SUMMARY:

• This cover and below resume are being submitted for consideration to the posting you have posted. After reading the requirement details I feel my 20 plus years of progressive responsibilities in Information Technology and its Management would position me as a strong candidate/asset to the organization. With the broad range of industry backgrounds having worked in including: Financial (Banking and Brokerage), Hospitality, Manufacturing and Technology Services. I’ve demonstrated my ability to be agile and easily adapt to the specific requirements for a company within any industry.
• With my latest employment being in Technology Services I have worked with a breadth of companies in varying industries from Manufacturing with a global footprint, Benefits & Retirement with strict HIPPA requirements, Entertainment with PCI requirements, Government Agencies with high security requirements, and Financial market data with sub - millisecond transaction times and transaction counts surpassing 1 million per second. With each effort always maintaining their focus in defining and executing to their specific needs with a 100% success rate. To define a few, these efforts have included:
• Global corporate divestiture effecting both front and back office operations with financial/contractual obligations under a tight schedule on a global scale. Implementing a dedicated private cloud distributed regionally for back office and globally for front office (File, Print country specific applications.) with a full ITSM portfolio.
• Technology outsourcing(ITO), migrating their entire back office to a new greenfield infrastructure optimizing the use of the available compute and storage by consolidating it with the use of virtualization, and providing rapid deployment leveraging automation from VMware vRA/RO, Chef & knife providing the customer the ability to not only deploy an instance, but the full application stack and all core infrastructure (eg: Service Management - CMDB/CI, Monitoring, Backup, Malware, etc.) in a manner requiring zero touch and managing the instance throughout its full lifecycle (Initiation to disposal.).
• These efforts are not accomplishable by an individual and as such I have had the privilege to obtain and lead highly skilled teams through the challenges faced in working with diverse corporations tackling the challenges faced to be successful. These teams have included on and off-shore resources from all disciplines (eg: Server, Storage, Network, Backup, Monitoring, Security, Automation, etc.) and the coordination through a PMO including Project Managers and Master Schedulers.
• While I have only discussed 2 of the multiple customers above they all require individual attention and a broad understanding of all aspects of the Information Technology which after understanding the goals of the customer can be aligned to define a strategic solution(s) that will not only meet the objectives of the customer for its immediate needs but also its forecasted 3-5 year objectives.
• With regards to management style I believe in "MBWA" (Management by Walking Around), acting as more of a coach or counselor, instead of a director. This methodology has ensured staff 'buy-in' and exposes you to both the positive and negative of systems already in place. I do not know everything and can and will always take criticism in stride (Positive or Negative). I believe in staff cross so you increase the value of each team member and decrease your exposure to losing a specific talent/knowledge, as you are sure to have turn over in any organization.
• For a more detailed representation of my skills and background, please review the enclosed resume or my profile. Thank you in advance for your consideration and I look forward to discussing further.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Specialties: IT Budget Management IT Change Management IT Contract Management IT Infrastructure and Operations Management IT Program/Project Management IT Risk Management IT Strategy Cloud/Virtualization (Private, Public, Hybrid, Single or Multi - tenancy). Data Center: Build, Consolidation, Rationalization and Relocation Infrastructure, Operations and Architecture People person with excellent communication skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Director - Head of Infrastructure

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Back Office Data Center Facilities (USA based Private and Co-location)
• All supporting infrastructure H/W & S/W (Architecture, Procurement, Build-out and on-going Operations.).
• Defining and executing short and long-term IT strategies/plans.
• Development and enforcement of IT policies and procedures.
• Annual budget planning, management and reporting.
• IT Staffing: Hiring, Development, Assessment and Disciplinary.

Vice President

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Build, Retain and Development of a team with a broad talent pool to support multiple lines of business in a global financial institute.
• Leader of architecture team interfacing with other IT and Business centric teams related to Application development and support, Infrastructure, Communications, Monitoring, Security, and all other aspects of the environmental support and implementation.
• Project/Initiative coordination regarding planning, scheduling, and personnel management to ensure that objectives were accomplished in accordance with outlined priorities.
• Working with external vendors to negotiate service level agreements for hardware service and technical support.
• Support of general server maintenance (Patching, Security, Hardware maintenance, etc.). Production Support, Issue/problem resolution
• The above along with many other efforts have been accomplished within the time I have been employed. For further details please contact me.

Consultant - Systems Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Multiple Master NT Domain incorporating over 500 trust relationships within the Goldman Sachs Corporate NT structure. NT Domain incorporates User and Resource domains to make management of large implementation (1,250+ Servers and 9,000+ desktops) manageable. Centralized Profiles and corporate-wide standardization of distributed (Winstall) applications to enable free seating environment Worldwide.
• Fully Switched Ethernet Environment utilizing Cisco Catalyst 5000 series switches. Services Used: Marathon Technologies Endurance 4000 High Availability (Hardware Redundancy) Server, Domain Name Services, WINS, DHCP, SQL6.5, IIS, (RCMD Resource Kit ), Etc.. Protocol(s) used: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NBT.

Consultant - Systems Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating efforts with other departments/vendors in the development and implementation of Mission Critical Applications & Technologies.
• The Migration & Integration of Novell 3.x-4.1, SFT III with Windows NT 3.51 Servers.
• Creation of the PDC & BDC's, Server's and Multi-Protocol Router's for an IP, IPX/SPX, and DLC environment running on multiple Compaq Series systems.
• The deployment of workstations with Microsoft Windows NT 3.51, integration into the NT Domain and Novell Directory Services.
• Implementation of naming conventions for user accounts, servers and domains.
• Sybase replication server resides on (2) 58H UNIX AIX boxes replicated to a pair of Compaq ProLiant 4500 Servers running Windows NT Server 3.51.
• Along with the development of a contingency plan that entails a secondary location located on opposite end of Manhattan.

Regional I.S. Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Staff management (Hiring and Development.), and Project planning.
• Maintain vendor relationship for contract support under SLA’s for both S/W and H/W.
• Design, purchase, implementation, support and use of Multiple Novell File Servers 3.1x and 4.10
• UNIX P.O.S. Servers (Micros and Merchant Technologies touch screen cash register systems.).
• Use of bulk Fiberoptic cabling in an 8-building campus environment including an 8-segment switched ethernet network with redundant DAS FDDI backbone.
• The installation and use of SNMP/RMON managed 3Com switches/chassis (Lanplex 6000's and 2500's, SuperStack II 2200's, FMS-II's).
• The installation and support of fax and dial-in/out communications servers.
• Major software implemented, supported, used: Microsoft Office Professional 4.3, Lotus SmartSuite 3.0, cc:Mail DOS/Windows clients and Router, WordPerfect 5.2, Harvard Graphics 3.0, Microsoft Windows 3.11, MSDOS 6.22, PcAnywhere, Hotel Information System, Delphi (HIS interface between PC's and AS/400 - SYS/36).
• Budgeted for installation in 96: Wireless Full Duplexed 20mbps Ethernet Microwave Communications. (Design and negotiations for actual equipment were completed before end of employment.). Design would eliminate the use of separate PBX systems through tie line. Eliminating extensive long-distance charges, as facilities located in 2 area codes. System recovery in 4 years.
• Budget of $1,280,000.00 ’95, ’96 Est. $1,850,000.00 (with payroll)