SUMMARY:

• Technology Project manager with extensive PMO experience leading global, cross - functional teams of up to 100 members and managing budgets exceeding specializing in Services Delivery Practice implementing of high accessibility low latency information technology systems across multiple telecommunications and application infrastructure platforms for data, voice over IP, video, and videoconferencing and Market Data, Electronic funds transfer, Tri-party ECN connectivity, Foreign exchange, Data warehousing, Big Data Analytics, Media Advertising, Data science, Hadoop, Node Clusters, SQL Server, DBMS, ETL, HDFS, MapR, and PIG, Converged Infrastructure Cloud Computing IaaS PaaS and SaaS
• Service Delivery experience in the following verticals Financial Services, Banking, Audit & Compliance, Corporate Security, Telecommunications Structured cabling and design and Wireless Telecommunications, Health Care, Broadcast Television HDTV, Public Administration, Life Sciences and Digital Media Advertising
• 27 years in the Information Technology Industry, more than 15 years of project management experience in Financial Trading and Back Office Securities Processing and Clearing Services, for Capital Markets, and Investment Banking,
• Extensive PMO services delivery reporting, process governance experience ITIL, ISO 20k, ISO 27001, SSAE 16 SOC-2 type and PCI audits, Vendor and Customer Contract reviews
• Transitioning and transformation projects in mergers, acquisitions, construction and relocation of data centers, disaster recovery, network operations facilities and trading floors

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New Jersey

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Transition and Transformation Practice, Service Delivery Data Center Services, VBlock VMware ESX/ESXi, Confidential AIX PowerVM LPARS, Oracle Solaris VM Sparc-T LDOMS, open system applications architecture and Cloud Infrastructure as a service (PaaS, SaaS, IaaS), Cisco Unified Computing Systems, UCS Common Platform CPA Cisco Validated Design™.
• Big Data, Apache Hadoop (HDFS), MapR, Cloudera tools, Oracle Sun Exadata Database X3-2 Quarter racks application migrations.
• Audit & Compliance Corporate Security PMO support, SharePoint / Clarity firm wide, Trend Micro Systems Deep Security Cloud and Data Center Platform, RSA SecurID Tokens, Analysis and roll-out firm wide. ITIL ISO 20000, PCI,SSAE 16, ISO 27001, CMMI.
• Managed process governance and compliance for Transition and Steady State projects and for third-party vendor and customer contract review, for certification and internal/ external audit readiness.

Confidential, Syracuse, New York

Technical Project Manager/ Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Data Center Transformation and Consolidation team.
• Worked as solution architect in collaboration with Confidential to provide project management support executing the migration, and technical expertise to identify risks, remediate major gaps between Confidential Data Center’s current multi-tier non-virtualized and virtualized VMware ESX/ESXi open system applications architecture, and the proposed all new virtualized VCE VBlock, VMware ESX Cloud Computing convergence infrastructure.
• IBM’s core responsibility as per SOW was OS architecture, applications, Disaster Recovery, Tivoli Storage Manager (TCM), SAN/NAS, ECM SRDM storage and replication environments, F5 load balancers, Solaris, Oracle Exadata, Exadata RAC, Apache Hadoop, MapR and HDFS, HP-Unix, Confidential AIX LPAR, MPARS. Various hardware, middleware and automated tools patching, DBMS servers SQL Clusters and the Web servers, platforms: z/OS SNA, APPN, TN3270 Mainframe, MQ, Windows 2008R2,MS SQL EE, J2EE, IIS 7.5, NET 4.0, Oracle Sun Solaris 10 to11, Oracle 11gR2, LNIX Red Hat Enterprise 6.1.
• Lead a team of assigned on-shore and off-shore technical resources (BA’s, SME’s, SPOC’s, application and database engineers) to define and identify application clusters, create and update application and server discovery documents, identify affinity groups, provide affinity group analysis, create move group schedules, provide migration assessment documents for each application.
• Provided Recovery Point Objective (RPO) assessments as pre SLA guidelines, created and execute pre and post-migration test plans, execute detailed server and application migrations and or fallback plans according to planned migration schedules.

