SUMMARY

• IT professional with extensive experience in managing and transforming large and complex infrastructures for financial industry and other Fortune 500 corporations.
• Strong leadership, team building, and management skills to deliver results that exceed expectations.
• Strong project management and communication skills combined with solid architectural and engineering skills.
• Experienced in analyzing and assessing the business IT needs and applying industry best practices including ITIL and CSI.
• Solid understanding of data center infrastructure and strategy involving storage, consolidation, virtualization, cloud, and TCO.
• Ability to evaluate and align technology with business needs to provide optimal solutions to all projects.
• Experienced in multiple IT functions such as application management, PMO, architecture and engineering, data center and infrastructure management, and operations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Environment: s: IBM AIX, HACMP, GPFS, Sun Cluster, Solaris, RHE Linux, Windows Server, VMware Veritas Volume Manager, NetBackup, Avamar, NAS, CIFS, SAN/BCV/SRDF, firewall, Tivoli, Sitescope, SiteMinder, Autosys, ConnectDirect/NDM, Tectia, openSSH, Microstrategy, Informatica, Ab Initio, IronPort, Infoblox

Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, Sun LDAP, NIS+, Riverbed, PGP, SCP, SFTP

Databases: Oracle RAC/DataGuard/GoldenGate/SharePlex, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Informix

Languages: Java/J2EE, SQL, PL/SQL, shell script, Perl, C#/.NET, HTML, PHP

Software and Tools: NMON, vmstat, netstat, iostat, JIRA, Confluence, Hudson, ServiceNow IBM WebSphere Application Server/MQ, IHS, TIBCO, Appscan, Vontu, UC4/Appworx IIS, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Sun One Web Server(iPlanet), Samba, Apache, tomcat.

Security Tools: SiteMinder, LDAP, AD, PowerBroker, BoKS/Keon, Tripwire, Archer, Vontu, ASE Dynamics Monitoring using Tivoli, Sitescope, Tripwire, Reaper, Nagios, SolarWinds, OEM, custom motoring techniques

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - New York, NY

Project Manager/Architect/IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Confidential Hill Financial/ Confidential Hill Education NJ datacenter separation project - Managed data center migration for the entire business unit. Lead a team of dedicated project managers, SAs, architects, release managers, and various shared resources. Analyzed all applications and their dependencies to design and implement target architecture based on new network topology and DMZ design.
• Worked with multiple business units and multiple groups of consultants through all phases of datacenter migration involving separation of Confidential Hill Education applications and its environments to new data center. Migration involved coordinating core data center services build outs. Then coordinated with each business and application owners to plan and execute migration of application environments to new data center by migrating, physical servers, VMs, LDOMs, SAN and NAS, backup, monitoring, and other services. Analyzed and migrated high volume Coherence based application running on WebLogic with 600k concurrent users.
• In addition, I implemented Lean process across multiple business units to improve migration by training business segment PM leads.
• Built new DR infrastructure for ctb.com and single sign-on and created disaster recovery plan for critical applications.
• Setup and migrated AWS VPC to the new data center, all partner nets and remote offices to new tunnels.
• Confidential Hill Education/CTB Monterey CA to AWS and NJ datacenter migration project to migrate all applications to corporate datacenter in NJ while consolidation, upgrading, and standardizing all legacy applications and technologies. Goal is to lower TCO and increase stability through re-architecting current environment.
• Work on initial CMDB design for MHE. Continuously working with infrastructure and application team to customize and improve this database.
• Analyzed and implemented change and release management process for CTB including new project initiation and planning.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Infrastructure Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed Confidential Transaction Services (CTS) Information Management and Shared Services infrastructure supporting Treasury and Trade Solutions and Securities and Funds Services. I manage group of engineers and staff supporting Global Information Warehouse database (27+TB), Ab Initio, Business Objects, and Microstrategy STEs on AIX/Solaris platform. This environment processed more than 3 trillion dollars in transactions operating 24/7 to service global businesses.
• Managed data center migration from Maryland to OH and TX data centers. Systems migrated include all environments supporting Treasury Trade Services and Stock Fund Services. Managed all aspects of migration - plan and architect, build, validate (including performance), tuning, and cutover (including rollback). Extensive planning of testing of cutover and rollback strategies were done to ensure seamless migration.
• Planned and managed yearly DR test from Ohio to Texas data center. Entire CTS platforms had to be cutover including MQ, TIBCO, various methods of data feeds, and SAN SRDF splits including BCV splits for actual writes during the test.
• Using Lean method to constantly improve current operations and engineering processes. This resulted in improved reliability, reduce downtime, and shorten delivery time. Implemented several key improvements in multiple phases to seamlessly transition from existing process. In addition, as a member of Lean Coaches, I worked on Lean process improvement of our Service Delivery department, which resulted in >20% cost saving. Byproduct of the work was a new knowledge base system with SOPs and run books, consolidation of incident, change, and release management systems to ServiceNow.
• Managed multiple large projects including new Canada data center build out for Hedge Fund Services, Oracle upgrade and data center relocation. I have coordinated with all stakeholders to get the projects delivered on target. Full functional and performance validation performed during the entire cycle.

