SUMMARY:

• Accomplished senior technology leader with extensive experience from Big 4 and independent consulting in Enterprise Strategy, Technology Transformations, Architecture, Planning, Infrastructure Management, Global Data Center Build outs and more. Effective management with inherent ability to work well with individuals at all levels, across functional areas. Years of hard - core IT experience with track record of building cost effective solutions of lasting value. Well-rounded, broad technology skills sets with solid understanding of business needs and priorities.
• Proven expertise in Technology Advisory, Strategic Planning, Enterprise Architecture, Service Delivery, Vendor Management, Business-IT Integration, Process Improvements, Standards and Best practices.
• True Technical Advisor to business and executive management. Extensive consultative skills in designing technical solutions to solve complex business challenges (Business/Technology Transformations, Business Continuity, Compliance, Risk mitigation, Data Center Relocations, Virtualization, Cloud adoption).
• Extensive experience developing constructive relationships with business executives, senior management, technology teams and external suppliers/partners, effectively improving time-to-market and quality of service.
• Keen ability to provide vision and unbiased guidance on selection of best of breed technologies, establishing appropriate sourcing models, aligning IT Services in support of business strategy and program objectives.
• Hands-on experience and deeper understanding of operational and management requirements of growth-oriented global organizations with diverse compliance and regulatory needs.
• Enthusiastic ability to take on new initiatives and drive change. Broad experience in analysis, acquisition and adoption of emerging trends and technologies, integrating business processes, technology operations and support.
• Sound team building and leadership skills. Enjoy developing and managing highly effective teams to build new solutions from the ground-up. Managed global, cross-functional project teams for strategic and tactical deliverables
• Ability to concurrently manage multiple projects. Thorough experience with program governance and project execution in highly complex, matrix environments. Successfully executed full program lifecycles end-to-end.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, interpersonal and communications skills. Quick learner, go-getter attitude.
• Thorough expertise in creating and maintaining IT Strategic Plans, Technology Roadmaps, Architecture vision, Design artifacts, Enterprise Standards and Best Practices, Contingency and Communication Plans. Hands-on skills and oversight in large-scale enterprise systems design, planning, development, deployment and operations.
• In-depth knowledge of various IT services: End-to-end Infrastructure Management, Converged Infrastructure, Data Center Designs, Network Planning, Program Management, SDLC Governance, Information Security and more.
• Enterprise Architecture - Wholesale planning, design and development of large-scale applications from scratch. Successfully implemented global finance, ERP, CRM, Procurement, Vendor Management, Market Data Systems, Analytics/BI services, Oracle RAC, and various other web, middleware and database oriented multi-tier systems.
• Data Center Relocations: Wholesale planning of large data center moves and new build outs from ground up, extended network designs, online data replication and recovery solutions, migrations of users, applications, data and connectivity across distributed data centers, transitions to colocation and managed service provider sites.
• Business Continuity / DR - Comprehensive contingency and resiliency planning for uninterrupted technology services, Fault-tolerant, high-availability and recovery solutions, defining RTO, RPO, regulatory and compliance requirements, developing and documenting DR scripts, failover scenarios and exercise plans.
• Virtualization and Cloud Services - Design and implement custom solutions using leading technologies (VMware, AWS, OpenStack, Citrix, Oracle) to deliver IT-as-a-service through automation and orchestration. Perform detailed assessment of IT services capable of delivering IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DRaaS with secured, on-demand scalability.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Transformation Lead Administration

Confidential, New York. NY

Responsibilities:

• Led end-to-end assessment of entire technology services footprint across the agency including applications, networks, infrastructure, security, policies and practices. Developed mapping of applications and services to programs, tools, databases, servers, storage and external vendor services.
• Led re-engineering strategies and design efforts for legacy, mission-critical applications including technology evaluations, business impact analysis, tools and resource needs, level of efforts and expertise required. Developed estimates for complete transformation with effective risk management and program governance guidelines.
• Successfully led complex, multi-phase Data Center Migration initiative (ongoing) to migrate all ACS technology services to DoITT (Managed Colocation facility). Conducted in-depth analysis of all hardware and software components to evaluate critical dependencies, usage patterns, performance, scalability and security needs.
• Formed and led internal and vendor teams to conduct detailed mapping of all infrastructure components in to move groups and migrations buckets. Developed detailed plan for migration of various buckets over several weekends.
• Led pre-planning, preparation and operational support activities to migrate scheduled events (Storage, Servers, VMs, Applications, Databases). Successfully executed several migration events with minimal impact to business.
• Identified, qualified and communicated several opportunities for improvements in performance, availability, scalability and security at various application, database and network component level.

