SUMMARY

• Strategic system engineer/architect with extensive experience designing and implementing infrastructure and developing appropriate IT organizational structures to support business needs.
• Background implementing Power HA external storage (EMC - SRDF / DS8800 Copy Services Tool Kit), leading system builds, and maintaining configuration on IBMi platform.
• Excels at conducting middleware implementations, such as MQ, MIMIX, QEDD, ROBOT, RJE, BRMS, C: D, and DPROP, Digital Certificate Manager, PAR.
• Leverage strong communication and leadership skills to relay key information to stakeholders at all levels, ensuring requirements are achieved with minimal disruptions to operations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Technical lead

Responsibilities:

• Participated in strategic and operational governance processes, reporting directly to executive management team.
• Led IT strategic and operational planning to achieve business goals by fostering innovation, prioritizing IT initiatives, and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future IT systems across the organization.
• Created, tracked, and controlled IT annual operating and capital budgets between $2.5M and $5M.
• Directed development and execution of enterprise-wide disaster recovery and business continuity plan.
• Maintained expertise in computer hardware and software, including OS, client / server application, database, storage, backup and recovery, networking, virtualization, VIOS, LPM, remote support, and security.
• Designed new system implementations and incorporate new product offerings, such as improvements to virtualization that led to significant cost savings on hardware and maintenance. Savings between $1.5-2M
• Provided leadership for company projects that have significant technologies component, including implementing and migrating internal storage system to external storage architecture to achieve faster and more reliable HA and DR solutions using Power HA. Reduction of roll swap activity to 20 minutes
• Defined service offerings, key performance indicators (KPIs), and service level agreements (SLAs) to support both operational and business requirements.
• Coordinated system activities with other groups, such as Engineering, Networking, Open Systems, Customer Service, and Product, to deliver optimum business solutions.
• Utilized performance management tools for IBM and project future trending in order to recommend proper upgrade specifications. Created more consolidated systems that was easier to manage and maintain
• Identified opportunities for appropriate and cost-effective investment of financial resources in IT systems and resources, including staffing, sourcing, purchasing, and in-house development. Analyze effects of new product offerings on infrastructure and propose design ideas to acquisition team.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served as lead project manager to relocate iSeries platform from Buffalo Data Center to Chicago.
• Implemented and maintained iSeries security infrastructure to meet information security standards.
• Maintained and implemented certificates in Digital Certificate Manager. Rolled out encryption using Enforcive
• Identified root cause of any incidents reported by business units; resolved and escalated as required, coordinated issue definition, and identified Tier 3 resources.
• Liaised with business / IT units to understand their data and business process needs and initiated plans and work programs to deliver.
• Managed four team members by itemizing, prioritizing, and managing the work of a small diverse group to bring the best out of the team and deliver strong and reliable results.
• Oversaw and executed projects working with team to ensure projects were managed effectively, ensuring on-time and on-budget completions with minimal disruption to business.
• Provided support to existing monitoring systems and coordinated implementation of post go-live application alerting and monitoring systems.
• Visualized future technologies and recommended appropriate upgrades and strategic technology improvements to Director of Technology. Consolidated older hardware into newer systems, which in turn reduced hardware maintenance considerably.
• Aided in capacity planning and disaster recovery planning.
• Led client and host configuration and set up systems; migrated and upgraded existing application platforms.
• Assisted in preparing documentation on functionality of applications and improvements to existing businesses.

Confidential

Operations Manager

Responsibilities:

• Installed, upgraded, and maintained all iSeries software components (operating systems, utility, and middleware) and all iSeries hardware components.
• Maintained documentation of iSeries hardware, software, network, storage, and application suite configurations.
• Performed iSeries system security administrative functions.
• Collaborated and worked with project teams to assist in design and implementation of iSeries component of new applications.
• Optimized capacity utilization / performance of servers.
• Generated and maintained iSeries system reporting facility.
• Aided in regular testing of Disaster Recovery systems and procedures for iSeries environment.
• Administered BRMS software and maintained / installed tape libraries such as Protectier and Data Domain.
• Managed server capacity to support application requirements.
• Maintained currency with new iSeries server hardware and software technologies, including execution of new POCs
• Served as project manager for MQSeries, Data Propagator, BRMS, Help Systems (Robot Console), and MIMIX.
• Provided basic system administration on Linux lpar and PASE on iSeries.