SUMMARY:

• An accomplished and highly skilled IT Project Manager with eleven years of progressive experience.
• Demonstrated capabilities include Full Life Cycle Project Management, assembling, coordinating and managing cross functional teams, and meeting deadline and budgetary requirements.
• Skilled in researching new technologies and cost savings.
• A resourceful, bottom - line and multi-task oriented self-starter with excellent problem solving and communication abilities.
• Excels in performance through both team and individual efforts.
• Identified and developed global security strategies and standards to protect Internet Protocol technologies world-wide for Confidential ’s OS/390 and IBM and SUN mid-range systems, in meeting ongoing tight deadlines.
• Designed, organized, and directed global project plans for standardized high-speed, routed/switched TCP/IP client-server connectivity for IBM OS/390 mainframe resources including security, network management, external client access, supplemental training and business continuity over WAN.
• Wrote white-paper outlining global security strategies recommended for mainframe and submitted to Confidential Board of Directors for their review and adoption.
• Prepared WAN telecom analysis of Confidential USA SNA network utilization and its foreign telecommunication links for an external Gartner Group study
• Wrote strategic planning whitepaper analysis and presentation with cost accounting for senior Confidential management personnel.
• Identified departmental requirements, designed and managed implementation of network infrastructure and power expansion, increasing capacity and redundancy for CAT 5e and fiber-optic 100Base- Confidential switch feeds to interconnect to 1000Base- Confidential Gigabit fiber backbone.
• Wrote 5-year plan for Confidential Mainframe Global Strategic Planning Group
• Reorganized network convergence, VLAN’s and solved network multicast design problems of an experimental Fixed Income market data network and its laboratory.
• Designed, coordinated, and assisted implementation of Fiber multiplexed trunk Wide Area Network (WAN) feeds and infrastructure for TCPIP and SNA client-to-host connections of external Wall Street firms to mortgage-backed security applications. Project included budget preparation, cost accounting, network management, and external dial backup.
• Redesigned routed infrastructure backbone for Confidential & Confidential subsidiary and implemented DNS and DHCP architecture using Proxy servers for remote access.
• Identified departmental Line of Business (LOB) needs and provided technical recommendations to assigned project managers for trading floor, backoffice, and business technology units as technical liaison and project team leader for Smith Barney relocations. Was in charge of equipment and facilities cutovers and hotcuts from old facilities to new facilities.
• Researched technical solutions for long-distance storage, high-speed file transfers, and new technologies for Confidential, Reuters, Credit Suisse, and Cantor Fitzgerald corporations.
• Investigated and delineated Line of Business (LOB) requirements in meeting corporate objectives converting global mainframe access from SNA to corporate TCPIP network, doubling corporate bandwidth and processing throughput.
• Optimized load servicing and security for high-speed web applications. Wrote and developed instruction manuals for infrastructure technologies such as front-end load-servers and RMON network monitoring software applications.
• Redesigned Lotus Notes data center replication networks for domestic U.S. resources and international feeds.
• Evaluated and redesigned corporate backbone and Local Area Network (LANs) server congestion and provided SNMP management on UNIX platform. Wrote whitepaper explaining technology and design options.
• Designed and configured router installations for Internet Protocol and multi-protocol access.
• Installed T1/T3 hookups for departments of several major financial firms including the Confidential, Confidential, Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette, Smith Barney.
• Designed and installed network management installations to support infrastructure projects.
• Served as key team leader for facilities and infrastructure relocation of trading floor and back-office technologies to 1 Liberty Plaza for Credit Suisse and separately for Smith Barney.

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Operating Systems, Protocols and Hardware: Cisco IOS, Cisco CIP2, RS (Wellfleet), Bay Networks, DEC/VAX/VMS, Linux, AIX, UNIX, BSD, SUN OS, SUN Solaris, Mac OS X, z/OS, OS/390, DECnet, SNA, Citrix, Windows 8/7/Vista/XP/2000/NT/98, Linux, ESCON, Fibre Channel, IBM 3270, RS/6000, PowerPC, zBX, Nortel, Avaya, Ciena, Lucent, VLAN’s, RMON, IPSec, SSL, Diffie-Hellman, Kerberos, PKI, NAT, DNS, DHCP, HSRP, MPLS, TACACS, TCP/IP, v4, v6, SNMP, FTP, TFTP, RPC, NFS, BGP4, FDDI, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Frame Relay, T1/E1/T3/E3, 802.1d, 802.1W, 802.3, 802.5, SMTP, 100Base- Confidential, SANs, 1000Base- Confidential, Token Ring, Gigabit Ethernet, Xyplex, Verisign, Foundry, Passport, Polycom Audio-Visual, F5 Networks, Alteon Webswitches, CAT 5, CAT 5e, CAT 6, CAT 7, PoE, DWDM, WDM, Multi-mode Fiber, Single-mode Fiber, Metropolitan Ethernet, SONET/SDH, VPN, Tunneling, ISDN, OSPF, EIGRP, Load Balancing, 32-bit, 64-bit architectures.

