As a decisive team leader in our SharePoint community of Northern VA, my main objective is to serve our community, mentor, train and motivate people interested in a career in Information Technology. I am a passionate and strive to develop and maintain positive and productive relationships with colleagues, team and management. My mission is to serve our society by putting my customer’s needs first and providing solutions that make a difference in their lives.

BACKGROUND

I am an Office 365 SME, Speaker, Microsoft Certified Specialist in SharePoint Administration as well as Business Intelligence, currently in charge of Office 365 SharePoint Online administration, designing and managing various site collections/contents with complex forms and workflow processes.
Versed in a multitude of Office 365 SharePoint tools and technologies, I train (power users on Office 365 SharePoint online site management as well as forms and workflow solutions), recommend, create, support and manage apps that best fits the customer’s needs.
Managed various .Net -bootstrapped web applications that are used by customers on a day to day basis.

I have been working in SharePoint space since 2006, I have developed and supported solutions in Microsoft SharePoint (Versions:2010,2013;Office 365-Nintex for Office 365 apps, InfoPath designer 2013, SharePoint designer 2013), Business intelligence tools for reporting(Office tools, MS BI Stack, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript libraries).

CLIENTS

Loudoun County Public Schools, Department of Treasury, The center for state and local excellence, The Consortium and alliance partners(National Dashboard), DC CapStat, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Huron consulting, Microsoft, local state and local governments.

SPECIALTIES

– Office 365 Sharepoint Online sites planning, administration, architecture, designing, support and maintenance.– Training users on Office 365 SharePoint online site management as well as forms and workflow solutions using Nintex for Office 365 apps, – SharePoint Designer and InfoPath designer.
– Knowledge management, blogging and creating a knowledge center for user adoption.
– Designing and customizing dashboard solutions with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.
– Complex custom workflows designing with Nintex for Office 365 forms and workflows and Sharepoint Designer 2013.– Forms for office 365 SharePoint with InfoPath 2013 and Nintex Forms and Nintex Worflows.
– Responsive development with jQuery, C#, EntityFramework, HTML5, CSS3, Office 365 SharePoint Administration and development, SQL – – Server (2005,2008 R2, 2012 – Reporting, Analysis, Integration) Services, SharePoint dashboards, Geo-spatial visual intelligence Reporting      Solutions.

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION

1. Management Skills for an IT Environment – Course 906
   Learning Tree International
   April 2016
2. Nintex Workflow Professional Certificate
   Nintex, April 2016
3. Nintex for Office 365 – Forms and Workflows
   TekDog Inc. March 2016
4. SharePoint 2010 Administration
   Learning Tree International 
5. Nintex Forms(Course 1539)
   Learning Tree International, March 2016
6. jQuery Development
   Learning Tree International 
7. Creating Quick No-Code SharePoint Business Solutions with Composites
   Lynda.com, License 2E592C  May 2016 – May 2016
8. MCTS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Configuration
   Microsoft, February 2010
9. MCTS: SQL Server 2008, Business Intelligence Development and Maintenance
   Microsoft, February 2010
10. MCPS: Microsoft Certified Professional
    Microsoft, April 2012
11. MCPS: Microsoft Certified Professional
    Microsoft,  April 2012

SPEAKING EXPERIENCE:

EDUCATION

–  “Advanced Database Management and Data Warehousing” at NoVa , Sterling, US. June 2012.

–  Bachelor of Engineering with concentration in Computer Science Engineering, Madras University (K.S.R Engineering College) TamilNadu, India, May 2000

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

SharePoint Developer | Loudoun County Public Schools
October 2012 – Current

I am in charge of gathering requirements, architecting the right solution for customers, training, creating and maintaining Office 365 SharePoint Site Collections along with forms and workflow processes and their dashboards using disparate charting tools. I have designed and created the structure of the existing site template that has been deployed enterprise wide. I architect and support various forms and workflow solutions for schools and departments.
For user adoption, support and as a tool for end-user training I designed and setup a blog site with more than 80+ posts containing information of frequently asked-How-Tos, advanced site management questions, office 365 app FAQs, with step by step instructions including graphics where necessary. This continues to grow organically addressing the various questions customers have on Office 365 apps, it is used regularly by all the users/power-users alike in our organization for reference on a day to day basis.

