SUMMARY:

• Accomplished solutions focused IT professional with 20+ year record of evaluating, engineering, and implementing successful technical solutions for enterprise projects in the financial and pharmaceutical services industries. Proven track record of aligning technology strategies with short and long - term corporate initiatives.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Jersey City, New Jersey

Senior VMWare Consultant - Global Virtual Hosting Services Architecture & Engineering

• Design, architect and engineer virtualization solutions based on customer requirements
• Lead and supervise the completion of critical virtualization projects; responsible for analyses, scoping and driving the successful execution of pilot and production deployments.
• Identification, evaluation and proposal of solutions to identified process and data quality issues including the development of specifications.
• Automate routine and complex multistep processes by creating and publishing PowerCLI functions and modules for consumption by the VHS community.
• Responsible for developing policies, reactive procedures, run books, deployment guides and technical briefs
• Provide managerial, mentoring and technical leadership to VHS virtualization teams.
• Shape and maintain trusting collaborative relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders which facilitates and drives business objectives.
• Champion the use of clean reliable data and metrics to drive business decisions.
• Provide 3rd level assistance and support for complex operation issues requiring high touch and or strategic vision.

Confidential - Jersey City, New Jersey

VP / Level 3 - Global IaaS Engineering, Design and Support - Team Lead

• Responsible for providing L3 support and maintenance of Vsphere 4.X, 5.X infrastructures globally. The global virtualization footprint is comprised of 140+ VCs, 7000+ ESX/ESXi Hosts and 140,000 VMs.
• Manage the implementation and consistent delivery of virtualization projects throughout the life cycle of application implementation following best practices and architectural guidelines.
• Develop test plans, matrices and platforms to validate functionality, performance and viability of virtualization tools and components.
• Grow and maintain artifacts for deployed infrastructures, related operational run books and reactive procedures.
• Define framework for VM folders / Host and Clusters hierarchical structure as well as define and manage roles, permissions and privileges.
• Responsibilities include automation, implementing efficiencies, resolving complex performance related problems and providing third level support to JPMC ESX operations teams

Confidential - Jersey City, New Jersey

Senior VMWare Consultant - Global Virtual Hosting Services

• Responsible for troubleshooting, maintaining and supporting the Vsphere infrastructure globally across time zones through “follow-the-sun” support model. The global virtual computing environment consists of approximately 30 VCs and 40,000 VMs and growing
• Troubleshoot HA capacity and redundancy issues. Improve availability of systems by analyzing and re-visiting current HA and DRS configurations.
• Automation of vCenter Server and ESXi Server deployments and configurations via PowerCli scripts and functions
• Establish and apply ESX host profiles to effect configuration compliance
• Install, configure, troubleshoot and manage Virtual Update Manager including management of baselines and remediation of vCenter inventory objects
• Experience with upgrading from VI3 to Vsphere 4 and Vsphere 5 as well as VC consolidations
• Provide root cause analysis of severity 1 incidents and deliver solutions where applicable
• Define performance management methodologies for troubleshooting, identifying and remediating performance related issues or problems at the virtual machine and/or host level.
• Identify and resolve storage contention and over commitment issues.
• Advance, evaluate and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data
• Deploy and manage Virtual Machines and vApps
• Facilitate in the design, system integration and implementation of any virtualization related processes and solutions.

Confidential - Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania

Team Lead - Platform Administration - MS Windows

• Hands on results driven Information Technology Manager with 5 direct reports responsible for 24/7 support and maintenance of 1800 plus Windows servers
• Maintain and support the VMWare ESX classic and ESXi / Virtual Center infrastructure
• Responsible for planning, developing and delivering cost-effective high performance and scalable solutions that meet or exceeds business needs
• Responsible for ensuring industry standard best practices are employed to assure high quality services are delivered to the business; which maximizes the productivity of SIG employees
• Responsible for hiring, career development, performance and salary reviews for all resources
• Extensive experience with managing client expectations
• Ensured all service level agreements and performance objectives are met or exceeded
• Adept in discovering improvement opportunities, implementing full development life cycle and building cohesive productive teams
• Windows Crash Dump Analyses and Debugging as well a Stack and Event Tracing
• OS and network performance tuning