Confidential, New York

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Data Center Consolidation Assessment and Detailed Planning and Migration Services (Short Term assessment Planning phase only).

Confidential

Project Manager, Infrastructure SME

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to data center relocation team to provide technical and tactical expertise to identify major gaps between Confidential ’s DC current servers, storage replication environment, attached SAN/NAS, ECM SRDF a/s LAN/WAN CISCO router switch network, and Firewall dependencies, Secure Sockets Layers, Secure Certificates, identify affinity groups for servers and applications, “as is” state to the proposed “RA” in criteria service model and reference architecture accommodations at the new sites.
• The statistical reference architecture gap analysis is designed leverage solutions from a sample population of Confidential ’s in-house developed and COTS applications that will be required to meet LMDC hosting reference architecture standards prior to their scheduled move to the new data center.
• Provided assessments of the applications current hosting environment and best fit migration options with various scenarios for the applications new hosting operating system, storage environment, hardware, DBMS servers and the Web servers, Weblogic, Websphere, SYBASE and DBII, LM’s R/A platform: virtual and non-virtual, Windows 2008R2, SQL EE, J2EE, IIS 7.5,.NET 4.0, Confidential AIX Power, Oracle Sun Solaris 10 to11, Oracle 11gR2, Red Hat Enterprise 6.1.
• Longview CFO upgrades Khalix3.5.7 to Longview 7, Financial and Accounting / GL, E-Commerce Procurement, U.S. Treasury Foreign Exchange (Forex), Misys, Government Services.
• The tasks included server and storage inventory, application decomposition, OS, database and tools remediation patching, Analytics for Logical Dependency Mapping (ALDM), RPO assessments for asynchronous replication relevant to RPO/RTO, initial scope definition, project planning creating a preliminary work breakdown and move wave scheduling.
• Confidential is consolidating 40 data centers and NOC facilities across the U.S., approximately 42,000 servers down to 3 regional locations.
• I planned and developed methods and procedures, direct and coordinate program/ project activities, as well as exercises control over IT SME personnel from various Technology Towers responsible for specific functions or phases of program, from initiation to closing.
• Confer with IT staff and third party vendors to explain project and individual responsibilities for functional tasks and phases of project.
• I direct and coordinate personally, or through matrix assigned personnel, activities to carry out objectives of project.
• Create, review and present status reports and records of activities to ensure progress is being accomplished toward specified project objective or deliverable, this includes control and management of modifications or changes in scope, schedule or cost.
• Prepared project reports for superiors, as which include financial outlook and variance explanations, along with capital budget outlook and justifications.

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• IT Consulting, Network Managed Services, Telecommunications Infrastructure Cabling Services, Distributed Antenna System projects, IT services delivery and support, and for the following sector verticals: Public Administration, Life Sciences, Health Care and Financial.
• I attended bid walkthroughs, prepared RFP/RFI’s, submitted bid proposals. I provided project engineering, Telecommunications Services delivery implementation and documentation services.
• Typical project consisted of, data center hardware, data or market data applications software rollout, Ethernet Rj45 and DAS wireless deployments and node configurations, management of adds moves and changes, for network upgrades.
• Quality Assurance and user acceptance testing,
• Processed change management request for MPLS circuit delivery CPE data server and firewall optimizations and consolidations.
• Maintained tracking documents, MS excel spreadsheets and databases for carrier and vendor scheduling.
• Managed raised floor cabling, equipment, CW supply and piping, HVAC data center cooling and UPS requirements for TIA Tier 3 rated data centers, N+1 and N+4CRAC unit redundancy, cabinet layouts and carrier copper and fiber MDF demarcations.

