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Greater New York City Area

Solutions Architect supporting exchanges and hedge funds as they migrate workloads to AWS

Greater New York City Area

Senior executive leading Global Database Infrastructure, Messaging and Job Scheduling supporting engineering, operations, data governance, vendor management and development teams for each platform. • Completed multiple DevOps POC's using virtualized storage plus on-demand database containers leveraging VMWare linked clones, Delphix and SAN based clone technology reducing cost of development environment setup by 80%. • Led the development and implementation of high-speed backup and recovery for production data utilizing SAN based copy. Reduced the backup/restore time for our larger databases from 35 hours to minutes. • Led the Data Governance Committee, which approved next generation database technologies for use at Morgan Stanley and introduced enterprise support for Open Source Postgres providing a zero cost license option for database products.• Integrated a managed services model for database L2 workload. Reduced by 50% the cost of fielding the team with internal staff in core locations.• Worked closely with Prime Brokerage to stand up and expand an Application Aligned database support model that reduced implementation times by half and allowed a more agile and responsive technology platform for the business.• Introduced use of SSD technology to provide a greater level of IOPS to the database and MQ applications. This allowed our trading platform to keep up with spiking market volumes and enabled the business to expand 100% in 2015.• Introduced Guardium for the global database plant to provide monitoring for intrusion detection and privileged access auditing to meet auditing guidelines mandated by our regulators.

Senior Manager leading a Global Database Organization tasked with supporting all aspects of databases engineering, administration and production support for the both the Treasury Services and Worldwide Security Services lines of business• Migrated the database clusters away from a VERITAS active-passive cluster to an Oracle RAC active-active cluster for the high availability design standard that reduce failover time to less than 30 seconds from 30 minutes.• Worked with JPMC engineering and Oracle Inc. on the Maximum Availability Architecture for Oracle. This enabled the database infrastructure to be resilient against physical corruptions with near zero data loss.• Built a 24*7 offshore Global Database Services team in India to provided L1/L2 on-site production support for all database issues at a cost 60% less than performing the same function on shore. • Led efforts to automate and standardized database builds and developed a Database Portal for operational inventory, data collection, configuration reporting and access controls saving hundreds of hours per year of manual effort.

Global manager leading a Database Infrastructure team tasked with designing and building the infrastructure supporting global database technology and an Operational Quality Control team which performed auditing, quality reviews and remediation for the global database environment. • Directed the design and development of infrastructure to support the registration, installation, upgrade, configuration, statistics collection, reporting, developer automation and developer access controls which saved thousands of hours of effort annually.• Designed the Production Access Controls (PACT) system to enable developers to promote access within the database in an approved, controlled and audited fashion. Developers now manage migrations independently saving an average of 3 hours per migration.

• IDMS Systems Programmer supporting all aspects of Database Administration for the NY office. • IDMS developer supporting HR and Financial System