EXPERIENCE

• Over 25 years of experience in the technical and financial industry.
• Hands On expertise in Networking, Telecomm, WAN, VOIP and Firewalls
• Specialty in Low Latency Networking
• Hands on with ARISTA,BROCADE CSCO-NEXUS,BLADE and JUNIPER
• Network Design using BGP, OSPF, EIRGP , PIM and Redistribution
• Design using Riverbed WAN Optimization and Palo Alto firewalls
• Carrier design expert thus saving costs and being able to implement true redundancy
• Designed and implemented Market Data Multicast delivery network
• Have Held certificates for CCNA,CCNP,CCIE written and Cisco Firewalls
• Specialty projects include performing network audits for the purpose of improving performance and Latency
• Have decreased latency in trading environments by up to 50 without having to change hardware.
• Have been the lead of 3 VOIP migrations ranging from 100,200 to 700 phones.
• VOIP migrations from Nortel 81 to Cisco VOIP system 2x and once to an Avaya Media Gateway, communication manager and session manager.
• Lead architect for 5 major network build outs
• Lead Level 2-3 Analyst where I either assisted in or led the implementation of monitoring methodology and troubleshooting procedures.
• Designed and implemented a site to site VPN mesh network using BGP and BGP dampening along with OSPF where WAN lines where a present.
• Designed full network design with MSFT platform Servers, SAN, Network, SAN switch, RAM SAN, Firewalls, Load Balancers
• Worked with Packet captures to reduce application backbone middleware by 40 traffic wise and reduced latency 30 .
• Used packet captures in addition to troubleshooting issues, used it to remove old or rogue applications from network.
• Have worked with Foundry 850 then Brocade and Cisco Load Balancers, SAN switches.
• Have worked with WAN circuits for over 25 years. Both designing and troubleshooting issues. From 56k to 10GIG,Dark Fiber.
• Frame Relay, some ATM, T1 DAX and channelized mapping of T1's.
• Have worked with ITRAC, Visio, Smart Draw.
• Have been the first I.T. employee at 4 companies. Chosen for the purpose of building the company, technology and teams.
• Have been the lead I.T. employee working on vendor contracts with Cisco, Multiple carriers and MSFT maintenance.
• Wide array of skills outside of just technology, from Facilities, to Contract work, to Procurement, to design, to troubleshooting systems and network to group building and accounting process. I value this experience as it gives me perspective when dealing with other groups.
• Ability to manage teams in multiple disciplines for different business models. Have managed up to 60 people and 6 groups at once.
• Focused on cost effective methods of delivering solutions and have been involved in projects to decrease spend. In some cases I decreased spend by over 60 and on average 30-40 .
• Extensive Hands-on experience in Network Engineering, System selection for High Frequency trading platforms.
• Design, configure and implement all networking solutions. Routers, switches, load balancers, Firewalls, Servers MSFT and Linux
• Flow
• Change Management team and policy creation Minor Hands-on in disciplines such as Telecom VOIP and Microsoft systems.
• Revenue generation committee
• Security methodology committee using multiple solutions to achieve safe but operational flexibility
• Mindset to deliver cost effective solutions and pro-active savings analysis of existing costs.
• Managing vendor negotiation, purchasing, contracts and billing
• BCP and Disaster Recovery engineering and implementation of one of the largest ECNs

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE

• Exegy Ticket Plant solutions
• Arista 7508, 7150,7124
• Juniper 8216
• Palo Alto 5050,4020
• Foundry 850's
• Brocade switches and Load balancer
• Cisco VOIP: Call Manager, Call Center and Unity
• Cisco 4500, 3750, 6500 and Nexus series
• Cisco Multicast Manager software
• BrocadeMLX32
• Source-fire IDS
• HP DL 360,380,580,785 servers
• HP XP24000
• Brocade SAN switches
• Palo Alto 4020,5050
• Honey-D Honey-pot
• Cisco ASA 5500 series
• Sniffer software
• Juniper 240 Firewalls
• Nortel 11c, 61c and 81C PBX
• Surf Control content filter
• Orion/Solar Winds

