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• As a Solution Architect in the Knowledge Management and Outreach Division I was responsible for designing solutions and delivering architecture artifacts including roadmaps and standards for various content management.
• Led design of Integrated Digital Workplace (iDW) leading workshops and documenting the current business process and develop platform roadmaps. Leveraging Microsoft 365 and Azure
• Solution Architect supporting the design, implementation, and migration of Document Management System to the cloud. Worked with Records Management team in setting up Records Management and Archival policies
• Identify prospective issues in migration of on-premise applications to Azure and suggest feasible solutions and design distributed applications that are Performant, Scalable, Highly Available and with a Disaster.
• Conducting workshops, gathering the requirements, analyzing platforms and eventual selection of technology platforms
• Served as a trusted advisor and proxy-product owner to the client throughout the project lifecycle

• As an Application Architect in the Knowledge Management and Outreach Division I was responsible for the Intranet platform designing and delivering architecture artifacts in consultation with the solution architect..
• Developed and implemented migration approach to SharePoint 2010 that reduced the proposed time and cost by over 40%
• Stepped in for a vendor organization charged with rebranding the SharePoint 2010 platform and delivered the upgrade on time and in budget.
• Achieved and maintained 99% uptime for the Intranet platform including all the solutions hosted on it.
• Defined the standards and helped IT teams follow best practices in building fine tuning applications.
• Introduced mobile design framework that can be reused across the organization with minimal effort.

Working as a Technical Lead and I am responsible for Design and Development in modernizing a core fund process (preparing review papers). Awarded the “Special CIO Award” for the work done in Phase I of the project with zero issues and a very high user adoption.

Understand and solidify business requirements. Participate and lead the design sessions. Create Technical design documents. Attending SMRs (Senior Management Review). Worked closely with the content team to identify and define the site columns, field controls, content types and page layouts which form the basic building blocks for the portal. Develop.

Worked as a Senior Consultant. Designed and developed various solutions to the clients based on the business requirements. The work primarily involved in Understanding and solidifying the business requirements. Design and develop solution in meet the business requirements. Worked on Custom Navigation, Master Pages, Page Layouts, Web Parts and Windows.

Understand and solidify business requirements. Participate and lead the design sessions. Lead teams of analysts assigned to projects. Create Technical design documents. Attending SMRs (Senior Management Review). Worked closely with the content team to identify and define the site columns, field controls, content types and page layouts which form the basic.

Worked with various clients including McAfee, McDowell and Hindustan Lever LTD. in developing solutions based on ASP.Net, InfoPath and SharePoint 2003Leading teams of analysts assigned to projects. Lead large process improvement initiatives and ensure the solutions were designed and developed according to the best practice requirements.

Worked on developing a Portal solution based on ASP.net for the banking industury. The solution was identified as a Case Study by Microsoft India.