PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boston, MA

IT Director

• Planned all aspects of legacy client upgrades for global financial applications
• Devloped strategy for internal cloud evolution
• Trained employee and offshore teams in new processes
• Implemented cloud evolution
• Implemented client upgrades
• Managed client relations
• Managed security aspects
• Managed compliance aspects

Confidential, Boston, MA

VP Operations

• Prepared company for sale, was success
• Managed operations team and all platform for this busy search engine for genetic patents
• Developed and implemented business and IT vision, critical success factors and operating plans
• Developed and communicated department/enterprise vision, strategies, critical success factors and plans
• Developed high level migration plans. Anticipated and managed technology evolution and relates it to business solutions. Set direction based on alignment to business and overall technology standards.
• Defined individual performance objectives and development plans and ensures alignment with project and department objectives.
• Appraised and evaluated department and individual performance and makes compensation recommendations; oversees the appraisal process.
• Initiated and fostered business partnerships with current and potential clients, vendors, IT executives, and senior business executives; develops relationships that promote trust and increase efficiency and effectiveness; balanced individual client needs with business priorities assuring alignment with the business strategies and objectives.
• Established financial plan for department and manages to plan; ensures project financial plans are met by managers in department. Jointly established financial targets with business partners.
• Oversees the development, implementation and execution of multiple projects ensuring scope and schedule are established for projects; oversees operating plan and resource allocation for the department, including prioritization and staff deployment; acts based on changed priorities.
• Formulated and executes process and organizational improvement direction and programs which enhance overall effectiveness; proactively seeks ways to improve human resource and other management processes. Understood business process, issues/problems and applies appropriate IT standards and solutions.
• Developed and maintained a network of industry contacts; performs or directs research on industry trends, competitors, business and IT products; analyzes trends and makes strategic and tactical recommendations.
• Ensured system, technical and product architectures are aligned with business objectives.
• Oversaw the end - to-end implementation and management of enterprise software systems to support the effective and efficient delivery of services across the business
• Established and managed an organization-wide project and change management framework to implement recently completed IT Road Map
• Elicited requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and task and workflow analysis.
• Developed an understanding of, and distinguish user requests/statements from the underlying true requirements
• Proactively communicated and collaborated with the business to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver artifacts as needed, such as Business Requirements Documents and Use Cases
• Acted as the liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams
• Coordinated activities of business and IT colleagues, as required, in conjunction with the CIO
• Developed requirement specifications according to standard templates, using simple, non-technical language
• Provided management vision toward reducing application sprawl, manual/Excel-driven processes and high application support/maintenance costs
• Oversaw ownership and development processes associated with core enterprise systems
• Updated and maintained vision and roadmap for managing and assessing enterprise applications
• Worked with CIO to ensure that projects and application changes are properly prioritized and scheduled
• Established functional initiatives, directions, and program management processes in support of the enterprise roadmap
• Provided IT governance as relates to enterprise applications, including ensuring proper controls and other security measures are in place to protect company data and to meet various customer and audit requirements
• Ensured good practice project management processes are followed by both internal and external project team members

Confidential, Foxborough, MA

Director cloud

• Managed gigantic vmware development environments
• Managed services interfaces with Confidential internal clouds
• Tiered SAN storage.
• Analyzed potential changes and enhancements to systems on both software and hardware to determine impact on existing production systems, system design standards, and operating procedures
• Participated in Infrastructure technology design process and disaster recovery exercises.
• Contributed to decision making on strategies for Infrastructure changes/enhancements.
• Created necessary technical documentation and procedures as needed.
• Performed other duties as assigned by the Management Team.
• Ensure 99.99% up time for all critical systems.
• Provided direction to Second Level System Support
• Provided support to Worldwide Offices.

