SUMMARY:

Over Twenty Five years’ experience designing networks and security solutions for fortune 500 companies. Hands - on experience with variety of networking Infrastructure technologies, exceptional strengths in design, implementation and troubleshooting complex systems. Working knowledge of critical and complex systems in the Financial and Retail sectors. Excellent management and Communication skills, great people person.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Manager Infrastructure and Security

Responsibilities:

• Provide Subject Matter Expertise on Cloud architecture, authentication and system security to related project teams and members.
• I mplement, security-focused tools and services to secure and protect the environment. .(Palo-Alto, Gemalto Two-Factor auth, AlertLogic, Splunk, TrendMicro)
• Define, Interpret and Implement security policies and procedures required for the environment
• Review, Evaluate and recommend best practices for deployment of Infrastructure build, Security tools and applications integration.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Security and Infrastructure tools AWS buildout, (CloudTrail, AWS Config, etc), cloud-security technologies (VPC, AZ, RT-53, Security Groups, AWS routing tables, etc.), Cloud-access control systems AWS-IAM). Identity and Access technologies to secure e-com and corporate access, such as LDAP’s, Centrify, SAML Federated Identity, authentication & authorization solution etc. as it relates to the environment build.
• Implement various Network Security initiatives for lock down of the AWS environment
• Manage all ad-hoc request on Infrastructure and Security build initiatives
• Perform the role of a subject matter expert (SME) to various project teams, members and related areas that is vital to the successful build out of the environment. (Puppet, MuleSoft, Globelscape,
• Provides technical expertise and support to management and project staff concerning information security best practices, procedures, policies and products as related to the project.
• Manage formal project documenting and project related presentations to management. Provide compliance related documentation for reporting as needed. Security.

Confidential

Application and Infrastructure Solutions Manager

Responsibilities:

• Serves as internal information security consultant to technology groups on all project initiatives working with all support teams on requirements gathering/analysis process.
• Participate in project meetings, change control meetings and perform security related review objectives.
• Security point person for all infrastructure security related designs and troubleshooting efforts
• Initiates, facilitates, and promote activities to create information security awareness within the organization
• Perform information security risk and compliance assessments working with internal and external auditing groups on security related issues
• Implement information security policies and solutions for securing the organization
• Reviews all system related security plans within the organization, acting as a liaison to Information Systems managers
• Assess and implement all required solutions for securing or in support of remediating a security requirement or exposure.
• Manage adherence to information security policies and procedures, referring problems to appropriate department manager for remediation
• Design and implement all security related hardware and software solutions
• Provide security consulting to application development teams.
• Monitor and manage all security controls and systems to ensure that appropriate system access levels are in place and maintained.
• Evaluated and Implemented configuration change control of critical IT systems
• Evaluated and Implemented data lost prevention, (DLP) solution to secure data at rest and in motion.
• Designed and Implemented Security Information and Event Management solution (SIEM) using combined solution of Dell Secureworks, Snare Server and Trustwave. Evaluated solution to determinate best technology to implement to satisfy PCI requirement. Managed and maintain solution, primary technical interface for periodical review of solution signatures and policy with vendor.
• Evaluated and Implemented perimeter network IPS solution using Tipping Point technology.
• Evaluated and Implemented core network IDS solution using Cisco IDS technology
• Evaluated and Implement data at rest encryption solution to secure critical data using Vormetric data encryption technology.
• Evaluated and Implemented a MSSP solution to monitor system and syslog events produced by critical systems
• Evaluated and Implemented AAA access control solution for VPN users using Juniper Steel belted Radius appliance integrated in MS Active Directory.
• Deployed host based firewall solution used McAfee EPO solution
• Evaluated and Implemented ID Management using 2 factor authentication for remote access users using RSA technology.
• Evaluated and Implemented solution to detect unauthorized hardware connected to network. Deployed Airwave hardware technology.
• Designed and implemented web filtering controls for enterprise internet users. Deployed Websense security gateway technology.
• Managed all network and security audits for quarterly and /annual security reviews

Confidential

Client Trade Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed day-to-day Engineering, Operations and support related issues sustaining Hedge Fund and ECN exchange trading activities with Confidential .
• Ordered, and Setup all connectivity services for Brokerage clients to connect to Confidential via Internet, VPN’s, Citrix or point-to-point leased lines.
• Ordered and Implemented Exchange links that connected to Confidential.
• Managed Confidential infrastructure changes to support external client trading.
• Managed all activities related to client setup, connectivity setup, trade side client and broker side Firewall provisioning.
• Assisted clients to setup client network that connected to Confidential .
• Worked with internal Confidential developers on new trading products and tools to deploy to clients.
• Setup and Supported all trade support products offered to clients by Confidential, FIX order routing, Execution applications Trade-XL, PassPort, Client Link and Basketlink. Implemented and supported, trade support tools for Report generation, File upload, On-line network printing.
• Network and process reengineering, to improve network performance and customer satisfaction.
• Managed day-to-day operations, client outages, MAC’s, Service and Network disruptions.
• Engineered and managed all routed network changes.
• Meet with client to review service and QOS related issues.

Confidential

Network, LAN/ WAN Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Replaced Bay routers to Cisco 7XXX routers performed all Designs, configurations and installations.
• Day to day support of users and network related issues.
• Network Confidential Compliance Global responsibility for Confidential network compliance project.
• Upgraded or replaced 70, plus Cisco 2500/2600, 7xxx routers.
• Coordinated with supporting organization all phases of network and hardware upgrades and Confidential compliance testing

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manager of EMail global Support Teams.
• Managed day to day level one support of 50K plus Internet, ccMail, and Lotus notes mail user community.
• Confidential messaging infrastructure compliance project management.
• Design upgrade strategy and performed upgrade of Internet, ccMail, email networks and Lotus notes applications network

Confidential

Consultant- Technical operations and Merger project manager

Responsibilities:

• Project manager network redesign for Chemical and Chase merger. Daily trading network support. Manage merger activities relating to IP address allocation and class B network address reassignments.
• Trading floor restacks, moves adds and changes (MAC’s).
• Trouble shoot daily, routed LAN and WAN network problems.
• Supported daily trading operations and new trading floor design.
• Daily support of TCP/IP routed network.
• Meeting with Applications developers to design and integrate applications.
• Responsible for daily support of Cisco based router network.
• Specify fiber and copper cabling requirements to attach new users to network Supported third party data feeds implemented on trading floor.
• Evaluation of new technology to integrate into production trading floor environment.
• Technical evaluation of network related problem, applications, vendor products, physical network problems and redundancy, Contingency related issues.
• New trading floor project design team, responsibilities included off-floors connectivity designs, network topology router configurations, protocol conversion, support of Market data vendors systems, special systems integration.