SUMMARY:

• 25 years of experience in the technical and financial industry
• Over 25 years of “Hands - On” technology design, implementation and management of various devices.
• 20 Years of supporting data centers, networks, system hardware and telecomm infrastructure.
• Over 15 years of Cisco Firewall experience
• Over 3 years of Palo Alto experience
• Over the course of 15 years, have worked with Checkpoint Firewalls but not as much use in the last 6 years.
• 5 years of IPS experience (Source Fire)
• Migration of 6 = Cisco ASA to 2 =Palo Alto firewalls
• Designed and implemented 2 DMZ Palo Alto with VPN tunnels to 10 locations.
• Designed and Implemented Multi-Tier Firewall design for public, business separation and production and development segregation.
• Created and Managed management tools and process for management of Cisco and Palo Alto firewalls for Operational purposes. Alerting, reporting and event logging included.
• Foundry 850, Brocade ADX, Cisco CSS series, F5
• Setup and managed F5 load balancers for both Web and proprietary applications for ease of management.
• Over 15 years working on BCP and DR projects. To date have led four efforts including test planning.
• Have procured space, designed and implemented BCP seating space and technology. Seating ranged from 20, 40, 60 and 150 seats. All in a non-ratio environment.
• Performed interviews of Business unit reps to create best suited BCP solution for B/U groups supported.
• Have designed and managed the build out of 4 DR data centers ranging up to 500 servers, 150 seats, Turrets and VOIP phones. Also all pertinent Market services required.
• Hired by 4 different companies as the 1st I.T. employee. Thus gaining the experience forming the day to day support and project teams while having to manage projects hands on.
• Managed build outs on scale of 1000 production servers and 500 Disaster Recovery servers on three occasions. Both Linux and Microsoft Server Environments
• Procured and managed XP24000, 3PAR and EMC SAN enviroments.
• Cisco CSS, Brocade MX, F5, Foundry 850’s
• Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, Juniper (light), Checkpoint
• Network Engineering: Managed Network engineering at Confidential Securities, Direct Edge, Amaranth, Tradescape and Instinet
• I.T. Management Experience: Have managed all disciplines with the exception of Development but have been the liason to Dev for over 10 years. This has proven to be a very valuable experience.
• Breathe of Experience: In addition have worked closely with the Legal Teams, Accounting, HR, Vendor management and in some cases have created these teams.
• Profit Creation Experience: Created, designed and implemented “Connect Edge” which is a peripheral network using the Direct Edge delivery and Market data network to receive Market Data, trade with exchanges and dark liquidity pools. This offset the D.E. costs as well as created a profit center with no risk,
• WAN Design: Over 25 years of working with carriers. Designing Fiber runs with different P.O.E into a given building. Validating Fiber paths entire run to ensure redundancy.
• Regulatory Experience: Have worked extensively with Compliance teams, outside groups and the Confidential . to ensure that our I.T. Environment has processes, procedures, evidence to protect the company.
• Regulatory Experience: the need and place to store the evidence of what has been discovered or even the day to day checks. Examples such as configuration standards, what to do in the case of a security breach, tickets evidencing an action taken.
• WAN Experience: 30 years of WAN circuit deployment, ordering, troubleshooting and designing within data centers ranging from P.O.T.S/56K to 10/40gig and Dark Fiber
• Systems Experience: Have Managed teams responsible for networks ranging from 300 to 1000 servers. Most of which were trading servers. With Large multiple SAN environments.
• DR/BCP: Procured, built or populated and supported 4 different Disaster recovery enviroments and 3 differenct BCP seating enviroments.
• DR/BCP: Managed, responsible for or have worked directly on, Leasing space for 40 employees and purchased space for 150 employees for Business Continuity purposes. Also have supported a space for 250 employees. The build phase, support and then the mandatory periodic testing were all responsibilities that fell under my teams and me.
• Have led and/or been a participant in 3 VOIP migrations (100,200 and 700 people) and support experience the last 7 years,
• Hands on experience mainly in Network, Telecomm, WAN. Lesser degree in Microsoft AD and Linux (light)
• Certificates: Have held CCIE Written, CCNP, CCNA and Firewall (PIX and ASA) certificates.
• Additional Hands on experience: Rare combination of extensive hands on technical which included extensive Protocol analysis. Including, Performing Protocol analysis on trading networks to “clean-up” rogue or miss configured applications.
• Baseline Experience: Developed, Implemented, managed and performed “Baseline/Benchmark” process and tools for Network. Telecomm, servers and Data center capacity 3x
• Major Project Experience: Previously mentioned but in less detail…Leader of or major lead partner for three $50 million build outs where I was the lead hands on design architect while planning overall migration in two cases. +++ In all cases, I had a lead role in the data center planning, design and implementation. I developed and hands on implemented the cable layout plan to distribute network cabling across 1000 servers.
• Project Management Experience: Example of P.M. of a migration was the management, documentation and support over 400+ clients from 545 Washington Blvd to Equinix NY4. Each client had at least 2 connections but ranged up to 6 connections at most. In total we managed 1400 fiber and copper connections.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Cisco ASA Series (5540,5510.5520,5505)
• Palo Alto series (5050,4050,4020)
• Foundry 850 LB
• Brocade ADX
• F5
• Arista 7508, 7150,7124
• Cisco Nexus series
• Cisco VOIP: Call Manager, Call Center and Unity
• Cisco 4500, 3750, 6500 and Nexus series
• Avaya Media Gateway, ESBC, Session manger and Comms Manager.
• Juniper Series EX
• Source-fire IDS
• HP DL 360,380,580,785 servers
• HP XP24000
• Brocade SAN switches
• Honey-D Honey-pot
• Sniffer software
• Nortel 11c, 61c and 81C PBX
• Surf Control content filter
• Orion/Solar Winds
• BGP, Multicast, EIGRP, OSPF, HSRP, RIP2, TCP/IP, IGMP, VRRP, SNMP, PIM,FIX 4.2