Applications Software: Tivoli, HP OpenView, MS IIS, CiscoWorks, Optivity, NETscout, NetView, Concord Network Health, Quotron, ADP, Reuters Triarch, Bloomberg, other Market Data applications, MS Active Directory, VM Ware, MS Office 2007, 2010 & 2016, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, Exchange, Project, Primavera, Visio, SharePoint, Lotus Notes, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Staten Island, NY

Senior Project Manager/Strategic Network Planning Engineer/Network Architect

Responsibilities:

• Telecom and Infrastructure Consultant
• Provided high-level consulting for network infrastructure, routing and security application development of PC and mid-range Unix applications.
• Group worked as test laboratory of newly developed applications for Fixed Income market data trading products using distributed telecommunications tools and web-based infrastructure.
• In charge of 2 small projects, the first installed a Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) network and prepared budget using internal personnel and redesigned data center layout, power requirements and circuitry with an accompanying product specification and budget utilizing an outside vendor (Leviton) that I procured.

Confidential, Bergen County, New Jersey

Network Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Finished building and implementing hybrid HP OpenView and IBM Tivoli Network Management Platforms for largest securities-warrants provider which had been left incomplete by previous technology developers.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager / Senior WAN Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed several different projects that entailed management of several different project teams simultaneously including Y2K Mainframe Telecommunications bandwidth preparations for the US Confidential Manhattan network including global telecom feeds. This was for a projected budget of about $500,000 with 3 project leaders reporting. This entailed bandwidth utilization assessments and buildouts to compensate for changes in disaster patterns, budget preparations and overseeing project team that implemented buildout. Architected and managed telecommunications and network infrastructures for migration of IBM mainframe to new TCPIP infrastructures and facilities, including budget and resource allocations, overseeing several project teams in the U.S. and U.K.
• Steven Mitchell Page 4 from concept inception to implementation for project budget of about $12 million for 3 U.S. data centers and 2 DR sites. Also oversaw disaster recovery project team for the same new TCPIP infrastructure testing. TCPIP Project encompassed 5 project leaders. Prepared study on behalf of Confidential for Gartner Group on mainframe WAN utilization patterns. Wrote 5-Year Plan for Mainframe Planning Group.
• Developed Best
• Managed global mainframe security project that comprised team of VP, AVP and CTO level executives to develop mainframe security Best Practices and in corporate written addendum standards appended to official Confidential Manhattan security bluebook requiring direct approval by Confidential Manhattan Board of Directors.

Confidential, New York

Senior Project Manager / Network Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed adoption by various technology groups and designed backbone and client-server architectures and plans for Confidential traded securities for Confidential, to support dynamic routing and oversaw project teams that implemented the technologies for Confidential Engineering Group.
• Prepared budget for relocation costs, wrote detailed implementation plans for Confidential Network Operations to implement and oversaw development of CAD drawings to serve as guidelines for implementation teams.

Confidential

Network Architect

Responsibilities:

• Served as head of the network for a building and architecture redesign of a team of about 35 IBM employees.
• Redesigned campus network and data center to alleviate network congestion problems, implemented Domain Name Services (DNS) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) to enable more effective client-server access and support management on Unix-hosted networks.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Convert network infrastructure from a bridged to routed network Confidential One Confidential Manhattan Plaza headquarters and implementing SNMP-based network devices to manage new infrastructure for mixed architectures.
• Contract ended when Chemical Bank takeover entered new phase. Included adding additional circuits by installing and configuring T1 equipment, Cisco network routers, setup of CSU/DSUs and Synoptic intelligent hub configurations, including IDF/MDF rack mounts and punchdowns for electrical closets.

Confidential

Security Team Leader (consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Served as Team Leader to provide 3rd Level Technical Support, implementing security solutions to remove Concept Virus from company-wide infection of servers and workstations for 10,500 employees.