Bill Barasch Email & Phone Number

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.

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)..

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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..

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..

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.

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

High School / Regents Diploma