Prashanth Thiyagalingam Email & Phone Number

As a Principal Consultant and a trusted advisor to one of the successful Microsoft practises in Western Australia, Prashanth is responsible to lead the delivery of consulting projects, and support pre-sales activities, including RFP responses and pre-sales workshops.He is a trusted advisor and subject matter expert on Microsoft 365 specialised in various workloads such as Copilot, Power Platform, Teams, Exchange, Intune and SharePoint. He works with sales teams to provide technical architecture design, whiteboarding sessions, proofs of concepts, statement of works to the clients.

Perth, Australia

Assist customers with their cloud journey on Microsoft Azure and Office 365 under Microsoft planning services and other engagements. Architect and implement cloud migrations for Exchange, SharePoint and OnDrive. Help customers optimise their cloud environments/investments in terms of cost, security and performance.

Perth, Australia

SharePoint 2013, 2010, FAST Search Server - Pre Sales, Project Planning and Estimation, SharePoint Governance, Capacity Planning, SharePoint Solution Architecture/Design and Development, SharePoint Infrastructure Design and implementation

SharePoint Consulting (SharePoint 2010, FAST Search Server, MOSS 2007) - Pre Sales, Project Planning and Estimation, SharePoint Governance, Capacity Planning, SharePoint Solution Architecture/Design and Development

SharePoint 2010 and FAST Search Server farm design and implementation - one of the largest SharePoint implementations in WA (Approx 40,000 users). SharePoint solution design and development.

SharePoint Consulting mainly Design and Architect the systems, with Senior Architects and Business Analysts.Developed SharePoint based portal systems for various clients.

Project: OpenIfsPlatform: Sharepoint MOSS 2007Technologies/Programming Languages/Databases/Operating Systems used: SharePoint(MOSS 2007), C#/ ASPX/ADO.net (.NET 2.0/3.0/3.5), Web Services, AJAX, JavaScript, LINQ, html, dhtml, CSS, XML, XSLT, RadEditor (Rich Text Editor), MS Visio 2003, MS SQL Server 2005, MS Windows Server 2003 and Windows XPActivities: Involved in frequent research on new technologies/techniques that can be incorporated into the application to make it more user friendly and to make the middle-tier generic.E.g. Replaced the middle-tier developed in ADO.net and SQL with LINQ (LINQ to sql) and thus making it more flexible to interact with many backend systems/databases.Developed complex and technically challenging applications. E.g. Media Share, this solution will allow the users to upload and play media files in SharePoint server. Users can search, rate, comment on media files with lot of other functionalities.Customized wiki in SharePoint with a lot of rich functionalities.Customized 3rd party products, which was the efficient, cost effective and timely approach in the project to have some advanced and rich functionalities.E.g. Telerik RadEditor (http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/radeditorstructure.html) – Rich Text Editor which is used in wiki and forums.During some crucial time in the project I have handled the total administration of SharePoint Server including User Group management, integration and maintenance of some 3rd party solutions like Podcasting (http://www.codeplex.com/pks) and RadEditor.Extensive experience in developing web services (in .net platform), web parts, brandings (develop templates, themes, master pages and asp.net pages), creating custom controls (C#.net), creating SharePoint lists/libraries/ workflows/features/solutions and search solutions using MOSS Search APIs, XML and XSLT.

Project: LCSLead a team of 2 to 4 software engineers and introduced agile methodologies in the development cycle, therefore improving the software quality and specially reducing the time spent on application testing and support. Mentored and guided developers and junior developers during the entire lifecycle of the project.Coordinates the Development process in Life Cycle Support Systems (LCS).Design and Develop technical solutions in LCS.Work extensively in performance optimizations in Oracle and SQL

Projects : Olympus, LCS, Web Access Systems (WAS)Extensive development in Oracle database environment using SQL/PLSQL and Stored ProceduresDesigned component based business software adhering to UML standards using Rational Rose.Design and Developed web applications in a CMS called Tridion (http://www.sdltridion.com) using ASP, Java scripts, VB Scripts, Windows Scripting Host (WSH) and Tridion APIsImproved the search functionality and reduced the search time in www.ifsworld.com by developing and Configuring Oracle Ultra Search applications (the new technology in Oracle 9i) via Apache Tomcat 4 Web Server.

Server Development: Oracle PLSQL/SQL, Java database programmingClient Development: Java Swings, Delphi

B.Sc (Hons), Information Systems

with 2nd class 1st Division. Major areas covered in the degree are Databases, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering and Information.

Bio Science

Results Obtained: A, B and 2C

Education record

G.C.E Ordinary Level - 1994 Results Obtained: 7 Distinctions and 1 Credit