Confidential, Newton, MA

Director Operations

• Managed HIPPA Regulated medical industry web platforms
• Devops with ansible and git
• Moved Production apps from data center into Amazon cloud successfully
• Deep understanding of cloud technologies such as virtualization, storage, and network domains in a cloud service model. Hands-on experience with Java applications and background in robust development, testing and debugging practices, leaning towards agile methodologies.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Director Platform

• Owned the platform 100% Amazon AWS, chef devops
• Continuous build with jenkins bamboo

Confidential, Boston, MA

Management Consultant

• Heavy Project to move rules engine for iPhone updates to cloud from non cloud: very detailed work, devops, proprietary cloud, extensive visio, multiple levels of executive and acquired company management and engineering, Translated use cases into working clusters
• AT&T private cloud managed services

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

Director cloud

• Managed data center, Amazon AWS cloud, noSQL, devops with puppet, QA, production, and support team for windows and linux, storage, monitoring, scrum, projects, heavy mongoDB, Redis, newrelic, 3 direct reports, Translated use cases into working clusters ec2 s3 elb route53 and amazon cloud api automation
• Continuous build with jenkins bamboo

Confidential, Santa Monica, CA

Director Operations

• Updated huge virtualization environment, directed linux team, solaris oracle, hadoop, scrum, projects, hadoop, oracle, solaris, redhat, citrix netscaler, chef devops, VMware upgrades, Translated use cases into working clusters
• Ran development environments in AWS
• Continuous build with jenkins bamboo

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

Director ops

• Managed 100% Amazon cloud AWS e commerce site built with Ruby on Rails
• Managed netapp, enabling dedup devops
• Tuned MySQL
• Continuous build with jenkins bamboo

Confidential, CA

Consultant, cloud

• Worked with Confidential to Optimize performance on Magento E-commerce platform for popular charity-driven shoe company
• Built performance labs on Rackspace hosted servers running CentOS
• Tested MySQL Percona performance tuning changes and splitting of read and write load
• Brought in PHP-FPM on Cherokee advanced webserver
• Worked with business stakeholders and Confidential to integrate dev and operational efforts
• Updated Akamai cache updates to help drive lower page load times
• Managed vms with puppet
• Development environment project in Amazon cloud
• Continuous build with jenkins bamboo

Confidential, Downtown Los Angeles, CA

Consultant

• Configured large redhat linux web clusters
• Extensive mysql 5 upgrade and testing
• Training team of 7 solaris admins on redhat linux
• Extensive work with networking people to diagram and upgrade environment
• Extensive legacy software projects involving publishing industry
• Continuous build with jenkins bamboo

Confidential, Santa Monica, CA

Consultant, cloud

• Extensive project to rework QA for this very busy shopping and e commerce engineers
• Extensive devops to support QA and testing of SOA federated site, bring online new sites, and help integrate them into the actively running SDLC driven evolution of services
• Scrum daily
• Combination of data center and amazon cloud and rackspace
• Continuous build with jenkins bamboo

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Linux Architect

• CentOS- powered video rental and set top box and mobile sites for Blockbuster Video
• Administered Oracle on Solaris Sparc v880s with Veritas cluster server
• Configured extensive Weblogic/Tomcat/Apache/Spring Java web infrastructure from production to dev to QA staging with thousands of VMware VMs
• Monitored and configured custom national CDN programmed in Java and limelight CDN
• Utilized Puppet to manage Vms
• Custom raid 10 jfs storage with dell 220r arrays
• Continuous build with jenkins bamboo

Confidential, Santa Monica, CA

Linux architect

• Created and updated hundreds of VMs on VMware/Xen with CentOS/Tomcat/Apache/LAMP stack
• Performed extensive MySQL tuning
• 100k server global grid, devops on large scale
• Solaris zones ZFS on sun thumpers and thors on of the first petabyte big data database

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Linux Architect

• CentOS- powered video rental and set top box and mobile sites for Blockbuster Video
• Administered Oracle on Solaris Sparc v880s with Veritas cluster server
• Configured extensive Weblogic/Tomcat/Apache/Spring Java web infrastructure from production to dev to QA staging with thousands of VMware VMs
• Monitored and configured custom national CDN programmed in Java and limelight CDN
• Utilized Puppet to manage Vms
• Custom raid 10 jfs storage with dell 220r arrays
• Continuous build with jenkins bamboo