Ian D. Swartz Email & Phone Number

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.• Managed, mentored, and provided career development for local and remote IT staff. • Coordinated development of a second call center site located in Portland, Maine. Built out data center. Recruited technical staff. Directed vendors as required. The second site became operational and fully staffed within 120 days from project inception, providing the firm with real-time redundancy, as well as lowering overall operating expenses.• Ensured the firm’s data policies are in alignment with regulatory statutes by developing and receiving approval from legal counsel and business units a detailed plan to implement and enforce firm wide E-Mail and data retention standards.• Successfully led migration to an Active Directory platform. Integrated DNS into A/D. Set up DHCP, WINS, SNMP functionality. Implemented DFS and data replication features of Windows 2003 R2 to provide data consistency across servers and office locations. • Continued IBM z/VM mainframe upgrades, product installation, and overviewed tasks which were mainframe based. Tuned the z/VM operation systems to concurrently run over 40 virtual machines

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 to eliminate all modems and associated POTS lines. Created firm wide policies and procedures for remote network access. • 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 became supervisor for all college web development. Obtained VPN hardware through a grant and configured access to campus resources for students, faculty, and staff.Supported an IBM mainframe environment running registration, grading, and financial aid applications.

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.

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.

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