Alejandro Raziel

(248) 679-2430
alexrazielp@gmail.com
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Over 8+ years of IT experience with SharePoint Server 2003, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010,
SharePoint Server 2013 and Office 365.
Expertise in installation, configuration and maintenance of SharePoint Server.
Expertise in Data Migration from SharePoint Server 2007 to 2010 and from 2010 to SharePoint 2013
using 3rd Party tools like DocAve and Metalogix.
Implemented various Backup & Restore mechanisms using Power Shell and Stsadm command utility.
Expertise in creating and customizing Workflows solution using Nintex 2010/2007 and SP Designer
2013/2010/2007.
Worked on Document libraries, Record management, User Profile management, Document
management, Web Content Management, Picture libraries and Announcements.
Experience in working with MS windows server 2003/2008/2012, Active Directory, MS Forefront,
TCP/IP, and Windows clustering.
Experience in working with MS SCCM, VMM, DPM, and SCOM 2012.
Configured users permissions and Master Plans for Project server 2010
Expertise in using BI tools like Excel Services in SharePoint 2013, Performance Point Services in
SharePoint Server 2013, Visio Services in SharePoint and Microsoft SQL Server.
Deployed features using PowerShell commands tool at different levels including site collections, web
applications and site level.
Experience in setting up the governance policies to SharePoint 2013 through which it allows users to
collaborate with one another and even develop their own solutions.
Experienced in using PowerShell command line interface for various operations.
Experience on linking SharePoint Server to Business applications such as SAP, Siebel and Microsoft
SQL
Server, which allows us to publish reports and lists.
Experience in designing and implementing SP Sites, Web Parts, Web Part Pages, Workflows, Content
types, various custom Document Libraries and Lists.
Experience in setting up permission levels and permissions for individual users, SharePoint and Active
Directory groups, libraries and lists and configuring the user profiles, My Site Services.
Solid understanding of IIS, Active Directory, and Domain Services & SharePoint command line
parameters.
Knowledge in designing and implementing of Active Directory and Network fundamentals Protocols
such as TCP/IP, DNS and Group Policy.

EDUCATION:

Business Development Center and Graduate FACPYA (UANL)

Master in Information Technologies (2010)

Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon ( UANL )

Electronica and Communications Engineering (1999)

Certifications:

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (Windows Server 2008).

Networks Interconnect Theory and Practices Course.
IP Transport Systems Course.
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) course.
Administering a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 service course.
Firewalls and Antivirus courses.
SAP Business One 8.8 service administration course.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
SharePoint 2013 Administrator

June 2013 - Till date

Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit medical practice and medical research group based in Rochester, Minnesota. It is the
first and largest integrated nonprofit medical group practice in the world, employing more than 3,800 physicians
and scientists and 50,900 allied health staff. The practice specializes in treating difficult cases through tertiary
care. It spends over $500 million a year on research.
Responsibilities:

Worked on Configuring and maintaining office 365 environment.

Build SharePoint Foundation 2013 Farm for Proof of concepts for next migrations move and other
tasks.
Used SharePoint Apps, Cross-site publishing, Interactive feed and Community site in SharePoint
2013.
Used Shredded storage and Minimal Download Strategy in SharePoint 2013.
Created custom application pages and web parts to build the business functionality for new applications
in SharePoint 2013.
Created Sandbox solution for sites in a SharePoint farm.
Preparing SharePoint 2010 Content Databases for Upgrade.
Restoring the SharePoint 2010 Content Database in a SharePoint 2013 Farm.
Mounting the Restored Content Database.
Created Workflows like Approval, Collect Signatures, and Translation Management and collecting
feedback.
Used BI tools like Excel Services, Performance Point Services and Visio Services.
Install & Configure Concept Search and Fast Search implementation.
Install & Configure Workflow Manager 1.0
Creating SharePoint 2013 Workflows with SharePoint Designer and even in third-party tools like K2.
Configure App Management Service applications.
Configure SSL Certificates in SharePoint 2013 & Fast Search Certificates.
Configure on Work Management Service Application.
Configure SharePoint Translation Services in SharePoint 2013.
Involved in Migration Activities using Metalogix tool from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013.
Responsible for responding to end-user questions, concerns, and requests for training.
Deployed SharePoint Solution packages like webparts, Event handler, List definition and Timer Jobs
using PowerShell.
Design of UI & Workflows with master pages, CSS, SharePoint Designer, .wsp files and features.
Wrote SQL stored procedures for data validation during migration.
Monitored and scheduled daily backup jobs for SharePoint farm and databases using SQL
management studio and PowerShell.
Configured users in Active Directory and populated all the Active Directory users into SharePoint user
profiles and assigned them into various target audiences group.
Planned for disaster recovery and backup and restore solutions, managed, monitored, and trouble
shoot search and indexing.
Worked closely with all stakeholders including end-users to ensure successful delivery of the project.
Monitoring SharePoint disk space usage through the built-in SharePoint reports for each site
collection.
Supporting network load balancing needs and ensuring its correct operation (NLB).

