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DAGGETT, THOMAS
GOAL I am looking for a position in a successful organization where I can maximize the impact
of my unique combination of business and technical experience, with strong
opportunities for advancement in the future.
CURRENT POSITION DIRECTOR, PFIZER, ADVANCING CONTENT & TRANSACTIONS (ACT) GROUP
2011 - Present
Technical lead, Platform Manager and Principal Architect for the delivery of Pfizer’s
SharePoint and Enterprise Search environments:
 Consists of SharePoint 2010, 2013 in internal and DMZ environments
 Delivers 90,000+ TeamSites, 50+ TB of content, 300+custom applications,
including PfizerWorld and MyChannel applications
 80+ million active index for Enterprise Search
 Provides 24x7 services to 159,000+ Business users, in all Business lines and
around the globe
 135+ servers (virtual and physical)
 Multiple farm load-balanced architecture
 Key components in active-passive DR failover
Leads SharePoint Engineering team with integrated cross-team support for
Operations. Responsibilities include:
 Design/build and future architecture of SharePoint and Enterprise Search
Platforms
 Platform roadmaps
 Qualified Build process based on Pfizer’s SDLC
 QA and Compliance
 Support and approval for enhancements and integrations
 Vendor technology insertions
 Capacity planning and server/resource expansion
 Platform performance and review of all changes
 Upgrades and overall security, stability and scalability of environment
Additional Responsibilities:
 Technical lead for the planning and design of the Service Offering for
Collaboration and Enterprise Search
 Engineering lead for proof-of-concept and piloting initiatives
 Escalation/resolution point for SharePoint platform issues
 Enterprise Search Platform content source approver and escalation contact
for all Search issues
 Manages, coaches and helps to develop Engineering team resources

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 Identifies Continuous cost savings measures
 Development of migration path to hybrid-cloud infrastructure
 Contributes to yearly Platform budgeting and financial management
processes
Partners closely both with BTI and SharePoint’s Customers on the platform and
Customer needs:
 Aligns solution to BTI Services and capabilities
 Provides feedback on future growth and technology changes
 Serves as the platform approver for all changes
 Enterprise Search platform manager and approver for all Search changes
 Works closely with Solution Engineering and Operations team leads to meet
custom application requirements, performance and schedule
 Maintains close working relationship with Pfizer’s Identity and Access
Management, SQL DBA, Storage, Wintel Support & Engineering, Networking
and Server Build teams
Recent Key Projects:
 Technical Lead for migration of Pfizer’s ecfPartner DMZ collaboration
environment to SharePoint 2013. Delivered solution leveraged
PingFederate, Pfizer’s federated identity management system.
 Technical Lead for the successful migration to SharePoint 2010, leveraged
novel backend SAN synchronization approach to support weekend
migration.
 Technical Lead for build of SharePoint 2016 TAP environment in Azure,
leverages multi-server environment and VM template technology to
facilitate rapid scale-out.
 Technical Lead for MySite migration to SharePoint 2013, included switch for
applications to User Profile Services in 2013.
 Technical Lead for build of FAST Search and SharePoint 2013 Search
environments. Partnered with BTI on unique build, lowered overall support
costs by more than 30% while increasing Search performance.
 Technical Lead for successful rapid build of ecfR, Pfizer’s SharePoint for
Regulatory applications. Partnered with BT Compliance on Information
Protection and Risk Management (IPRM) definition, defining its Compliance
Risk Profile (CRP) and SDLC build process. ecfR is approved for GCP, GDP,
GLP, GxP Electronic Records, PI and SPI Domains, supports a 3-2-2 rating
(CIA).
SKILLS & ABILITIES  Collaboration technologies, software development, client/server computing,
architecture, parallel algorithm development, distributed computing, search,
cloud, networking, performance analysis and information security
 Microsoft SharePoint, Search technologies, EMC Documentum
 Experience in client/server solution design and development under both Unix &
Windows O/S variants (Linux, Solaris, Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, ...) with a
wide range of programming technologies (C, C++, Java, J2EE, C# and scripting
technologies)
 Data Analysis, Algorithm Design and Visualization, Information Modelling and In-
memory processing for real-time and cluster computing systems

