Jay Shah
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Credentials
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70-528 Microsoft MCTS: C# .NET - Web-based Client Development
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70-541 SharePoint MCTS: Microsoft WSS – Application Development
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70-573 SharePoint MCTS: Microsoft SharePoint, Application Development
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70-630 SharePoint MCTS: Configuring Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MOSS
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70-631 SharePoint MCTS: Configuring Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services
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70-667 SharePoint MCTS: Microsoft SharePoint, Configuration
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SY0-201 CompTIA Security +
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Experience
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365 Consulting
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Principal Consultant / Sales & Business Development
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Jan 2018 - Present
Principal Consultant• Assess client’s business, analyzing data and costs to provide an accurate assessment of their situation.• Identify new opportunities based on pain points and gaps in existing projects and strategic accounts• Build strong lasting relationships with customers by supporting their initiatives and delivering successful projects• Provide industry/domain expertise to advise prospects and customers of industry trends Sales & Business Development• Prospected and grew new relationships with potential customers using phone, email, etc.• Effectively worked with existing customers to create reference customers and expand local footprint• Used analytical skills to understand the customer, their business and their issues and needs.
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Unified Solutions
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Co-Founder / CTO / Lead Sales / Lead Architect
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Jan 2015 - Feb 2021
Lead Sales & Business Development• Trained, managed, and mentored new sales people on their communications, positioning, etc• Lead on a digital sales campaign, building a full conversion funnel from impression to revenue.• Mentored salespeople to develop conversion skills through real life examples and role-play CTO (Chief Technology Officer)• Lead a team of developers to create an application that won the award for most innovative product of 2015 from JEMS (primary EMS Ambulance trade organization)• Implemented a hyper-scale agile continuous deployment process to the Azure cloud that enabled requirements-to-production times for many bugs and small features to be delivered in under 5 business days. Lead Development Architect• Lead a team to create development patterns and best practices for the software around a very modern software stack that was made up of Angular / Bootstrap / HTML5 / CSS / C# MVC / C# Web Api / Cloud SQL / Azure
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ShahPoint
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Lead Sales & Business Development / Principal Consultant
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Apr 2013 - Jan 2018
*** Concurrent Large Scale Projects / Clients ***Office 365 SharePoint Lead Migration/Solution Consultant (Healthcare)• Project initially scoped internally as requiring 6 month – 1 year (2000 hours), upon coming on I shortened milestones and delivered 90% of initial requirements in under 150 hours.• Lead/Sole developer on a migration of a Lotus Notes instantiation that had been in use and extended for 15 years for a 400 person counselling agency to the Office 365 Cloud.• Handled everything from scoping requirements, and gap analysis, to handling client expectations.Office 365 SharePoint Lead Migration Developer/Architect Consultant (Office 365 / Finance)• Planned Office 365 migration from SharePoint on-premise (was supposed to take 3 months, did migration of functionality, development, and solutions to Office 365 in less than 40 hours)• Migrated their email to Exchange server, implemented an integrated Lync server, and migrated their data onto SharePoint, leveraging all cloud based technologies like Office 365 and Azure.SharePoint 2013 Solution Migration Developer (On-Premise / Major Sports)• Developed robust solutions using SharePoint OOB, InfoPath, SharePoint Designer, and Visual Studio in a fast paced environment where deliverables were delivered in hours instead of weeks. • In writing the custom C# developed solutions I utilized skills in ASP.NET, ADO.NET, C#, Master Pages, LINQ, JavaScript, Jquery, HTML, DHTML, CSS, InfoPath, SP Designer, Web Development, User/Server Controls, AJAX etc.SharePoint 2013 Solution Architect (Office 365 / Insurance-Marketing)• Developing multiple slimmed down BPM solutions to create quick ROI leveraging simple features like Designer WF, InfoPath, Designer XSLT, and other OOB functionality.• Architecting a project management solution to leverage SharePoint integration/collaboration facilities OOB, workflows, a 3rd party app. Also lead on delivering trainings and user adoption.
