Ahmed Sanad

Led the design, delivery, and implementation of enterprise SharePoint solutions, ensuring alignment with organizational strategy and business objectives. Engaged with business and technical stakeholders to conduct business analysis, gather requirements, and translate them into scalable, user-focused SharePoint solutions. Provided subject-matter expertise and advisory services to optimize enterprise environments, improving system performance, security posture, and long-term scalability. Oversaw solution administration, governance, troubleshooting, and ongoing support to ensure platform stability, reliability, and operational efficiency. Managed team tasks and workloads, coordinating delivery activities and ensuring timely execution of project milestones. Developed and implemented PowerShell automation scripts to streamline portal provisioning, configuration, and data migration processes. Configured, maintained, and optimized SharePoint environments in line with best practices and organizational standards. Diagnosed and resolved SharePoint platform issues, minimizing downtime and ensuring uninterrupted business operations.

Led and mentored SharePoint development teams, managing task assignments and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality, customized SharePoint solutions across multiple industries. I acted as a technical lead and consultant for end-to-end SharePoint solution design, including custom workflows, WSP packages, server-side web parts, and system integrations. Oversaw SharePoint Server installations, configurations, upgrades (2010–2016), and environment health checks, ensuring platform stability, performance, and scalability. Ensured adherence to SharePoint best practices, governance models, security standards, and compliance requirements across all deployments. Designed and implemented custom SharePoint components such as InfoPath forms, multilingual sites (Arabic/English Variations), Forms-Based Authentication (FBA), and advanced content presentation solutions. Led requirements gathering and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions to ensure solutions met business and user expectations. Supported and maintained SharePoint environments, providing troubleshooting, performance tuning, and ongoing operational support. Delivered custom data migration and integration solutions, including SQL Server to SharePoint data migration and GIS integration using ArcGIS APIs. Configured and optimized SharePoint Search Service Applications to enhance enterprise content discovery and usability.

Designed, developed, and delivered enterprise-grade software solutions for educational institutions, ensuring alignment with institutional workflows and enabling effective collaboration. Utilized strong expertise in SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server to build integrated, scalable solutions that streamlined business processes and improved system efficiency. Developed custom SharePoint components, including workflows, event receivers, and WSP-based solutions, to extend platform functionality and support complex business requirements. Managed solution deployment and packaging using Microsoft Visual Studio, ensuring consistent and reliable releases across environments. Supported data migration, application maintenance, and post-deployment support activities, enabling smooth user adoption, optimal performance, and long-term solution stability.

Designed, developed, and implemented custom SharePoint-based web and mobile solutions to enhance collaboration, accessibility, and business productivity across enterprise environments. Built scalable client-side and server-side SharePoint solutions using CSOM, PowerShell, WSPs, SharePoint Designer and Nintex workflows to meet diverse business requirements. Developed a wide range of reusable custom web parts, including attendance management (check-in/out with location), leave management, approvals, announcements, news, employee dashboards, galleries, calendars, feedback, and HR-focused components with security trimming. Implemented enterprise portals and departmental subsites with role-based permissions, ensuring users accessed only authorized data and functionality. Created advanced automation solutions, including timer jobs to synchronize data from SQL Server, update user profiles, monitor milestones, and trigger email notifications based on business rules. Designed and applied custom SharePoint branding including master pages, page layouts, navigation components, and UI elements aligned with corporate identity and usability standards. Configured and maintained key SharePoint service applications, including Search, User Profile, State Service, My Sites, and Office Web Apps. Developed custom people search experiences using tailored user profile properties and search result pages. Built data-driven dashboards and reporting solutions using charts and visualizations to track project status, budgets, timelines, and operational metrics. Integrated SharePoint solutions with external systems and APIs, including custom authentication APIs and external web services. Created custom site templates to automatically provision project sites with predefined pages, workflows, and solutions. Installed, configured, and supported SharePoint environments, ensuring stability, performance, and adherence to best practices.