Sr. Modern Workplace Consultant

• Nov 2020 - Present

Senior Sharepoint Consultant (Niagara Health)

• Nov 2017 - Nov 2020

• Implemented a Governance Plan by conducting “Pain point” workshops, performing gap analysis, evaluated current SP maturity on a scale of 5, laid out a strategic roadmap based on the Business objectives by keeping in mind the priority, feasibility and impact to end users. Identified Risks, Setup Governance Committees, and documentation of the above in a Governance Plan/Strategy document.• Designed a robust Information Architecture by setting up Search (Synonyms, Thesaurus, Crawl, Content Sources, Result Sources, Search Center, etc.); Site templates; Themes.• Set up Global Navigation using Term store in Managed Metadata Service application.• Evaluated the existing SP 2010 environment using SMAT (SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool), a free tool from Microsoft which gives detailed reports for analysis. Validated these reports using the Metalogix Expert tool. • Generated list of InfoPath forms and workflows for NH to assess for migration.• Generated Department level excel spreadsheets using PowerShell for the Content Authors to mark items for selective migration & identify metadata tagging.• Setup Kerberos Authentication on multiple web applications. • Managed Metadata Service application - Synched Term stores across farms (TEST and PROD) using custom PowerShell scripts.• Migrated over 200 Gb of content using Metalogix Content Matrix – Using GUI & using PowerShell scripts for scheduled overnight runs.• Built a custom search for the Policy and Procedure team specific to their requirement.• Performed TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) of the databases for data at rest for applications which stores potential Patient Health Information (PHI).• Performed an Office Online Server (OOS) upgrade to help fix a major product defect.• As part of an ongoing support, I am involved in periodic SharePoint bug fixes and CRs (Change Requests).

Sharepoint Architect (Headwaters Health Care Centre)

• Jan 2020 - Oct 2020

SharePoint Online based Intranet to leverage the available Office 365 licensing:• Conducted Stakeholder engagement sessions to understand the Business Goals and Objectives of the organization. Also captured the various gaps in the existing system, and devised a strategic roadmap to implement these goals with a clear plan to mitigate any risks in the form of a strategy document.• Built a robust Intranet on SharePoint Online using the Hub architecture. Created personalized spaces within the Intranet for better collaboration. Provisioned site templates for departmental usage with site designs & site scripts.• Customized the SPFx sample web parts to facilitate a Modern Script Editor web part. Configured the Modern search web part v3.12.1 to suit the requirement.• Coordinated activities with the HHCC IT team in setting up SharePoint permissions using Active Directory security groups for user management.• Provided training to different user groups (i.e. admins, superusers, end-users) in the form of user guides and online sessions. Also provisioned the Microsoft 365 Learning Pathways site.• As an external auditor performed a detailed assessment of the HHCC O365 tenant. Some of the areas of assessment include Security, Compliance, Usage. Provided Best practices and recommendations to improve the overall Microsoft score and the compliance score.

Sharepoint Project Lead (Alberta Perinatal Health Program)

• Jun 2016 - Aug 2020

APHP is an eLearning platform that helps health professionals in their everyday activities by providing health education modules to enhance learning and skills development.• As a Project lead, I am responsible for client communication, Analyzing and understanding business requirements, designing, and estimation.• As a Developer, responsible for implementing POCs, enhancements like Password Reset functionality, upgrading the SharePoint Learning Kit environment, integrating the eLearning platform, redesigning the public facing website: https://aphp.ca• Perform regular deployments to both UAT and PROD environments.• As a SQL expert, developed SSRS reports as rdl files & built 6 custom reports using the Report Builder & implemented the logic using stored procedures. • As a SharePoint SME, I have trained end users on how to use the application effectively. Trained admins on how to make edits to contacts page, what’s new, quick links, etc.• As a SP Administrator, set up a dev environment to perform SLK and SCORM upgrades, setup backup and maintenance jobs, monitor disk usage & cleanup jobs.

Sharepoint Architect (Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre)

• Apr 2018 - Jan 2019

RVH is moving away from SP 2013 to stay ahead of the SP support lifecycle.• Setup a new High availability farm for SP 2016 using MinRole topology and migrated over 40 Gb of content to this environment including InfoPath forms, workflows, custom solutions, and web parts. Configured Usage analytics reports, advanced search for enhanced user experience.• Migrated RVH’s Policies and Procedures site to SharePoint 2016 & assisted with the Online migration. Involved in defect fixes.• Designed a new master page for the on-premises site and set up the navigation using CSS.• Updated the RVH Public website with additional navigational elements & refreshed the content.

Sharepoint Consultant (Trillium Health Partners)

• Apr 2017 - Oct 2017

The objective was to consolidate 2 legacy systems at Mississauga Hospital (Legacy ASP) and Credit Valley Hospital (SP 2007) into THP Hub (SP 2013) environment.• Built an SP 2007 environment to configure client’s content database in-house for analysis. • Developed over 10 PowerShell scripts to analyze the source environments. For e.g. To get a list of all sites; all InfoPath forms; all out-of-the-box, SPD, Nintex workflows; all assets modified in a time interval.• Designed the migration strategy document. Installed, Configured, and executed Metalogix Content Matrix to migrate content to the THP Hub. • Migrated InfoPath forms, Nintex, and Designer workflows to the THP Hub.

