PROFILE

Certified Project Manager (PMP) with extensive experience in IT, project management, infrastructure delivery management, service delivery management, and production operations support in large global financial services institutions.

• Manage projects that cross multiple infrastructure teams, businesses and product lines
• Combine broad technical experience with leadership acumen to develop and execute strategic technology plans that integrate current and new business processes
• Experience includes systems and database administration, change management, data center operations, web development, platform deployment, and pre- and post-sales support

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Project Management: MS Project, MS Access, MS Office Tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Visio), Clarity Web Development: SharePoint 2007, SharePoint Designer 2007, HTML, PHP, ASP.net
Database Systems: Oracle, Microsoft SQL, Sybase
Data Center Tools: Aperture Vista 600
Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, Sun Solaris, Citrix, VMware

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ Sept 2010 – Present
Project Manager – Strategic Infrastructure Projects
Project Manager for optimization project to increase available data center resources through infrastructure virtualization and service consolidation.

• Work with application support teams and business lines to identify opportunities and design solutions to reduce power consumption and retire legacy hardware
• Manage global end-to-end infrastructure build-out and deployment processes across regional disciplines
• Migrate legacy Citrix environments to new infrastructure
• Produce and facilitate regular status and metrics reports for all levels of management to track project status, issues and scope changes. Developed reporting site via SharePoint for cross-team and cross-region project tracking

Confidential, New York, NY May 2006 – Sept 2010
Project Manager, Data Center Operations
Project manager for strategic data center projects. Hands-on manager of global data center technical support team.

• Design, build-out and support all web-based applications and tools used by the operations teams to manage the firm’s global data center estate
• Project manager to migrate and consolidate legacy data centers. Strategy included virtualization and storage consolidation techniques. Project completed on time and budget
• Project manager for the retirement of legacy applications and infrastructure, resulting in the removal of over 1000 servers from the data center estate
• Provide primary administration support of Aperture Vista 600 to global teams
• Successfully managed project to redefine and roll-out Vista 600 workflows, tools and reports in active production environment to global users

• Successfully delivered IT services and infrastructure required for Fixed Income, Equities and Credit Derivatives business initiatives
• Reduced overall server utilization statistics of business groups to adhere to firm mandated thresholds. Achieved 100 percent compliance for supported areas through virtualization and consolidation
• Streamlined end-to-end hardware procurement process to reduce overall deployment time of infrastructure by 30 percent

Confidential, New York, NY Aug 2004 – May 2006

Member of program/project management team responsible for planning and execution of global IT initiatives

• Project Manager for design and deployment of Oracle 10g-RAC database solution on Linux 64bit platform
• Managed design and deployment of shared environments for Sybase and Oracle services
• Managed relationships with business areas to resolve day-to-day issues and insure IT service needs were aligned with strategic business requirements, budgets, and service level agreements

Confidential., New York, NY Aug 2003 – Aug 2004
Project Manager
Managed team of senior database and UNIX systems administrators. Coordinated activities of the infrastructure environment across multiple functional lines, including networks, operations and client services.

• Implemented solution to archive financial data to WORM media for SEC compliance
• Migrated database platforms from Sybase to Oracle and expanded deployment on Linux
• Coordinated relocation of primary data center

Confidential.,New York, NY June 1996 – Aug 2003
VP, Database /UNIX Administration
Hands-on team leader of senior level system and database administrators supporting production and development environments. Core responsibilities included interfacing with business teams to design and configure OLTP and decision support database environments, data warehouses, data replication solutions, source code control, performance tuning, software evaluation and upgrades. Team accomplishments include:

• Developed infrastructure to efficiently manage large number of database applications. Strict server configuration standards and automated utilities resulted in timely deployment of new environments and significantly reduced server down time
• Project leader on initiative for server consolidation. Achieved 6 to 1 compression rate by creating database utility environment, reducing costs for software licensing, maintenance and support

OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

VP, Data Center Operations at Confidential
Systems Engineer at Confidential

EDUCATION and PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• BS, Mechanical Engineering
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified through Project Management Institute (PMI)
• PRINCE2 Project Management Foundation Certification
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundation Certification
• Financial Planning Certificate,