SUMMARY:

• Turned around a 3 ½ - year ($56 million loss) old stagnant IT project to profitability within 5 months. Successfully directed $18 million in information technology integration. Executed projects worth $96 million.
• Successfully designed and delivered 14 large-scale complex global data centers; cut network latency over 70% and reduced infrastructure operating cost 27%. Boosted network availability from 83% to 99.99% and increased customer satisfaction from 84% to 96% within six months. Negotiated contracts to save 37% ($2.7 million).
• Recognized as an exceptional problem-solver, an innovative executive infrastructure architect who strives to create the best solution and to produce world-class infrastructure, a hands-on type executive IT manager whose advanced s are the result of commitment, collaboration, efficiency, passion, visionary imagination, and brilliant optimism.
• Evaluate existing IT infrastructure by utilizing cost-effective or mission-critical and ultra low-latency method. Propose the most effective solution to reduce latency and to resolve various IT infrastructure issues.
• Pilot test, evaluate and certify hardware equipment and reduce TCO for data centers. Orchestrate sophisticated solutions to resolve difficult and complex Information Technology problems.
• Write best practice policies for fault-tolerant IT Infrastructure and latency sensitive trading floors. Define future technology roadmaps; guide and direct global disaster recovery plan.
• Develop quantitative analysis model to target market inefficiency, foster and lead IT venture to support business vision, mission, and revenue growth.
• Recruit, guide, build, mentor, and maintain talented IT staff with an open, sincere, effective, and well-rounded personality to achieve team effectiveness and managerial excellence.
• Branch design experience includes responsibility for over 900 branches with Citigroup.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Network: LAN, WAN, MAN, SAN, Internet, SDLC; Ethernet, Tengigabit Ethernet; SONET, DWDM, CWDM, Fiber, POS, T1/T3, OC-3/OC-12/OC-48/OC-192, Frame Relay, ISDN; Load-balancer, F5, Firewall, ACS, VPN, OPNET, nGenius/Netscout, Wireshark.

Protocols & Hardware: TCP/IP, UDP, FTP, TFTP; VDC, VPC, OTV, FabricPath; RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, IS-IS, OSPF, BGP, MPBGP, LDP, MPLS, VRF, GRE, RD; RMDS, Reuter, Bloomberg, Fix, ECN; Multicast, IGMP, IP PIM, RP, BSR; Citrix, AAA, DMZ, TACACS, RADIUS, Check-Point; DNS, DHCP, SSH, VPN, IPSec, NAT, PAT, ARP, GLBP, VRRP, HSRP; VLAN, STP, Trunk, VTP, Bridging, DLSW; VOIP, CallManager; Nexus 7000, 5000, 2000; Catalyst Switches 6500, 3750, 9500, 15400 Series; Routers 2600, 3600, 4700, 7500, 7600, 12000 Series; AS5300, VPN Concentrators; PIX Firewalls, ASA5540, 5585, etc. AP; HP Open-View, Cisco-Works, Vital-Suites, Ixia, IPv6; SQL, EMC, Email; ITIL, Websphere, BI.

Operating Systems & Software: Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7; MS-DOS, Macintosh, Unix, Linux; MS Excel, Publisher, Project, Power Point, Access, Visio, Macromedia, MatLab, Statistician, C, C++, Fortran, Basic, Java, Python, XML, HTML.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Network Architect/Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for global IT Infrastructure and technology projects to achieve managerial and operational excellence. In charge of data center IT telecom infrastructure, responsible for resolving key technical problems. Consulted with clients such as EMC/MIT Lincoln Lab, Valeant Pharmaceutical, etc.
• Consulted and designed advanced three-tier OSPF/VRF FabricPath network for MIT Lincoln Lab.
• Designed and supported LAN, WAN, MAN, SAN, NTP, etc. Exercised protocols such as MPLS, GLBP, HSRP, Spanning Tree, VTP Trunk, Ether Channel, ACLs, VDC, VPC, on Cisco Devices such as NX7K, NX5K, 6500, 3750, etc.

Confidential

Network Architect/Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Led team designed and implemented ultra low - latency Server Farm Project for trading floors. Designed and implemented Server Farms by utilizing protocols such as VDC, VPC, FCoE, FabricPath, Fabric Extender, GLBP, HSRP on NX7K, NX5K and NX2K. Exercised Spanning Tree, VTP Trunk, Ten Gigabit Ether Channel on 6509s and 3750s etc. Migrated 9,000 servers seamlessly to the ultra low-latency network.

