Summary of Qualifications:

Dynamically motivated and seasoned IT professional with notable success in transforming corporate and government IT environments. Direct broad range of IT initiatives in support of the business objectives provide life cycle services, technology convergence, system consolidation and standardization, data security, cost containment, and many other facets of a dynamic infrastructure environment. Possess outstanding leadership and interpersonal skills that support working effectively with all levels of management, matrix organizations, end users, and vendors.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Team and Project Management
• Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery
• Risk Assessment / Impact Analysis
• Cost Benefit Analysis
• IT Transformation / Strategy Development
• Network and Security Management
• Systems Operations and Maintenance
• Change Management
• IT Service Management (ITILv3 certified)
• Research and Development

Tools: MS Office Suite, MS Project, Visio, SharePoint, MS Exchange SunGard LDRPS & BIA Pro, CA Introscope, CA CEM, Symantec Cluster, OpNet ACE, Tripwire, Tivoli,, Mcafee ePolicy Orchestrator, ISS RealSecure, RSA Envision, Securid, RSA Adaptive Authentication, Active Directory
Platforms: Oracle, SQL Server, Windows, Linux, VMware, Solaris, Cloud, Messaging
Networking: TCPIP, LAN / WAN, VPN, SAN, NAS, HA, Fault Tolerance, Load Balancing
Frameworks: ITIL, ISO/IEC 27000, NIST, FISMA, FFIEC, HIPAA, SOX, GLBA, FSA UK

Certifications:
ITIL Foundation v3 ,CCNA

Confidential
Infrastructure Project Manager
Dec 2011 – Present
Recruited as a contractor to provide project management and architectural oversight during design, build, test, and deployment phases of application migration and data center consolidation of several hundred US Army data centers around the world.

Confidential
June 2008 – November 2011
Solutions Architect
Recruited to lead project teams and provide broad IT strategic vision, and specialized expertise in building effective and efficient IT infrastructures (Data Center, Storage, Server and Network) based on the impact of inter-linkages between technology, facilities, cost, resiliency, and performance at Financial Services and Federal clients Develop business opportunities through client engagement and proposal development
Key Achievements:

• Worked in collaboration with the clients’ project management office, business and technical staff to develop IT enterprise solutions and strategies that satisfy the clients’ long term vision.
• Developed and delivered comprehensive infrastructure strategy roadmaps using a phased approach that include architectural visioning, architectural analysis, technology architecture design, and actual migration planning that align with the business’ objectives and end-state vision.
• Advised and assisted in developing resilience strategies for the full range of systems and networks (e.g., serv­ers, applications, networks, data storage/backup solutions, alternate operations sites) by identifying viable IT system mitigation and recovery options and assessing the advantages, disadvantages, and associated costs of each.
• Developed and delivered strategies to consolidate servers, storage, and recovery resources to reduce complexity and total cost of ownership (TCO), and gain operational efficiencies,
• Interfaced with clients’ executive management, industry leaders and subject matter experts
• Developed and presented briefings and solutions to senior leadership, and developed business cases for IT transformation.
• Supported lifecycle activities for clients’ enterprise infrastructure projects including SAN/ NAS and network implementation and optimization, database migration, applications rationalization and migration, and consolidation of multiple data centers by leveraging industry best practices for Cloud Computing, Virtualization and Managed Services
• Helped developed IT policies and procedures, enforced the use of change management procedures, and facilitated adoption of platform standardization.
• Performed Quick Lookup Assessments (QLA) of clients’ technology infrastructure to determine the business’s operational readiness for new technologies such as cloud computing.

Business Development – Key Achievements

• Instrumental in leading aspects of the proposals development processes, and pricing strategies for proposals which led to multi-million dollars contract wins.
• Instrumental in developing the firm’s cyber security offerings to the commercial finance services market,
• Recognized by the firm on three separate occasions (with personal commendations from clients), for service delivery excellence.

Confidential
Sep 2006 - Apr 2008
Infrastructure Project Manager
Responsible for leading the Brokerage division’s IT infrastructure projects initiatives, and managing a team of systems and network engineers and support staff for the timely implementation and delivery of high value infrastructure projects; collaborated with other technology teams in the bank, conduct research on emerging technologies and propose cost effective solutions based on new technologies and industry trends that lead to new business opportunities, and help the division meets all its regulatory requirements.
Key Achievements

• Successfully led the largest system conversion the brokerage division had undergone, which was managing the entire software development life cycle:\\
• Requirement gathering to development, database migration, testing and production cutover of three business critical databases from Oracle 9i to Oracle 10G RAC
• Achieved the firm’s regulatory requirements for availability, encryption of data-at-rest, and the enforcement of separation of duties using DBMS Crypto and DataVault while maintaining system performance.
• Led the architecture design and development, and managed the production deployment of Wily Introscope and Customer Experience Manager (CEM) which enabled end to end transaction visibility, and significantly improved the customers’ experience during online trading.
• Led the system architecture design, and managed the implementation of RSA Adaptive Authentication, a risk based authentication and fraud detection platform using the RSA eFraudNetwork database to help identify and deter fraudulent users, and activities.
• Led the project design and managed the production deployment of IBM RealSecure system for end-to-end security monitoring, correlation and reporting of IPS, NIDS, firewalls and HIDS events,
• Developed IT policies, and negotiated SLAs with (Savvis, Sungard) managed data center service providers, and security service provider IBM/ISS.