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 Hardware and Software design, engineering and analysis on large distributed
systems
 Delivering Open-Source and vendor based solutions
 Software Development under Agile, Extreme Programming and Waterfall Software
Development Lifecycle methodologies
 Delivering and supporting Regulatory and non-Regulatory solutions
 Information exchange technologies, XML and associated standards (XPath, XSLT,
XQuery)
 Moving from the theoretical to physical world, ability to understand & articulate
complex concepts/algorithms/mathematical models that can be translated into
effective real-world solutions
 Performance-centric Algorithm development on Distributed and Parallel systems
 Meeting challenges for designing, building, testing and operationalizing very large
and distributed critical global platforms
 Excellent at communicating technical and Business challenges across teams
 Exceeds at building strategic partnerships with Shared Services
 Delivering and supporting World-Class infrastructures
 Innovation and agile development in Research & Development environments,
delivering innovative technology agnostic and open-source solutions
 System performance and load analysis on large distributed systems, code level
through physical architecture
 Educator in Information Technology, teaching over 30 college courses ranging from
Programming, Architecture and Operating Systems
 Positive attitude, motivator and always encourages a Team-First approach
PREVIOUS
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
DIRECTOR, PFIZER, CONTENT AND COLLABORATIONS TEAM
2007-2011
Served as Service Delivery Lead/Platform Architect for Pfizer’s Document Management
Facility (DMF) Platform.
 DMF hosts multiple Document Management applications across the globe using
Documentum, Adlib Rendering and FAST Search services.
 Assured Pfizer’s stringent regulatory and compliancy requirements with fully
validated capability and secured confidentiality, integrity and high availability.
 Partnered directly with Business customers, and liaison with vendors and
technology providers to address Pfizer’s global DM needs.
 Led design and transition to lower-cost hardware based on Linux RHEL and
Documentum 6.5, away from Solaris servers; saving significant on-going and 30%
initial hardware costs while improving alignment to technology directions.
 Identified, evaluated and managed roll-out of Linux physical infrastructure.
 Lead engagement of technology (EMC) and support service vendors to ensure new
environment met requirements seamlessly within fixed budgetary and timeline
constraints.
Served as SharePoint and Enterprise Search Architect.
 Lead definition of Pfizer’s Enterprise Search Service. Included working closely
with FAST Search vendor on cost model and design for an expandable Search
service. Effort lead to the design and construction of PGS SEEK Search Platform.
 Lead selection and rollout of NewsGator RSS Enterprise Feed Server.
Environment used to collaborate and share RSS feeds throughout Pfizer’s
Research community.
2006-2007 ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, PFIZER
Domain Architect responsible for strategic technology decisions across Pfizer’s Research
and Development Knowledge Management group.

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 Led the technical evaluation of Microsoft’s Knowledge Network social networking
application for Pfizer. Enhancement to SharePoint exposed relationships between
people as well as their expertise by answering the questions of “who knows
whom” and “who knows what”.
 Worked as technical liaison with Pfizer IT organizations and Microsoft.
 Presented and trained users on the KN and its rollout across Pfizer’s BT
organization.
 Facilitated technical decisions across all aspects of the project and ensuring that
organizations were actively involved and informed.
 Served as Domain Architect for KM on Research Informatics Design Board (Ri DB).
 Presented on SharePoint to global audiences including key stakeholders in
Research and Development, helped to drive its successful early adoption at
Pfizer.
1999-2006 Principal Engineer, Advanced Technologies Group (ATG), GENERAL
DYNAMICS, ELECTRIC BOAT DIVISION
System architect responsible for ATG’s technology insertions across Electric Boat.
 Focused on identifying, testing and integrating new information exchange
technology solutions (XML) and process improvements across Business domains as
well as with Business Partners.
 Technical lead for development and deployment of the IETM system for CVNX
program, which provided an innovative Document Management approach to
dynamic documents based on XML content fragments for content authoring and
content reuse.
 Technical lead for the Advanced Product Model Project, browser based XML
database system to warehouse shipyard design information. Allows operators to
create custom visualizations of physical components of the ship. Visualization
provides seamless interface for obtaining additional component specific
information via simple interactions with the 3D graphical representation model.
 Co-lead for the Product Data Web Services Project, responsible for proposal,
design, implementation and demonstration of a J2EE system that allows for
locating and extracting of back-end data via SOAP messaging within Electric
Boat’s Enterprise Oracle 9i environment. The approach taken was unique and was
presented at the OMG (Object Management Group) Web Services conference.
 Technical lead for Automated Electronic Documents Project, an XML based
approach to automate the generation of enhanced electronic documents. XSLT
environment dynamically generates HTML/SVG integrated reports from in-house
nuclear radiation analysis application data. Developed reports provided
intelligent linking of the visualized information to the source.
1999-1999 SYSTEM ARCHITECT, SAPIENT, CAMBRIDGE, MA
Responsible for architecture support across consulting projects.
 Help lead web application and system architecture proposal development for
Mellon Bank based on the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition.
1998-1999 SYSTEM ARCHITECT, ARCHITECTURE GROUP, COMPUTER SCIENCES
CORPORATION
Responsible for architecture support across consulting projects, including information
security and system/application architecture design.
 Architect for Premier Inc. Security Project which conducted a security review
of the external/internal data communications and underlying network
infrastructure (servers, network, etc.) for a health industry corporation.
 Selected, evaluated and deployed various security products (enCommerce's
getAccess, Axent's Enterprise Security Manager and Intruder Alert, Enterprise
Resource Manager) to harden the customer’s corporate environment.

