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Rutherford, NJ

New York City, New York

• Full data center support for operations and programming departments. Ensuring SLA’s are met for 30+ local and 20+ remote servers, an IBM mainframe, and all network infrastructure components.
• Provided help desk services for employees of the firm and selected business partners.
• Ensured ongoing success of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plan testing.
• Projected and planned for future business needs in 6, 12, and 18 month increments.
• Developed annual fiscal budgets for all IT expenditures.
• Implemented security and compliance procedures as business needs dictate.

New York, NY

• Performed all administrative functions for the NetWare, NT, and Mainframe platforms.
• Recruited, hired, mentored, and developed IT employees. Initiated staff cross training which increased IT support capabilities. This benefited the firm with faster project completion and quicker incident response time.
• Set up Exchange replication and failover using the NSI Double Take product. The firm now had E-Mail server redundancy across two physical locations.
• Developed and tested business recovery procedures both in house and at an IBM disaster recovery facility. Yearly independently audited recovery exercises constantly met or exceeded all test objectives.
• Established LAN to mainframe gateway for multiple business departments, resulting in data convergence.

New York, NY

• Supported an IBM mainframe running 40+ Virtual Machines under z\VM.
• Identified and performed necessary tasks to extend ROI on existing IBM mainframe system.
• Reduced Help Desk calls by creating an IT website to publish policies and documentation for employees
• Utilized hacking techniques to expose security risks. Compiled the results and proposed a security project which resulted in implementation of Cisco firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems, and VPN gateways. Proceeded.
• Installed E-Mail and Web filtering software satisfying legal requirements, and reducing workload on the E-Mail server. A result in increased employee productivity was noted by management.

Bronx New York

Provided access to Internet and E-Mail services for the entire college community by managing the installation of the first Cisco router, and firewall deployments.Built the first Internet connected E-Mail and gateway servers.Configured the first campus web server. Created an Internet presence by developing all initial web pages. Hired two staff members and.

As systems programmer supported three clustered IBM mainframes including online and database products. Configured dual mainframes for production use, and third as development and emergency backup.

Certificate, Cics Application & Systems Programming

Diploma In Computer Programming, Computer Programming

Mainframe MVS (now OS/390) running as a guest under IBM's VM (virtual machine product). BAL, Cobol, OS JCL were major topics. I am still a.

Diploma'S, Electronic And Microprocessor Technologies

Ba, Dual Ba'S, History & Sociology

Activities and Societies: Theater / DramaMinor: Latin American Literature. Minor: The Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Aa, Liberal Arts

Activities and Societies: Drama Club and Theater.

Education record