Candidates About

Varun Saxena

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY &     ACHIEVEMENTS (Current Employer: Infosys Ltd. Duration: Oct 2007 – Till Present)

Around 9 years of experience in providing solutions for complex business problems as a .NET, SharePoint and Cloud Consultant/Architect in both India and US. Have worn multiple hats as part of multiple $10M+ Platform Transformation, Integration and Web Development Projects mainly as Architect, Release Manager, Technology Lead and Senior Developer.

Ø Proven experience of architecting, designing, developing, and deploying multiple Scalable, High Performance Web and Enterprise Applications, Corporate Portals, Employee Collaboration and Social Platforms for some of the world’s largest organizations.

Ø Expertise in Portal Branding , Solution and Search Architecture, Information Architecture, Application architecture methodologies, standards and leading best practices for On-Prem/Cloud/Hybrid models. Adept in Enterprise 2.0 ideologies.

Ø Designed Migration and Administration strategy. Leveraged tools like Metalogix, Avepoint and Share Gate to do this.

Ø Increased User Adoption through live and virtual training sessions, workshops and hotlines. Also organized multiple knowledge management exercises and SharePoint trainings at Infosys. Involved in providing resolutions to SharePoint related queries on MSDN and internally.

Ø Hands-on experience of managing geographically separated teams for multiple projects at the same time. Understanding of clientele from various domains viz. Retail, Insurance, Education and Fundraising, Pharmaceutical, Technology, Finance and Energy.

Ø Understood and formalized customer requirements and have built credibility with the customer through exhaustive requirement gathering exercises and prototyping the multiple possible solutions; Integrated client feedback and delivered according to agreed specifications and timelines in order to ensure highest level of client satisfaction.

Ø Involved in Proposal and Pursuit development for various clients at Infosys. Expertise in delivering client demos and orals. Anchored multi-million dollar pursuits and presented final proposals to C-level executives; Experienced in all stages of proposal development including market research, product stack evaluation, solution definition, estimation and contracts

CORE Technical COMPETENCE (Technology Tag Cloud)

Project Experience

1.       Ruffalo Noel Levitz, Chicago – SharePoint 2013, AWS, .NET,  SQL, SSIS, Yammer                          July 2016 – Till now

Role: Software Architect\DevOps Manager

Ø  Architecting and Managing a team on a Multi-Million Dollar Platform Transformation project spanning the complete landscape of RNL technologies. A very successful pilot has made my track the first track on the Transformation Roadmap.

2.       NYLI, New York & San Francisco – SharePoint 2010 , NET, EF6,  SQL, SSRS                                 Dec 2014 – June 2016

Role: Software Architect\Manager

Ø  Single handedly architected a SharePoint Application to model the complete real estate Acquisition and Cash Management Process for NYLI.  The application now caters to 400 + bank transactions worth $3.5 Billion annually.

Ø  Led a 7 member offshore team to work on three parallel projects. Managing Team Effort and Business Timelines.

Ø  Improved Adoption. Defined Migration & Governance strategy. Defined the Information Architecture for the application.

Ø  Liaison with Senior Client Managers, Directors, Product Owners, IT teams and Offshore teams to get required deliverables. Presented regular Reports to Senior Management.  Organize and Present Technical and Functional Demos.

Ø  Quick delivery cycles by implementing SCRUM. Used JIRA agile to manage the various agile artefacts.

3.       Intel, Santa Clara – SharePoint 2010\ SharePoint 2013                                                                    June 2014 – Dec 2014

Role: Multiple:  Lead Developer\Release Manager

Ø  Architected a Cognitive Training and Development Portal by Consolidated multiple knowledge portals and designed a Scalable Web Application reaching over 100,000 global users. Saved $1.5M in the first year. Got Amazing feedback.

Ø  Designed, Developed and Led development of a Training Portal built on Client Side Techs viz. REST, SPServices and CSOM.

Ø  Search Enrichment and Enhancement. Site Branding Customization. Site Migrated using ShareGate and Metalogix.

4.       BNSF, Fort Worth Texas – SharePoint Online (O365)\ SharePoint 2013                                       Jan 2014 – May 2014

Role: Multiple:  SharePoint Technology Lead

Ø  Designed and developed a hybrid digital asset management system on SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2013.

Ø  Drew governance and planning Strategy for SharePoint Online. Increased search efficiency by developing Amazon like search refinement experience. Helped BNSF in understanding and implementing SCRUM.

5.       Capital Group – SharePoint 2010/SharePoint 2013                                                                                        Dec 2012 – Jan 2014

Role: Multiple:  Technology Lead - SharePoint Lead Consultant – Release Manager

Ø  Leading a team of 5 for designing and developing various SharePoint 2010 Custom Solutions.

Ø  Implemented Continuous Build and Deployment. This helped in reducing the growing Build and Deployment Issues.

Ø  Assisted the Solution Architect during various phases of Logical and Information Architectural Design.

Ø  Liaison between the Migration Teams, Administration, Business units, QM, Technology teams (onsite and offshore) and trainers; Conducted successful training on several topics to ramp up new SharePoint end-users.

Ø  Integrated Social features using NewsGator, designed SharePoint/Provider hosted Apps

6.       CVS Caremark – MOSS 2007 Intranet Portal\ SharePoint 2013                                                                        Feb 2009 – Dec 2012

Role: Multiple:  Technology Analyst - SharePoint Lead Consultant – Release Manager

Ø  Designed and developed an internal portal for CVS with around 80% customization. This was one of the initial projects for Infosys on MOSS 2007. Repeatedly provided client with next generation intranet portal features.

Ø  Liaison between the business units, stakeholders, technology teams, offshore, quality teams and support teams; Gathered requirements and came up with various ideas to improve the overall visibility of the portal.

Ø  Helped in laying down a governance plan for the portal. Gained customers confidence and credibility.

7.       CareFirst – InfoPath Interim Solution                                                                                                                      June 2011- July 2011

Role:  SharePoint2010\InfoPath Consultant Lead

Ø  Understood, designed and developed an InfoPath interim solution for CareFirst; Worked directly with the directors of CareFirst; Managed offshore teams and ensured the timely delivery of various deliverables.

Ø  Landed up as a key player in an escalated project and help it reach a stable platform. Appreciated by Managers.

8.       Kellogg – Multi Lingual Intranet Portal                (SharePoint 2010)                                                                                  July 2008 – Jan 2009

Role: Senior SharePoint 2010 Developer\Lead

Ø  Designed and Developed a Multilingual Intranet Portal for Kellogg; led a team involved in designing and developing various components of the site. Trained new resources on various features of SharePoint.

Ø  Helped design a packaging and deployment strategy for Kellogg; Trained offsite resources to understand the packaging strategy and use it in the future.  Successfully packaged and delivered Phase I of the project to onsite

9.       Others Projects

Mannatech - Multilingual External Website (.net 3.0)                                                                                     March 2008 – June 2008

EON – Intranet Website (WSS)                                                                                                                                        Jan 2008 – Feb 2008

EDUCATION

Ø  Bachelor of Technology (2003-2007) –   Bharti Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering.

Ø  A.I.S.S.C.E – Science with Computers (2003) |A.I.S.S.E (2001)