SUMMARY:

Experienced engineer at managing full stack application deployment. Adept at building, retaining and leading high - performance teams by hiring, developing and motivating highly skilled professionals. Excellent problem solver with the ability to constantly produce high quality solutions that meet both requirements and deadlines. Mastery of turning conceptual ideas into working solutions. Effective communicator who easily builds consensus among diverse groups such as architects, developers, engineers, managers, VPs, stakeholders and others from all organizational levels. Emphasis on providing direction and technical leadership for planning, management, and implementation of large-scale mission critical projects.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• IT Strategy, Asset, Security, & Emergency Planning
• IT Policy & Continuation Planning & Budgeting
• IT Staffing & Mentoring
• IT Contracts & s
• ROI Analysis
• Networking
• Systems Architect
• Product Development
• Quality Assurance
• Testing / QA / Rollout / Support
• Project & Agile Management
• Client / Server & Storage Technology & Standards

SKILL:

Database: Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Progress, & MS SQL Server

Middleware Platforms: Oracle Weblogic, Webmethods, & Apache Tomcat

Directory Structures: LDAP, Open LDAP, Active Directory (AD), & Azure Active Directory (AAD)

Application Platforms: SAP, Oracle ERP,Lawson, Informatica. PeopleSoft, Oracle Financials, Cognos Analytics, MuleSoft, SalesForce, & Oracle SOA

Data Warehouse Platforms: IBM Netezza, Oracle Exadata, Teradata, Greenplumb, & Cloudera

Scrum, XP, FDD. ITIL Project management: ITIL framework, ITIL lifecycle, & ITIL principles - Lean Six Sigma Methodology & Framework

Server Platforms: Hewlett Packard UNIX, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, Microsoft, & RedHat Linux

Cloud Computing: Drive architectural discussions (PaaS, and IaaS), detailed analysis of workloads to identify & prioritize cloud candidates, technical architecture for cloud computing environments that addresses security, reliability, availability, capacity, & latency with Microsoft, Amazon, & RackSpace cloud computing offerings

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Melville, NY

Manager, Global Enterprise

Responsibilities:

• Managed Microsoft Hybrid Azure Identity Management (IDM) project with gathering requirements, defining requirements, and program management including conducting sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives for proof of concept, project budgeting, requirements for project staffing, and project implementation, established partnership with Microsoft consulting to provide services continuing to production implementation.
• Researched Gartner and Forester analysis for identifying industry leaders, drove RFI and RFP evaluations, and negotiated SOWs, optimizing supplier performance, and maximizing solution delivery.
• Organized and participated in facilitation of sessions for business and technology teams, introducing new vendors API management system.
• Aided in Arrow Global Enterprise Data Center relocation from New York to Colorado through gathering requirements, and program management including conducting sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives, defining scope, project budgeting, requirements for project staffing, and implementation plan, and managing global project communications.
• Managed WebSphere MQ, Oracle SOA, Oracle OID, ForgeRock OpenDJ / OpenAM, and custom developed applications upgrade projects through gathering requirements for staffing, budgeting, defining implementation plan, and program management including conducting sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives, global project communications, and implementation.
• Led global middle-ware solutions division and managed budgets over $7M per year, realizing 99% system uptime.
• Defined technology strategies that all global middle-ware solutions meet or exceeded Global Service Level agreements, offering application stability, supportability, security, and performance.

Manager, Global Enterprise Engineering Solutions

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Delivered $35M in productivity, proactive controls, infrastructure stability through accelerating BI decisions for procurement decisions, logistics, finance, and engineering customers.
• Moved Arrow’s Global Enterprise ERP system from IBM Mainframe to Oracle ERP on Open Systems through collaborating on gathering requirements, defining scope, project budgeting, requirements for project staffing, defining implementation plan and systems architecture, global project communications.
• Tailored communications for senior stakeholders using visual dashboards and KPIs, providing business intelligence essentials to executives for informed decision making.
• Managed server provisioning automation project from gathering requirements to project delivery and established partnership with EMC VMware consulting, driving workflow efficiencies, and minimizing mistakes caused by human error.
• Led UNIX and LINUX operating system upgrade projects, enhancing server stability, supportability, security, and performance.

Confidential, Bethpage, NY

Principal System / Storage Architect

Responsibilities:

• Aligned strategic goals and objectives with decisions regarding products and services, partners and suppliers, organization, capabilities, and key business and IT initiatives, developing integrated view of enterprise using repeatable approach, cohesive framework, and available industry standard techniques.
• Enhanced system performance, security, and business continuity, and achieved cost savings through:
• Performed proof of concept and program managed redesign of custom Oracle based key operating metrics application, enabling use of all Solid-State Disk based array with Oracle ASM mirroring to Hard Disk Drive based array.
• Performed proof of concept and program managed redesign of legacy multi petabyte SAN infrastructure using Cisco MDS storage area network gear, EMC VPLEX, and EMC VMAX and VNX storage.
• Performed proof of concept and program managed implementation of IBM Power based virtual environment consisting IBM AIX based Logical Partitions (LPARS), Cisco UCS Blade systems, Cisco Nexus network gear, Cisco MDS storage area network gear, and EMC VMAX and VNX storage.
• Architected and performed proof of concept for infrastructure of multi-site hadoop cluster for custom Call Detail Records Application.
• Performed proof of concept for multi-site private cloud-based Infrastructure as Service (IaaS) environment consisting of VMware, Hewlett Packard, Cisco UCS Blade systems, Cisco Nexus network gear, Cisco MDS storage area network gear, EMC VPLEX, and EMC VMAX and VNX storage.