Confidential. Phoenix Arizona

Responsibilities:

• Telecommunications Engineer, primary responsibility technical services, support, and monitoring of telecommunications OCXX, DWDM optical IP networking and switching systems, connectivity of legacy, MVS/VTAM SNA mainframe, midrange, distributive system applications servers both Confidential ’s IPM and non-IPM network traffic to new MPLS global WAN infrastructure. Managed and installed legacy 2 wire POTS, 4wire PCM DS0-T1, digital voice and data circuits, modems and channel bank equipment.
• Managed all installation and connectivity issues for Confidential ’s internal and external clients.
• Responded to network faults in the data centers, effect repairs actions within SLA guidelines, fault and change management applications, Remedy (AOTS), Business Direct and Manage Now.
• Mainframe midrange SNA CICS, SQL J2EE work included IT staffing and tracking software rollouts.
• Interaction with the user community, department heads SME’s and technical managers. Service delivery and applications conversions for the following areas: (Inventory, Medical Board, House Staff, Employee Health Services, Managed Care, Outpatient, Ambulatory Care, Infection Control, Behavior Health and Human Resources, JCAHO compliance).

Confidential, Cary, NC

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the client network remote CPE site upgrades, ATT AVPN MPLS infrastructure, T1 PRI, BRI, SIP Voice/Data circuit commissioning additional carrier services, cable installation, data connectivity, hardware installation, testing, etc.
• Finalizing the Cisco IOS router configuration for each site with BGP routing protocol and policy routing to control voice, data and video.
• Management and control of the project as per SOW including budgeted, cost, risk, time, resources, change management.
• Administrative responsibilities include scheduling and staffing coordination, CPE delivery coordination, decommissioning and resale.

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Multiple Disciplines for the management and control of the large project including planning, budgeted cost, risk, quality assurance, time, resources, issues, change and relationship management
• Successfully completed deliverables for project initiation, discovery, assessment and planning phases for the build out of new Data Center, and Trading, High Accessibility Network facilities, EMC SAN fabric infrastructure, NAS Netapp, iSeries, nexsan SATABeast and HVAC/UPS CNR disaster recovery facilities
• BGP WAN all extranet, Market Data, third-party, Bloomberg, Reuters, RMDS 3000Xtra, Garban, Kobra, Oasys, NYFIX, Swift, Euro Clear, MISYS, CHIPS, FEDWIRE, DTC and ECN connectivity, BT and IPC Turrets systems TRID, LAC line assignment, Speaker Bus, Nice log recording, Ticker Plant Data Cisco UDP multicast feeds and Trading services
• Responsible for the extranet MPLS WAN and AVPN MAN carrier services analysis, CPE equipment installation, and build of networking services that join the WTC to current networks
• Managed project resources across complex multiple Technology Towers and sub-projects for Confidential branch relocation and many Asia Pacific region initiatives
• Responsible for the project input from Verizon network design team, and application data and distributed System infrastructure server assessment study from vendor EDS, Commissioning and of provisioning: OC192, APOP, SONET DWDM,VOIP SIP trunk design and all private line carrier services, cable plant design input, data connectivity, hardware installation, etc.

Confidential, Cheektowaga, New York

Project Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Diagnose and perform remedial and some advanced tasks in support of digital satellite and terrestrial based electronic communications, Plasma TV’s wall mounted and video walls, HDTV servers, H.264/MEG4 AVC, H.323 protocols, QOS, video routing equipment, MCU’s bridges, Gatekeepers, and Coax and CAT6 cable installations.
• Provide supervision and knowledge transfer to installation technicians in the principles of satellite RF communications, the installation of terrestrial roof antenna’s and digital head-in MATV, HDTV equipment, TCP/IP packet transmission and receipt of Ku-Band and C-band signals and the applicable use of test equipment; (Birddog) Digital Data Stream Identification and alignment meters, Spectrum Analyzers, Power Meters, Frequency Counters, Transmission Test Sets, Distortion Analyzers, BER Test Sets, Plasma Video/Audio Monitors, etc. Provide daily status reports, reported field changes to “as-built” construction drawings to client as per statement of work. Tandberg and Polycom videoconferencing endpoints.