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Milford, Ct, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

• Provide day to day management of National Datacenter engineering team.• Provide management and escalation point for assigned project portfolio.• Serve as Level 2 escalation point for employees.• Analyzes trends to identify opportunities to improve the quality IT offerings.• Contribute to and manage additional special projects assigned by the clients and or management team.• Establish client relationships and assist Sales teams to further Datacenter practice.Notable accomplishments• Rising Star Recipient• Participated in the AWS offering and continue to provide direction and leadership as the offering matures.• Coordinate N2WS webinar with Marketing to display the NWN Cloud capabilities

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

• Lead Engineer for Stanley Black & Decker “In a Box” solution delivery.• Introduction of new customer leads to sales team and pre-sales contributor.• Support the Pre-sales team with validation of solution designs, bill of materials, statements of work, and labor estimate when appropriate.• Work with Project Managers to design and deploy business solutions for our customers.• Completed various professional service engagements.

Orange, Connecticut, Us

Develop, implement, manage, and report on UIL's IT support for its SCADA systems/infrastructure, and manage the related team and vendors.Develop, refine, and ensure compliance with compliance -related policies, processes/procedures, NERC CIP and other regulatory standards.Identify, assess, and prioritize threats based on possible impact, system vulnerabilities, and probability of occurrence. For higher priority threats, develop and implement security/migration measures.Develop and implement performance measures/metrics; monitor, and regularly report on the status of the security and performance of the infrastructure, applications, and services.Function as UIL's subject matter expert on the IT aspects of SCADA; and consult and provide related guidance/recommendations to internal customers (i.e. business units) / stakeholders.Coordinate with and provide guidance to UIL's other IT areas (e.g. operations, applications, cyber security, and compliance).Monitor the evolution/development of SCADA-related technology; and recommend appropriate incorporation into UIL's IT/SCADA infrastructure/landscape.

• Lead SME and architect for Electric and Gas SCADA • Maintain Windows and Red Hat Linux servers within the SCADA environment• Maintain/troubleshoot Cisco: ASA’s, Routers and switches within the SCADA environment• Manage compliance to NERC CIP process and procedures• Manage backup process for systems in UIL’s SCADA environments• Manage patching process for systems in UIL’s SCADA environments• Maintain inventory of all assets within the SCADA environment• Document and record all assets and network topology within SCADA• Upgraded/implemented Splunk in Electric and GAS SCADA environments• Implemented Juniper SSL VPN to provide layered security access to SCADA assets• Worked with external auditors on annual cyber vulnerability assessment• Re-implemented McAfee EPO within SCADA to provide; anti-virus protection, consistent updating and patching as well as accurate and useful reports and dashboards • Clean-up of Active Directory in all SCADA environments• Foster and participate in collaboration within the many teams that are involved in Electric and Gas distribution

• Designed/implemented/support corporate Microsoft infrastructure (AD/GPO/DNS/DHCP) and game development framework.• Develop and support playable game environments in the cloud using AWS (Amazon Web Services).• Standardize pc imaging based on tech stack and deployment method using WDS.• Support cloud based solutions: Exchange, Confluence (JIRA, and WIKI).• Worked with Executive team to provide game presentation support to possible publishing partners and VC’s.• Facilities and operational support including: o Responsible for setup of temporary and permanent offices. o Cooling, power, network and fire suppression systems design. o Maintain budget/purchasing documentation and managed vendor relationships.

Bridgeport, Connecticut, Us

• VMware redesign and tech refresh for Production and DR Datacenters.• SAP hardware/software refresh; moved a full SAP implementation to new blades and storage along with a HRP software refresh in a 6 month window.• Developed many of the Disaster Recovery plans and documentation along with fully tested results.• Redesigned existing fabric and storage infrastructure supporting primary and secondary datacenters.• Identify technological projects based on business needs; architect, budget, project manage and implement solutions.• Responsible for installing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting 160+ physical and virtual (VMware) in Production and DR Datacenters. • Redesigned and implemented a highly available, load balanced Citrix environment.• Re-engineered backup of 40TB+ of data in a D2D2Tape solution with cross-site replication and automatic VM guest failover for Tier 1 application servers.• Maintain, configure, and architected upgrade of HP s and HP/Brocade switches.• Active Directory/Group Policy upgrade from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 R2.• Successfully renovated 2 datacenters reducing electrical and cooling requirements while upgrading network and fiber infrastructure, maximizing datacenter density.• Tier 3 support of 550+ pc’s, laptops, toughbook’s and mobile devices (Android & IOS).• Secondary responsibilities include network support/troubleshooting of Production and DR Datacenters and 220+ remote sites.• SCADA Liaison – Worked with SCADA team and provided support for server, pc, network, security, anti-virus/malware, backup and audit compliance.

• Worked with various businesses to provide: o IT project management o Server and Network Support o Break/Fix support on servers and desktops o Hardware and software solutions for realized/unrealized business needs.• Successfully implementation of Windows 7 for business with 350+ employees/500+ devices.• Re-designed backup infrastructure for a client that included 8 TB daily changes and 150+ servers. • Rebuilt DR site for local company with successful DR drill results.• Hired/led sub-contracted consultants to perform various support and migration tasks.

Boston, Ma, Us

• Managed all Treasury IT Operations Projects.• Nominated for 2 Star Awards for work on OTS Audit Remediation and Financial Web Site Hosting migration.• Lead team of 10 IT Operations engineers in daily operations as well as planned project implementation and maintenance tasks.• Successfully completed numerous projects while adhering to GE’s strict PMO Process.

Bridgeport, Connecticut, Us

Hanover, Md, Us

HealthNet January 2009 – March 2009• Provide support to production Windows and Citrix environment.• Manage/resolve tickets assigned to group.• Build, configure, test and release servers/patches/software packages on an as-needed basis.GE Corporate Treasury March 2008 - December 2008• Project manager for the Citrix Upgrade project including; reviewing, redesigning and implementing of the Citrix environment for GE Treasury. Completed the implementation of Production and DR silo’s.• Responsible for all facets of the project including; analysis, design, QAT, deployment, DR implementation, and stabilization while conforming to GE’s current SDLC standards.• Worked with XenServer, VMware, and Provisioning Server/Ardence to design/provide a hybrid Citrix XenApp solution that is stable and capable of rapid deployment.• Technical liaison for the VMWare Architecture assessment, redesign, upgrade project.• Duties also include performing various ad-hoc infrastructure changes, proof of concepts on software and hardware for projects still in the proposal phase and providing recommendations on areas of improvement within GE Treasury’s current datacenter.

•Responsible for planning, installing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting all data/voice network topology which included 29+ servers in an Active Directory 2003 domain.•Daily duties include the administration of all Exchange 2003 servers, SMTP gateways, web/email filter servers, SQL servers, IIS servers, Citrix Presentation servers and Brightstor backup servers.•Duties also include backup management, disaster recovery planning, reviewing user requirements, writing technical specifications, documenting the execution of any unit, testing and integration of network monitoring/administration related tools.•Manage expenditures and develop yearly budget including maintenance contracts for the entire IT department.•Manage IT staff in the CT office, this included writing yearly staff reviews, recommending salary increases and yearly bonuses, and evaluating reviews with each member of my staff.

Norwalk, Ct, Us

•Duties include: backup network administrator, team leader, and group coordinator for rollouts and relocations.•Provide hardware and software support for 600+ employees at GE Capital RFS•Responsible for installing, testing, and distributing applications for the server and end-users.

Shelton, Ct, Us

Cyber Security

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