SUMMARY:

• Complex solution based consulting
• Leading large delivery teams
• Creating governance frameworks, lifecycles, and process
• Proven ability to internalize complex cloud/cyber security objectives and enable large cloud and datacenter infrastructures during full time operations
• Ability to work at high and low levels of detail
• Comfortable in front of large groups as well as senior executives and highly technical industry personnel
• Hands on experience with cloud build, cyber security, IT governance and lifecycle design, API governance risk & compliance, enterprise cloud strategy, program & project management, infrastructure, architecture creation, application lifecycle and refactoring project management, mobile application architecture, dev ops development & operations, financial budgeting & modeling, business development, and partner vendor management
• Director level / 100% Travel OK

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

CLOUD PUBLIC/HYBRID/PRIVATE: Cloud Strategy, Cloud Development (devops perspective including sprint process, monitoring, root cause, change management, ops backlog, release management, and testing root cause). Developing Enterprise Cloud capabilities and service types IaaS, PaaS, and Saas. Design, create, and execute across Private, Hybrid and Public Cloud. Identifying and Migrate scalable web applications to AWS. Amazon Web Services AWS as the primary platform for Cloud AWS including Elastic Load Balancer, EC2, S3, and RDS. Middleware Technologies Apache, Tomcat, Weblogic, Splunk, Zookeeper. Data Store MySQL, Cassandra, SQL, NoSQL databases. Cloud Enablement VMware vSphere 5.5 vCenterOps Mgt. Suite. vFabric App Director, vCloud API, vCloud Connector, vCenter Orchestrator, DevOps Experience in environments with Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Powershell, Chef, Puppet, Hadoop Cloudera/CDH Hive Pig MapReduce Hbase Impala, Cloud Infrastructure from a devops perspective, Tool Selection, Implementation, Cloud - Based Compliance, Cloud Federation, SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, Application Portability, Automation, Cloud-Delivered Testing, Cloud Lock-in vs. Cloud Interoperability, In-Cloud Data Encryption, Cloud Reliability, and Fabric Computing.

CYBERSECURITY: Critical System Protection CSP / Pre-Sales / Anti-Ransomware / Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) (HIPS Policies/Zero-day Exploit Protection / Depth Application Control / Windows Exploit Protection), Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager 12.1 Enterprise Cybersecurity Strategy (Defense In Depth), Symantec Enterprise Cybersecurity Manager ESM & Symantec Enterprise Cybersecurity Architecture SESA, Enterprise Firewall SEF, Blue Coat, Symantec Intruder Alert ITA, Incident Manager IM, VelociRaptor Firewall, Symantec Decoy Server SDS, ManTrap (Honey Pot), ManHunt IDS IPS, SNORT, Client Cybersecurity SCS, Gateway Cybersecurity SGS 5400, Vulnerability Assessment SVA, iPatch, Host Intrusion Detection HIDS, V2i Protector, NMap, NetStumbler, Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine, Symantec AntiVirus / SMTP, Symantec AV / Exchange, Symantec AntiVirus for Gateway, Symantec AV/ Notes Domino, Symantec AntiVirus CE, Symantec AntiVirus / Blue Coat, Symantec AntiVirus /Handhelds, NetRecon

IT GOVERNANCE, RISK & COMPLIANCE: GRC Governance Risk Management Compliance (integrated), FinTech Financial Technology API Governance, ISO27001 (Information Security), PCI DSS 3.1, ITIL, ITSM, Project Management, PMBOK, Prince2, Business Continuity & ISO 22301, Data Protection, COBIT 5, and N2 Connection for Health Compliance. Report on Validation, attestation of Validation, and Report Writing

DATACENTER SECURITY: Datacenter Storage Strategy, IBM System Storage DS5000, Storage SAN EMC 2000S-M2, DMX3-24, NetApp, Snapshots, Replication, Capacity reporting for storage and storage by business unit by tier. Array Installation and Tier 1/Tier 2/Tier 3 Data Classification, Server Technology Remediation & Refresh, CapEx & OpEx, Clusters, Hosts & HBA's, Virtualization Servers, Veritas Command Central Storage (VCS)COMPLEX PROGRAM MANAGEMENT IN FINANCIAL ENVIRONMENTS: Experience working with Investment Banking Clients, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds, Management Consulting, Corporate Finance, Sales & Trading, Equity Research, Prop Trading, Asset Management, Real Estate Finance, and Accounting environment experience