PROTOCOLS

BGP, Multicast, EIGRP, OSPF, HSRP, RIP2, TCP/IP, IGMP, VRRP, SNMP, PIM,FIX 4.2

EMPLOYMENT

Confidenital

• Clients listed below. Below List is the varied list of projects and jobs worked on for our clients. Highlight or signature project next to each client.
• UBS Lead Analyst on peer with Engineering
• Silver Point Capital Designed and built VPN Mesh network with dynamic failover using link dampening
• AIEN Tech Designed and Built trading venue connection network in 3 months. 15 Venues to launch firm.
• Mantara- Integrated UNX after purchase within 3 months from NYSET Network
• TD Securities Designed and Built global Colo SEF/ECN Network saving 100,000 in spending per SEF and reducing time to market turn up from 4 months to 7 days. At present in process of designing Singapore Network and Data Center.
• Decreased WAN spend by 50 while upgrading bandwidth on average by 5x.
• Decreased WAN latency by 50 and overall network latency end to end by 40 .
• Worked with software developers to create customized network for trading application.
• Designed a Global co-location network that decreased spend on average by 60 when connecting to each ECN or SEF while decreasing the time to market from 4 months to 7 days. connectivity wise
• Created EEI Scripting failover for hot/hot load balancer network
• Created and documented Failover design using BGP along with EIGRP and OSPF to separate traffic zones.
• Created Cisco Config reporting via IOS commands. Email would report changes per login.
• Created Syslog parsing for VOIP Network via Orion.
• Led Migration of 700 phones from Nortel 81C PBX to Cisco Cm,Unity, Router Gateway and Call Center Design.
• Migrated Cisco ASA's to Palo Alto firewalls.
• Manage all Infrastructure systems and network infrastructure
• Procured Secure Works ticketing system
• Created Sniffer Analysis tool
• Created work flow policies and procedures
• Created procurement process
• Created change management process
• Created Operations procedures ticket system and escalation flow
• Standardized Network configuration
• Standardized tools and scripts
• Created daily Start of Day and End of day operation meetings
• Created RFO and Post Mortem process

Confidenital

Head of I.T. for High Frequency Infrastructure and Chief Architect

• Created and designed Connect Edge . This was an initiative to provide clients with method to deliver market data using D.E. Market data plant. This was/is a service being used by D.E. Network which I turned and developed into a profit center. This produced a net-net zero spend for our market data network. 1.3 Million spend was turned into net-net zero spend. This service is still advertised in Trade Magazines. I created, designed and implemented the service.
• Designed and led VOIP migration from Nortel PBX network to Cisco CM,CC and Unity network.
• Led pro-active monitoring team and supported Cisco Call Manager and Call Center using windows events log converting to syslog.
• Created Market data delivery network using PIM SPARSE-DENSE and was the first exchange to use this method instead of the inefficient DENSE MODE .
• Created Port cost charge program for clients that in return turned a 500,000 profit over network switch spend.
• Wrote document and was the liason to the S.E.C. ARP committee for D.E. the stock exchange audit.
• Responsible for all technology network systems, facilities, real estate build out, BCP, vendor management.
• Manage Infrastructure organization consisting of 25 analysts, application support, system network engineers and VOIP professionals.
• Responsible for engineering and designing the building out of the primary and secondary Direct Edge Next Generation LOW LATENCY platform and implementing the build out at Equinix and Telx Data Centers
• Designed Market Data ticket plant using Exegy and integration of Market data feeds.
• Designed low latency network for Client connectivity
• Designed D.E. Stock exchange network that segmented Trading traffic from Market Data Network.
• Designed and built D.E. Corporate network with S.E.C. approved path to D.E. Trading network.
• Created and managed multimillion dollar revenue generating through client network port charges and NTP offerings for clients to mitigate trade order time sync discrepancies.
• Created network design, applications and test plan of Direct Edge Next Generation Primary and Secondary ECN Platform
• Negotiated all real estate and IT contracts for Primary data center Equinix
• Engineered RFP specifications for cabling and network projects for Equinix and TELX
• Managed and negotiated contracts for SFTI, Radianz, TNS, SAVVIS, NASDAQ, DTCC, Verizon Business, Level3 and Abovenet
• Created purchasing , inventory and billing process within Direct Edge
• Created Change Management process
• Created Multi-discipline operations policy within Direct Edge
• Negotiated leasing agreements with multiple brokers and vendors.
• Managed project management team and build out of Direct Edge next generation data center at Equinix
• Designed cabling fiber layout and server traffic flow for next generation platform at Equinix
• Created Server failover plan at primary data center at Equinix
• Assisted in server choice HP DL platform for Next Generation build out
• High level management of SAN selection and implementation
• Managed the implementation of Cisco VOIP solution
• Responsible for two ECN operation teams: Direct Edge ECN and ISE stock Exchange
• Chose ticketing tool for incident, project and asset tracking : Service-Now
• Designed Secondary data center network layout.
• Responsible for network management tool suite selection process.
• Liaise directly with SEC on ARP compliance review
• Created Security policy for internal and external access

