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Chicago, Il

• Develop three year technology plan to support business initiatives, focusing on technologies to improve agility, efficiency, security and cost.• Work with Business Leadership team to understand upcoming initiatives and acquisitions and ensure technology platform can scale and support required functionality.• Conceptualize and design new storage solutions for enterprise data center, working with individual business units to gather requirements and achieve RPO\RTO goals.• Perform gap analysis between current state and desired future state and work with Implementation team to move to desired state.• Design robust monitoring platform and procedures to provide consistent performance, capacity, and version management across environment. • Review storage utilization and performance and forecast storage spend. • Ensure technology plan and platforms support Global Information Security Group and work with Security Architects to align future direction to upcoming Security Policy.• Work with Audit and Compliance teams to understand Client and Regulatory requirements and align technology direction with Risk and Compliance findings.• Provide design documentation for all database and storage platforms to Implementations team, and provide training as necessary, to ensure successful project delivery and consistency across environment.• Develop and maintain storage administration and engineering processes and procedures to ensure no downtime results from scheduled change and infrastructure is utilized efficiently. • Continue education by staying current with industry trends, evolutionary platform changes, and revolutionary technologies through professional affiliations, technical journals, vendor training, and conferences. • Manage relationships with storage hardware and database software vendors.• Provide level three support to Operations group when required.

Boston, Ma

• Manage daily operations of technical teams supporting the database (over 5000 databases) and storage operations (over 3 PB total) for data centers in the United States and Canada.• Handle interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.• Establish Change Management process following ITIL standards to adhere to SSAE16 audit requirements and ensure stability and availability of environment. Monitor teams’ execution of processes in accordance with procedures and best practices.• Propose and manage annual budget; manage Vendor relationships and negotiate new hardware, software and support contracts.• Work with Internal and External Audit teams to design compensating controls for database and storage operations; provide evidence of adherence to existing financial industry audit and compliance policies, and plan for future requirements according to industry trends and emerging needs.• Participate in on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support for database and storage issues.• Develop and test Disaster Recovery plan for scenarios including total site loss, storage array failure, and server failure; design and test database backup plans to provide point in time recovery for all Production databases. • Monitor industry trends and evaluate competing technologies; engage in proof of concept testing on a global level to support future business growth and needs.• Use problem solving skills to resolve problems calmly, quickly and professionally in high stress situations.• Mentor and support teams by working through logical solutions to daily issues.

Chicago, Il

• Provision storage across Clariion, DMX-4, and VMax arrays. Handle zoning and edge switch configuration using Cisco MDS 9513 and 9124 switches.• Implement data and schema changes in Dev, Test, and Production environments, following established Change Management processes to reduce risk and ensure tested rollback procedures are in place. • Migrate databases, logins, etc. between SQL Server clusters and versions while minimizing downtime using incremental backups and database mirroring. • Install SQL Server on geographically dispersed MSCS clusters; identify necessary OS and RDMS patches and apply throughout Dev, Test and Prod environments. • Participate in 24/7 support rotation, weekly patch windows, monthly Production Events weekends to implement major changes, and biannual Disaster Recovery tests. • Identify performance and contention issues in database environment and work with other Infrastructure teams and Development teams to optimize configuration and code. • Monitor and correct issues backup and optimization jobs

Chicago, Il

• Created project plans, including evaluation and recommendation, for network topology, power, HVAC, cabling, and space planning concerns, in addition to, data backup and disaster recovery planning.• Installed, configured and provided user training on operation of Bisys Document Solutions’ ISCheck 3.1 software, a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 driven document imaging solution. Provided recommendations regarding efficiency of back office procedures, such as check processing workflow, host file transfer methods, and cash letter creation.• Functioned as on-site project leader for ISCheck document imaging solution migrations, utilizing Windows 2000 networks. Performed integration and administration duties for 5-10 servers per site. • Utilized negotiation, communication, and technical skill sets regarding critical and time sensitive issues through work with all levels of management, while maintaining excellent customer care through professionalism and sensitivity to regional diversity, in the role of a consultant servicing the continental United States.• Administrated SQL Server 2000 databases on a daily basis, including tasks such as: debugging stored procedures, security administration, implementation of transaction log backups, and data migration utilizing DTS procedures.• Independently learned and utilized Active Server Pages 3.0 in internal project to maintain, and expand the functionality of, the corporate intranet, including physical and logical layout of new data structures.

West Lafayette, In

• Designed, implemented and maintained multiple mission critical databases using object oriented database engine. • Developed web interface to database using Apache web server extensions written in C, on Solaris.

Jasper, In

• Designed (physical and logical) and deployed project tracking and internal billing systems utilizing MS SQL Server 7.0 back-end. Front-end was accomplished through stored procedures on SQL Server using MS IDC/HTX.• Devised (applying RAD principles) and populated database containing inventory information on 300 PC's. • Provided technical support for 300 users concerning Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT 4.0 and Office 2000.• Designed and configured fault tolerant Windows Servers; managed user accounts and support for 200 users. • Migrated VB QA reporting application from Word to SQL data storage.