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Piscataway, NJ

• Client required reconstruction of all of their mainframe data center physical infrastructure documentation after a data center migration, as well as data center infrastructure support.
• Created infrastructure documentation from scratch for all physical connections (almost 3,000) to 9 IBM Mainframes, IBM Directors, & IBM Storage in Microsoft Excel & Visio in under 90 days.
• Gathered information from cable labeling & traced cabling where necessary to confirm connections.
• Provided equipment cabinet sheets which documented all connections to the front & back of all mainframes to termination points.
• Provided IBM Director port breakout mapping.
• Equipment covered: IBM Z13 mainframes; IBM Storage: DS8870 DASD, XIV, TS7700 VTS; Teradata Storage; Switches: Brocade, SAN768B, SAN384B; Cisco Nexus FEX (N2K), N6K, etc.

Carlstadt, NJ

• I was solely tasked with reducing the conflicting information in their data center asset databases.
• Confirmed/corrected data center assets in various asset tracking databases.
• Eliminated over 1,500 inconsistencies between various data center asset tracking databases in 2 of their high profile data centers.
• Proposed a set of measures to sharply reduce future asset inconsistencies.
• Worked with personnel from various departments and lines of business in order to confirm/correct issues with data center assets.
• Worked with the following databases: Aperture: data center asset reservation, white space management & visual placement database; Remedy: data center based workflow management & asset tracking database system; Global.

Iselin, NJ

◊ Primary day/evening Data Center Operations & Data Center smart hands support, including providing escort to & billable tracking time for client’s customers via change management & incident management ticketing system (HP Service Center).◊ Rack/stack/cable/label all datacenter equipment (Network/Telecom/Unix/Windows/VMS/AS400).◊ Monitored the bank data.

New York, NY

• Install/Decommission (rack & stack) of various server & network hardware and cable patching.
• Remote smart hands Layer 1 troubleshooting support for all business units in the data center.
• Update business units through change management & incident management ticketing system (HP Service Manager 7) & maintain asset inventory.
• Document servers, network hardware, circuits and data connections throughout data center.
• Escort all vendors through the data center and work with telco on circuit outages.

New York, NY

□ Worked with various data center stake holder groups (Networking group, Unix group, Windows group, Market Data group, Local 3 Electricians, etc.), as well as vendor & telco installers to facilitate installations, repairs & decommissions of data center assets & circuits without incident and according to established procedures from installation through.

Weehawken, NJ

• Data center asset management & documentation in Visio & Excel (rack & equipment profiles); client shipping & receiving services.
• Provided superior remote-hands, co-lo data center technical support to financial sector businesses in a heterogeneous hardware & software environment, including providing billable engineering services through ticketing.
• Worked with Server Admins from hundreds of financial companies successfully troubleshooting, repairing & configuring servers across multiple OS’es; upgraded server firmware; configured HP iLO’s/Dell DRAC’s; IP’ed.
• Worked with Network Admins successfully troubleshooting Layer 1 connectivity issues on mission-critical production network systems providing loopbacks, changing SFP’s/GBIC’s or consoling into devices to enable remote.
• Installed & racked HP, Dell, Sun, IBM, Apple & Rackable servers & blade servers. Installed & racked Cisco & Foundry switches & routers, Juniper Firewalls, F5 load balancers, security appliances, raid storage arrays &.
• Installed/patched/troubleshot customer premise fiber & copper network wiring cross-connections & telco circuits from equipment to telco demarcation point.

New York, NY

** Created & maintained documentation databases for data center in Microsoft Access & Excel developing custom queries & reports for operations managers.** Created, maintained & taught Microsoft Access database application for technician’s administrative assistant.** Documented & diagrammed hundreds of data center network computing, satellite & alarm.

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Digital Technology Degree, Advanced Electronics, 3.88 Gpa

Studied advanced electronics & the foundations of basic computer design, computer components & computer construction at the component.