SUMMARY

• Managed technology infrastructure design for major Retail management corporation
• 35 years+’ experience providing design, implementation and support services for a number of medium and large - scale data networks (15+ years financial services and banking industries; 10 years as a civilian contractor to the USAF)
• Written RFP based on construction documents. Managed budgets up to 40 million dollars, for overall project.
• Managed build-out and relocation of 15 data centers. Implemented and maintained various manned and unmanned data centers and satellite hub centers.
• Engineering design and integration of Audio/Visual system for major international law firm in NYC
• Extensive involvement in all aspects of facility build-outs.
• Overall project management of trading floor build-out (voice, data and turret systems) for 1200 trading positions.
• Project Manager for security system upgrade and design for major financial institution. Managed 40million dollar project budget. Responsible for all vendor coordination, owner representative.
• Extensive involvement in design and layout of audio/visual system for international law firm. Responsible for selection of A/V infrastructure, system layout and acoustical design, for auditorium style facility.
• Business Continuity Planning and project approach for major financial institution.
• Managed space planning and network documentation utilizing Visio
• Managed sizing UPS system for purchase, implementation and integration into data center environment via SNMP management system
• Project Manager on overall bid process and award process to various trades (i.e.: IBEW (voice, data, and electrical), various telecommunications carriers, mechanical and electrical engineering staffs, architects and corporate facilities.
• Designed and implemented high-speed backbone networks, incorporating DS-1, DS-3, OC-3, OC-12 and OC-48 as well as Sonet and Verizon IOS/OC192 infrastructure. Responsible for ordering, design and implementation of analog, digital and voice communications links to support various network and user based applications.
• Have worked on the implementation of various operating systems for desktop support in a financial service environment (i.e.: windows based platforms 95, 98 and NT as well as UNIX based platforms).
• Implementation of 1200 trading positions. Worked as lead project manager. Rollout of IPC digital-MX turret system for major financial institution. Extensive rollout experience with IPC-analog turret sets, hoot-n-holler systems.
• Extensive managerial experience from supervisory roles to the Director level. Managed up to 28 highly technical engineers, project managers, field engineers and provisioning.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills, an effective contributor, team player and “go-to’ expert on a wide variety of LAN and WAN related issues. Excellent presentations skills. Presentations to senior level management for various organizations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: Cisco product suite Routers, Switches and various appliances.

Software and Protocols: Assembler, COBOL, FORTRAN, VTAM, CICS, BTAM, netview, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Microsoft Project, Visio canvas, Clarity, Oracle, Sybase. Protocols 3270, 2780/3780, asynchronous, bisynchronous, isochronous (military specifications), TCP/IP and IPX.

Topologies: Ethernet, Fast-Ethernet, Gigabit-Ethernet and Token-Ring,

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include writing RFP’s for Clinical and Non-Clinical Audio Visual infrastructure to design build Hospital systems for OR/procedure and Non-Clinical spaces.
• Managed budgets for both Clinical and Non-Clinical Infrastructure totaling $15million
• Responsibilities include overall infrastructure design of digital AV systems to support hospital systems
• Managed local-3/IBEW and CWA team members to implement all low voltage infrastructure fiber/copper/HDMI to support all Clinical and Non-Clinical systems throughout hospital
• Supported senior management and Clinical Surgical teams in all aspects of decision and design of OR digital systems
• System design of Brainlab digital OR systems to support 32OR, 2MRI Procedure spaces
• System design of AV infrastructure supporting Out-Patient, In-Patient, Emergency department, Pharmacy, Sterile Core
• System design of Digital video interactive walls for Children’s Hospital

