Principal Security Architect Resume , New York, NY - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Results driven leader, with over 15 years of strong management skills.
Proven track record in management, server architecture, network planning, capacity planning, scaling, and meeting SLA, cyber security. Providing customer satisfaction
Managing operating expenses of over 7 million dollars.
Hands on experience of day to day operations, and ability to perform deep dives into specific OS issues, and system programming issues.
Strong communication, active listening to implement needs of corporate business units.
Strategic thinking and planning abilities; strong analytical & problem solving skills.

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Confidential, New York, NY

Principal Security Architect

Responsibilities:

Led in developing a framework for cyber security policies which provided a road map, and central source for current and future policies.
Worked closely with a diverse engineers and advised on technology solution in according to corporate compliance.
Provided architectural leadership to pilot a homegrown solution which provide automated malware analysis using in - house resources, and open source tools.
Created security policy, and applicable training programs where needed to provide awareness for internal end users.
Designed network and network security solutions, applying architectural and engineering concepts to design solutions that meet operational and mission requirements, such as scalability, maintainability.
Led in RFP responses in regarding to security practices at Confidential .

Confidential, New York, NY

Director & Manger, Operations

Responsibilities:

Oversaw automation stacking consisting on Lickstart, Cobbler, Cfengine.
Pioneered OpenStack private cloud compute infrastructure for Confidential Affiliate service into new east cost datacenter.
Successful designed and built out of our redundant west cost datacenter saving 30% YoY operating expense.
Oversaw DevOps community of practice within Confidential .
Vetted out technology solutions which drive operational improvements, while maintaining SLA’s
Managed, negotiated vendor and contracts which strategically align with the company core vision and values.
Managed 4 co-locations and provide support 24x7.
Instituted a strategic migration to utilizing a Network Operating Center (NOC), providing 15% increase in delivery timelines.
Improved service provisioning deficiency by 40% by moving to 80% use of virtualized machines powered by Xen.

Confidential, New York, NY

Manager, Systems

Responsibilities:

On budget and on schedule launch of the strategic migration of nytimes.com datacenter operations to Exodus co-location facility (formally Global Center). The coordination of this project consisted of automated server installation, maintenance of new vendor standards, firewall and load balance administration, and security and policy approvals, server upgrades .
Selected and coordinated the successful installation of the first storage area network, easing storage needs, but positioning nytimes.com as a leading international online news organization. Reducing man-hours on routine storage issues, and elevated the deliverable of business standards such as web performance metrics, and ecommerce.
Instrumental in the development of plans and procedures for disaster recovery of NYTimes internet headquarters, as well as the New York co-location facility
Coordination with in-house development engineers and 3rd parties to deploy the appropriate technologies which drives strategic business initiatives. Expert performance tuning of Solaris version 8 through 10, on Sparc and Intel platforms.
Lead NAS/SAN storage administrator, systems programming using perl/php/shell, performance tuning.