SUMMARY:

• Over 25 years of progressive experience designing, implementing, and managing enterprise environments.
• Diverse technological knowledge base with concentrations in systems architecture, infrastructure, and integration.
• Outstanding performance in technology integration for mission - critical environments.
• Experience with a wide range of server and storage technologies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Director, Storage and Backup

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw all aspects of Storage and Backup for multiple Confidential business units.
• Managed on-shore and off-shore staff.
• Oversaw $22 million operating budget and $14 million in average capital spending.
• Integrated Confidential and Confidential storage organizations.
• Transitioned hosting model from being on-premises only to Hybrid cloud.
• Resolved outstanding audit issues involving privileged access andconfiguration management.
• Implemented Commvault for traditional and cloud backups, resulting in a more feature rich, stable, standardized, and cost effective environment.
• Planned data center consolidation strategy, including provisions for synchronous and asynchronous Disaster Recovery.

Director, Central Systems

Confidential, New York

Responsibilities:

• Managed 3 teams:
• Storage and Backup
• Midrange, Unix, and Linux Systems
• Mainframe Systems
• Oversaw $12 million operating budget and $8 million in average capital spending.
• Led storage, backup, and Unix components of Core Banking Replacement Program, replacing applications, processes, and infrastructure with new systems.
• Introduced new storage technologies, including automated storage tiering, all flash arrays, and backup to disk.
• Introduced first enterprise Linux environment.
• Planned and executed orderly decommission of Mainframe, Tandem, and IBM i (AS/400) environments.
• Automated disaster recovery procedures, reducing startup time by 60% while the server count doubled.
• Negotiated vendor contracts and managed vendor relations, resulting in lower capital and maintenance costs.

Confidential

Senior Technology Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed international team of server architects
• Set and enforced enterprise standards for AIX and HP-UX operating system builds, patching, tools, and security.
• Set hardware standards for x86 servers.
• Set hardware standards for IBM Power systems.
• Successfully led roll-out of AIX 6.1 OS and IBM Power7 hardware.
• Increased automation of operating system build and upgrade procedures.
• Led hardware consolidation effort to reduce Data Center space and power consumption.
• Provided 24/7 L4 support for Unix environments.
• Supported integration of Merrill Lynch AIX environments into Confidential .

Vice President

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed team of 12 server engineers and infrastructure architects.
• Provided integrated Windows, VMWare, Citrix, Unix, SAN/NAS, and networking solutions for complex mission critical applications.
• Set server configuration and operations standards for enterprise.
• Provided L1, L2, and L3 support for 450 Unix/Linux servers, including AIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Solaris.
• Negotiated with internal customers and other engineering groups to set priorities, establish SLAs, determine proper allocation of resources, and accommodate deadlines.
• Successfully led server consolidation and virtualization efforts for Windows, Unix, and Linux environments.
• Led infrastructure team for enterprise document imaging projects, including migrating 150 terabytes of data from an outside storage firm to an internal Documentum/EMC/Oracle based solution.
• Managed physical resource capacity for eight corporate data centers.
• Planned and executed data center migrations and closings.
• Saved company over $3,000,000 annually in direct hardware costs by creating more cost effective alternatives to traditional hardware procurement processes, including VMWare ESX hosts and shared Citrix farms.
• Integrated Countrywide infrastructure processes and personnel into Confidential while planning migration of all Countrywide systems to Confidential data centers.

Manager, Windows Systems Management and Engineering

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed team of 7 mid-level and senior Windows server engineers.
• Responsible for hardware and operating system components for over 700 Windows servers supporting B2B, B2C, eCommerce, and internal applications.
• Provided top-level hands-on support for Windows and application issues.
• Supported clustered SQL databases, Citrix server farms, IIS web farms, and internal applications.
• Successfully led VMWare migration and server consolidation projects.
• Deployed multiple Citrix Metaframe farms for domestic and international employees.
• Ensured that all systems met corporate standards for patching, security, capacity, and monitoring critical applications.

Network Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served as an internal technical account manager/liaison responsible for the relationship between Infrastructure Technology and Production business units, functioning as single point of contact for technical information exchange and problem escalation.
• Coordinated activities of staff across Infrastructure Technology organization in a matrix reporting structure.
• Played a key role in architecting infrastructure platform for large-scale business applications built with an AIX and Oracle RAC database tier and Windows middleware and web tiers.
• Designed and implemented remote backup solution for over 1500 remote Windows branch servers to a centralized EMC Clariion SAN using Veritas NetBackup.
• Supported application distribution to retail branches

Principal Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Defined corporate-wide technology and security standards in a Microsoft and Cisco centered environment.
• Worked with I.T. management and business units to determine future technology needs.
• Researched and evaluated new technologies and products, and communicated results to I.T. management using written reports, meetings, and presentations.
• Designed and implemented pilot projects for new technologies including centrally managed personal and server-based firewalls, remote networking security and configuration enforcement, wireless and handheld computing, single sign-on, and corporate instant messaging.
• Implemented Open Text Livelink document management system, and developed a contract scanning solution for Livelink.

Principal Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participated in corporate WAN and LAN design, implementation, and support.
• Planned and implemented migration of multiple Windows NT domains and applications to Windows 2000 Active Directory environment with 15,000 users.
• Planned and implemented Windows NT domain migration and consolidation for Confidential - El Paso merger.
• Oversaw Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange migration.

Senior Systems Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided high-level support for multiple data centers with Windows, Unix, Linux, and Confidential systems.
• Set corporate direction for software distribution, systems management, networking, groupware, clustering, and server technologies.
• Worked closely with business units to design and implement client-server infrastructure for 1000 external customers using multiple Citrix Winframe servers, X.25 dial-up access to Winframe, clustered Windows NT servers, clustered Domino servers providing web-based e-mail, and redundant network links.
• Wrote programs and scripts to transfer information between Mainframe, Oracle, and Lotus Notes databases.

Systems Programmer, LAN support

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided first-level support for Confidential, OS/2, and Windows NT servers.
• Provided high-level support for Dos, Windows and OS/2 workstations.
• Designed and implemented Internet/Intranet infrastructure, including DNS, Cisco PIX Firewall, Cisco routers, Lotus SMTP MTA, and Lotus Domino Web Servers.
• Served as Webmaster for Internet and Intranet servers.
• Managed software and patch distribution for clients and servers.
• Designed, implemented, and administered corporate-wide Lotus Notes Network of 2500+ users and 20 servers.
• Supported workstation and back-end systems for multiple trading floor environments.
• Implemented and managed multiple network backup systems.