Some of the solutions implemented using Nintex for Office 365 forms and workflow as well as InfoPath and SharePoint Designer workflows include:
– Employee onboard and update access request for User IDs Form & Workflow solution with custom jQuery/CSS dashboards using HighCharts and other libraries.
– Administrative Equipment/Software Request Form & Workflow solution with custom jQuery/CSS dashboards
– Governance
New SharePoint site requests Form & Workflow solution with custom jQuery/CSS dashboards
– Teacher Walkthroughs Forms
– Agenda Forms and workflow
– Meeting Minutes app
– Staff Directory app
– Departmental Weekly Status Reports
– HR Position Change Request
– Software Review Portal
– Employee sign-in app
– Training Requests app
– Student Agenda app with calendars, document library and social feeds for High School students.
– Business Cards Request with card preview
–  Budget Tool
– Cafeteria managers data app

Above are just a few of the many apps I architected that are currently used by school and departmental administrators

As a web developer with LCPS I was in charge of administering responsive web applications used by LCPS staff on a day to day basis.Web Applications included:
– Department Leave Systems
– LCPS Intranet web application
– Personnel Query Tool web application
– Transportation concern registry
– Business Cards
– Budget Management Systems

Business Intelligence Consultant| ASR
November 2010 – September 2012

As a Business Intelligence Consultant, I was in-charge of designing dashboards, reports, custom and offline OLAPs(.cub) cubes to demonstrate the capabilities of our custom data-marts that are tailor made financial solutions for State and local governments. I gather requirements and based upon client needs recommend what tool best suits their reporting purposes (PowerPivot/ SSRS/ Excel Pivots). For the purpose of demo of our data-marts, I at present use Microsoft’s business intelligence stack (Sql Server 2008 R2, Analysis Services 08 R2, Reporting Services 08 R2 and Excel 2010/PowerPivot) and am currently working on leveraging SharePoint 2010’s ability for the same.

Business Intelligence Consultant | MicroLink, LLC.,
April 2008 – September 2010

Department of Treasury: As a Business Intelligence Specialist and .NET developer, I was responsible for developing and maintaining the existing C#.NET based web application (Accounting Sub Ledger). I was also responsible for delivering demo/s on the use and advantages of SQL Server Reporting Services to the CFO group.

The Consortium and alliance partners-National Dashboard: As Geo-spatial Business Intelligence and SharePoint expert, I was in charge of the creation of a public-consumption SharePoint dashboard with an interactive map for geo-spatial intelligence for the office of the Vice President. Dashboard users can find the mapping functionality very interactive. On the mapping page, they can choose a region/MPO or county and go to its corresponding reports dashboard, by passing parameters between the mapping component and the dashboard, thereby providing a better end user experience.  I created various SQL Configuration feeds, Shape file overlays, data layers and various custom actions for enabling geo-drill downs, detailed and drill-through analysis of the various metrics. http://www.nationaldashboard.org/Tools/Pages/Map.aspx

DC CapStat: As a Geo-spatial Business Intelligence and SharePoint expert, I was responsible for and produced a public-consumption SharePoint dashboard with an interactive map for geo-spatial intelligence for the DC CapStat. The primary functionality of this application that I was responsible for creating is to display CapStat’s publicly available Juvenile arrest data. I incorporated lots of custom functionalities to the mapping application that eased the end user experience. I also integrated various SQL configuration feeds and ShapeFiles to the map. I also provided a custom basemap option as per the requirement of the end user.

Department of Commerce (Bureau of Economic Analysis) – Washington DC, USA – Geospatial Data Analysis: As a Geo-spatial Business Intelligence and SharePoint expert, I produced a public-consumption SharePoint dashboard with an interactive map for geo-spatial intelligence. I successfully installed and configured Visual Fusion Server and Visual Fusion Experience on Windows 2003, 2008 servers.  I developed a Silverlight 3.0 application with interactive controls for the mapping solution and integrated the application within a SharePoint page.  I created various SQL Configuration feeds, Shape file overlays, data layers and various custom actions for enabling geo-drill downs, detailed and drill-through analysis of the various metrics.

Microsoft – Redmond, WA, USA – OIPI Documentation for Report Page Layout:  BI Specialist.  As the Business Intelligence and SSRS Specialist, I analyzed the Report Page Layout’s ObjectModel, Reader and Format files provided by Microsoft developers to determine the specifications for the Report Page Layout binary stream which is a component of SQL Server Reporting Services.  I strictly adhered to the guidelines for OIPI documentation and documented the various structures, properties, and enumeration along with their bit diagrams contained within the code files of Report Page Layout format.  I created several examples of report items for describing the structure of the RPL stream.

