SUMMARY:

• IT Engineer with 15+ Years’ experience in Project Management, Implementation, Data Center Management, virtualization, Migration, Operations and System Administration.
• Exceptional experience in Financial Industries projects. e.g. design and implementation of CISCO UCS blades environment, private cloud and HA system design.
• Solid hands - on experience with 2000+ severs with multiple trusted domains including Rack Mount Servers, Blades, Virtualization and Cloud Computing.
• Improved team productivity through process automation implementations.
• Highly self motivated and goal oriented and committed to pursuing a long term career in IT.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
• Expert in the use of Microsoft Project and Microsoft Visio.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Nimble Storage certified Professional.
• Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012services. Completed from Microsoft gold certified partner.
• Vendor’s coordinator organizational role in scheduling, budgeting and Lesion.
• Project lead for private cloud by using UCS physical blades and virtual devices.
• Storage Disk Array (MSA 20, MSA-500, D2700, D2600 & P2000) RAMSAN, EMC SAN.
• Hardware expertise Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), HP ProLiant Servers, HP Blade system.
• Expert knowledge in solid-state disks from makers such as Fusion IO and IBM810.
• Expert on Microsoft GEO Cluster Server 2012 & 2008 including DFS, DHCP, FTP and DNS
• Expert in Real-time Market Data Management and Distribution.
• Strong knowledgeable about HP SIM, HP Altiris, Microsoft SCOM, SCCM, Spool view, Face time IM Audit report and Domain Time II Time Servers.
• Highly skilled in MS Project and Visio.
• 35 contact hour’s education completed for PMP Exam.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential New York, NY

Vice President

Responsibilities:.

• PM lead for UCS implementation project. Lead role for setup UCS Domain FI and blades.
• Lead multiple projects for Data center consolidation / migration.
• Design and implement Multiple UCS Domains in multiple datacenters and setup internal cloud.
• Currently working on Cluster server nodes running in multiple datacenters with IBM810 flash storage.
• Part of virtualization team to implement / Manage and Support VSphere 5.0 with SRM
• Implement profile pools with OS on SAN and design profile failover between local and remote sites.
• Troubleshot issues for UCS and upgrade firmware and drivers.
• Implement CRM and GEO cluster by using EMC CE and SRDF.
• Implementing operational standards and processes
• Responsible for Datacenter Hardware and Power designing and Management.
• Vendors Account Manager. (deal with 10 major vendors)
• Liaison between different IT Teams to complete Datacenter migration and extension.
• Define and clarify project scope and requirements for WORM Storage for Legal / Compliance related data.

Confidential New York, NY

Assistant Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Managing tier 4 data centers for production disaster recovery. Working on multiple projects for design and implementation. Achievements and responsibilities include:
• Completion of multiple project steps, i.e. initiating, planning schedules and costs, executing and controlling, and closing.
• Proven leader (PM) in CISCO UCS Blades cost analysis, POC, design, implementation, and configuration for multiple chassis.
• WORM Data migration and consolidation project completed successfully.
• Lead the GEO cluster design and implementation project. Working with multiple team members and complete project documentation.
• Team member for virtualization. Moved QA and DEV on cost-effective virtual environment using VMware VSphere 5.0.
• Member of design team for one-click failover from one datacenter to other datacenter.
• Designed data center technical environments and planned and performed multiple data center migrations.
• Leading project for policies and operational procedures for HA data center.
• Prepare and manage operational expense budget for IT service departments.
• Responsible for managing service contracts for outsourced hosting facilities and vendors.
• Manage backend upgrade project using high-speed Solarflare and Intel 10GB network cards.
• Created documentation for migration of DHCP / DNS servers on new redundant system.
• Work on POC and implementations for solid state devices using products by Fusion IO, OCz and RAMSAM.
• Improved performance and throughput of major functions by upgrading to HP G6/G7/G8 series servers.
• Part of the 24x7 monitoring team for production / DR applications and hardware.
• Successfully scaled high-performance multi-node clusters for file and mail servers.
• Optimized and managed HP storage devices. e.g. P2000, D2600 and MSA20 and MSA500.
• Implement DT2 time devices and link with real time trading servers to keep system running without a delay of even a fraction of a second.
• Responsible for Backup systems on tape VTL and compressed online backup.

Confidential, New York, NY

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Work as system administrator on real time high available 1000+ servers.
• Provide support and manage network across the globe. Worked as an active team member for FIX protocol applications used for electronic executions.
• Achievements and responsibilities included:
• Manage Blackberry server supporting more than 700 devices with different carriers.
• Team member of data center migration project for 400 servers: planning, documentation & implementation.
• System support and deployment with Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008 operating systems.
• Implement highly available systems with 2 nodes and GEO cluster nodes.
• Complete documentation and flowcharting project for complicated in-house applications.
• Lead hardware management project and arrange and perform repairs and replacements.
• Install different server-based applications and troubleshoot performance issues.
• Complete project for hardware refresh in DEV / QA.
• AD Administrator with 50+ domain controllers on different sites and with multiple OS.
• Working with vendors for issues. e.g. Microsoft, HP, CISCO, DELL and other vendors.
• Manage AD accounts and user security permissions on multiple domains.
• Hands-on experience on HP ProLiant Servers (DL) with and Management software and system tools remote lights-out management ILO.
• Write and modify batch scripts to automate manual process.
• Complete cost effective project for staging environment.