Network Architect/Senior IT Engineer

• Results-oriented IT Strategist with 10 years of experience design, integration of multi-platform as well as virtual platform VMware and/or blade-servers data networks.
• Financial-Industry background 11 years in the Investments and banking arenas. Formerly licensed Series 7, 8, 4, 6, 67, 56, and more and very familiar with most/all aspects of this industry.
• Strong technical qualifications with strengths in project planning, technical overviews and documentation, design and project management.
• Enough project hours to earn a PMP cert midway to earning necessary credits/passing test.
• Formulate strategies for technology acquisition, migration, integration and implementation.
• Ability to lead the architectural redesign and reengineering of large-scale enterprise infrastructures to improve performance, increase security and minimize downtime.
• Proficient in the use of enterprise-level tools for problem trouble-shooting, determination and remediation as well as change-management processing Remedy, Peregrine .
• Organized, take-charge professional with exceptional follow-through abilities and detail-orientation able to plan and oversee multiple projects from conception to successful conclusions, while in fast paced environments.
• Hands-on experience with Cisco 3750, 3800, 6500, 7200, 7600 and Nexus 1000, 22XX, 55XX 7000 platforms, F5's and VIPRION's 5100, 6900, 10200.
• Outstanding communication skills proven by effective communication with management, vendors, staff, peers and customers. Genuine commitment to quality and customer satisfaction.
• Familiarity with Sarbanes-Oxley Act regulations in context of their impact on IT considerations and have had to design environments to ensure compliance with HIPAA, FISMA, MITA and financial regulations.

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Professional Experience:

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Key Achievements:

• Worked with the Project Office PO to review ALL projects to ensure cohesion and consistency across the globe of the many projects being initiated weekly 10-30 projects per week, on average .
• Standardized Wireless deliverable to all sites/all accounts hundreds of such sites/accounts world-wide to a common framework of wireless design thereby achieving significant improvements and efficiencies.
• Contributed to design and effort that now uses reduced manpower/time to review and oversee that environment.
• Macy's: Planned, staged, and performed annual testing of combined Mainframe and Dist. Servers' DR tests. Worked across 4 companies AT T, IBM, Macy's and Akamai assorted towers to stage, pilot test, and implement a phased transition of DNS to a cloud-based DNS solution. Laid the ground work, and led design discussions and preparation of a migration from an implementation LTM to one incorporating a GTM framework for data traffic management.

Key Achievements:

• By gaining trust, improved communications across companies.
• Project-managed AT T's side of the transition to the hand off of a normal DNS solution to a multi-tiered more secure DNS solution across four companies IBM, Macys, AT T and Akamai.
• Ttransitioned seamlessly, over the course of 15-20 staged changes, 2BB in annual web-portal's sales from a legacy DNS solution to a shadow DNS hiding, and securing content while enhancing long-term scalability and even deeper, extensible security Site Shield .
• Member of the design committee to more closely integrate and mimic Dev and Prod environments more closely matching their baseline designs to one another's, so as to achieve better matching test/development results.
• Led architectural discussion/meetings to plan and implement move from an LTM-only approach to load-balancing, to the global GTM approach to such cloud traffic Preferred vendor: F5 and VIPRION .
• With the advent of BYOD, Bring Your Own Device , and the many extra-net partners, we planned the incorporation and the use of MDM Mobile Device Management and ISE Identity Service Engine to secure the customer's network while increasing work-site efficiencies all-the-while maintaining their security posture and enforcing security policy.

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Key Achievements:

• Using the new appliance ACS 5.2, integrated it with LDAP, and, using RADIUS for the extensive wireless environment , authenticated ALL corporate and guest users.
• Accommodated the scheduling of activities of another major upgrade the migration of the customer from Frame Relay to MPLS.
• Worked closely with the developer/manufacturer of a new security-service product before its introduction into the market so as to homologate and standardize its packaging and insure predictability, and ease of support of the product, upon its sale and rollout.

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Key Achievements

• Sizeable project took much attention to detail and follow-up, with over 100 change-windows used to perform the overall transformation/upgrade of the network.

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Key Achievements:

• Got customer buy-in to an approach to dedicate resource-intensive servers to a single application resulting in significant time-savings of re-start-times as well as that of personnel continuously troubleshooting and isolating disassociated processes from the incumbent, or running application and eliminating the need to hire on a FTE-head-count to support the constantly changing environment.
• Documented and drove through a consistent base-line approach to file-hierarchy across the multiple applications. The impact will be felt in reduced support time, more consistent documentation, and faster resolution of trouble-shooting efforts.
• Through ongoing pd problem-determination efforts, tested the assorted labs' and production-environment's servers. Uncovered inconsistent implementations, documented them, fixed them and retested them so as to prepare for a 40-to-50,000 device roll-out.
• Got the myriad of Oracle servers Solaris OS all patched and consistent throughout the three labs thus ensuring greater efficiency through more predictable behavior to controlled test-steps.