EMPLOYMENT:

Confidential

Director of Operations Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate problem solving efforts for WMA and IB B/U’s.
• Pro-active problem audits of WMA network
• Created logging tool for WMA which in turn solved issues for over 1000 WMA users and 50 branches
• Was part of GTTP3 and IPT deployment team that scrutinized upgrades to ensure quality
• Leading projects to improve monitoring of WMA
• Leading project to improve deployment standards in both IB and WMA.

Confidential

Technology Strategy Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Selected, purchased and installed Fiber and copper cabling for Confidential securities Trading SEF network.
• Site selection of data centers considering Carriers POE, Power and HVAC.
• Worked on Cold/Hot aisle plan and implemented the plan developed
• Designed DR data center and BCP seating along with implementing each
• Designed and implemented 100 cabinet production data center.
• Created monitoring process and solution using “syslog” parsing and email thus saving $100,000 on “out of box” solutions
• Installed network Management for all Infrastructure systems and network infrastructure
• Managed data center selection, eventually deployment and support there after
• Implemented Secure Works” ticketing system
• Implemented change management processes
• Created work flow policies and procedures
• Created procurement process for hardware and cabling
• Created change management process
• Created Operations procedures (ticket system and escalation flow)
• Standardized tools and scripts
• Created daily Start of Day and End of day operation meetings
• Created RFO and Post Mortem process
• Managed all WAN contracts
• Managed all purchasing and Data Center contracts
• Managed Cabling policy and standards (color coding, type and serialization, etc)
• Provided strategy on technology spending
• Advisor on data center design and cabling seletion
• Provided network design solution for global network
• Integrated VOIP and Legacy PBX Solution and was lead install engineer
• Implemented network monitoring product and strategy

Confidential

Head of I.T. Infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• Managed security process for Confidential ARP review.
• Created and implemented mutli business and production and development Firewall segments using Cisco ASA
• And Juniper firewall (dev)
• Designed and managed Firewall management tools and event logging
• Designed and managed IDS management tools, alerting and event logging.
• Led BCP test coordination including applications, phones and all technology components.
• Designed and implemented data center cabinet at Telx was 100 cabinet deployment.
• Designed and Implemented network design configuration at Equinix and Telx for trading network purposes.
• Designed, Implemented network WAN that supported 400+ Client migration
• Designed and Implemented “separate” “Corporate” network for email, file sharing for employee day to day operations.
• Designed, configured and deployed 25 Cisco 6509’s for trading network and a total of 75 network devices.
• Designed cabling layout for trading network including Central data patch and pre wired solution.
• Worked with various cabling and cabinet companies to purchase best solution for air flow
• Deployed 15 Arista 7150’s for Market data delivery network
• Migrated 700 Client circuits, Extra net connections or cross onnects by way or Fiber circuits, cross connect an copper type.
• Deployed 10gigabit network for Client market data feed network.
• Met delivery dates for a 1000 server, 300+ client migration and dual site build out.
• Designed low latency network for Client connectivity
• 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
• Created Multi-discipline operations policy within Direct Edge Data Centers

Confidential

Network Operations Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead Analyst for Global Network Operations data center Team
• Led a team of 40 Data Center engineers
• Managed cable inventory, deployment of cabling for various projects
• Led data center clean up and cable efficiency project
• Designed and hands on deployed data center layout for vendor network

Confidential

Senior VP of Communications and Disaster Recovery

Responsibilities:

• Designed, implemented and purchased cabling for Production data center built in Greenwich.
• Designed and implemented Multi Branch Firewall design with VPN mesh.
• Installed Cisco PIX and ASA firewalls for branches.
• Managed Source Fire IDS and Honey Pot.
• Procured, designed and deployed 150 seat BCP site including a 50 cabinet DR data center.
• Procured, designed and deployed 50 turrets for BCP trade desk, VOIP phones for 150 employees.
• Created BCP process based on Business Unit requirements
• Kept inventory of hardware and deployed cookie cutter branch designs in Toronto, Chicago and Miami
• Created physical security policy for data center
• Deployed and configured 40 Cisco 6500’s in production network
• Deployed and configured 10 Cisco 6500s in DR network
• Deployed 400 servers in Production network
• Deployed 200 servers in DR network
• Hands-on support and integration of Bloomberg, FactSet, Bridge, BONY, Bear Stearns, Thomson DataWorx, Thomson One, Instinet and RediPlus
• Managed all install aspects of Market Data network integration and day to day performance.
• Designed and implemented legacy network for Amaranth-Paloma separation.
• Lead Engineer on implementation team and contributed to the design of disaster recovery site for the network, telecom and market data groups
• Designed and implemented WIFI Solution using Airespace Access points.
• Designed and implemented 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