Ed De Simone Email & Phone Number

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Nyc/Plano/Boston/Secaucus/Weehawken

• Converted an unreliable, disjointed enterprise infrastructure into a leaner, more robust infrastructure, eliminating outages that had cost the company significant lost revenue. o Consolidated 3 data centers and 1,692 physical servers into a combination of AWS cloud integration and 2 VM-driven primary/secondary data centers with 150 servers. Responsible for end to end design and buildout of both new data centers and closure of datacenters including equipment disposal, with recovery of investment dollars to customer.o In phase 2 of above plan, implemented end-to-end orderly close of both remaining data centers and migration of most services to AWS, including asset inventory and disposal, with recovery of investment dollars to customer.• Worked with original management team to convert infrastructure from Open Source virtual KVMs to VMWare; then back to Open Source virtual KVMs under direction of new management team and eventual current configuration of a small VMWare footprint and large AWS presence.• Created documentation where none existed, providing invaluable resource information for the IT group to make repairs in seconds, rather than hours, and minimizing or eliminating system downtime.

Nyc/Oxford (Nc)/Phoenix/Toronto/Montreal/London/Paris/Rome/Caracas/Buenos Aires

• Globalized Revlon’s technology infrastructure and operational capabilities, collapsing 21 worldwide data centers. o Virtualized the primary global data center and moved 98% of systems onto a global SAN. o Reduced system outages by 99% annually and lowered data center power by 72%.o Created a global process enabling deployment of a server or client PC in <20 minutes. o Optimized cloud resources for IT services, implementing "private cloud".o Implemented NetApp solution for storage and data management.• Overhauled and automated security and compliance globally • Re-architected backup and disaster recovery systems and saw real-world return on investment when Venezuelan operations burned to the ground with business restored to operation in 2 hours. • Enabled CMO and sales teams to accelerate product development and profitability with new systems.• Integrated acquisitions. Evaluated, engineered and installed solutions as necessary to integrate disparate IT systems of acquired companies. This included major integrations in database and financial reporting systems in some cases before such integration tools were commercially available.

Various Us And Canadian Locations

• Replaced the company’s legacy DNS system. Project managed, engineered and installed Infoblox, replacing QIP.• Assisted in performing IT due diligence for corporate M&A efforts. • Integrated acquisitions. • Implemented installation of wide area acceleration appliances (Riverbed Steelhead).

Ridgefield Park, New Jersey