DATACENTER INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING: Deploy FLEXPOD converged infrastructure design and buildout focus on capacity and stability issues- cloud. Migrating legacy in-scope application workload to the FLEXPOD infrastructure. Develop operational processes and procedures for Converged Infrastructures (CI) FLEXPOD infrastructure

Confidential TECHNOLOGIES: Windows Infrastructure, Windows Managed Solution Framework (MSF) Model. Experience with Program Management & Strategy, Deployment, Test, Release Management, User Experience, Product Management. Experience implementing the Confidential Solution Framework MSF Process Model, Envisioning, Planning, Developing, Stabilizing, and Deploying. Specific Experience MSRT, Windows Defender, Windows Live Safety Center, Windows Live OneCare, Data Access Policies, Digital Rights Mgt. (DRM), Trusted Platform Module (TPM), Application Access, Role Based Control, Host Intrusion Detection, patching, patching, AV/Anti-Malware, O/S Packs, Network Access, Network Intrusion Detection, Firewalls, Identity Based Access Controls, Forefront, Remote Access Quarantine, NAP, PKI, IPSec, BitLocker, MBSA, Configuring User Policy (Monitoring, Reporting, Configuration, Change Setting directly Move to Policy, Movement, Root, Tree, & Forest Cybersecurity, Active Directory Design, IIS Web Server, DNS Design & Cybersecurity

VERSED IN CLOUD COMPUTING ISSUES CONCERNING

• Ability to drive architectural/infrastructure decisions, policy, frameworks, lifecycle, designs, blueprints (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS) with SOA -> API, tool selection, current and future state
• Hands on experience with Amazon Web Services AWS as the primary platform for Cloud AWS including Elastic Load Balancer, EC2, S3, and RDS
• Creating technical architecture for cloud computing environments that addresses cybersecurity, reliability, availability, capacity, and latency
• Leading proof of concept/pilots to support the use of cloud computing with a heavy focus on cloud infrastructure from a devops perspective utilizing Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, PowerShell, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, PowerShell, Chef, and Puppet
• Leading the detailed strategy & analysis of workloads to identify and prioritize cloud candidates
• Application of a consultative approach to determining where and how the development & test of a cloud computing environment should be implemented
• Developing and building development and test solutions with Confidential, Amazon AWS, and Rackspace cloud computing offerings
• Leading migrations of existing workloads to cloud implementations

VERSED IN BUSINESS ISSUES CONCERNING

• Operational capability across all consulting services functions and driving business strategies through to execution
• Confidential global delivery model (MGSI)
• Business process reengineering
• Enterprise Infrastructure
• Program life cycle management - concept definition, concept definition, system design and prototype
• Project management methodologies (agile, interactive, incremental, and phased approaches) and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) creation
• Leading and developing others

VERSED IN RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT ISSUES CONCERNING

• Identifying large sales opportunities, assessing, and prioritizing current and future strategic opportunities while working directly with the customer, internal organizations, and partner ecosystem
• Influencing customer-specific infrastructure requirements which result in the adoption of products in strategic, mission-critical applications
• Strategy Development and execution of business plans for teams comprised of program management, sales, business development, technical support, and technology evangelism
• Professional speaker, published author, and New York State certified technical trainer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Director, Cloud Computing Division

Responsibilities:

• Run global medical company divestiture of all IT resources (application and infrastructure separation)
• Definition and implementation of cloud computing strategy for a nationwide bank
• Create plan for international airport datacenter relocation (hybrid cloud model)
• Implement cyber defense, at scale, for large multinational (anti-malware anti-ransomware)
• Author blog posts on cloud computing industry thought leadership
• Mentor junior team members

Confidential, New York, NY

Consulting - Datacenter Infrastructure Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deploy FLEXPOD Datacenter converged infrastructure to address infrastructure capacity and stability issues
• Migrate all legacy in-scope application workloads to the FLEXPOD infrastructure from a security perspective
• Cyber Security Architecture (Symantec)
• Develop operational processes and procedures for Datacenter CI FLEXPOD infrastructure

