SUMMARY

• Extensive expertise wif design, implementation and support of enterprise networks, compute systems, storage platforms and security infrastructure
• IT transformation expert wif proven record of leading successful transitions including outsourcing, in - sourcing, merger & acquisition, while maintaining operational excellence
• Proficient wif in-house, hybrid, as well as AWS, Azure and Rackspace cloud solutions, Disaster Recovery, systems and network virtualization
• Strong experience wif retail technologies including hardware and applications, Omni-Channel, DOM, credit autantication, tokenization, POS, wireless, Mobility and analytics
• Proven operating cost optimization record and ability to decrease IT complexity, resulting in improved performance, resource availability and administration overhead reduction
• Experienced vendor manager, ITIL practitioner delivering best practice solutions wif emphasis on standardization, SLA, security and regulatory compliance, including PCI, SOX
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and project management skills. Strategic innovator and TEMPeffective global IT Service Delivery leader

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Director, Network Systems

Responsibilities:

• Improved system performance, SLAs and security posture by deploying Nexus infrastructure, F5 HA farms and WAN redesign involving route tagging, protocol redistribution and Next-Gen firewall layers
• Key contributor in SAP HANA, storage, backup and replication deployments, resulting in performance and DR RTO/RPO improvements
• Contributed to significant revenue increase, customer experience and security posture improvement by designing and rolling out segmented network environment required to launch Omni-Channel 2.0 initiative
• Enhanced audio, video and collaboration capabilities, while reducing OpEx by upgrading Unified Communications platform, migrating to SIP and implementing Telepresence
• Played instrumental role in teh M&A integration and consolidation
• Increased productivity, resource accessibility and remote access security by enabling NetScaler VDI deployment
• Improved WiFi availability and security by WLAN expansion, deployment of WLC geo-redundancy and ISE
• Played key role in cloud migrations including e-Commerce, Work Force Management, Web filtering, managed global load balancing, etc…
• Expanded monitoring and administration capabilities by deploying Cisco Prime Infrastructure, ACS, Compliance Manager, Solar Winds NCM, NPM and IPAM
• Strengtan GIS B2B platform and DR functionality by implementing Web layer geo-diversity

Confidential, New York, NY

Manager of Communications

Responsibilities:

• Increased employee productivity and stability of teh IP Telephony by performing upgrade and new feature rollout
• Enhanced remote accessibility and security as result of Juniper SSL VPN implementation and Mobile application architecture design and deployment
• Substantially reduced OpEx and overhauled Service Delivery model due to successful execution of IT outsourcing initiative
• Increased store revenue & productivity, created platform for number of future mobility initiatives, in conjunction wif instantly embraced Corporate work model improvement resulting from enterprise-wide WiFi rollout
• Achieved better collaboration, messaging performance and availability by migrating to Exchange 2007
• Strengtan security posture by implementing Websense V10K Web filtering solution
• Improved operating model and reduced cost by Data Center virtualization, relocation and e-Commerce migration

Confidential, New York, NY

Manager, Network Services

Responsibilities:

• Played key role in primary, Tier 3 Data Center build, SAP ERP rollout and DR site launch
• Reduced cost and improved performance by migrating 900 Frame-Relay & DSL store WAN sites to MPLS
• Improved application performance and availability as result of F5 and Cisco HA load balancing farms deployment, WAN optimization appliances and QoS rollout
• Substantially decreased OpEx by e-Commerce platform and Help Desk outsourcing
• Increased resiliency and capacity of B2B/Vendor integration platform as result of geo-diverse VPN rollout
• Elevated VPN access security by implementing 2-factor autantication for remote users

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Decreased operating cost and improved performance of e-Commerce site as a result of redesign, upgrade and relocation
• Improved performance and stability of teh store network by leading 800+ site WAN rollout
• Reduced OpEx and achieved performance consistency across 400+ Frame-Relay sites migrated to DSL
• Introduced new productivity boosting features resulting from legacy Corporate telephony migration to Cisco IPT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Advanced network integration skills): HP BladeSystems, Superdome, Cisco UCS B and C series, Fabric Interconnect, IBM, Other x86, VMware, ESX, Cloud SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, DRaaS, UCaaS, CCaaS, Azure, AWS, Rackspace, SAP HANA

Advanced network integration skills): HP XP24000, 3PAR, EMC Centera, Celerra, VNX, Avamar, Data Domain, Symantec Netbackup

Routing H/W & S/W: CISCO routers, ISR, ASR, HSRP, VRRP, VRF, EIGRP, RIP, OSPF, BGP, Apple Talk, PBR, PfR, NAT/PAT, BFD

Switching H/W & S/W: CISCO Catalyst and Nexus, 3Com, ALTEON, Nortel, ACLs, QoS, CAR, LLQ, WFQ, WRED, VLAN, VTP, STP/RSTP, Ether-channel, PC, vPC, LACP, PAgP, VSS, SVI, Dot1q, ISL, BPDU, UDLD, VDC, OTV, LISP, VXLAN

UC/Voice/Telephony: VoIP, Cisco UC/IP Telephony/Unified Messaging, Call Manager, Unity, IPCC/UCCX, Emergency Responder, PSTN and analog gateways, Hybrid (Unity bridge, IPT/PBX gateways), MGCP, SIP, Skinny, Jabber, Tandberg, Cisco EX/SX/iX Telepresence, TMS, VCS, Expressway

Security/Remote Access: PIX/ASA/Zone Based/Check Point/Palo Alto firewalls, Nortel Contivity VPN, Juniper SSL VPN, NetScaler, VDI, Tripwire, Trend Micro Virus Wall, AirWave, Websense V10K/cloud, Syslog, Juniper SBR RADIUS, ACS TACACS, IDS/IPS (Cisco, Tipping Point, Palo Alto), Cisco ISE, SGT, 802.11x, TrustSec, CWS

LAN: Ethernet (Copper/Fiber), Token Ring, Wireless 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (Cisco and Aruba), Cisco WCS, MSE, WLC, Clean-Air, Airwave

WAN: ISDN, ATM, X.25, Frame-Relay, T1/E1, T3, OC3/12, SONET, MPLS, EPL, DWDM, CWDM, iWAN, DMVPN, SD-WAN

High Availability/Load Balancing: ALTEON, Cisco CSS, F5 Big-IP L, GSS, Geo-Clustering, RAID

Analytics Platforms: NOMI, Euclid, CMX

Monitoring/Diagnostic/Troubleshooting Tools: Sniffer, Fluke, SevOne, WireShark, Ethereal, NetIQ (End2End, Chariot), MAZU/Riverbed Cascade, Castle Rock SNMPc, Cisco Works, Prime Infrastructure HP OpenView, Riverbed OPNET ACE, Solar Winds NPM/ NCM/IPAM, Nimsoft

OS/Applications/other (Varying degree of proficiency): Apple OS, Novell Netware 5, MS DOS, Windows, Linux, Red Hat, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, DHCP, WINS, DNS, Exchange, SharePoint, MS Office, Visio, PowerPoint, Project, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, Firefox, Adobe Photoshop, Quicken, Norton Ghost, Fortran, Pascal, Basic, Track-IT, BMC Remedy, Clarity PPM, EnergyWise

Traffic Optimization: Cisco WAFS, WAAS, Riverbed Steelhead

Cabling Infrastructure: Ethernet, fiber, coax and Token Ring

Regulatory Compliance: Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), PCI