SUMMARY:

• I am a “hands - On” Director who has been the 1st person hired on three different occasions thus having to design and support technology then build various teams to take over the support there after
• 25 years of experience in the technical and financial industry
• Have held hands on Director roles throughout my career
• Have managed infrastructure teams including their respective Engineering and support teams, such as: a)Network, b)System (Linux or Microsoft), c)Telecomm (PBX and VOIP), d) DBA’s, e)Operations(APP, SOC,NOC), f) Helpdesk, h)Change Management and i) Vendor & Procurement team.
• Management Experience: Have managed up to 5teams and 70 employees
• Management Experience: Over 20 years of Managing technology teams
• Created and built engineering and support groups based on needs.
• Created 1) Change Management, 2)Network Review, 3)Vendor/procurement process.
• Avoid or at least mitigate human caused error in addition to not have “overlap” chnges
• Efficiently plan and coordinate our projects in regards to needs and relevance to business needs
• Method of dealing with vendors. What vendors do we use? Length of contracts, standard terms…etc
• Have used Market Data infrastructure to server as a profit center to customers .
• Created a method to track configuration changes until budget freed up to purchase TACACs ACS server. Was Able to accomplish this by using a little know feature in Cisco as well as Syslog parsing and alerting features.
• Used packet analysis to dissect message bus traffic and thus assisted Development application team into streamlining TIBCO messaging. This reduced traffic by 40% thus freeing up resources and also decreased daemon “Crash” scenarios due to message overload.
• Have managed including hands on involvement of 6 data center build outs
• Have designed and managed 3 BCP and DR sites including site procurement and negotiation
• Managed and designed Telecomm including Low Latency lines, global lines and carrier contract negotiation.
• General: Over 15 years of managing teams under strict timelines, building teams for projects and manage big budget, high profile projects.
• Varied Experience: Hired by 3 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.
• 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.
• In addition have worked closely with the Legal Teams, Accounting, HR, Vendor management and in some cases have created these teams.
• 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,
• 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.
• Have worked extensively with Compliance teams, outside groups for TD Bank and the S.E.C. 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.
• 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
• Have Managed teams responsible for networks ranging from 300 to 1000 servers. Most of which were trading servers. With Large multiple SAN environments.
• Procured, built or populated and supported 4 different Disaster recovery enviroments and 3 differenct BCP seating enviroments.
• 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)
• Lead “Trouble-shooter”/Analyst for Multiple companies, most notably, Confidential, Bear Stearns, Instinet Direct Edge and UBS.
• Have created Change Management, I.T. project review, Vendor/Legal contract analysis committee and processes.
• Have valuable experience at both well established and startup companies. Each type of company presented different challenges and yielded valuable 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.
• Managed, designed and supported firewall infrastructure for Cisco PIX, ASA, Palo Alto (recently) and to a lesser extent Juniper EX series.
• Developed, Implemented, managed and performed “Baseline/Benchmark” process and tools for Network. Telecomm, servers and Data center capacity 3x
• 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 Confidential 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.

.HANDS ON WITH HARDWARE/SOFTWARE:

• Exegy Ticket Plant solutions
• Arista 7508, 7150,7124
• IPC MXseries and Turrets
• Cisco Nexus series
• Cisco VOIP: Call Manager, Call Center and Unity
• Cisco 4500, 3750, 6500 and Nexus series
• Cisco ASA Firewall
• Avaya Media Gateway, ESBC, Session manger and Comms Manager.
• Juniper Series EX
• Foundry 850
• Palo Alto 5050, 4020
• Source-fire IDS
• HP DL 360,380,580,785 servers
• HP XP24000
• Brocade SAN switches
• Nortel 11c, 61c and 81C PBX
• Surf Control content filter
• Orion/Solar Winds

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Systems: Managed build outs on scale of 1000 production servers and 500 Disaster Recovery servers on three occasions. Both Linux and Microsoft Server Environments

SAN: Procured and managed XP24000, 3PAR and EMC SAN enviroments.

Load Balancers: Cisco CSS, Brocade MX, F5, Foundry 850’s

Firewalls: Cisco ASA, Palo Alto with much less experience in Juniper, Checkpoint

EMPLOYMENT:

Confidential

Director of Network/Telecomm Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Managed team of Network Operations and deployment engineers as well as designing new networks myself. Cisco, Arista, Riverbed, Palo Alto, F5 BIG IP, HP DL 380 w/Linux, HP Blade w. MSFT ctive directory….etc.
• There are many different devices that we support on what is a 50,000 node network.
• Designed two site, 6 tunnel network to support their 20,000 hand held Breath-Lizer devices nationwide.
• Used GRE,VPN IPSEC, BGP(AS Path) with HSRP on LAN.
• Provide Network Design advice
• Assist and lead troubleshooting on operation issues
• Acting Director of Network and Telecomm
• Designed and built global Colo SEF/ECN Network.
• Thus saving $100,000 in spending per SEF and reducing time to market turn up from 4 months to 7 days. Started process of designing Singapore Network and Data Center.
• Managed a team of 10 engineers
• Managed 100 IPC turret upgrade project for New trading floor
• Managed and designed Cisco ASA to Palo Alto Firewall migration
• Managed Sungard 200 Seat BCP deployment
• Managed Regulatory audit with Compliance and Audit dept.
• Designed and managed Legacy PBX (Nortel 81c) to Cisco Call Manager Mirgation (700 phones.
• 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.
• Implemented Secure Works” ticketing system
• Created work flow policies and procedures
• Created procurement process for hardware and cabling
• Created change management process

Confidential

Head of I.T. Infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• Managed Team of 10 including, Network Engineers, Telecomm, System Engineers, Operations
• Managed a team of 4 engineer for Systems which in total amounted to 300 HP DL 360,580 servers.
• Managed support of Active Directory, DNS, Outlook.
• Integrated UNX platform onto Confidential risk product platform
• Designed triangle data center / network ( Confidential NY4)
• Implemented VOIP solution
• Managed and designed branch office
• Managed Operations team

Confidential

Head of I.T. Infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• Managed all Infrastructure teams: Network, Systems, DBA, Operations, Change Management, Vendor management
• Managed procurement process from selection to purchase and deploy.
• Designed and configured Confidential network. With Cisco 6509’s and Brocade ADX LB.
• Design contributer, managed and assisted in deployment of Cisco VOIP solution including Call Center.
• Managed and contributed to contract “Vette” process for the purchase of improving terms.
• Designed and implemented data center cabinet and cable layout at Equinix (Prod) and Telx (DR)
• Designed and Implemented network design configuration at Confidential and Telx for trading network purposes.
• Designed, Implemented network WAN that supported 400+ Client migration
• Designed and Implement “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 connects 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.
• Created and designed and Hands on deployed “Connect Edge”. This was an initiative to provide clients with a fast to deliver market data delivery service using D.E. Network to develop 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.
• Created “Port cost” charge program for clients that in return turned a $500,000 profit over network switch spend.
• Responsible for all technology network systems, facilities, real estate build out, BCP, vendor management.
• 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 Confidential and Telx Data Centers
• Designed Market Data ticket plant using Exegy and integration of Market data feeds.
• 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

Responsibilities:

• Designed, implemented and purchased cabling for Production data center built in Greenwich.
• Designed and implemented 200 cabinet cable layout
• Procured, designed and deployed 150 seat BCP site including a 50 cabinet DR data center.
• 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