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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.

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.
• 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
• 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.

• 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.
• Project Manager/Technical Engineer for complex high profile UNIX server… Show more
• 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.

• $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
• 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.
• Managed Data Center Network security using Nokia IP440 and Checkpoint Firewall-1.