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Lead Customer Implementation Architect
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Dec 2011 - Apr 2013
Customer Sales SME• Lead Implementation Architect on multiple major multi-million dollar SharePoint based medical consumer/patient portals.• Lead diverse team of implementation developers, engineers, and designers in deploying portals including implementing some of the US’s largest patient portals.• Handled client facing responsibilities including scoping requirements, gap analysis, and handling client expectations Architecture & Development• Developed in a very diverse team to create a world class healthcare add-on solution to SharePoint 2010 (200+ VS projects with 50k+ lines of backend SharePoint .Net code)• Utilized as the SharePoint SME giving advice on the proper direction and way of developing diverse solutions in SharePoint.• Developed 20+ C# web parts, multiple event receivers, multiple scopes of features, etc. • Mentored developers on the SharePoint API and processes for SharePoint development utilizing Microsoft best practices.• In writing the custom C# developed solutions I utilized skills in ASP.NET, ADO.NET, C# 3.5/4.0, 2010 Master Pages, LINQ, JavaScript, Jquery, HTML, DHTML, CSS, InfoPath, SP Designer, Web Development, User/Server Controls, AJAX, etc.
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Lead Information Architect / Lead Software Developer
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Jun 2009 - Jan 2012
Lead Information Architect• Worked directly with high level executives (Colonels and Admirals) to understand business problems and translated the needs into requirements and then the requirements into solutions.• Served as the SME for the NAVCENT (Navy Iraq, Iran, etc) for SharePoint and Information collaboration best practices• Trained senior level users on the SharePoint and ways to solve mission centric issues.• Prepared/Delivered presentations to executives (Admirals) on architectural approaches to gain consensus, including translating complex technical topics to a mixed audience.• Created custom tailored business solutions utilizing an agile/spiral approach. Senior SharePoint .NET 2010 Information Engineer • Filled a level 4 developer (Senior SharePoint/C# Information Architect) position.• Technical lead on the SharePoint 2007 to 2010 transition.• Large SharePoint team, with approximately 20,000 users (8 developers, 5 server administrators)• Transitioned 1000’s of lines of code from SharePoint 2007 to 2010, using Microsoft best practices.• Trained developers on the SharePoint API, and processes for SharePoint solution development.• In transitioning and writing the custom C# developed solutions I utilized skills in ASP.NET, ADO.NET, C# 3.5, 2010 Master Pages, LINQ, JavaScript, HTML, DHTML, CSS, InfoPath, SP Designer, Web Development, User/Server Controls, AJAX, etc.• Worked as both the team lead and as the sole developer on 20+ projects (web parts, list/site templates, custom _Layout pages, etc), always getting projects done comfortably before deadlines.• Translated a complex Java/Oracle enterprise CRM application into a .Net SharePoint application.• Helped create development best practices, and an in depth software testing process utilizing (TFS).
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Senior Developer and Server Administrator
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Apr 2008 - Jun 2009
Senior MOSS .NET Development (Duties) *Created complex collaboration/business solutions merging the maximum functionality of SharePoint at the browser level, the ease of development using SharePoint Designer, and the pure power of Visual Studio to create both simple and very complex collaboration/business solutions.* Developed Visual Studio solutions to solve the most complex of business problems. Development included creating custom features, custom event handlers, creating custom web parts, editing/creating files in the _layouts directory, modifying styles/themes, replacing navigation components, and modifying the root web.config. In doing so became very proficient with the Windows SharePoint Services (WSS 3.0) API, C#, ASP.NET 2.0/3.0/3.5, AJAX, XML , XSLT, T-SQL, ADO.NET, LINQ, HTML/XHTML, CSS/Themes, JavaScript/JQuery.* SDLC: Usually handled the full development cycle from receiving the current business problem in ordinary non-technical
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Information Technology/Network Administrator
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Apr 2001 - Apr 2007
Honorable Discharge*6 years in Comm. Btn. holding an array of positions with varying IT responsibilities.*Attended Army Advanced Networking School: CCNA equivalence, server management, router protocols*Secret clearance, Top Secret eligible Honorable Discharge*6 years in Comm. Btn. holding an array of positions with varying IT responsibilities.*Attended Army Advanced Networking School: CCNA equivalence, server management, router protocols*Secret clearance, Top Secret eligible
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Education
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2001 - 2005
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Theoretical Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics, Physics, and Business
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