Third Party Vendor Risk Assessment

Costs and budget.Scope in terms of mission, objectives, and requirements. Monitor and manage the data center’s risks. Servers and storage: consolidation, workload management, procurement and life cycle best practices as well as ILM, GRID, Blades, and Windows vs. Linux. IT Operations: re-engineer operational processes and invest in automation for achieving significant benefits in terms of increasing agility, service quality and reducing costs. Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery: the serious consequences of business disruptions continues to grow, build robust DataCenters with integrated Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery in place. Virtualization: looking at the way new virtualization technologies will impact the current environment — in the way users deploy hardware and the types of hardware procured. Provide guidance to both the services and technologies that offer the greatest ROI — and the obstacles to avoid in implementing a virtualized center.

Help determine acceptable levels of risk and appropriate controls Assess communications systems to identity vulnerabilities Consult on controls Refine and help implement policies and procedures Manage complex cross-functional projects Facilitate information security audits to ensure compliance Present security status on a regular basis ManageRemote Access, SSL/IPSEC VPN border routing, firewalls, switches IDS/IPSIP/VoIP DNS, WINS, DHCP TCP/IP, IPSec, SSL, 802.1x IIS, Apache, PHP, SQL large, complex enterprise systems

I was fortunate to have met my lifetime mentor, Michael Feldman, his leadership jump started my IT Career. Michael helped me understand IT, a true service organization - using technology to serve people and not the other way around. Through out my time with Michael I felt I was the weakest link in his team, later I learned from Michael that I was one of his best hires. It was not because of the skills alone, it was all about the attitude, a "can do attitude", & willing to learn. Others worthy of mention are, Jeff Kovel, James Altucher, Sam Faraj, Ron Spears, Alex Shing, Mark Shine, Maria Coccaro, Aisha Limani, James Matus, Tyson Wheeler, Michael Harwood, Tony Bamonti, Kevin Reilley and ... more (I'll add the names later) - not to forget the leaders at Investcorp

One of the most interesting times, dealing with the Y2K challenges. I had a fab time working in Novell, IBM systems along with the AS400's and the good old frame relays. I am forever grateful to Eileen Mahoney and Rob Reiser who trusted me during the Y2K with the BNCBs infrastructure, Thank You.