Mahesh Kommu
Alpharetta,GA
Summary
Senior IT professional with 15+ years of experience in Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft technologies, delivering enterprise solutions across on-premises, hybrid, and Microsoft 365 environments. Strong blend of SharePoint administration and development, with extensive hands-on experience in implementation, configuration, migration, and production support, alongside Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate) development and administration. Proven expertise in large-scale SharePoint migrations from MOSS 2007 through SharePoint 2010/2013/2016/2019 to SharePoint Online, leveraging DB attach/detach models, ShareGate, and AvePoint DocAve, including farm expansion with additional WFE and application servers. Extensive experience managing large SharePoint farms and cross-farm architectures, supporting 150K+ users, and executing disaster recovery (DR) drills in enterprise environments. Highly skilled in SharePoint site, account, and server management, end-user training, governance, taxonomy design, security and permissions, monitoring, troubleshooting, and operational maintenance. Strong background in Microsoft SQL Server administration, including installation, configuration, performance tuning, high availability, disaster recovery, and automation. Experienced in Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) and identity and access management (IAM), managing internal and external users, guest access, conditional access, and M365 services including OneDrive and Microsoft Teams. Extensive use of PowerShell for automation, reporting, deployments, and administrative tasks in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments. Hands-on experience delivering government-compliant SharePoint Online and Power Platform solutions, implementing DLP policies, data boundaries, and secure data management. Designed and implemented Power Automate workflows, migrated SharePoint Designer workflows to Power Automate, built and maintained enterprise-scale Power Apps (Canvas and Model-Driven), and migrated InfoPath forms to Power Apps. Experienced in implementing enterprise content management and Microsoft Project Studio solutions, enabling conversational AI-driven workflows integrated with Power Automate, Power Apps, SharePoint, Dataverse, and secure Microsoft 365 services. Designed and deployed SPFx client-side web parts using TypeScript and React and delivered out-of-the-box and custom SharePoint solutions leveraging HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, SharePoint App Model, Nintex, PowerShell, and C#.NET, following Agile and ALM best practices with Power Platform Pipelines and Azure DevOps CI/CD.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr SharePoint & Power Platform Administrator / Developer/L3 Support Engineer
Texas Department of Motor Vehicles
11.2021 - Current
- Serve as Senior SharePoint and Power Platform Developer/Administrator for the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, supporting a state government SaaS-based Microsoft 365 environment.
- Design, develop, and administer Power Platform solutions (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages), including requirements gathering, data integration, automation, testing, deployment, and ongoing support.
- Built Canvas and Model-Driven Power Apps for multiple TxDMV departments using Dataverse, SharePoint, and SQL as data sources.
- Developed Power Automate workflows to automate end-to-end business processes and improve operational efficiency.
- Implemented SharePoint REST and Microsoft Graph API integrations to securely access and manage SharePoint Online data across applications.
- Designed and deployed SPFx client-side web parts using TypeScript and React, building responsive and reusable components aligned with Fluent UI and modern SharePoint UX standards.
- Integrated SPFxsolutions with Microsoft Graph API and SharePoint REST API, leveraging Entra ID (Azure AD) authentication and delegated permissions for secure access.
- Responsibilities:
Sr SharePoint (On-premises & Online) & Power Apps Developer/Administrator
Commonwealth Care Alliance (CCA), Inc.
07.2019 - 10.2021
- Provided day-to-day SharePoint operational support and development through ServiceNow (SNOW) and JIRA, following Agile and ITIL processes for incident, change, and problem management.
- Designed, built, and enhanced Power Apps (Canvas and Mobile) and Power Automate workflows tailored to healthcare business requirements, including offline-capable mobile apps.
- Automated business processes such as document review and approvals, issue tracking, and operational workflows using Power Automate.
- Developed and deployed SharePoint Hosted Apps and SharePoint Add-ins and implemented the Unily Digital Workplace intranet on SharePoint Online.
- Designed custom SharePoint lists, templates, pages, and portal features, performing end-to-end design, development, and testing.
- Collaborated with business users, CAB members, SMEs, and internal teams to gather requirements, customize SharePoint sites, and resolve prioritized incidents.
- Resolved P1/P2 critical incidents, performed root cause analysis (RCA), and authored knowledge base (KB/KME) documentation.
- Acted as liaison with infrastructure, security, Windows, SQL, and Microsoft Support teams to ensure timely issue resolution and escalation tracking.
- Performed multi-role responsibilities including SharePoint Architect, Farm Administrator, SQL Administrator, Security Admin, and Site Administrator as required.
- Implemented and managed Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies across Microsoft 365 and SharePoint On-Premises environments.