Chief Technologist / Strategic Advisor

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Oversight in all aspects of global technology planning, engineering, operations, outsourcing, vendor relations, budgets, and international expansions in keeping with business acquisitions and global growth plans.
• Successfully led large Data Center modernization and relocation initiative. Established new strategic partnerships for global expansion. Setup standards for virtualization, servers, networks, databases, capacity, resiliency, contingency and consistent disaster recovery management.
• Led, with hands-on participation, teams of 100+ internal and external resources to build two new data centers from scratch, successfully navigating non-negotiable timelines, tight budget, lack of expertise and limited technical resources. Established and leveraged multiple vendor relationships for timely delivery.
• Provided governance, strategic planning, architectural guidance and consultation to various applications and infrastructure teams, establishing baselines for measurements against existing priorities, SLAs and future plans.
• Evaluated and recommended strategic partners for technology transformation and cloud adoption initiative. Eliminated legacy department level vendor relationships to develop enterprise-wide master contracts for future.
• Assessed entire technology footprint identifying various outdated systems in immediate need of replacements. Developed roadmap to eliminate legacy applications that lacked support, scalability or virtualization options.
• Led global technology team re-org driving a change from traditional silos based model to a collaborative team structure, creating new responsibilities for architecture, engineering, project management, and production support.
• Identified several glaring holes in network and information security implementations across the organization. Recommended various strategic and tactical solutions for immediate protection of important information assets.

Lead Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led entire technology modernization initiative at client site Fannie Mae, involving data center transformation, technology modernization and enterprise applications re-engineering efforts.
• Collaborated teams of architects, engineers, analysts and project managers for high-impact, aggressive analysis of detailed customer information including technology services, business practices, resources and planned initiatives.
• Actively oversaw out-of-region Data Center build-out from the ground-up involving multiple vendors with distributed responsibilities. Delivered extensive sets of designs for various enterprise applications and services.
• Led comprehensive design for enterprise-wide Information Security Architecture with strategic placement of security sensors, enforcers, protection, detection and prevention mechanisms, involving over 20 security products.
• Oversaw development of multiple strategies and processes for replication of large amounts of data, systems, application, configurations and user access controls for an on-demand Disaster Recovery Data Center.
• Responsible for assimilating and analyzing all information related to data center move. Program involved multiple projects for data center designs, network planning, data migration and replication, application reengineering.
• Collaborated with various business units, technology teams and vendors to gather detailed requirements and specifications and to translate the information into high-level application and infrastructure designs.
• Extensive oversight, guidance and consultation in building detailed design documents and extract relevant information into network/server engineering and standards documentation.
• Established conducive relationships with management, end-users, and technology groups to gather functional knowledge of critical systems and to develop mapping of business processes to IT services and components.

