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Mineola, Ny, Us

Contract: Kochasoft Inc October 2023 – March 2024• Created RFI & RFP for a large apparel manufacturer and retailer to migrate all physical IT infrastructure and hosting from legacy services provider to Kochasoft services. • Defined all hosting requirements to meet clients’ needs including required certifications, provided services, site security, redundancy levels and ability to meet future requirements. • Detailed specifications defined for all physical aspects from server cabinets, power circuits, PDUs, cooling capabilities and availability of communication providers in each colo site• Analyzed Colo providers responses and ranked by quality of offering and completeness. • Created like for like pricing model for each colo provider as part of RFP.• Submitted best and final list of 2 of 7 colo hosting providers for clients’ final negotiations. • Created detailed implementation plan for Colocation cages with layout of server cabinets and network fiber and copper wiring with specification of all components. • Created with client team detailed point to point wiring diagrams for inter and intra cabinet wiring for all connections. • Supervised on-site work of all contractors that supplied all hardware and cabling.

New York, Ny, Us

JP Morgan, Global Technology Infrastructure • L3 Engineering, Principal SRE for Identity and Access Management Group (IAM)• Building a SRE & L3 Engineering practice across IAM applications for JP Morgan. • Redesigned monitoring for critical applications, identified gaps and needed optimizations. Remediated missing components and incorrect monitoring configurations. • Redesigned resiliency processes to allow no downtime disaster recovery failover. • Design monitoring for new next generation IAM application in public cloud (AWS). Environments include AWS EC2, AWS EKS, AWS S3 & Amazon Aurora. Monitoring is deployed as “Software as Code” via TerraForm (HashiCorp). Including AWS Lambda functions to adjust monitoring to include new auto scaling environments and remove monitors and alerts when environments were removed.• Integration of AWS monitoring, logging and alerting (AWS Cloudwatch, AWS Xray, AWS SNS) with legacy monitoring, logging and alerting (Splunk, Netcool).

New York, Ny, Us

JP Morgan, Investment Bank • Managed JP Morgan Markets web portal with over 250K Corporate & investment bank clients, FX and Commodities trading environment with over 350 pre-trade and post-trade applications with $4 -$6 billion trades daily• Led global team of engineers that interface with business, development, and corporate infrastructure to support critical environment.• Participated in design & implementation of next generation firm-wide authentication system that services hundreds of firm wide applications. This is deployed for all external customers facing applications across the bank.• On arrival led process to resolve long standing platform stability issues, Closed list of over 20 issues within 3 months of arrival at JPMC. These included issues blocking the deployment of the Low latency interbank FX trading infrastructure to a new colocation site. • Led stability workstreams with corporate infrastructure organizations,o identified stability issues with key central authentication system and led stability workstream to remediate issues. For the authentication system utilized by hundreds of applications across the firm. This Stability workstream significantly reduced outages with no critical outages over a 16-month period. o Identified monitoring deficiency driving severe outages in network and server monitoring. Led workstream to improve monitoring and identify before critical outages occur. Work achieved 14% reduction in incidents and 50% reduction in recovery time.

Moved all production database infrastructure onto virtualized environments for high availability and Disaster Recovery. Trained my successor.

Member of executive management and leader of SaaS operations group. Client facing focus on improving stability, reliability, and application performance. • Rebuilt team of 7 IT operations engineers; personally trained junior team members in SAN storage, Networking, Cisco ASA firewalls and Virtualization. Ensured cross training and responsibilities by team members to ensure 24/7 coverage of all skill sets.• Drove companywide efforts to modernize legacy systems: included moving to virtualized VMs and new hardware; migration from legacy accounting system to Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains; replacement of all core network with new layer 3 equipment; and deployment of upgraded application stack with latest versions of Java, Apache and Wildfly (Jboss), MySQL • Managed Audit and completion of PCI report on compliance 3.1 & 3.2, SAAE16 SOC . Led project to acquire PCI Report on Compliance (ROC 3.1 & 3.2) • Created and implemented crisis management procedure, developed and implemented formal disaster recovery plan. • Business Leadership in managing vendor and supplier relationships.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