Environment: SharePoint 2010/2013 Server, Office 365, WSS (3.0/4.0), .NET Framework 3.0/3.5, SQL
Server 2008/2012, IIS 6.0/7.0, PowerShell, SharePoint Designer 2010/2013, Windows Server 2008/2012,
Active Directory and Domain Services.

SONY Electronics, San Jose, CA

SharePoint Administrator

Jan 2012 Jun 2013

Sony Corporation of America, located in New York, NY, is the U.S. headquarters of Sony Corporation, based in
Tokyo, Japan. With some 900 million Sony devices in hands and homes worldwide today, a vast array of Sony
movies, television shows and music, and the PlayStation Network and the Sony Entertainment Network, Sony
creates and delivers more entertainment experiences to more people than anyone else on earth.
Responsibilities:

Installed and administered SharePoint Server 2010.

Utilized Central Administration site to manage corporate server farm and created /extended web
applications to isolate SharePoint sites.
Responsible for Administration, Operations, and maintenance of existing SharePoint farms through all
environments running on SP2010, and a few Legacy applications running on SP2007 and WSS 3.0
Support developers by deploying their custom solutions on SharePoint Farm level, Web application
level and Site level.
Involved in multiple Deployments through all environments and in Rollback procedures whenever
necessary.
Participated as the only point of contact from the application management team in various Scrum calls,
TACC calls, and incidents opened with Microsoft driving them towards resolution.
Performing and testing routine SharePoint backups and restores.
Involved in backup and restoring content database using Central Administration, PowerShell commands
and Microsoft SQL Server.
Handled Service Desk tickets and On-call services on a daily basis.
VM ware Infrastructure, Virtual Server Configuration for SharePoint Farm configuration.
Actively monitoring the Content Deployment jobs, Scheduled Task jobs, Timer Jobs, services, service
applications, and Search Crawls on a daily basis and troubleshooting.
Worked on local Search, FAST search, scopes, crawl rules, indexing, performing crawls, resolving top
level errors, warnings, and metadata properties.
Ensuring the integrity and security of SharePoint data in accordance with business needs and industry
best practices regarding privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.
Exported and imported sites, Lists and Libraries with windows PowerShell and STSADM commands.
Developing, maintaining, and enforcing SharePoint Governance policies.
Worked on improving the performance of all the SharePoint Servers.
Monitored the daily backups for all the SharePoint Content Databases.
Provide end-user support and troubleshooting of all of these environments.
Involved in building multiple new SharePoint farms across all environments right from Windows Server
2008 R2 Service Pack 1 through the entire build out process.
Wrote PowerShell scripts to deploy solution packages, regular maintenance report of the site, which
contained the statistics on the site content, list items, and size of the attachments.

Environment: Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Active Directory and Domain Services, IIS,
SharePoint 2010, PowerShell, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, SharePoint designer 2010
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Limited, Collegeville, PA
SharePoint 2013 Administrator and Architect

Apr 2010 Dec 2011

Onsite technical support lead that is responsible for the site administration, migration, installation, monitor and
configuration the SharePoint 2013 Platform. The intranet and custom sites are being accessed by 45,000
Pfizer colleagues across world.
Responsibilities:

Responsible for Designing, Implementing and Administration of 64-bit hardware based SharePoint
2010
Intranet and Extranet Farm Environments & oversee the MOSS 2007 Farm.