Lead Architect

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for architecture, systems engineering, information security, capacity and performance management including developing infrastructure, databases, network systems and core software platform standards.
• Oversight in application designs, end-to-end planning, development, implementation and support for number of large business initiatives involving introduction of new technologies, vendor solutions evaluations as well as custom development using in-house expertise and services.
• Significant contributor in wholesale planning of entire data center relocation as well as net new build out of DR location. Established and enforced number of technology and infrastructure standards and best practices.
• Lead member of business/IT transformation program resulting in selection and rollout of new technologies and enterprise systems (OneTick for TimeSeries Analysis, RMDS Market Data System, BI Analytics using Spotfire, Master Data Management, Data Warehouse, Oracle RAC, SAP).
• Time-Series Tick Data System with OneTick - Led from the start establishing business case, requirements, comprehensive RFP process, vendor evaluations, technology review and Proof of Concepts. Evaluated various products including OneTick, KDB, Vhayu, Informix, Panopticon and more.
• Business Intelligence and Visualization (Spotfire, TIBCO) - BI product selection involved similar process of justification, RFP reviews, proof-of-concept (POC) setups and evaluations for multiple vendors including Hyperion, Business Objects, Cognos, TIBCO, Tableau and more.
• RMDS Setup from ground up - Designed and deployed net new robust, scalable, highly-available RMDS (Reuters Market Data System) distributed setup consolidating various data feeds, publishers and subscribers. Introduced virtualization to significantly reduce the server foot-print for various components.
• Pioneered several Information Security enhancements. Defined secured practices for handling of sensitive data. Introduced encryption and protection of data in-transit and at rest using GnuPG, PGP and SCP. Integrated applications for secured, Role Based authentication/authorization with LDAP & other single-sign-on mechanisms.

Senior Program Architect

Confidential, Raritan, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Conducted in-depth study of this large, distributed system (over 10,000 users, 1500 concurrent, from 110+ countries) critical for monthly, quarterly and yearly close-of-books and other financial reporting activities.
• Thoroughly evaluated old system involving various SAP modules (ECC 6.0, Master Data R/3 4.7, BI, EP 6.0, EP 7.0, Solution Manager and more), Database systems and Infrastructure components spread across 60+ servers.
• Designed a new highly-scalable Global Finance system, with heavy infusion of newer technologies (virtualization, on-demand provisioning), achieving significant improvements in system performance, availability and scalability.

Director of Solutions Engineering

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA / NY, NY

Responsibilities:

• Formed and led a team for detailed analysis of customer’s infrastructure setup - Servers, VMs, Storage (SAN / NAS), Networks. Examined current configuration, existing challenges and pain points.
• Active participation in business development activities providing technical consultation and guidance on critical challenges faced by sales, marketing and customer support teams.
• Successful participation in trade-shows and technology events; hosting booth showcasing product capabilities at targeted audience to generate new leads.

Lead Architect (AVP)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed Technology Roadmaps, detailing current state of infrastructure, applications and services. Set up guidelines for development and implementation of new technologies for three to five years in the future
• Significant oversight in the planning, allocation and management of annual IT budget of $50M+. Led annual Technology and Infrastructure Health Assessments with specific derivatives into annual IT budget
• Refreshed entire UNIX infrastructure landscape bringing all systems to supportable levels, initiated upgrades for hardware, databases, applications and related components. Introduced Linux and VMware based offerings.
• Re-engineered fragmented web-infrastructure into an enterprise-wide standardized, structured and organized web-environment (Apache, WebLogic, TomCat) along with PHP, MySQL, Posting and Blogging tools and mechanisms.
• Architected and successfully led Oracle 10g RAC implementation, consolidating multiple databases on to multi node clustered, SAN based solution. Achieved huge savings in Oracle licensing and hardware costs and considerable reduction in infrastructure downtime and maintenance activities.
• Led the design and planning of net new Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution using FileNet P8 with BPM, on Apache Web servers, WebSphere, UNIX and Windows Servers, Oracle and SQLServer databases.
• Realized significant cost savings through introduction of consolidation and virtualization strategies. Established guidelines and best practices for VMware, partitioning technologies in UNIX (nPar, vPar, and Zones).
• Instrumental in design, planning and managing entire data center migration effort - organization’s single biggest challenge ever. Designed new data center from scratch, leveraging various vendor services and contractors.
• Identified areas for Career development for staff, arranged technical and non-technical, conducted coaching exercises where possible for individual performance improvements

Principal Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Architected and re-designed several mission-critical e-commerce applications, databases and infrastructure components.
• Lead participation in design and planning for online migrations of multiple large, low-latency, high-volume databases, achieving 100% availability with zero-impact to business operations.

• Designed new central SAN system consolidating and migrating all hosts from several SAN ‘islands’.
• Established strategies for data migrations using EMC SRDF, SAN-COPY and host-based migration.
• Led team of engineers for successful migrations of 1000+ servers, data and connectivity acrossSAN.