Senior Sharepoint Developer

• Jan 2016 - Apr 2017

Central East LHIN: o Designed an InfoPath 2013 form with Visual Studio workflow to automate approval for an HSP process.LSSO (LHIN Shared Services Ontario): o Integrated Google reCAPTCHA to LSSO’s SP 2013 extranet solution.o Created Site templates with custom branding for each of the 14 LHINs. o Implemented event receivers to perform customizations on site creation.Mackenzie Health hospital: o Implemented various bug fixes to stabilize their SP environment. Also analyzed end-user issues on call and provided resolutions through Lync meetings.o Provided SharePoint training on best practices to end users and Administrators.PHO (Public Health Ontario):o Maintaining parts of the Public Health Ontario portal – Registration, Password Reset (MIM 2016), Login (ADFS). o Built a responsive UI design and AODA compliance around these pages.

Senior Sharepoint Developer (SickKids Hospital)

• Oct 2014 - Jan 2016

Developed a .Net/SP solution to automate and optimize the applications, reviews and other manual processes of the Research Ethics Board (REB) for SickKids Hospital.• Involved in the following tasks as part of the project: Complex workflows (with 23 stages) using Visual Studio and SP Designer 2013 Created over 40+ ASP.NET forms with custom validations; 3 InfoPath Forms Generating signed approval letters within workflows  Custom Web parts; Content Types; Site columns; Master pages Custom branding for a seamless user experience FBA with a custom database, views, triggers and stored procedures. Custom Audit log and concurrency using CDC (Change Data Capture) API calls to push data to IDA web services & SRB Oracle, Push data to XML repository.• Mentoring team members with a team size of 3 developers & oversight of the team’s work.• Worked on developing, packaging & deploying solutions and features to CI, QA, Integration, Staging, and Production environments for SickKids.• Worked on SSIS Package solution to migrate excel data from an IDA system to the eREB database.• Made performance improvements to the SickKids production environments to enhance performance by nearly 40% by query optimizations. Performed load testing to simulate over 50 users’ login (step increase) and assess the overall impact.

Senior Software Engineer

• Oct 2013 - Jul 2014

• Developed a Lotus Notes to SharePoint Workspace Creator Add-in for MS Access which automates the creation of Connections & Jobs for data migration using ecKnowledge.• Migrated one of Casahl’s Lotus Notes environment to SharePoint 2013 On-Premises using this Add-in.• Migrated VIT's internal SharePoint 2007 environment with custom solutions and approx. 40 sites to SharePoint 2010.

Level 3 Software Developer (Deployed to IBM Canada)

• May 2012 - Sep 2013

As a Level 3 developer, I was responsible for handling escalations, develop enhancements, bug fixing, Troubleshooting and fixing customer issues, creating patches and also maintaining releases of the same to the end users.A web-based, multi-user, application vulnerability testing and reporting solution that enables organizations to assess the security of their applications.• Involved in development activities for IBM product releases and patches on all versions from 8.5 to 8.7 including its service packs.• Handle escalations raised by customers across releases and work on enhancements raised due to these escalations and other product enhancements.• Defect fixing for bugs raised on RTC for all editions of the products and its releases.• Maintaining regressions, Porting tasks to newer and/or older release streams, preparing Test fixes/Patches for previous releases.• Engaging in Live meetings to resolve customer issues and organize weekly meetings to update & coordinate activities across other AppScan products.• As part of Agile software development with Scrum, I was involved in Sprint Planning, Review, Retrospective meetings along with daily scrums.

Software Engineer

• Mar 2009 - Apr 2012

L’Oréal India: (Mumbai, India)• Developed 2 new BPM processes and respective forms using ASP.Net with AgilePoint workflows.• Process design using AgilePoint Envision, an AddIn on top of Visio 2010.3i Infotech: (Dohaland, Qatar) - Deployed to 3i Infotech• Developed 20+ InfoPath forms with Windows Workflows (using Visual Studio 2008) to automate the existing manual paperwork.• Enhancements to MySite, developed Web parts, configured user profiles service, Search. Customized the Advanced Search query and results display page.• Branding of Dohaland SharePoint Portal to give it a fresh new look and feel. • Localization to Arabic & Customization of the collaboration features i.e. Calendar, Announcements, Surveys and Polls as per the requirement along with various Custom Lists for Delegation of Authority, Address Book etc.• Configured Reports for monitoring user activities & various solution Deployments.Kivar Environ: (Bangalore, India)• Part of a 6 members team that designed a waste management solution on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack.• The solution also included a mobile application that tracks the driver's co-ordinates and communicates garbage pick-up information back to the control center.