Confidential - Boston, MA

Consulting - Cyber Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Integrate parts of development operations (dev ops), engineering, program management office (pmo) and external vendors (DellSecureWorks DSW) for rapid large scale AWS secure cloud deployments
• Provide security cloud based prototyping development of Bit9 + Confidential environments and operations guidance for enterprise customer deployments
• Program manage the deployment of FLEXPOD converged infrastructures to address infrastructure capacity and stability issues while assisting with migration of legacy in-scope application workloads to the FLEXPOD converged infrastructure
• Develop operational processes and procedures for Converged Infrastructures (CI) FLEXPOD infrastructure
• Created guidelines for creation of a program management office based on best practices for newly merged entity (Bit9 + Confidential )
• Hands on guidance on enterprise cyber security cloud architectures (AWS/AZURE) for largest customers

Confidential - New York, NY

Consulting - Cyber Security Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for scrum based cloud devops management and application requirements design, and implementation
• Developing Enterprise Cloud capabilities and service types: IaaS, PaaS, and Saas
• Active Directory Integration
• Amazon Web Services AWS as the primary platform for Cloud AWS including Elastic Load Balancer, EC2, S3, & RDS
• Design, create, and execute across Private, Hybrid and Public Cloud
• Deployment and configuration of Symantec Critical System Protection CSP & Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) (HIPS Policies/Zero-day Exploit Protection / Depth Application Control / Windows Exploit Protection)Symantec End Point Protection (CSP)
• Core Lan/Wan Services including DNS configuration and setup
• Identifying and migrate scalable web applications to AWS
• Platforms & Tools: AWS EC2, S3, and RDS, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Powershell, Chef, Puppet, Hadoop Cloudera/CDH, Hive, Pig, Flume, Git, HDFS, MapReduce, Sqoop, Apache, Node.js, Hbase, Impala, Hue, Linux
• Designed framework and devops standards for a cloud based web applications utilizing big data
• Evaluation and selection of cloud vendor with multiple continent capability
• Running development scrum/agile development meetings
• Standards definition and implementation experience with sitecore, togaf frameworks, virtualization (vcloud vsphere), and storage (emv vmax, netapp, nas)
• Providing design guidance so application performance exceeds base performance requirements

Confidential - New York, NY

Consulting - Datacenter Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Engage with and manage a portfolio of infrastructure programs and communicate enterprise strategy to key stakeholder groups including Confidential Leadership, Confidential Architectural Leadership, Confidential Advanced Services Leadership, and Channel Partner Leadership
• Lead multiple infrastructure project teams and special tasks forces to provide complex technical directions while maintaining responsibility for cost management and meeting scheduled milestones
• Work with management to initiate and lead development of the districts technical direction
• Provide guidance on resource planning and strategy setting

Confidential - New York, NY

Consulting - Infrastructure Engineer /Security Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Advisory role to senior leadership and by design responsible for influencing strategy and program direction
• Provide thought leadership and directional guidance respective to infrastructure, Verizon Business MSSP Managed Cyber security, AWS Cloud implementation, Oracle SOA Tooling, Blue Coat, IT/ network & telecom infrastructure outsourcing, production operations, IT policy & procedure, TOGAF 9.1, SOP
• Provide augmented production operational support during seasonal increases in business for the Global Call Center VoIP Telecom Networks managing proactive maintenance, driving incident management, incident mitigation, issue resolution
• Drive strong operational and incident management, develop action plans for mitigation & resolution, and creating a mature and vetted (RCA) root cause analysis of operational issues
• Develop, manage and own communications plans and supporting documentation providing technical delivery transparency to the executives, program sponsors, business partners, business units, IT management and network/telecom organizations
• Manage relationships with business partners: AT&T, IBM, Verizon, and Accent

Confidential - New York, NY

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Responsibilities:

• Oversee strategy and cloud devops of new cloud and mobile products including large code refactoring efforts of existing environments (IaaS/PaaS)
• Drive building of Amazon cloud Java based mobile applications and develop internal systems and tools to improve customer acquisition and marketing efficiency
• Guide design of application, network infrastructure, and cloud components to scale vertically and horizontally
• Implemented process and discover opportunities to improve process, established a mentorship program, and established hacker lab for rapid prototyping
• Assisted in the formulation of intellectual property IP such as trade secrets, patents, and license contracts
• Strategic planning and lead Inter-company negotiations

Confidential - Scranton, PA

Consulting - Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Advised senior leadership on all aspects of large scale full stack cloud infrastructure program development from a devops perspective including sprint process, monitoring, root cause, change management, ops backlog, release management, and testing root cause
• Advised PMO
• Created general application and infrastructure architectures
• Oracle Tooling & SOA2.0/ AWS Cloud

Confidential - New York, NY

Technical Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design, deployment, and consolidation of infrastructure and cloud computing environments (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS) as needed by the Time Series and Thomson One global programs which included procurement of new, AWS Amazon Web Services based Virtual Machines (VMware ESX equipment 1000+HP/IBM X86 blade servers for 5000+VM’s), EMC SAN equipment (VMAX 100TB+/DMX 3’s & DMX4’s), SAN switches (MDS 9513
• Confidential Director/ MDS 9509 Confidential SAN Switch / IBM M14 IBM Director / SAN140M IBM 140M SAN), and tools from IBM (Tivoli Storage Manager TSM)and Symantec
• Responsible for analysis, architecture, design, and delivery of cloud computing engagements within the Investment and Advisory (I&A) pillars (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS)
• Creation of cloud computing design diagrams & blueprints, cloud implementation & deployment plans such as Project Initiation Documents (PIA), Technical Governance Assessment Test (TGAT), Operational Acceptance Tests (OAT), Scope of Work Creation (SOW), Checklists (RPD), Storage Layout (SL), and Storage and Backup Design Documents (SBDD)
• Driving the overall cloud storage services strategy to meet/exceed operational and financial goals (EMC VMAX DMX III and NetApp)
• Responsible for management of the business expectations regarding Time Series and Thomson One technology programs on cloud expansion, datacenter capacity, new product releases, product enhancements, SAN deployments, Virtual Server deployments and migrations.
• Create and manage all project plans utilizing Confidential Project, Clarity and Share Point.

Confidential, New York, NY.

Engagement Manager

Responsibilities:

• Creation of cloud computing design and architecture documents based on business requirements needs analysis which allow developers to write remote datacenter enabled applications
• Designed implementation and deployment plans including architectures centered around Office Live, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Confidential Dynamics CRM Online
• Created the mapping of business requirements to Azure services for Live Services (Live Mesh platform), SQL Server Data Services (SQL Services), .Net Services, SharePoint Services, and Dynamics CRM Services
• Worked with developers to identify which existing code candidates that will run on Azure services
• International Securities Exchange (ISE) created business mapping of all business requirements to functional user-interface elements requirements for placement on top of SharePoint Online and CRM Online
• National Football League (NFL) developed architecture for cloud computing based custom player book application which included Windows(Azure), database(SQL), storage (EMC VMAX 150TB+), Confidential Switch Infrastructure (MDS 9509 Confidential SAN Switchs), and large user count load (SharePoint) enablement
• Created Azure design documents around the four Azure cloud computing pillars: storage, fabric controller, virtualized computation/VM, and development environment
• Personal interest project: How the hypervisor/virtualization technology can be made to scale across datacenter servers and locations (follow the sun model)
• Experience managing project portfolios of $5M in services revenue leading matrixed teams of (40 consultants)
• Leading consultants, hands on, and managing client relationships at the CxO level of Enterprise customers
• Strong consulting program/project management experience
• Participated in consulting services cloud computing sales opportunities (closed $1m @ TPG-Axon) while delivering cloud computing consulting services projects with customer satisfaction in mind. This includes defining cloud computing project scope, negotiating service chargeback and availability contracts, developing cloud computing proposals, partnering with a professional development resource manager to staff project teams, leading performance of all Confidential services staff on engagements
• Recipient of the Confidential Consulting Services RockStar Award for highest customer satisfaction in North America