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Quincy, Ma.

Responsible for the resiliency of the banks most critical applications (Crown Jewels). Ensure that automated recovery procedures are in place and functioning to limit application outage. Most requiring a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 15 minutes or less.Completed an in-depth analysis of over 200 critical application, identifying and correcting design, process and configuration issues, reducing and preventing application failures and Major Incidents (MI). Perform trend analysis to… Show more Responsible for the resiliency of the banks most critical applications (Crown Jewels). Ensure that automated recovery procedures are in place and functioning to limit application outage. Most requiring a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 15 minutes or less.Completed an in-depth analysis of over 200 critical application, identifying and correcting design, process and configuration issues, reducing and preventing application failures and Major Incidents (MI). Perform trend analysis to find and correct process and procedural issues contributing to configuration issues. The number of MI's has dropped by 80%.Solution Design Engineer for Data Center Resiliency. Providing a fully automated solution to recover from the loss of a data center, with an RPO of 0 and RTO of 4 hours for critical application. Show less

Waltham, Ma.

Solution Architect for Cyber Security. Designed and implemented solutions for Privileged Access Management (PAM), Web Application Firewall (WAF), and User Access management.

• Reduced annual processing fees by $1.6 million. By architecting and implementing a virtual credit card system allowing customers to pay by credit card or check on-line or over the phone, removing the need for third party vendor and removing associated fees.• Provide superior leadership, vision and technical expertise, to architect and design global solutions for all the business’s needs.• Lead solution assessment for new technology initiatives providing leadership, guidance and… Show more • Reduced annual processing fees by $1.6 million. By architecting and implementing a virtual credit card system allowing customers to pay by credit card or check on-line or over the phone, removing the need for third party vendor and removing associated fees.• Provide superior leadership, vision and technical expertise, to architect and design global solutions for all the business’s needs.• Lead solution assessment for new technology initiatives providing leadership, guidance and direction to all stakeholders.• Provide cost analysis, resource requirements, LOE and high level solutions design for new business cases. • Provide leadership and direction to the project team, supporting the Project Manager with identifying and securing required resources, project plans, resolving conflicts and issue resolutions. • Lead Architect for Big Data solutions leveraging Hadoop, data warehousing capabilities, and key integration platforms. (Exadata | Teradata | Oracle Data Guard)• Lead Architect for Supply Chain working on Solutions for Conveyor Systems, Warehouse Execution and Robotics. Show less

• Reduced License fees by about $1 million. By moving to an N+1 Cluster design, increased server utilization to near 85% and resulted in a significant decrease in license fees.• Engineered Server Life Cycle and Data Center Migration strategies utilizing virtualization technologies to decrease data center footprint, improve server consolidation, increase server utilization and reduce capital cost.• Project Manager/Technical Engineer for complex high profile UNIX server… Show more • Reduced License fees by about $1 million. By moving to an N+1 Cluster design, increased server utilization to near 85% and resulted in a significant decrease in license fees.• Engineered Server Life Cycle and Data Center Migration strategies utilizing virtualization technologies to decrease data center footprint, improve server consolidation, increase server utilization and reduce capital cost.• Project Manager/Technical Engineer for complex high profile UNIX server configurations.• Process improvement specialist, reduced the number of task related to server certifications by 50% and worked to streamline the Life Cycle work flow for all platforms.• Provide detailed design documentation to deployment teams with complete strategy overview and server configurations to be used for server deployment and certification of new environments. • Provide support for State Streets internal private cloud and grid infrastructure and services.• Automated 95% of Quality Control Process and increased efficiency by 75%. Automating the repetitive manual tasks resulted in a 75% reduction in time to complete the QC process and added much needed consistency.• Lead a team of 8 engineers, responsible for daily work schedules, off hours, Flex work, training, staffing and performance management/correction.• Managed contract resources, 4 local, 5 in India, increased productivity by 50%.• Developed and maintained relationships with current and potential venders, as well as work with venders to identify and resolve issues unique to State Street Corporation and provide solutions to these issues. Show less

• $35 million cost avoidance. Reduce daily production run time from 20 hours to 4 hours. This allowed the company to meet its customers SLAs and avoid a $35 million penalty. • Responsible for meeting customer SLA’s which could result in fines of several millions of dollars. We currently handle 6,000,000+ transactions per month with a 99.8% completion rate within SLA time constraint.• Designed and implemented Data Center security procedures and processes.• Built out production and… Show more • $35 million cost avoidance. Reduce daily production run time from 20 hours to 4 hours. This allowed the company to meet its customers SLAs and avoid a $35 million penalty. • Responsible for meeting customer SLA’s which could result in fines of several millions of dollars. We currently handle 6,000,000+ transactions per month with a 99.8% completion rate within SLA time constraint.• Designed and implemented Data Center security procedures and processes.• Built out production and development data center from 3 Sun servers to over 35 Sun Servers. Provide all levels of Unix Systems Administration including sendmail, pop, DNS, NFS, FTP, SSH, SUDO, system and network security.• Managed Data Center Network security using Nokia IP440 and Checkpoint Firewall-1.• Designed and implemented an Enterprise Backup and Recovery solution using Legato Networker.• Designed and Implemented disaster recovery plan and procedures. Show less