Reporting into the COO, responsible for leading a team handling all aspects of IT including cloud, virtualization, storage, networking, email, firewalls, databases, application deployment\middleware, and operating systems. Key member of the Information Security Committee working closely with the COO and CFO to provide security guidance to the organization. Lead for the Information Security sub team handling audits and policy issues.Projects:Migrating data center infrastructure to the cloudMaintaining SOC 2 complianceMaintaining vendor relationshipsMigrating off Broadcom VMwareMaintaining the IT Infrastructure and Operations budget

Reporting into the COO, responsible for leading a team handling all aspects of IT including cloud, virtualization, storage, networking, email, firewalls, databases, application deployment\middleware, and operating systems. Key member of the Information Security Committee working closely with the COO and CFO to provide security guidance to the organization. Current ProjectsCost Analysis and planning of migrating collocated data centers to the cloudSOC II compliance: Ensure Cognition Financial’s IT infrastructure and policies maintain SOC II complianceMember of Corporate Information Security Team that formulates policy, assess risks and determines responses for the companyMember of team responsible for external audit responses and internal SOC II audits

Responsible for leading a team handling all aspects of IT, including virtualization, storage, networking, email, firewalls, and operating systems.Past Projects:AWS: Migrated on prem document storage for loan origination system to AWS S3Office 365: Oversaw the migration and operation of Office 365 for email and instant messaging from onsite Exchange servers. Equipment Refresh: Evaluating replacements for end of life equipment that pose potential security risks to the organization.DR Testing: Have staff plan and execute a real DR failover to the company’s secondary data center.Corporate Office Move: Oversaw the IT build out of the new corporate headquarters of the gutted 3rd floor of 200 Clarendon St including structured wiring, wireless, and local networking. PCI Compliance: Ensuring that Cognition Financial’s infrastructure remains PCI compliant to allow for successful annual external Level 1 PCI audits.Datacenter and Security• Executed moving Cognition Financial’s NonProd\DR datacenter off site and out of region to Boyers PA while balancing downtime against costs. Networking• Setup routing for 10Gig links between the primary and DR datacenter including OSPF tuning for proper route selection.Systems• Upgraded Cognition Financial’s VMware virtual infrastructure.Storage• Migrated Cognition Financial’s storage from older EMC CX-400, NS-480 and VNX 5600 to a newer VNX 5700 including recover point replication. Being able to keep the project in house saved thousands in consulting fees.

Network Architecture• Worked on the design and implementation of Cisco Nexus 5596 switches to replace aging infrastructure.• Responsible for the Cisco collapsed core Local Area Network and Cisco Wide Area Network Infrastructure consisting of multiple sites with redundant links running BGP and OSPF.• Redesigned DMZ infrastructure to utilize logical vlans instead of physical switches to reduce the networking cost of implementing Blade Servers.• Improved the current PCI firewall design decreasing the likelihood of firewall failover.Datacenter and Security• Team member involved planning and executing the move of the primary data center• Planned for and implemented the migration of 300+ servers from VMWare 3.5 and 4.0 to VSphere 5.1.• Responsible for the daily operation of the VMWare infrastructure including VMWare SRM for disaster recovery.• Right sized the infrastructure through the use of blade servers, Cisco Nexus Switches and VMWare to consolidate multiple legacy datacenters into a smaller footprint. This project reduced the number of required datacenters resulting in savings in Capital and Operating expenses. • Team member in a project to use Cisco ASA 5585 Firewalls to isolate a new PCI compliant DMZ.• Team member in installing and implementing Cisco Identity Services Engine to provide network access control• Team member responsible for F5 LTM load balancer and F5 GTMDisaster Recovery & Business Continuity• Installed and Configured VMWare Site Recovery Manager to allow for continued business operations in the event of a disaster or issue that impacts the primary datacenter.• Part of the team successfully failing over the primary datacenter to the DR datacenter for long term use.Systems• Part of the team responsible for the Storage Infrastructure including EMC VNX and NS storage arrays• Part of a team responsible for over 500 Windows and Linux servers involved in high volumes of financial transactions.

Responsible for day-to-day oversight and management of a small group of Junior System Administrators who support Microsoft’s Active Directory, Server Backups, Antivirus, Printing, and perform Tier 1 and Tier 2 server support Managed the selection and installation of the backbone and edge networks in preparation for move to a new corporate office location: Ensured that the new network backbone design would possess the capacity and capabilities to support the company’s current mission-critical activities, and provide for anticipated growth and expansion.Managed consultants responsible for the planning and installation of the network backbone as well as the BGP routing designsManaged the design and installation of the wireless network at the new corporate office location, including the use of the Airmagnet tool suite to ensure proper placement and density of access pointsLead a small team that was responsible for the selection and installation of a Storage Area Network (SAN) to replace local disk storageImplemented Compellent SAN architecture with data replication to provide for the company’s disaster recovery needsManaged all Storage Operations to ensure high availability and reliability of the centralized storage servicesLead a small team that was responsible for the selection and migration of the Primary Data Center to an offsite colocation facility Designed, deployed, upgraded, and managed the company’s VMWare VSphere ESXi v.4.1 cluster, significantly reducing the time to deliver new applications to the business and increasing application availability Implemented and managed the Accelops Security and Information Event Management (SIEM) System to create a comprehensive overview of the organization’s security posturePart of the team responsible for the selection of the consulting firm used to implement the Federal Information Security Management Act, FISMA, for compliance with upcoming US Government contracts.

Responsible for the Marketing Departments File Servers and TapebackupCompany change in name only. Ciba Pharmaceuticals and Sandoz Pharmaceuticals merged to form Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Responsible for Network Fileservers for the Marketing DepartmentResponsible for Tape Backup of the fileservers for the Marketing DepartmentResponsible for 2nd level technical support

Brought in to help with manageing the File Servers for the Marketing DepartmentProvided second level technical support for the Marketing Department Help Desk

Provided Help Desk Services including phone and in person support to the Ciba Phamaceuticals Marketing Department and Ad Agency.