Confidential

Network Architect/Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for global IT Infrastructure and technology projects to achieve managerial and operational excellence. In charge of data center IT telecom infrastructure, responsible for resolving key technical problems. Consulted with clients such as NYSE (Marco Polo Network), NYK group (Mitsubishi), Harris Corporation, Georgia Gulf Corporation, etc. Served as Lead Network Architect, Global lead Network Engineer. Mentored and coached senior to mid-level engineers. In charge of data center operations and provided 3rd - 4th level operation escalation support. Proposed, designed and implemented ultra low-latency and resilient six-sigma world-class infrastructure solution for clients.
• Diagnosed, pinpointed, and turned around a 3½-year ($56 million loss) old stagnant OSCAR application problem within five months. Strategically optimized (cloud-computing concept) the distribution of affected key devices in global data centers to cut average latency over 70% for NYK group. Proposed and designed fault-tolerant low-latency network that met 99.999% availability. Led team designed and supported DNS, DHCP, Proxy, ACS, VPN, NTP, LAN, WAN, MAN, SAN, VoIP, Fiber Optics, Market Data, FIX, and security, etc. Exercised protocols such as MPLS, MPBGP, GLBP, HSRP, Spanning Tree, VTP Trunk, Ether Channel, ACLs, IDS, IPS on 6509s, 7600s etc.

Confidential

Network Architect/Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for transferring a fast-growing, instable IT infrastructure into a world-class, stable, flexible, and fault-tolerant IT infrastructure to support its mission of explosive revenue growth. Proposed, designed, and built the expandable network infrastructure that made the rapid gain of $176 million annual sales increase possible. Increased network availability from 83% to 99.99% with option to reach 99.999%. Proposed and implemented cost-effective MAN telecom solution that reduced 40% ($1.2 million savings) TCO. Directly managed, mentored, coached, and supervised a small team of 5 professional IT engineers.
• Led team and overhauled the existing instable network infrastructure with zero negative impact to the business. Set the high standards of design, implementation, and change management by adopting ITIL best practice. Wrote security policy and supervised the implementation of security rules. Applied ACLs, crypto map, IKE, IDS, and IPS on PIX firewalls, ASA5540s, etc. Implemented best practice procedures and exercised protocols such as MPLS, MPBGP, GLBP, HSRP, Failover, Spanning Tree, VTP Trunk, and Gigabit Ether Channel on 6509s, 7600s, etc..

Confidential

Network Architect/Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented low-latency network for trading floors. Eliminated routing black holes. Designed, tested, and implemented WLAN in Cisco catalyst 6509 switches using WLSM module. Created Layer2 and Layer3 roaming with Access Points. Configured Wireless mGRE Tunnels between 6509 and Wireless Access Point Routers. Conducted extensive testing for latency sensitive trading application software.

Confidential

Vice President /Network Architect

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for global data centers, trading floors, network infrastructure, server farms, mergers, and application integration projects. Accountable for projects worth $32 million within two years, and achieved operational excellence. Consolidated WAN links and saved $4.2 million over existing telecom bills. Proposed data center consolidation and $73 million savings (37% TCO). Successfully proposed strategic global disaster recovery plan. Conducted projects in 16 AS systems with BGP speakers across the globe. Exercised quality and budget control, and implemented cost-cutting strategy throughout the projects.

Confidential

Vice President/Network Architect

Responsibilities:

• Successfully designed and implemented BGP speakers in various AS systems. Designed, documented, and implemented TCP/IP networks, FDDI optical fiber backbone ring. Exercised protocols such as HSRP, Spanning Tree, VTP Trunk, Ethernet Channel, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF and BGP, etc. Utilized HSRP as both a fault-tolerant and a load-balancing protocol. Documented over 400 pages for network design, configuration and operations.

Confidential

VP/Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for $10 million annual IT budget. Responsible for IT operations including PCs, application software, Servers, data centers, and LAN/WAN network infrastructure. Fostered growth and assisted CEO in growing company’s net worth from $276 million to $1.1 billion within 6 years. Managed and supervised 3 direct reports. Built quantitative analysis model, directed, and led team developed C Arbitrage and application software for crude oil trading system.