Provide day-to-day support of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and 2010 in a highly
collaborative team.
Responsible for establishing and maintaining end user access policy and permissions.
Performing and testing routine SharePoint backups and restores.
Developing, maintaining, and enforcing SharePoint Governance policies.
Responsible for implementing and maintaining search services, including defining search scopes.
Managed sites with multiple user departments, applied principles and processes uniquely related to
SharePoint to support intranet and collaboration initiatives.
Extensively worked on improving the performance of all the SharePoint Servers.
Monitored the daily backups for all the SharePoint Content Databases.
Interact with Microsoft for support calls.
Provide end-user support and troubleshooting of all of these environments.
Interact with IT and user management, in-house developers and 3rd party systems consultants.

Environment: Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Active Directory, IIS, SharePoint 2010, InfoPath
2007/10, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, SharePoint designer 2010.
Kelloggs, Battle creek, MI
SharePoint 2010 Administrator and Migration Engineer

Sep 2008 to Mar 2010

Kellogg's is an American multinational food manufacturing company headquartered in Battle Creek, Michigan,
United States. Kellogg's produces cereal and convenience foods, including cookies, crackers, toaster pastries,
cereal bars, fruit-flavored snacks, frozen waffles, and vegetarian foods
Responsibilities:

Preparing Plan for migrating more than 130 SharePoint content databases spread across various
geographic locations
Analyzing existing Large SharePoint 2007 farm structure and proposing a Migration approach (content
database migration/ Hybrid approach)
Designing tools to gather various reports including custom features, custom templates, site definitions
to determine the migration approach
Developing Tools to remediate issue with SharePoint 2007 Preupgrade check report
Interaction with Engineering teams regarding the build of SharePoint 2010 infrastructure
Working with Microsoft PFE on the migration plan and planning the upgrade as per Microsoft
recommended best practices
Delivering required SharePoint solutions using Onsite/Offshore Support Model
Migrating SharePoint content databases and remediating issues post migration

Environment: Windows server 2008/2003, DocAve, StoragePoint, SQL Server 2005/2008

AT&T, Atlanta, GA
Sr. Systems Administrator

Feb 2007 Aug 2008

AT&T is the largest provider of local and long distance telephone services in the United States. Designed
SharePoint Portal for System Engineering & Architecture Department for Collaboration, Tracking & Reprting
purposes. I am also responsible for Maintainance of the Portal, & implementing new solutions based on the
Business needs.
Responsibilities:

Analyzed 2010 SharePoint farm to create reports to list customizations like solutions, webparts, event
receivers, etc.
Analyzed 2010 SharePoint farm for orphan objects and then ran cleanup operations.
Migration of SharePoint sites with Metalogix Content Matrix (for FAB40 templates) and database attach
method.
Deployed updated WSPs and customizations to prep farm for migration.
Completed and verified post migration steps like AAM, applying master pages, activating features, etc.

Migrating of sites from SharePoint server 2013 to O365 using metalogix with mapping of users and
domain.
Planning and implementing SharePoint service architecture.
Installed and configured 2013 SharePoint Farms.
Responsible for farms health and stability of environment.
Maintaining SharePoint content databases with SQL always-on availability groups.
Apply Service pack and patches in SharePoint Farms.
Activities: Rack and blade server administration, Windows Server virtualization in Hyper-v and VMware
platform, server roles and features settings.
Microsoft SQL 2008 R2 and 2012 cluster installation and management, Windows Domain Services.
Microsoft products installation and management like SharePoint 2010 and 2013, System Center 2012
family. Actual infrastructure growing-up planning as for its disaster recovery planning.
Utilizing PowerShell scripting to accomplish daily tasks and resolve different issue related to content
database, orphan sites, cache, session token etc.
Utilizing SharePoint designer for some basic tasks for master page ad default page setups.
Maintaining SharePoint monitors in SiteScope.
Working with developers to troubleshoot errors in customized functionality.
Well Versed with JIRA ticketing system for daily issue logs and resolution.
Utilizing PowerShell scripting to accomplish daily tasks and resolve different issue related to content
database, orphan sites, cache, session token etc.
Utilizing SharePoint designer for some basic tasks for master page ad default page setups

Environment: Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Active Directory, IIS, SharePoint 2010,
PowerShell, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, SharePoint designer 2010

References Available on Request!