Confidential - New York, NY

Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed and integrated Microsoft SharePoint 2007 on Confidential ’s global SharePoint utility infrastructure. Integrated NewsGator and on boarded Vontu to this environment. Worked on multiple changes to improve performance by tuning caching and database, implementing Riverbed, and implementing Kerberos authentication.
• Managed infrastructure for Archer platform for Confidential including a complete refresh of this environment and version to 5.x.
• Managed implementation of ASE Dynamics on Demand.
• Evaluate and implement new applications by integrating variety of systems and technologies to Confidential 's shared infrastructure while optimizing business needs and IT strategies. Coordinate with all stakeholders throughout the entire life cycle. Responsible for supporting 30+ applications including maintaining firewall rules, VIPs, WIPs, LDAP, Siteminder parameters, and any other application related configurations.
• Managed large scale application migration from Windows Server 2000 to Windows Server 2003.
• Managed Confidential Smith Barney data center migration from NY/NJ data center to OH and TX data centers. Migration included refreshing middleware from WebSphere v5 to v6 for SmithBarney.com. Provide guidance to application teams in following the new architecture standards associated with WebSphere 6.

Confidential - New York, NY

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked with architects and engineers in implementing new standardized shared environment for the businesses. Created on-boarding process of new applications to our environment by standardizing project management processes. This new process made communications with clients simple and transparent among the PMs that I managed.
• Worked on large SmithBarney.com remediation project to improve performance, reliability, and capacity issues. Besides updating the hardware, implemented Wily, AppSight, mValent and Tealeaf monitoring for better support, redesigned Sun LDAP infrastructure for faster recoverability, and additional WAS 6 QA environment to support multiple development tract. Standardized WAS development with new guideline documents.. Provided weekly project status to senior managers on schedule and cost.
• Worked on SBLinx application performance tuning project between Websphere and iPlanet to improve speed and user experience.
• Complete, end to end, project management of Online Document Library application to be used by 40,000 users. This is a rewrite of an old application to enhance usability, eliminate manual processes, and reduce error rate.
• Managed project to migrate entire Bank Channel’s applications including Oracle databases from New York data centers to a new datacenter in OH and TX.
• Managed data obfuscation process including algorithm development and implementation.

Confidential - Long Island City, NY

Project Manager/Systems Administrator/DBA/Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed Sun Solaris based infrastructure with fiber storage, tape library and network gears.
• Managed Oracle Databases and releases. Implemented Oracle Data Guard as well as custom shell scripts to maintain near real time DR site.
• Architected and implemented department wide effort to automate all IT processes, including batch jobs and batch reports for brokerage and compensation systems. This included evaluating and selecting an enterprise scheduling software AppWorx and successfully automating and integrating all jobs. Wrote custom shell scripts to extend the functionality of this software. This complete integration resulted in easier maintenance of jobs, easier training, and better reliability.
• Integrated Plaid Portfolio Management System (a SunGard’s CRM for brokerages) to our own data warehouse that includes customers’ demographics and positions information.
• Managed the complete deployment and integration of WorkFlow, a custom J2EE web based application that automates brokerage customer service center and call center operations with other brokerage systems. Architected and engineered the infrastructure for disaster recovery and 24/7 availability. Management included internal data center staffs as well as outside vendors such as Sun, StorageTek, and Veritas.

Confidential

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed a compensations system to calculate commissions based on trades made in branches by brokers and CFAs.
• This system processes daily feeds from various systems to track and calculate the commissions for brokers and CFAs. Included in the project was the ability to submit manual adjustments and enter multiple compensation schedules through web based front-end.
• Technology is based on Oracle Database and Oracle Application Server running on Sun Solaris. Written in PL/SQL.