Confidential
Mar 2006 - Sept 2006
Critical Infrastructure Architect
Recruited to build test plans, and enhance the data center disaster recovery capabilities of the shared services platform infrastructure which serves all New York City Government Agencies.
Key Achievements:

• Developed and implemented Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solutions for the Critical Infrastructure and Shared Services platforms which covered all of the New York City Government Agencies.
• Designed and implemented global clustering solutions that included bi-directional systems failover and data replication between dispersed data centers.
• Performed a comprehensive risk assessment and analysis of the shared services infrastructure to assure full continuity of operations.

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Confidential
Mar 1998 - Mar 2006
IT Risk Operations Manager (Jan 2003 - Mar 2006)
Joined the ITRM group to assess and improve the firm’s global consumer banking business. Build a global unified information security monitoring and centralize management platform using strong knowledge in IT Finance, security operations and incidence management, WAN internetworking, IP protocols, firewalls, IDS, log management, and security management tools and techniques to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of customer and business information
Key Achievements:

• Managed and supported the 24x7 global firewall monitoring operations; analyzed network events and coordinated efforts with the security first response (CSIRT) team
• Developed and submitted RFPs to several vendors for a Security Information Event Management (SIEM) tool acquisition, and performed tools evaluation and selection.
• Worked with SIEM tool vendor and the security engineering team to achieve full deployment and usability of the security monitoring tool, and assured full compliance with the bank and industry security standards and practices.
• Spearheaded a firewall consolidation project which included the insourcing of firewall event logs from an outside service provider, redirecting logs to the bank’s SIEM infrastructure.

Confidential
(Mar 1998 - Jan 2003)
Hired to build the firm’s global ecommerce infrastructure to host mission critical applications for the rapid growth in the private and investment banking businesses. Develop solutions for integrating new technologies with existing legacy facilities and management processes, ensuring continuity of operations by building out completely redundant data center infrastructures, and enabling technology migration using strong skills in server management, SAN/NAS, databases, IP networking, load balancing, clustering, internet and data center technologies.
Key Achievements:

• Ensured 99.99% system availability of the firm’s global ecommerce platform.
• Designed, built and delivered fault tolerant application server environment for the firm’s ADR Maximizer Cross Book system, the industry’s first online web trader-enabled platform for broker-dealers to perform ADR-ordinary share cross platform transactions.
• Designed, built and delivered web application server farms (Solaris, Websphere MQ Series, Oracle and DB2) for resource sharing of Investment Management and systems.
• Spearheaded the platform build, and print service migration of the Chase Home Finance’s (CHF) ACAPS systems which resulted in timely and efficient delivery of reports to CHF offices in North America.
• Instrumental in the successful development and launch of the corporate ecommerce website, and served as a key resource for the Y2K bug testing of application and systems in the US.

Confidential
Feb 1996 - Mar 1998
Technology Infrastructure Consultant
Hired as a consultant to provide trading floor design and operations, UNIX systems and network development expertise for financial services client engagement.
Key Achievements:
Confidential

• Built the Solaris infrastructure and integrated the new platform with the legacy environment, optimized the network architecture and increased systems performance and availability for the firm’s Swap / Derivatives trading desks in New York, London and Hong Kong.

Confidential

• Worked as a member of the Accenture Market Data Engineering team that built the global market data network architecture in New York, London, Toronto, and Sao Paulo, and provided 24/7 support to ensure 99.99% systems availability.

Confidential

• Developed and supported the firm’s ATM switched IP network and data streaming capabilities; enhanced network performance and speed for trade execution and settlement activities, and achieved full network redundancy for the firm’s investment banking, brokerage and trading platforms.

Confidential

• Instrumental in building scripts other the trading floor automation activities that facilitated the migration of daily trading to electronic platforms
• Provided systems support to the Market Surveillance team who served as the internal regulatory body for the exchange

Confidential
May 1994 - Feb 1996
Systems Engineer
Hired to expand the production environment and build out a new disaster recovery site in anticipation of increased daily trade volumes.
Key Achievements:

• Developed automatic server build and software deployment procedures, configured and optimized network devices, and built the exchange’s DNS platform.
• Spearheaded the design, development and implementation of a hot disaster recovery site at a remote facility that was capable of accommodating all essential trading activities and personnel.

Master of Science in Management and Systems
Confidential,University, New York, NY
Graduate Certificate in Enterprise Risk Management
Confidential, University, New York, NY
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Confidential, Institute of Technology, Boston, MA