Huron Performance Dashboard  – As a business intelligence specialist, I was responsible for developing multiple reports in Reporting Services 2008 that contained gauges, charts and tablix data regions. I has published the reports to a SharePoint site, written various expressions to pass SSRS report parameters through URL from one report to another,  formatting the values displayed within the Tablix data region etc.,. I has written custom codes for the reports to render status images and trend charts.

Custom Web Part – I successfully developed a reusable custom webpart filter (.wsp) solution, using C# with embedded JavaScript and CSS.  This toolpart functions like a parameter panel connected to the databases, tables and columns in SQL server 2008. The values of the column selected are sent to a custom check box dropdown list within the custom filter webpart. The parameter value chosen from the list can then be connected to multiple SQL server reporting services 2008 reports within a SharePoint page for filtering them.

Web and application developer | American Standard Reports,

July. 2002 –Sep. 2008

Application and Web Developer – I developed various data marts, reporting applications, local/offline cubes, and C# applications for executing SSIS packages. I was involved in the assessment and recommendation of BI tools and assisted in the design of the logical and physical data warehouse schema. I also assisted optimizing Analysis Services(SSAS) and Integration Services(SSIS) performance Identifying and managing data quality issues. I was involved in the development and maintenance of ASR web site. The various project modules I was involved with are listed as follows,

Projects Modules

WCA:  I created Data Marts for Workers compensation module using Cognos 7.x, MS Sql server 2005 Analysis services. Created local/offline cubes for independent accessing of data by the user. Created various WCA reports using Excel 2007 and Cognos-Powerplay.  Used SQL Server Integration services to create packages that extracted, transformed and loaded input data from warehouse to our datamarts.  Developed tools for efficient dimension and transaction maintenance.

ASRMIE, IDX: I co-designed a multi-basis reporting solution that analyzes Financial & Non-financial metrics. Developed tools for efficient dimension maintenance. Deployed products at the client end. Created MIE Administrator product using C# that loaded input data into the database through the SSIS packages.

CAFR Builder: GASB complaint Comprehensive Annual Financial Report is a series of reports and schedules that highlight and explain the entity’s performance. State and Local governments are obligated to prepare and disclose this report as part of transparent governance. I developed a reporting application that generated GASB compliant report using MS SQL server 2005 Analysis Services and Excel 2007/2003

Lecturer (Artificial intelligence and data structures) | V.L.B Janakiammal College of Engineering and Technology, K.S.R College of Engineering and Technology

2001-2002

Class of Final year B.E and B.Sc (Computer Technology) at VLBJCET and KSR Engineering College respectively

Software Engineer (Internet and Web development),

2000-2001

Goenka Infotech Pvt., Ltd, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.(XML, HTML)

Healthtrax Systems, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.(Medical Reporting using XML,XSLT)

Skills(including but not limited to)

Software: Sharepoint designer 2013. Forms for Office 365 sharepoint, InfoPath 2013 and Nintex Forms and Nintex Worflows.  jQuery, C#, EntityFramework, HTML5, CSS3, SharePoint 2010 Administration and development, SQL Server (2005,2008 R2, 2012 – Reporting, Analysis, Integration) Services, SharePoint 2010 dashboards, Geo-spatial visual intelligence Reporting Solutions., SharePoint 2013-Online(InfoPath 2013, Viso 2013, SharePoint designer 2013),SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2008 & SQL Server 2008 R2(Integration Services, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services) Visual Studio .Net 2008, Microsoft Office (Excel 2007, Excel 2003 and PowerPoint). IDV Visual Fusion Server(4.0,4.5), Visual Fusion Experience(4.0,4.5), Virtual Earth, Microsoft Surface, PowerPivot and Excel 2010, Microsoft Office 2010(2010 suite), MySQL 5.5,WorkBench
Languages: JavaScript, HTML, SQL, C#, ASP.NET, AJAX, MDX, JavaScript, CSS, Silverlight 3.0,4.0, WPF, jQuery, CSS, BootStrap
Databases: Microsoft SQL Server (2012, 2008, 2005), MySQL 5.5

COMMUNITY LEADER | Women in Sharepoint DC ProductivityEDU, Fedspug usergeroup

As a leader in the community I organize usergroups, host sessions with esteemed speakers, SMEs and MVPs at Microsoft Corporation centers in Reston and Chevy Chase.
http://www.meetup.com/fedspug-wspdc/ | http://www.womeninspdc.org/