EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

• IT executive with 20 years of management and leadership experience in high - performance networks, infrastructure, system administration, operations, and engineering.
• Track record of leading and empowering engineering groups to support multiprotocol networks by fostering camaraderie and focusing on group goals. Entrusted to deliver the 3 largest IT projects at each of the last 3 employers.
• Holistic view of system performance, reliability, and infrastructure as well as understanding different subject matter areas to consider all viewpoints and driving consensus and buy-in.
• Servant leadership approach with a philosophy of giving people ownership and agency as well as the support to achieve results and workplace satisfaction.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, Arista, Nimble, F5, Linux, Windows, and OS X systems.

SIGNATURE SKILLS & ATTRIBUTES:

• Influencing & Driving Change
• Innovation Initiatives
• Diverse Technical Background & Experience
• Leadership & Team Building
• Excellent Project Delivery Track Record
• In Touch with Current Industry Technical & Business Conditions
• International Market Know-How

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Head of Hardware R&D and Performance Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Improved the performance of various systems and replaced key high-performance stack parts with custom FPGA’s.
• Spearheaded complete network redesign. Deployed Layer 1 switching and direct exchange connectivity for HFT and researched and provided recommendations regarding Microwave networks.
• Created and developed next-generation network roadmap, project plan, and architecture for firm.
• Led project to capture all infrastructure statistics and network telemetry in InfluxDB.
• Orchestrated evaluation and remediation on all performance bottlenecks in our software/hardware stack.

Head of Infrastructure and Network Operations

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and led implementation of complete network redesign including retiring MPLS, deploying low latency switches, and infrastructure and delivering a scalable platform.
• Consolidated data centers and re-architected network including forklift upgrades of all sites.
• Enabled $720K annual savings by redesigning WAN and relocating data center to provide increased resiliency and higher capacity.
• Spearheaded the migration project that migrated all users from on-premise file/email/collaboration/IM to Office 365.
• Led design and implementation of full Tokyo Colo on-site at JPX and managed a soup to nuts build out of the Tokyo data center.
• Upgraded entire Linux environment to 7.3 and instituted patch management, improved consistency, and standardized all systems.
• Retired conventional legacy EMC fiber channel storage and replaced hybrid Nimble storage and moved user file storage to cloud.
• Led full-scale data center migration @ Confidential as well as deployment of open source Linux virtualization environment providing both production and DevOps services on demand.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Head of Network Engineering and Operations

Responsibilities:

• Designed, led, and oversaw building out Hong Kong remote office and data centers in the UK, Germany, and Italy. Managed an international network of POP’s supporting thousands of trading screens.
• Enabled $2M annual market data cost savings by deploying private MX based MVPN MPLS network to share market data between all business units.
• Designed and implemented new security and load balancing architecture that maintained low latency performance while providing a security perimeter and data loss prevention capabilities.
• Redesigned entire production LAN infrastructure to reduce complexity and improve capacity and performance.
• Managed the design team for enterprise Cisco IP Telephony and video conferencing system to retire existing Nortel TDMA infrastructure on time and under budget.
• Replaced homespun load balancing technology with F5 solution that improved manageability. Reduced support costs, and eliminated development overhead.
• Designed and managed a 2-tiered deployment of comprehensive remote access solution.
• Built-out Juniper 10 Gig feednet to support the exponential growth of market data rates which provided a scalable platform to support the business and improving monitoring and management and cost of ownership.
• Deployed distributed Netscout and Infinistream environment to provide full packet capture for troubleshooting and detailed capacity planning data for reporting and proactive capacity planning.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Network Manager

Responsibilities:

• Handled forklift replacement of all legacy network with Cisco and collapsed tiers to reduce north-south and east-west latency.
• Built out POP in London and designed and implemented new LAN infrastructure working hands-on through the full life cycle of a project migrating from a 3Com Corebuilder/Linkbuilder network running RIP to a fully redundant Cisco core environment.
• Increased uptime and eliminated bottlenecks to improve reliability to 4 9’s.
• Developed runbook and processes to train support up through engineering on how to handle and escalate issues, investigate problems and minimize downtime.
• Designed and implemented high capacity WAN structure for mission-critical market data.
• Managed and implemented 3rd party market data, research, & ETN services such as Bloomberg, ISE, Merrill Lynch, Belzberg, Cantor Fitzgerald, Knight, & BOX.
• Integrated legacy X.25 & SNA data sources into an IP based network.
• Developed and managed Internet security policy and implemented multi-tier Internet complex utilizing Cisco 7000 series routers and PIX 500 series firewalls. Implemented redundant multisite connectivity with BGP and F5 GTM technologies.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed and executed strategy for Y2K upgrades and compliance testing for all Apple & Novell based server platforms and all data communications equipment.