Confidential, Hopewell, New Jersey

VP - CAI / Storage and Unix Integration Group

• Lead Systems Integrator for SAN / storage integration related projects
• Responsible for developing SAN / storage integration designs which includes systems analyses, systems definition and validation
• Defined and published LUN provisioning templates resulting in storage that performs and scales well
• Managed all aspects of performance and capacity planning as it relates to SAN / storage and its sub-systems.
• Extensive experience in host/server side installations and troubleshooting as it relates to the SAN infrastructure
• Defined and documented disk alignment procedures to avoid track misalignments and improve disk performance
• Responsible for identifying dependencies and pre-requisites for solutions as well as provide 3rd level support when storage related issues arises
• Responsible for budgeting and forecasting storage expenditures based on business requirements
• Assist development teams in establishing IO / profiles for their applications
• Manage and maintain the group’s Sharepoint team web site
• Backup Unix System Administrator to the Verisign FDS application

Manager / VP

Confidential

• Manage and prioritize the team’s IT projects
• Develop detailed functional specifications / project plans for new initiatives and create test plans
• Responsible for the development and maintenance of desktop policies
• Oversee the implementation of various BIPS / EUC initiated projects until completion
• Coordinate the resources of various technology groups to ensure that critical projects are delivered on time
• Manage direct reports including performance reviews and employee development
• Responsible for budgets and budget forecasting

Senior Systems Engineer / VP

Confidential

• Primary responsibilities: Provide direction, design and development of effective technology solutions for Global Banking clients
• Provided load balancing, clustering, and fail-over solutions
• Design business continuity solutions for disaster recovery of core infrastructure components
• Design strategic infrastructure framework for server and storage consolidations
• Develop and document detailed design proposals in support of business objectives and projects
• Performance trending and capacity planning
• Architected and implemented the Microsoft Software Update Services
• Designed and architected enterprise level, multi-tiered anti-virus infrastructure for Global Banking using Six Sigma principles
• Consolidated network shares by implementing DFS
• Engineer, design and document Citric Presentation farm implementation for production deployment
• Team lead for Active Directory migration project for Global Banking
• Manage and maintain VMWare GSX Server farm
• Led the Exchange 2000 migration project
• Co-developed a Windows 2000 workstation unattended install build for Global Banking
• Architected and help assist in deploying Altiris Notification and Deployment Server solutions for the Global Banking Group
• Assist and support web development, integration and release efforts
• Properly triage and escalate issues to various technical groups and vendors as well as provide third level support when required
• Specialties: Windows OS System Engineering, hardware certification and integration engineering

Confidential, New York, New York

Windows and Unix Manager / VP - Debt Markets Production and Development Support

• Hands on manager for 20 UNIX and NT System Administrators
• Responsible for planning production and development operations, establishment of priorities, assignment of job responsibilities as well as facilitating problem resolution
• Provided assistance in developing architecture definition and implementations
• Primary contact to clients for all software implementation activities with responsibility for application and technical support
• Project lead for Classic Bloomberg conversions for Debt Markets

Sr. Systems Administrator / AVP

Confidential

• Hands on team leader responsible for managing 10 System Administrators for UNIX and NT platforms
• Y2K lead coordinator for the Debt Markets development environment
• Worked directly with clients, participating and assisting in the integration of hardware, software issues translating business needs into technical system solutions
• Software packaging employing different technologies
• Used expertise to perform programming, operational and administrative functions, testing and QA package definitions, distributions, and documentation
• Significant participation in developing technologies e.g, CORBA, DCOM, ADO, LDAP and ASP

Sr. Systems Administrator / Associate

Confidential

• Project lead for Banyan Vines and Novell Netware Migration to Windows NT
• NT Server 3.51 and 4.0 Domain Administration
• Implemented server based profiles
• Solaris 2.5 and 2.6 administration in a NIS environment
• Integration of UNIX and NT using SAMBA and NFS
• Microsoft Exchange 5.0 and 5.5 Site Administration
• Architected unattended install and overlays for NT 4.0 workstation rollouts
• Member of Core Team for Banyan Vines disinvestment for North America
• Omtool FAX Sr. enterprise network faxing administration and support for local site
• SMS 1.2, WINS, DCP, DNS, SAMBA Server Administration

