SUMMARY:

• Accomplished senior information technology professional with demonstrated career success developing and executing operational strategies to promote organizational growth and optimal utilization of emerging technologies.
• Extensive experience leading operations for Technology, Research and Development, and Application Support teams within the financial and media industry. Possesses in - depth experience with architectural design, operational efficiency, process development, IT contracts, proposal development, competitive bidding and negotiations.
• Windows Server 2012
• Office 365
• Project Management
• VMware 5.5
• Data Center Migration
• Process Analysis
• Amazon Web Services
• Application Migration
• Presentation Skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Director, Information Technology

Responsibilities:

• Currently managing a global data center consolidation program with a target reduction of Confidential ’s global footprint by 60%. Components of this program includes server and storage consolidation with VMware 5.5, implementing Public Cloud services (Amazon Web Services) to host non-critical and development environments.
• Served as Global Director overseeing Confidential ’s Shared Services initiative, including a migration of Microsoft Exchange to Office 365. Responsible for architecture and implementation of the entire migration process, including but not limited to mailbox migration, public folders, Active Directory Federation Services, SharePoint, PST files, email distribution list, DNS, MX records, mail archives, and legal holds.
• Coordinating with Legal and HR divisions across the enterprise to harmonize on policies with relations to user onboarding/off boarding, data privacy, retention, eDiscovery, archive, and voicemail/email integration.
• Working across five divisional service desks to adopt a standard IT Services delivery framework in order to support the adoption of the Global Shared Services initiative.

Confidential, New York, NY

Technology Manager, System Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for system design and migration of a $4 Billion dollars Asset Based Lending loan system from Confidential to Confidential . The application and infrastructure platform went through extensive re-design in order to accommodate the increased transactions as part of the migration (Platform went from 200,000+ transactions daily to 900,000+)
• Standardized Windows server platform across Production, BCP and UAT sites under VMware ESXi 4 architecture.

Confidential, New York, NY

Vice President, Infrastructure Architect and Service Leader

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw daily network operations, responsible for setting corporate technology and security standards, execution of enterprise IT strategies to meet changing business needs.
• Responsible for architecture of a new asset-based lending platform, which successfully migrated the company off its 30 years old mainframes. The new platform consisted of all Windows servers, along with load balancers, terminal servers, application layer firewalls, and network intrusion devices.
• Standardized IT project dashboard reporting to Executive IT and Business leadership.
• Member of GMAC Technology Shared Services Team; standardized Windows platform security configuration across the enterprise.
• Leveraging partnerships with other GMAC divisions, successfully migrated all SOX applications from in-house data centers and consolidated them down to 2 core data centers within GMAC.
• Standardized End User Computing support and operation model with other GMAC divisions thereby accelerating software deployment across the enterprise.
• Created standardized office templates with GMAC Corporate Facility Department thus allowing for multiple GMAC business units to co-locate and share common IT infrastructure services in the same office location.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Infrastructure Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Architected a Windows 2000 Active Directory Domain for 12,000 users in 9 sites worldwide. Worldwide sites included New York, Dallas, Dublin, San Francisco, Bermuda, Hong Kong, Paris, Sydney, and Zurich.
• Optimized worldwide Active Directory design to maximize performance over Wide Area Network by designing various Site Policies.
• Designed and implemented Microsoft’s Distributed File System for future application deployment via Windows 2000 Group Policies.
• Designed and implemented domain-wide security policies on Active Directory Domain Controllers, IIS Servers, and over 9,000+ Windows 2000 Professional workstations.
• Implemented a new Microsoft SMS design to assist in system inventory and Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 deployment.

Confidential, New York, NY

IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Engineered application deployment strategies using Microsoft SMS 2.0 and Windows 2000 Active Directory Group Policies.
• Created Windows Installer (MSI) packages for Confidential ’s Windows 2000 deployment using Wise Packaging Studio 3.0.
• Developed packaging standards and provided in-house and documentation for Confidential ’s IT division in NYC.

Confidential, New York, NY

IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Architected the Microsoft Windows 2000 domain/Active Directory design for Confidential ’s Private Clients division.
• Functioned as overall technical lead to various divisions within Confidential in order to facilitate the Windows 2000 deployment.
• Architected enterprise-wide Windows 2000 domain policy templates for corporate security, application management, and delegation of authorities for helpdesk, and various IT support groups.
• Provided LAN/WAN requirements for network engineering group to ensure necessary bandwidth was available to Active Directory for replication and group policies deployment.
• Customized Windows 2000 desktop security templates to provide compatibility for legacy applications. These templates were then incorporated into Microsoft Active Directory at the organizational unit (OU) level.
• Customized applications deployment using Windows 2000 Group Policy, Microsoft’s Distributed File System, and SMS 2.0.
• Engineered application resiliency for business mission critical applications using “Folder Redirection” and “Offline Folders” technology.
• Architected Windows Installer packaging standards for Confidential Retail division using Wise for Windows Installer version 3.52.

Confidential, New York, NY

IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Windows 2000 Active Directory engineering and design for regional offices in Hong Kong, London, Tokyo, and Sydney.
• Re-engineered the TCP/IP network layout for Goldman’s Investment Banking division worldwide in order to provide for Active Directory databases’ site-to-site replication network traffic needs.
• Integrated several in-house UNIX applications with Microsoft’s Active Directory using Microsoft’s MetaDirectory, thus allowing for single sign-on.
• Architected and deployed Microsoft’s Terminal Services on Windows 2000 Servers for 1500 bankers worldwide. All applications on Terminal Servers were re-packaged into Windows Installer (MSI) format using Wise for Windows Installer.
• Customized and deployed Windows 2000 Group Policies to administer and control various settings on workstations, servers, and domain controllers.
• Packaged and deployed applications using Wise for Windows Installer to Investment Banking division.
• Created workstation, laptop, and server images using Microsoft SysPrep, Ghost, and VB scripts for in-house Windows 2000 pilot deployment.
• Created customized extensions and security templates to Group Policy.