Syed Althaf A

Experience

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  Infosys

  Feb 2009 - Apr 2015

  • Translate requirements to implementable solutions for more than 4 major and 30 minor projects apart from multiple smaller enhancements • Played the role of an architect in implementing 2 major projects - building a huge public website of more than 7000 web pages and 30+ features on top of SharePoint 2010 while migrating part of the site from MOSS 2007; integrating a secure .net based web portal with SharePoint 2010 for easy use of content management by business owners. • Worked with architects in developing a solution to implement a new intranet framework and migrate terabytes of data from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2013.• Currently working as an architect and lead developer to migrate the major public website from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013.• Worked on the capacity planning and farm configuration for the above mentioned projects serving different purposes.• Lead a team of minimum six to maximum 12 developers in onsite/offshore model while drafting solution at high level context to developing small components across projects.• Worked single handed on integrating a secured portal based on .NET MVC framework with SharePoint 2010 from requirement analysis, architecture to development and implementation• Worked on creating multiple tools like packaging, code deployment, content deployment, publish and approve pages, automate navigation control and many others to automate processes which were redundant and human erroneous. • Implemented Social tagging, meta data tagging, search engine optimization, lead card generation and metrics for the websites.• Worked on implementing different analytics - SharePoint Web Analytics, Google Analytics and WebTrends• Created secured WCF services with Entity framework to store user input information and to generate reports for dashboard application.• Used HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, XSLT, to implement the front end features for all the sites. Show less • Worked on the architecture for new SP2010 production farms and solution implementation with a senior architect and learned the farm setup and architecture.• Customized the master pages and page layouts branded to customer needs.• Created custom web parts to handle News & Announcements, Video components, External RSS Feeds, Live Member count in an interactive dashboard extensively using C#, .Net 3.5 Framework, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON and jQuery• Migrated 1TB+ unmanaged content database into multiple smaller content DBs with a pre-defined information architecture to address the needs of the business • Developed tools to automate backup/restore operations, unused/orphan sites reports generation, permissions control and archiving methodologies.• Worked on a PST file migration project involving VB.NET and VB.Script to migrate PST files from local machines to central storage location. Show less • Created multithread application based on Azure Worker Role to create thousands of records to be stored in SQL Azure.• Created another application using Azure Web Role to consume thousands of records from the SQL Azure table in real time and display multiple graph oriented dashboards.• Used Telerik chart and graph controls for enhance performance and better rendering of heavy real time data consumed from SQL Azure• Created WCF Service Web Role to provide services to consume and store the data.• Utilized database components (Data Adapter & Data set) to access database using ADO.NET• Used LINQ to SQL in the data layer for rapid development of few standalone modules• Implemented various features like Partial classes, Anonymous types, Read-Only Properties, polymorphism and inheritance of C# in building data entity model• Used JavaScript extensively to handle client side actions and validations• Worked as server and applications administrator for over 2500+ servers and 50+ applications• Worked as SQL DBA for test environments created SQL clusters farms. Show less

  • Technology Lead

    Oct 2014 - Apr 2015

  • Technology Analyst

    Jul 2012 - Sept 2014

  • Senior Systems Engineer

    Oct 2011 - Jul 2012

  • Systems Engineer

    Sept 2009 - Sept 2011

  • Software Engineer

    Feb 2009 - Sept 2009
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  OSI Consulting

  Apr 2015 - now

  Lead Developer - Microsoft Stack