Confidential, New York, New York

Consultant - Novell 3.x Administration

• Novell 3.x Server Administration and Desk Side support.
• Windows 3.x clients were administered using Saber system
• Beta rollout of Windows NT 4.0 Workstations to approximately 40 clients

RIS Operations

Confidential

• Managed 60+ Compaq Proliant NT 3.51 servers providing file and print services in a multi-domain, multi-protocol, and heterogeneous networked environment consisting of 1000 clients
• Remote management of trusted domains through wide area links e.g., T1, T3, VSAT and Frame Relay
• Trust Relationship, Print Services, Directory Replication and User Profiles management
• Troubleshooting connectivity and performance related problems
• Lead site coordinator for migration of Basic Research and Resource Management Departments from the Novell platform to the NT Server platform
• Project lead for implementing TCP/IP printing for 100 print servers and printers
• Developed and implemented load, stress, volume and reliability test plans and scripts
• Team member for rollout of 500 clients from a DEC Pathworks / VMS environment to a WFW 3.11 / NT Advanced Server client / server configuration
• Managed network security
• MS Mail 3.2 administration on a workgroup level.
• Established baselines and monitored various network connectivity and performance tests
• Daily backups
• Provided ongoing technical assistance to the Help Desk and Desk Side support staff

Confidential, Trenton, New Jersey

Network Systems Integration, Certified Netware Engineer

• Provided consulting and technical support to customers
• Responsible for defining functional specifications through testing and implementation for customers and end users.
• Initiated and implemented processes to become a Novell Authorized Reseller
• Analyzed and resolved hardware and software problems.
• Product testing and evaluations
• Administration and maintenance of in house Novell Netware 3.12 systems

Confidential, Trenton, New Jersey

Systems Manager

• Systems manager Novell Netware 2.2 10 node environment
• Responsible for identification, troubleshooting, vendor interface, and resolution of software and hardware issues
• System backup and recovery procedures
• User training

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows Server Operating Systems 32/64 bit, Solaris 2.X, Red Hat Linux

Applications: VMware Virtual Infrastructure, VMWare Virtual Center, VMWare VCenter Operations Manager (vCOPs), vCenter Site Recovery Manager, vCenter Log Insight, VMWare vCenter HeartBeat, vSphere ESXi, vCenter AutoDeploy Services, VMWare View, vCenter Cloud Automation Center, vCenter Orchestrator, AWS, Docker, Leostream P2V, Novell Platespin Portability Suite, Microsoft Softgrid, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft Application Server 2000, Microsoft Share Point Portal Server, .NET Framework, E Policy Orchestrator 2.5, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, Tibco Spotfire Server, HP Service Desk, HP Server Automation (Opsware), Altiris Notification and Deployment Server, Microsoft Win Dump, Wireshark, WanSync Content Deployment, Citrix Presentation Server, Computer Associates UniCenter, TeamQuest, Windows Load Balancing, Microsoft DNS (&BIND), WINS, DHCP, Microsoft Office, Repli-Web, Verisign FDS, Hummingbird Exceed, Norton Anti-Virus, McAfee Virus Scan, MKS Toolkit, Microsoft Visual Source Safe, Open Bloomberg, Reuters, Microsoft Project, Visio, SAMBA, NFS, Omtool Fax Sr., HP Insight Manager, Microsoft Software Update Services, What’s Up Gold, SMS 1.2, Wininstall 7.0., Microsoft Active Directory, Blackberry, Palm OS, Legato Octopus, Remedy, IONA Orbix.

Server Hardware: Cisco UCS, HP Proliant, Dell PowerEdge, Sun Ultra Servers

Languages: Powershell, PowerCLI, VBscript, WSH, Transact SQL, ADSI, WMIC, NETSH