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Independent consultant working at NYU Medical Center responsible for the decommission of theWolman POE. Worked with multiple carriers to coordinate the installation of new fibers and re-routing of existing circuits to different facilities to prevent outages. Worked on the rebuild of lost services due to hurricane Sandy, involving mobile data centers and vendor coordination. Completed the decommission of the Nortel switch and cutover to the Cisco network. Liaison to all the major voice carriers coordinated and met with technicians for all voice related installations and repairs. Lead project manager for all new builds pertaining to the Superblock. Managed vendor teams during course of projects from start to turnover. Trouble-shoot circuit outages and assist in testing with the vendors. Main POC for all after hour support for new carrier installations on the main campus.

Managed day to day operations and infrastructure requests in New York headquarters performed during 2nd shift.Responsible for quality assurance of work performed by in house techs and local 3 contractors.Provided detailed proposals and budgets to clients for work requested.Tracked and recorded milestones of projects using Microsoft Project.Initiated meetings with Office Services to discuss data center and trading floor requirements and issues.Maintain and verify all documentation pertaining to data centers and telecommunication closet connectivity. Main point of contact for all LAN connections, circuit extensions and equipment installations.

Managed day to day operations and infrastructure requests in New York headquarters performed during 2nd shift.Provided detailed proposals and budgets to clients for work requested.Tracked and recorded milestones of projects using Microsoft Project.Project leader for all trading floor relocations and additionsInitiated meetings with Office Services to discuss data center requirements and issues.Responsible for quality assurance of work performed by local 3 contractors. Team leader for consultants that survey all moves, adds, and changes on trading floors on nightly basis. Maintain and verify all documentation pertaining to data centers and telecommunication closet connectivity. Main point of contact for all LAN connections, circuit extensions and equipment installations. Frequently met with department managers to discuss future department growth requirements.

Team leader responsible for infrastructure conversion for merge between Salomon Brothers and Smith Barney. Updated CAD daily for all trading floors at both locations during merge. Re-engineered infrastructure in Salomon Brothers trading floor comm. rooms to mirror comm. rooms of Smith Barney to provide easier transaction of equipment and services. Managed a team of several consultants tasked with all moves, adds and changes both in the field and for cable management system.

Administrator for the Paradox cable management database for the entire 390 installation.Maintain and support a 15,000-sq. ft. MTR with 300+ cabinets for market data and network services.Supervise and direct a team of four data communications analysts.Interface with IPC (local 3) and ESA (Electronic Securities Association).Heavy use of fiber (ST and FDDI) Cat. 5 and Cat. 3 patches for market data and network installations.Designed and documented Cat.5 patch panel risers and horizontals from MTR cabinets to user's desks.Maintained relationships with several market data vendors for user support and requests.First line of contact for user's calling in trouble calls with market data and network services.Determine cost evaluations for additional services using the most efficient methods possible.Team leader for all moves, adds, changes and hardware connectivity to services.

Overseer of the New York, London and Tokyo facilities. (Spent seven weeks in Tokyo and five weeks in London defining, documenting and re-engineering each Infrastructure and cable plant.Coordinated all installations of market data links via T-1's, DDS, DDS2 and dial lines.Determined systems requirements, and provided cost evaluations on multiple data communication solutions.

Scheduling of projects to be completed, time projections, cost analysis, materials and resources needed.Training, technical support and evaluations of all in-house technicians and field engineers.Interactions with ARC Electric, RICH Inc., Micrognosis Inc., N.Y. Tel., M.F.S. and the C.B.O.T.Involved with all trouble-shooting using data analyzers, scopes, breakout boxes and sniffers.

Responsible for all operator functions for STRATUS XA Mainframe and its daily support.Stratus card replacements, installations, daily tape backups and restores to offsite facilities.Duties involved issue moves, data transmissions, compump downloads and Gov't ticker broadcasts. Fulfilling all brokers needs for additional services and equipment requirements.

Installed various Stratus peripherals such as terminals, compumps, preprocessors, csu's, muxes and printers.Monitored all daily client site activities and recorded all troubles within a network database.Maintained and ordered all components needed for future and day to day projects.

Heavy use of RS 232 standards for Async and Sync applications.Multiple parallel, serial conversions and installations involving modems and printers.Modification and repair of various in-house devices, involving soldering and parts replacement.Coordinated all installs and moves with client's technicians and provided clients with on-line phone support. SkillsProficient in the use of Penta scanners, Fluke meters and volt meters.Work with MS Project, Word and ExcelUser of AutoCAD, Visio, IsiCad, Paradox and IT links cable management systemsHands-on installer and tester of Cat.6E cabling, Cat.3 wiring, multi-mode and single mode fiber and RG6 coax and their termination end points.