- Automated SharePoint and M365 administration using PnP PowerShell, SPO Management Shell, and custom PowerShell scripts.
- Led SharePoint migrations:
- On-Prem to Online (2013/2016/2019 → SharePoint Online) using ShareGate, DB attach/detach, and PowerShell
- On-Prem to On-Prem (2013 → 2016/2019) using DB attach/detach model
- Supported pre- and post-migration remediation, performance tuning, and issue resolution.
- Administered SharePoint On-Premises, SharePoint Online, and Office 365 services including Teams and OneDrive for Business.
- Managed multiple SharePoint environments (Collaboration, Extranet, BI, Cross-Farm), including Search, User Profile, BCS, and Project Server services.
- Architected and supported a high-availability SharePoint 2019 farm (WFEs, Distributed Cache, Search, SQL Cluster).
- Managed deployments, upgrades, and patching across UAT, QA, and Production using PowerShell and PnP cmdlets.
- Set up new SharePoint farms, maintained WFE and SQL servers, deployed WSP solutions, and troubleshot platform and application issues.
- Trained and supported business users and maintained system, application, security, SharePoint, and IIS logs.
- Responsibilities:
Sr SharePoint Administrator and Designer/Analyst
Exide Technologies
07.2017 - 07.2019
- Work on SharePoint Online/Office 365 SharePoint Daily Admin activities
- Take on the roles and responsibilities sometimes delegated to individual roles in a team (i.e. SP Architect, SP Farm Admin, SQL Admin, Security, and Site Admin).
- Using PNP and PowerShell, SP Online management, shell scripts/commands all SharePoint On-Premises and SharePoint Online, O365 Administrations tasks
- Review existing infrastructure setup, develop best practices and operation guidelines
- Participated in team meetings and trained some users on how to create some basic SharePoint objects like libraries, lists and sites.
- Migrated from SharePoint 2007/2010/2013 to SharePoint Online (Office 365).
- Responsibilities:
Senior SharePoint & Microsoft Project Server Administrator
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)
07.2014 - 06.2017
- Worked as a Sr. SharePoint 2010/2013 and Project Server/TFS Consultant for the client Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) which is the second-largest global supplier of microprocessors and one of the largest suppliers of graphics processing units.
- Handling Multiple Projects for client AMD and continuously scan the environment.
- Installation, configuration, upgradation and support
- Provided end user training, support, basic troubleshooting and problem solving with Project Server and SharePoint project sites.
- Worked independently with AMD users to define concepts and under direction of project managers.
- Assisted in identifying gaps and opportunities to extend Project Server value to end users.
- Reviewed existing MS Project Server functionality and perform gap analysis to identify possible enhancements to existing system functionality.
- Responsibilities:
Senior MOSS & MS SharePoint Administrator
Unilever SharePoint Services
10.2011 - 06.2014
- Operation support for achieving delivery of agreed level services, both to end-users and the customers
- Handling multiple SharePoint Projects for client Unilever.
- Managing the large farms (>20Production servers) which are Collaboration, Extranet, Business Intelligence and Cross farm services (Includes Search, User profile and BCS service apps with the cross-farm communication to the Collaboration) on day to day.
- Taking care of Deployments, upgrades and patches using STSADM Utilities and Power Shell cmdlets and scripts in specific order UAT/Test, QA, Production environments.
- Managing Workflows effectively and setting alerts. Resolving issues related to them.
- Performed Migration from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010.
- Responsibilities:
Education
MCA - Master of Computer Application
JNTU University
Skills
- Customer service
- Data entry
- Attention to detail
- Recordkeeping and file management
Certification
- Completed Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 MCTS 70-331(Administration)
- Completed Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant PL-200
- Completed Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals PL-900
- TxDMV Annual Cybersecurity Awareness Training (FY25-26)
Timeline
Sr SharePoint & Power Platform Administrator / Developer/L3 Support Engineer
Texas Department of Motor Vehicles
11.2021 - Current
Sr SharePoint (On-premises & Online) & Power Apps Developer/Administrator
Commonwealth Care Alliance (CCA), Inc.
07.2019 - 10.2021
Sr SharePoint Administrator and Designer/Analyst
Exide Technologies
07.2017 - 07.2019
Senior SharePoint & Microsoft Project Server Administrator
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)
07.2014 - 06.2017
Senior MOSS & MS SharePoint Administrator
Unilever SharePoint Services
10.2011 - 06.2014
MCA - Master of Computer Application
JNTU University
Training
Moss Administration Training with Real Time Use Cases- Bangalore 06/2011– 09/2011