Confidenital

Network Global Lead Analyst

• Managed Global Network Operations Engineering Team
• Manage 30 Network analysts monitoring global Network
• Business unit interface for all network issues
• Network hygiene contributor using network report analysis and infrastructure audits
• Network Sustaining Engineering Contributor
• Hands-on application support of proprietary trading and vendor applications using protocol analysis

Confidenital

Sr. VP, Communications and Lead Architect Network

• Project management, design, implementation, and resolution of issues for FIX connectivity solutions to various entities Btrade, INET, Redi, Credit Lyonnais and JP Morgan .
• Management Team for Trader Help Desk for all critical network and trader infrastructure.
• Managed group responsible for hardware asset management and allocations
• Member of security policy committee
• Managed remote access services allocations for VPN and Citrix user accounts
• Hands-on support and integration of Bloomberg, FactSet, Bridge, BONY, Bear Stearns, Thomson DataWorx, Thomson One, Instinet and RediPlus
• Managed all aspects of Market Data network integration and day to day performance.
• Designed and implemented legacy network for Amaranth-Paloma separation.
• Managed an implementation team and contributed to the design of disaster recovery site for the network, telecom and market data groups
• Design contributor to WIFI Solution using Airespace Access points.
• Designed L4-7 load balancing solution using Foundry Server Irons
• Provided supplemental security solutions using SourceFire IDS, Honeypot and 3rd party 7/24/365 monitoring solution to reinforce security strategy.
• Managed an implementation team and contributed to the design of Amaranth's global offices for the Network, Telecom and Market Data groups
• Implemented SONET ring technology for purpose of WAN redundancy and cost savings initiative for over 2,000,000
• Market Data, hardware, telecom and DR site contract negotiations
• Managed telecom team that supported 130 IPC trader turrets and 300 Nortel desk tops
• Hands-on application support of proprietary trading and vendor applications using distributed Sniffer for protocol analysis

Confidenital

Lead Architect

• Managed all aspects of Market Data integration and FIX connectivity
• Managed System, Network engineering and operations teams
• Designed client delivery network 22 branches
• Designed Client data center footprint
• Designed disaster recovery site routing
• Provided protocol analysis of trading application to improve performance
• Reduced CPU average on core network from 65 to 25 using protocol analysis
• WAN: audit of invoices and reduction circuit costs that produced 2.2 million dollars in savings

Confidenital

Network WAN Lead

• Technical support shift lead for internal and external clients worldwide
• Protocol analysis of proprietary and vender applications
• Developed process for network implementations
• Technical lead on WAN/MAN connectivity issues

Confidenital

Network Deployment Lead Engineer

• Elected to ESN IP delivery team for nationwide deployment
• Supervised support of Instinet's global trading network
• Contributor to network review committee Organized cross-training for Level 1 and 2 peer support groups
• Corrected ISDN configuration issue which resulted in 500,000 in savings

Confidenital

Field Service Technical Lead

Responsible for over 200 clients in the Tri-state area and the Mid-West Planning survey, hardware ordering and delivery of lines , implementation and supported accounts

Confidenital

Installation Field Engineer

• Field Engineer responsible for Market Data project management and implementation of Telerate Financial Services for over 300 clients in the financial community.
• Responsible for the installation of all hardware and the delivery of network services for the implementation of Telerate Financial Services.