Confidential

Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Technical Program Manager; responsible for the overall design of Retail Properties corporate fiber backbone system. This included but not limited to conduit and fiber routing and bandwidth design for each Retail Telecom IDF closet. Total 20 IDF closets throughout World Trade Center redevelopment space
• Managed infrastructure fiber, copper, and all carrier related services
• Worked closely with Verizon to implement and design OC192 carrier services for Westfield Retail WTC center
• Responsible for coordination between Boingo, Port Authority and Confidential in the implementation of WIFI and DAS systems rollout to all retail tenants
• Managed Local-3 and CWA contractors
• Responsible for coordination and design of BMS and tenant Metering systems with Schneider Electric. Responsible for design of BMS and tenant metering backbone to monitor all metered systems (electrical, cold water, steam and gas)
• Responsible for coordination and design of 2-way radio system and intercom system for implementation throughout Westfield retail properties.
• Coordinated implementation of carrier services with MTA for Fulton Center Transit Hub
• Coordinated implementation of carrier services with Port Authority, Durst and Silverstein Properties
• Managed Technology implementation budget 12million dollars
• Coordinated all aspects of technology design between Port Authority and Westfield for approvals of IT infrastructure
• Worked closely and responsible for design of IDF and Carrier POP HVAC systems infrastructure. Supported AKF design team

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Northeast Regional IT-Construction; overall design build responsibility for Confidential office facilities through-out Northeast region
• Manage, overall responsibility for IT Technology design build for Confidential Northeast Headquarters infrastructure 299 Park Avenue
• Managed decommission and coordination of Confidential retail branch facilities across entire Confidential enterprise. Coordination of all aspects of decommissioning process: server, network, facilities
• Overall responsibility for design and build of Confidential Northeast Corporate headquarters. Coordination of all resources; Network design, carrier services, voice, server, desktop services. Worked closely with architects, engineers. Managed 5.5 million dollar overall IT budget for backbone infrastructure
• Managed Northeast New retail branch design builds. Responsible for Business requirements, infrastructure design and coordination. Retail branch implementation including all teller/platform UAT testing procedures. Managed retail branch IT budget per branch
• Managed Syska MEP and responsibility for IDF, Generator/UPS, Carrier POP and MDF power and HVAC implementation for Confidential Northeast Corporate office
• Weekly review of Verizon carrier resourcing and allocations for network resourcing services

Confidential

Senior Project Manager/Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage complete infrastructure refresh and forklift of existing systems. Included are all existing server and switch infrastructure.
• Managed 21 million dollar overall budget
• Managed migration of 5 data centers; total 6500 servers (Windows & UNIX) from Confidential operational support to HP operational support
• Managed deployment of Storage, NAS and TSM systems to support 500 Tera-bytes storage for life of existing contract
• Managed weekly and bi-weekly meeting, project scheduling and application stakeholder requirements.
• Managed Network migration, cable infrastructure and deployment of all hardware and equipment into existing facility.
• Managed decommissioning of existing hardware after migration, testing and acceptance by Customer.
• Managed Steady State activities. Systems Management Specialist (Senior Project Manager) - British Petroleum America’s account
• Managed RFS related projects for Confidential /BP data centers located in Chicago, Houston, Tulsa, Calgary and Rio de Janiero
• Senior Project Manager for transition of all Network services from Confidential operational Support to HP Operational Support
• Senior Project Manager for transition of 6000 Wintel and UNIX based servers from Confidential to HP support.
• Managed and co-coordinated SA support teams both domestically and internationally
• Co-coordinated trouble reporting ticketing and resolutions between Confidential support, HP support and client.
• Managed responsibility for all assigned project monthly billing
• Managed created Scope change requirements, submitted to project office for pricing
• Responsible for weekly project status reports and summary for project office consolidated reporting to client
• Managed project kick-off meetings and meeting minutes to all team members
• Created and Tracked RFC (request for change) requests to change management team approval process
• Managed both domestic and international based team members in support, compliance and adherence to all Confidential and BP procedures.
• Obtained VISA Certification (Verified Induction in Safety Awareness), for compliance to all BP safety and policies.
• Managed Confidential teams (data center facilities, server builds (Unix and wintel), Slices, VSM, SAN, desk-top services and support, Virtual Storage)
• Managed re-engineering and over-all team support and deployment for major firewall infrastructure fork-lift. Re-engineered and collapsed firewall backbone network from Crossbeam infrastructure to Cisco infrastructure. Co-coordinated and review process of all systems hardware and software related deployment. Managed Firewall team to upgrade all firewall scripting to all Cisco firewalls. Managed decommissioning of all Crossbeam core and edge firewalls through-out BP America’s.
• Managed upgrade of storage back-up for Tulsa data center. Managed build, design, implementation and roll-out of Sepaton VTL storage back-up system to replace existing CDL storage back-up. Managed migration of all data from CDL to Sepaton VTL storage. Roll-out consisted of migration and shut-down of existing (12) CDL storage drives to Sepaton VTL. Managed remote support of all data storage back-up and migration.
• Managed team responsible for migration of AV Scanning (Anti-Virus monitoring Mandatory/Non-Mandatory) for Chicago and Houston Data-centers. Managed teams that were responsible for conversion of existing infrastructure from Public Open VLAN to Private VLAN.
• Managed and supported Gulf of Mexico emergency projects for BP.
• Managed Confidential team in support of BP expansion of Chicago data center POD expansion. Managed deployment and roll-out of Cisco back-bone core routers and switches, blade-center chassis deployment, SAN switch, fiber

