SUMMARY:

• Multifaceted IT professional with twenty years’ experience in data center relocation planning, management, and execution, in the financial industry.
• Results oriented, hands - on infrastructure specialist capable of managing multiple projects while overseeing staff across multiple divisions; adept at explaining complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Experienced in contract negotiations with outsourced vendors, along with proficient presentation and communications skills
• Ability to leverage best practices and field-proven tools to meet migration requirements.
• Proven data, application, and infrastructure migration services experience that reduces risks and manages the cost of changing technology.
• Two decades of migration experience, with the knowledge to recognize common pitfalls, and fine tune procedures.
• Deep technical knowledge in data center transformations, with extensive experience in the design and implementation of leading-edge data center solutions.
• Data, infrastructure, and application-focused migrations.
• Project Management Infrastructure Systems Design and Implementation Vendor Partnership & Negotiations Data Centers Relocations Strong management and technical skills Communications and Power Cabling Data center design and consolidation

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: Unix, Windows XP/7

Hardware: Voltaire, EMC, IBM servers, Clarion, Hitachi, HP blade servers, Cisco Switches, terminal servers, SAN, NAS, Bloomberg Controllers, Rolm switch, Newbridge nodes, VOIP phones, Avaya, Tape Libraries, Desktop PC s, Printers

Facilities: UPS, PDUs, CRACS

Methodologies: PMBOK, SIX SIGMA

MARKET DATA VENDORS: ILX, Telerate, Dow Jones, Bloomberg, Instinet, ADP, Telekurs, Quotron, Nasdaq, Reuters

CABLING: Cat 5 and 6, single and multimode fiber, pots lines, ringdowns,T1 s, T3 s, ISDN, DSL, PRI

SOFTWARe: Microsoft Project, Visio, Excel, Word, Outlook, Power Point, Clarity, Nexus, Sharepoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - New York, NY

Data Center Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Designed and documented networks, cabinet elevations, communication, power cabling and data center infrastructure systems utilizing Microsoft Visio.
• Performed all aspects of communications room reworks.
• Interfaced and managed a sixty-seven member team responsible for the required application migration prior to data center decommissioning in Maryland.
• Designed and implemented low voltage communication cabling plant working with various trades and unions.
• Coordinated and managed the relocation of entire office from one building to another.
• Performed drag and drops from Connecticut to New York, migrating and closing down trading floor.
• Acted as liaison between Co-location facilities and end users for pricing on hosting solutions.
• Performed telecommunication and network cabling installations.
• Partnered with market data providers and associated carriers.
• Effectively interfaced with vendors and contract negotiations.

Confidential - New York, N.Y

Vice President Data Center Management

Responsibilities:

• Migrated Enterprise Data Center from 111 Broadway to 666 5th Avenue.
• Cable plant design of communication cabling, network, market data, trading floor and telephony infrastructure.
• Implemented high speed-low latency trading network by working with NOC sites and network team to be co-located within the exchange, to obtain the fastest network speed for trade execution via the exchange’s matching engines i.e. Carteret NJ co-location for NASDAQ users.
• Installed a four hundred-seat DR & BCP site using HP blade technology and thin clients.
• Managed team responsible for the support of twenty data centers via eleven buildings.
• Oversaw and assisted with the installations of hardware and networking for all user groups.
• Reduced cost of infrastructure by developing RFP proposals and negotiating contracts.
• Evaluated team members through performance reviews on a quarterly basis. Monitored all data centers for cooling and power utilizing Server Tech software ensuring proper load balancing
• Established intranet web database for all connectivity and inventory tracking throughout the company to document all adds, moves, and changes both on the floor and in the data centers.

Confidential - New York, N.Y

Special Projects Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed team in the restacking of thirty-eight office floors and six trading floors in four buildings.
• Managed the trading floor relocations within 299 Park Ave. Worked with staff to account for all vendor usage by traders.
• Responsible for all infrastructure connectivity, telecommunications, market data and networks. Partnered with IPC on relocations of turrets.
• Asset management relocation from 1221 AOA to 1345 AOA. Responsible for project resourcing and team management to insure proper communications between groups; effectively migrated users and their technologies.
• Partnered with facilities on a day to day adds, moves and changes, as well as relocating entire office floors on weekends
• Performed monthly testing at DR site.
• Databases- Utilized visio and excel- documentation on all vendors, circuits, periphery and users
• Data Centers - Responsible for design and maintenance of structured cabling to accommodate business units’ ongoing needs

Confidential - New York, N.Y

Customer Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed, serviced and maintained UNIX based financial information systems.
• Designed and built Data Centers to house networks for various brokerage firms and banks.
• Installed modems, tickers and high-speed lines providing market data to traders. Extensive
• Knowledge of trouble shooting and installing all peripherals, including installation of Q800 and Q1000 mainframes.
• Loaded and upgraded UNIX software. Provided user on all systems; also provided in the field for new hires in both installation and service departments
• World Financial Center - Designed and installed a computer room with one-hundred Q800 mainframes and a trading space of two thousand terminals for Confidential Lehman in Tower C