessible XHTML mark-up. Development of a custom two factor authentication provider for extranet site. Assisted two other developers on the team, helping to cross train them to SharePoint. Assisted in the training of Client Users on Content Management and content migration. Set-up and configuration of server farm and virtualized development environments.
Employer:
Cubic-Art Technologies, LLC (Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Position:
SharePoint Consultant
Employer:
InterMLS, Inc. TN, USA) Outsourced Project
Position:
SharePoint Consultant/ Developer
Time period:
June 2008 - September 2008
Description:
An Outsourced Project where I Customized SharePoint architecture for collaboration portal that gives user the ability to view, store, share, and modify IT standards and policies. Developed and designed Master Pages for SharePoint by utilizing SharePoint Designer, Visual Studio, Minimal Master Page, and CSS Adapter. Improved productivity and user experience of end-users by centralizing knowledge and integrating graphical cues from familiar applications. Customized and configured SharePoint portal for IT workflow and document management after careful analysis of business needs. Composed and evangelized in-house SharePoint 2007 practices and training material to numerous Departments. Constructed detailed diagrams of application architecture emphasizing portability, security, and ease of maintenance Re-skinned SharePoint Master Pages that are fully compliant with IE6, IE7, Mozilla, and Safari Created custom Windows Installer for implementation to expand flexibility during installation and update, provide added security / audit control, and minimize staging time during server refresh and migration. Successfully customized and deployed SharePoint Server 2007 without altering existing WSS framework. Designed and implemented corporate identity and logos to various media across numerous business organizations.
Employer:
Emmaculate (Karachi, Pakistan)
Position:
Integration Consultant
Time period:
September 2006 - October 2007
Description:
Responsible for enhancing and maintaining the Credit reporting application for major private banks of Pakistan Successfully customized and deployed SharePoint Server 2007 without altering existing WSS framework. Designed and implemented corporate development environment using Microsoft Team Foundation. This involved both user requested additional functionality and strategic enhancements, including preparation for SOA using Oracle Suit. Responsible for costing, budgeting, analyzing, documenting RFP’s and initializing the software projects for international and local clients.
Employer:
Macter International (PVT) Ltd. (Karachi, Pakistan)
Position:
IT Operation Manager
Time period:
September 2006 - October 2007
Description:
Deployed by Emmaculate the Services Provider to Manage the development, implementation and maintenance of a large IT infrastructure with more than 300+ users Vendor management, Support and maintain quality IT services in line with agreed Service Level Agreements Successfully customized and deployed SharePoint Services 2.0 Administered asset information of servers to decrease the amount of time spent during development, test, and implementation - by outlining and identifying affected clients, SMEs, business needs, and technical information performed quality assurance testing for intranet sites and applications, prior to production release, to identify bugs, errors, and non-standards Maintained Active Directory for Entire Company by running complex LDAP queries and managing ACLs Server and application up-time was maintained consistently at 99+% by frequently monitoring firewalls, performance, and capacity with server engineers. Resulted in improved Web availability metric and increased overall year-end performance of Entire Company. This included deployment of new MSWS 2003, Exchange 2003, Sonic Wall Firewall, migration from lotus domino 6.5 to exchange 2003. Other duties include 24/7 support and the relationship with the principal software vendor
Provided technical assistance, support for multimedia software development, hardware. Design and develop using latest Web technologies learning content management system. Administered Windows network and performed hardware diagnostics. Offered numerous multimedia and Web-related training workshops to Organization
INFORMATION
Memberships:
Member of International Association of Computer Professionals and Independent Computer Consultants Association
Member of National Association of Photoshop Professionals
Member of the International .Net Association INETA
Microsoft Certified Professional SharePoint Solution Consultant; With more than 14+ years of progressively responsible experience, offers distinguished career earmarked by accomplishments responsible for a variety of roles.
SharePoint and Exchange Governance, Planning, Implementation, Deployment, Architecture, Migration, and Support. Enabling business goals and optimizing process performance through expert alignment of technologies with corporate direction.
Shafqat Balouch