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1985-1998 ELECTRONICS ENGINEER, ADVANCED DISPLAY RESEARCH FACILITY, NAVAL
UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER, NEWPORT, RI
Systems and Software Engineer responsible for developing next generation advanced
human-computer interfaces on distributed systems in OpenGL and GKS graphics
programming languages.
 Created and executed numerous Research Proposals in imaging, imaging
processing, and visualization of large and complex data.
 Designed and constructed large distributed data processing (in-memory
processing) and visualization solutions for real-time analysis of sonar data.
 Developed novel distributed solutions in multiple programming languages for
user-friendly presentation on various platforms.
 Government technical lead for the development of AN-BSY-2 Combat Display
System Console, responsibilities included review of vendor software and
hardware design, performance and physical testing of the display system.
PUBLICATIONS “A cluster computer system for the analysis and classification of massively large biomedical image
data”, T Daggett, I.R Greenshields Medical Imaging Laboratory, U-31 Room 19, T. L. Booth
Research Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 233 Glenbrook Road, The
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA Received 25 March 1997, Available online 29 July 1998,
Computers in Biology and Medicine, Volume 28, Issue 1, January 1998, Pages 47–60,
http://www.sciencedirect.com.proxy1.athensams.net/science/article/pii/S0010482597000322
“Markov random field-Gibbs context-dependent volumetric image classification on a small scale
cluster computing system”, TA Daggett - 1998 - digitalcommons.uconn.edu,
http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/dissertations/AAI9831871/
“Reuse of Ship Product Model Data for Life-Cycle Support”, Briggs, Ted L.; Rando, Thomas C.;
Daggett, Thomas A., Source: Journal of Ship Production, Volume 22, Number 4, November 2006,
pp. 203-211(9), Publisher: Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME),
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/sname/jsp/2006/00000022/00000004/art00002
“Information Engineering: Object-Oriented Design and Analyses3 Chapter 6: Object-Oriented
Design and User-Role Based Security”, SA Demurjian, MY Hu, TC Ting, TA Daggett -
engr.uconn.edu, http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~steve/urbschap.ps
Demurjian, S., Daggett, T., Ting, T.C., and Hu, M.-Y., “URBS Enforcement Mechanisms for Object-
Oriented Systems and Applications” in Database Security, IX: Status and Prospects, Proceedings of
the ninth annual IFIP TC11 WG11.3 working conference on Database security IX : status and
prospects: status and prospects, D. Spooner, S. Demurjian, and J. Dobson (eds.), Springer, Jan.
1996, pp. 79-94.
Needham, D., Demurjian, S., Price, M., Rando, T., and Daggett, T., “Analyzing the Reusability of
Shipbuilding Components Modeled in XML,” Proc. of 6th Intl. Conf. on Business Information
Systems(BIS 2003), Colorado Springs, CO, June 2003.
Demurjian, S., Hu, M.-Y., Daggett, T., and Ting, T.C., “User-Role Based Security Enforcement
Mechanisms for Object-Oriented Systems and Applications,” Proc. of 9th IFIP WG 11.3 Working
Conf. on Database Security, Rensselaerville, NY, Aug. 1995.
EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, PH.D. COMPUTER SCIENCE
Medical Imaging Dissertation entitled “Markov Random Field-Gibbs Context-Dependent Volumetric Image
Classification on a Small Scale Cluster Computing System”
RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, MASTERS DEGREE
Computer Science
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, BACHELORS OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING
Computer Science & Engineering
Cum Laude

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OTHER CONNECTICUT COLLEGE, COMPUTER SCIENCE ADJUNCT
Courses taught include software development in Java, computer architecture and operating systems
RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE, COMPUTER SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD
Active member of Business Advisory board