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New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Global, Us

Serve as infrastructure architect for NYS Medicaid and lead infrastructure architect for NYS Health Exchange. Design, document, and lead technical infrastructure implementation for a variety of solutions including B2B web services, server virtualization (VMware and z/VM), Multiprotocol NAS, and web portals. Served as a trusted advisor between business unit and IT Infrastructure Services. Analyze and coordinate solutions for performance and availability issues. Maintain capacity models for the virtualized environments. Manage the infrastructure technology roadmap and gap analysis for both programs. Key Accomplishments:• Lead infrastructure architect for implementation of New York's Health Exchange implemented as part of the Affordable Care Act. Solution is a medium sized footprint of over 200 virtual guests and a small standalone footprint using a standard 3 tier architecture hosting a custom java application with a DB2 LUW backend, web services, and EDI along with a financial management platform. The exchange launched successfully avoiding some of the challenges experienced by the federal and other state solutions.• Lead infrastructure architect for eMedNY HIPAA 5010 implementation resulting in significant process flow changes including implementation of IBM MQ and NAS. The New York Medicaid system is one of the largest Medicaid systems and was the first to be HIPAA 5010 compliant.• Architected and led implementation of the eMedNY VMware virtualized environment now consisting of 5 clusters (19 nodes) supporting over 400 virtual machines. Championed and lead implementation of edge SAN switching. Led physical to virtual conversion efforts and currently maintain capacity models.

Norwell, Ma, Us

Infrastructure architecture assignment at CSC supporting the New York State Medicaid System (eMedNY). Converted business requirements into conceptual and logical technology models. Key Accomplishments:• Lead the infrastructure design and implementation of DataPower XI50s to support several web service initiatives. Worked to create roles and responsibility matrix for the various support teams including the development team.

Costa Mesa, Ca, Us

Worked with stakeholders to create business cases based upon internal customer requirements and external RFPs. Designed, documented, and managed implementation of a variety of solutions including B2B web services, data warehouses (200GB - 64TB), business intelligence, campaign management, and portals. Provided budgetary guidance and tracked operational and capital expense appropriations for over 200 distributed systems (50% Windows, 50% AIX, Solaris, and Linux). Focused on reducing a 40 million dollar business unit IT operational budget. Served as liaison between business unit and global technology services. Analyzed and coordinated solutions for performance and availability issues. Integrated legacy systems into existing problem and change management models. Worked to align change management models with business expectations. Developed, evaluated, and implemented technology and best practices for adoption as corporate standards.

Costa Mesa, Ca, Us

Designed, implemented, and maintained UNIX servers in support of Marketing Solutions business unit. Environment consisted of Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux running a variety of applications including: Oracle, Tomcat, Apache, IBM Network Dispatcher, SAS, CVS, and Syncsort. Evaluated and implemented new technologies. Worked to improve existing process flow and automate repetitive tasks. Performed technical due diligence analysis on potential acquisitions. Created, maintained, and tested business continuity and disaster recovery documentation.

Costa Mesa, Ca, Us

Oversaw technical infrastructure of the Consumer Direct business unit. Worked with the developers and database administrators to create and modify architecture to support rapidly changing business needs in a 24x7 e-commerce environment. Coordinated both internal and external technology operation groups including system and network administration, network security, command center, system integration and architecture, MVS operations, and internal audit. Responsible for capacity planning, security and risk analysis, logical data flow diagrams, business continuity and disaster recovery planning, managing technology costs, and contractual obligations including system availability metrics.

Costa Mesa, Ca, Us

Supported Internet team's infrastructure of Windows NT, Sun Solaris, and Linux servers as well as disk arrays in a rapid growth, 24x7 environment. Performed installations, configurations, documentation, capacity planning, performance tuning, security auditing, and general administration. Interfaced with network engineering and various systems teams to ensure team requirements were achieved. Supported application software included Oracle, Allaire ColdFusion and Spectra, Apache, Netscape Directory Server, Nessus, Tomcat, wuftpd, IP Filter, and IBM Network Dispatcher. Created and modified shell scripts to automate routine tasks.

Troy, Ny, Us

Planned, implemented, and maintained servers running FreeBSD, SCO, and IRIX UNIX, OpenVMS, Windows NT Server, and Novell NetWare. Maintained and upgraded network, including Internet connectivity utilizing Cisco equipment. Wrote shell and Perl scripts to automate routine tasks. Performed security risk analysis and continually updated security measures to follow company policies. Assisted in budgetary planning and long range MIS planning.

Built, repaired, networked, and provided technical support for ComputerWorks custom PC systems. Created system analyses and quotes for corporate customers. Supported Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows 95, Windows NT 3.5 and 4.0, and office suites including Microsoft Office 4.5 - 97.