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Vienna, Va, Us

Oversee, manage, and audit IT disaster recovery planning, implementation, and testing. Coordinate with the business continuity and audit teams to verify that required regulatory and best practices are met within NFCU IT. Integrate with project implementation teams to ensure proper disaster recovery architecture and processes are considered and executed. Implement and maintain systems to ensure uninterrupted access to disaster recovery plans and process documentation, and allow for the ability to execute plans during a disaster event.

Independently owned contract and consulting service company.

Hamilton, Bermuda, Bm

Tasked with strategic project delivery surrounding migration and consolidation/closure of legacy datacenters, the associated systems, applications, and their disaster recovery. Provided management of infrastructure environment and performed major incident response for global enterprise infrastructure and applications. Cisco UCS, VMWare 6.x, Riverbed/F5 Load balancers,Cisco Nexus, Cisco MDS, Windows 2008/2012, Linux, HP Servers, EMC/Dell/NetApp Storage, CommVault.• Successful consolidation and closure of two major AXA XL legacy datacenters achieving significant cost savings to the organization. Consolidated associated systems into strategic datacenters while obtaining minimal downtime to clients and adapting systems for a new disaster recovery model.• Worked with onshore and offshore applications and operations teams to find and close discrepancies in existing applications documentation. Established migration plans and coordinated change control efforts for the multiple application and infrastructure changes required for the successful DC migrations.• Ensured post-migration enterprise application disaster recovery plans were sufficient and met standards for target datacenter locations as well as required application RPO and RTO.

Hamilton, Bermuda, Bm

Managed global infrastructure and application environment via in-house and outsourced model for six datacenters and multiple global remote offices. Ensured successful day-to-day operations and strategic project delivery. Worked with application teams for implementation, troubleshooting and optimization of enterprise applications. Infrastructure, application, and system design. Implementation planning. Capacity planning. Vendor management. Disaster recovery. Cisco UCS, VMWare 6.x, Riverbed/F5 Load balancers, Cisco Nexus, Cisco MDS, Windows 2008/2012, Linux, HP Servers, EMC/Dell/NetApp Storage, CommVault.• Managed and implemented cross-company infrastructure consolidation and technical refresh of infrastructure in datacenters and distributed remote office environments.• Designed framework for ongoing yearly remote site infrastructure review, and successfully completed technology refreshes throughout global enterprise environment.• Designed global remote site capacity planning procedures and coordinated implementation across all operations teams.• Accomplished emergency redevelopment of DR/BC plans and infrastructure reconfiguration regarding a recent company acquisition 24 hours prior to 2017’s Hurricane Irma. DR and BC plans implemented successfully with little impact to business. • Researched and configured XL Catlin’s first production always-on SQL (three-way server cluster) replication to support multi-site applications. Design was used as the basis for future multi-site applications.

Hamilton, Bermuda, Bm

Planned, implemented, and managed enterprise, server, virtualization, storage, and application infrastructure utilizing Windows 2003/2008, Linux, Cisco UCS and HP servers, VMware, EMC VNX SANs, EMC RecoverPoint, EMC Avamar and DataDomain, and CommVault. Oversaw storage replication, CDR, and disaster recovery (DR) operations for former Catlin operations which encompassed four datacenters and multiple remote office throughout the globe.• Successfully oversaw migration of the primary Catlin US datacenter functions to a managed datacenter facility. Re-purposed existing infrastructure and site for disaster recovery.• Engaged application teams to implement environmental improvements to all US strategic applications that allowed for streamlined DR processes and environment refresh procedures. • Coordinated and implemented upgrade to US datacenter EMC VNX SANs to support continued strategic growth.• Oversaw disaster recovery procedure changes for the overall virtual environment and the SAP/SQL cluster environment that resulted in the overall decrease of RTO during yearly performed DR tests by 75% and removed previous requirement of outside vendor costs.

New York, New York, Us

Managed enterprise server, virtualization, and storage infrastructure utilizing Dell and HP servers and storage, VMware, HyperV 2010, EMC Clariion and VNX SANS, HP EVA SANs, Falconstor NSS (IPStor), Brocade Fiber Switches, and Cisco Nexus switches. Manage enterprise backup systems using CommVault Simpana and Symantec BackupExe, Linux (CentOS). Work with enterprise and support level teams to provide infrastructure and application interconnectivity level support for all enterprise hardware and systems throughout three datacenters and 30+ offices in the United States, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.• Implemented a server centralization project with the goal of moving all distributed office core servers to the Atlanta and Miami datacenters.• Successfully oversaw the relocation of the Atlanta, GA datacenter.• Designed and implemented an enterprise backup infrastructure leveraging CommVault Simpana’s deduplication and replication technology allowing centralized management and offsiting of all backup data. Decreased response times for restore and DR requests, and removed the management and expense of storing tapes at third party facilities.• Upgraded GT’s enterprise virtualization environment from VMware ESX 2.5/3.1 to VMware ESX 3.5, and then to VMWare vSphere 4.• Successfully implemented a replacement to GT’s enterprise FTP environment by utilizing Biscom’s Secure File Transfer product to allow secure and auditable transfer of files to internal and external clients. Worked with the vendor to test and implement enhancements in their product to meet GT’s security and auditing requirements.

Managed overall enterprise infrastructure consisting of Dell Windows blade servers, Microsoft Exchange 2003, IBM AS400, EMC Clariion SAN, VMWare, HP Procurve switches, Brocade fiber switches, SonicWall firewalls, Riverbed Steelhead WAN accelerators, and Tadiran PBX. Oversaw change control implementation and IT operations procedures to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Performed Database Administration duties for SQL 7.0/2000 environment. Coordinated level-1 and level-2 helpdesk support. Provided level-3 helpdesk infrastructure and system support throughout main datacenter and 5 field offices in the United States and Bermuda.- Planned and implemented a complete datacenter consolidation using VMWare ESX 3.1 and EMC Clariion SAN storage (2006).- Implemented an enterprise phone system that connected all ASI offices and telecommuters using Tadiran PBX and VOIP technology (2007).- Implemented a complete WAN infrastructure upgrade including implementation of MPLS network connections and Riverbed Steelhead WAN acceleration for all US remote offices (2008).- Planned and implemented EMC EmailXtender archiving system (2007) that dramatically decreased the time necessary to retrieve archived emails in support of the ASI legal department as well as reduced ASI’s file server storage requirements by 35%.- Implemented ASI’s disaster recovery plan and conducted ASI’s first successful disaster recovery test (2006).

Managed company workstations, servers, and applications. Performed database administration duties for SQL 7.0/2000 environment. Oversaw change control implementation and IT operations procedures to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Provided enterprise infrastructure and system support.- Implemented enterprise-wide policy administration and reporting system utilizing IBM AS400 and Rebus Genius (2005).- Developed, documented, and implemented IT policies to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (2004).

Provided level-1 systems support. Maintained company network, servers, and workstations, and systems.

Bachelors Of Science, Computer Science

Computer Science

Diploma, Computer Diagnostics And Microcomputer Repair