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Secaucus, New Jersey, US

Florham Park, New Jersey, US

• Responsible for platform infrastructure bid management, platform templates and delivery of cloud infrastructure solutions for enterprise client mission-critical systems. Delivery responsibilities include management of.
• Partner with the Business to roadmap their technology plans, set the strategy, and guide their projects.
• Deliver a business-critical State Parking Application from on-premises to Azure Cloud Infrastructure as a Service.
• Implement Governance model in Azure Cloud with on-premises toolsets to achieve cost savings and compliance.
• Architect and program managed hardware upgrade for Philadelphia Transit application in Power, Network, Storage, and Compute at customer’s Datacenter to meet PCI compliance using Oracle Exadata, Cisco UCS, and HP storage.

Falls Church, VA, US

• A Progman Manager and Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Veterans Affairs (VA) cloud-first initiative. Oversee Storage as a Service (STaaS), Active Directory (AD) as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and aid Product.
• Delivered “Solution Alternative Analysis” study to bring VA Active Directory environment to AWS GovCloud included a High-Level Design document per VA standards with Healthcare security and compliance, resulting AWS.
• Project managed enterprise-wide Storage Cost Analysis: File, Backup/DR, Application, Research, and Biomedical, that identified Allocation vs. Usage ratios and Growth rates to uncover costs avoidances and storage wastes.
• Produced a STaaS feasibility study for VA stakeholders to address terms of business, costs, operations, technology, and security with a decision tree to strategically choose Cloud, Hybrid, or remain On-Premises.

New York City, NY, US

• Manage and direct all aspects of $10M operational budget, in addition to $40M capital budget. Supervise staff of 28 employees and 45 independent contractors. Oversee Infrastructure Service Hosting team and Operations.
• Developed alignment for business to host applications on premise private cloud, AWS and Microsoft Cloud, improving process for full customer support.
• Created structured workflow and cost model, allowing business to deliver Infrastructure Services on Cisco UCS and HP platform running on EMC or NetApp Storage with VMware stack to run Oracle, MS SQL, JBoss and IIS.
• Implemented Service Now front door portal for ordering infrastructure services for business technology groups and project managers, providing teams with additional control over procurement and increasing efficiency and.
• Saved $2M in capital-labor, due to improving build workflow process and use of automation.
• Delivered monthly average of 310 application servers virtually or physically, achieving 95% on-time rate.

New York City, NY, US

• Executed strategic, tactical and budgetary decisions for organization’s Enterprise Email and Active Directory Platform. Provided technical expertise and direction for architecture, designs, principals, guidelines and.
• Designed and built successful MS Exchange 2010 Messaging organization, effectively supporting 45K 2GB mailboxes.
• Protected mail through Cisco Iron Ports and App publishing through Airwatch Gateway MDM, with zero compromise rate on all corporate devices, along with creating architecture and implementing Secure Mobile Platform.
• Directed complex email migration from 2 outside organizations into 1, delivering 35K mailboxes and producing minimal disruption to business.
• Consolidated 17 Active Directory Forests into 3 by designing secure DNS hierarchy and strategic IP Sites and Services.
• Delivered 99% 1st time rate on monthly average of user requests, due to contracting well-defined 24/7 offshore operational team.

New York City, NY, US

• Supervised Data Protection program including developing backup vision and strategic plan to mitigate risk and protect against data loss. Streamlined critical process and technology along with all virtual machine.
• Drove Backup system to success rate of 99.9%, consisting of 310,000 jobs and pushing over 650TB weekly.
• Negotiated deal with EMC worth $3.5M to implement efficient, scalable infrastructure, using Data Domain Services, ultimately bringing operational costs down to less than 2 cents per month for 1GB of data protection.
• Achieved 100% success rate in protecting transaction logs through database backup staging environments.

New York City, NY, US

• Partnered with functional CIOs of TV Systems group to provide expertise in building, designing and architecture complex systems in areas of sales, traffic, research, scheduling, and business intelligence. Supported.
• Developed high availability solution for Affiliate Partnership Toolset, reducing weekly outages to zero.
• Enabled business to consolidate 17 systems into 1 through designing SUN Compute and NetApp Storage for new sales, traffic and research system running on Sintec technology.
• Executed numerous cost analysis for multiple business units of new and different technologies and recommended efficient and cost-effective solutions, meeting specific technical and business requirements.

New York, NY, US

• Direct the Systems Engineering Team with three direct reports. Involving day-to-day hands-on project work, give daily guidance to enhance team's growth, distribution of tasks with timelines, and demonstrate proper.
• Migrated and build out fully redundant Email systems with a 1-minute cut over disaster recovery capability. Economically brought Email in-house (800 Users) using Exchange 2003 Clusters Services, fiber storage, third.
• Implement a secure Front End Email Environment using a control DMZ and ISA 2004 Enterprise Edition to secure all OWA sessions, Mobile devices on Blackberry, and SMTP communication.
• Designed and standardize Storage Area Network (SAN) environment for TV Video editor’s workstations (26) using 30 TB of storage consist of Hitachi, EMC and ADTX arrays. Implement 2GB and 4GB QLogic fabric, FibreJet.

• Architect an Active Directory & Exchange 2000 migration with full hands on for the entire global environment (2000 Users) with 30 regional offices worldwide. Create pristine Win2K domain to migrate users without.
• Network designed a security strategy for cooperate office, utilizing firewall rules and Web security: Checkpoint NG Firewall-1 and Monitoring with WebSense 4.4 URL filter. Install secure VPN solution using NG/VPN and.

Doctor Of Professional Studies - Computing, Computer Science

Masters Of Science, Systems Management/Information Systems

Bachelor Of Science, Economics & Computer Science