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed design build for major client of remote office in Calgary, Canada of major banking institution. This included cable plant, carrier services, and relocation services. Coordination with all trades, carrier providers. Responsible for team meeting minutes, scheduling of LVC services. Pull schedules, network hardware installations, IPC turrets. Wrote RFP, bid-leveling and vendor review and interview process for recommendations to client.
• Managed migration into newly designed expansion space in Calgary
• Managed all engineering MEP design services for Calgary back-office and data-center; including HVAC, electrical systems
• Managed contract review and SLA agreements for major financial institution in Washington, DC. Design of infrastructure for co-location facility in Virginia.
• Managed design and overall project management for build of Verizon IOS ring OC192 infrastructure, nodes and all carrier services. Coordinated Verizon outside plant engineering for build of IOS nodes at all custom node sites. Work with Verizon and IT team on SLA agreements, tariff amendments and contract reviews.
• Managed rollout and design of MPLS network bandwidth upgrades from 50mg to 150mg services.
• Part of data center team, in reviewing all data center policies and procedures.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Senior Project Manager for Meadowlands Xanadu totaling 2.2 million square feet, covering 5 distinct districts/buildings.
• Managed telecommunications technology backbone design. This included but not limited to the overall design of the fiber and copper infrastructure. Incoming carrier based services (Verizon), network infrastructure based on a Cisco design platform. DSS and CATV services, A/V and security systems.
• Co-ordinated detailed layout of all floor plans, including cabinet and rack elevations, wall-field elevations, IDF and technology room elevations and layout design.
• Managed design of structured cable plant design platform for Meadowlands Xanadu. Conduit builds out and fills ratios, cable tray design specifications.
• Managed design criteria for each IDF and technology room for MEP, HVAC and electrical requirements for each technology/telecommunication closet (IDF).
• Coordination of all trades. Work closely with Meadowlands Xanadu Architects, GC, Electrical engineers and Meadowlands Xanadu management professionals.
• Scheduled and coordinated meetings between various trades and Meadowlands Xanadu management personnel. Created detailed meeting minutes, for distribution to all concerned trades and management personnel.

Confidential

Project Manager/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• (Network Group); responsibilities include but not limited to decommission of Core-Builder Network Infrastructure, rollout of Confidential Blade-Center Infrastructure, SAN Switch, and overall Infrastructure of Harborside, and Telehouse facilities
• Coordinated build-out and design of Disaster Recovery facility in Wappinger Falls, New York. Responsible for over-all design of cable plant (copper and fiber). Included but not limited to, cabinet rack elevations, scope of work, power for all network and server related cabinets.
• Responsible for Project Management of Vendor contractor to build-out DR facility. Coordinated all local and long distance carriers (i.e.: Verizon, NTTA, ATT). Coordinated rollout of NEC-PBX and deployment of VOIP system for DR facility. Verizon IOS/EPL rollout and design.
• Managed DR design and rollout of Confidential Blade Center infrastructure as well as SAN switch environment.
• Managed roll-out and deployment of Cisco-SAN MDS environment.
• Coordinated Build-out and rollout if Verizon SONET/VON
• Coordinated build-out and design of DR facility
• Managed overall re-engineering of corporate datacenter total 26,000sqaure feet. This includes but is not limited to cable plant design cooper and fiber, capacity and space planning. Assist engineers with working design for generator expansion from 650kva to 950kva unit.
• Designed alternate building riser for expansion of carrier services into corporate datacenter.
• Assisted in rollout of VOIP infrastructure.
• Obtained CCNA certification in July 2006
• Obtained EMC SMARTS training, no certifications given at this time