• Lead team of direct reports and matrix resources of 20 employees in all aspects of Web infrastructure design, applications services, and network operations center, customer support and field engineering. Improved Teams leaders' management skills through direct mentoring - teams leaders grew with the company from early startup period and had no management experience before being promoted. • Developed and implemented formal disaster recovery and business continuity plan (DRP/BCP)• Direct IT strategy design and execution for professional services engagements, including customer business analysis, solution design, RFP development, proposal delivery, and technology integration. Plan technology budgets in collaboration with finance/executive leaders. Managed Integration of acquired companies as part of M&A process.• Sourced & negotiated multi-million-dollar purchase with multiple vendors as part of $10 million expansion and net new colocation sites, migrated all environments to open-source server virtualization. • Create strategy for cloud utilization AWS vs Colocation, resulting in $4.5 annual savings. Managed and designed global collocated infrastructure in APAC, EMEA and Americas with 700 Linux servers across 5 international data centers with F5 load balancers, Check Point firewalls, Cloud DNS.

Redwood City, California, Us

• Managed Worldwide IT Infrastructure for all customer facing and internal systems with an enterprise information systems infrastructure team of 26 engineers/IT specialists and capital budgets; owned vendor relations, managed negotiations, and IT procurement activities.• Spearheaded initiative to scale IT infrastructure to meet sales growth from ~$600M to $1.2B over 5 years; eliminated ~$200K in IT capital costs each year plus $70K in annual energy/cooling costs. • Managed initial Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and auditing process including separation of duties and all IT related requirements• Directed infrastructure operations spanning SAP R3, Siebel CRM, enterprise storage, and other mission-critical systems across 30 international offices.

Rochester, New York, Us

Directed IT Infrastructure team of 25 specializing in UNIX, Windows, and database administration; network operations center (NOC); and help desk operations management. Oversaw all facets of customer-facing Internet applications (SaaS-based offering), ERP and other core business systems, storage, email services, and data security. ________________________________________INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN & OPTIMIZATION________________________________________★ Designed and implemented centralized storage solution used by 500 engineers in R&D and Quality Assurance groups★ Assumed oversight of system administration activities from R&D team★ Designed and seamlessly migrated IT infrastructure, data center, HVAC/power, telephony systems, and 2,500-port network for new 82,000-square-foot campus in conjunction with engineers______________COST SAVINGS______________★ Generated $100K in hardware savings and $80K in recurring annual maintenance costs savings★ Captured $400K in incremental annual savings by freeing up R&D resources______________________________________________________________________________In 2005, Kodak acquired Creo, which had acquired Scitex Corp.

Netanya, Il

Led 8-person team in IT infrastructure design, deployment, and management for this VoIP solutions inventor/industry pioneer. Oversaw network/systems administration and IT service delivery in blended UNIX/Windows shop. Directed large, international projects to completion, including vendor management, equipment procurement, and contract negotiations. _____________________________________________TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS_____________________________________________★ Led design and build out of technology infrastructure for 5 global offices in the US, Israel, Germany, Japan, and China★ Planned and managed on-time and under-budget delivery of $250K project to design/deploy Layer 3 switching, server room, power/HVAC systems, and 1,600 active ports for Israel office relocation with zero downtime★ Implemented secure, global VPN to interconnect voice and data communications for all international offices_______________IT GOVERNANCE_______________★ Instituted robust IT controls and network management policies to strengthen governance and security

Vevey, Ch

Assembled and managed team of 10 in network, workstation, and IT infrastructure support. Managed technology vendor relationships, including hardware/software procurement negotiations. Oversaw IT projects across international sites. _____________________________TECHNOLOGY MODERNIZATION_____________________________★ Led transition to UNIX environment with full workstations from legacy mainframe/dumb terminal model____________________IT SERVICE DELIVERY____________________★ Established help desk organization and service delivery framework for rapidly advancing, global technology rollout

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

High School / Regents Diploma