Joel Kaufman Email & Phone Number

San Mateo, California, Us

San Mateo, California, Us

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

Primary Project Manager for complex, multi-million dollar global projects requiring expertise in server, storage, and networking technology. Responsible for at-risk projects and providing guidance to junior Project Managers.Took over Project Management responsibility for 'at-risk' projects and turned them into highly successful, on-time, on-budget projectsLed the design, documentation, and implementation of a new enterprise-wide tiered storage model.Managed the migration of ~30,000 workstations to Windows XP / Windows Vista across 25 sites in North America and Europe consisting of 20 different Operating Companies.Led a team that created and published all GxP (lab, manufacturing, warehouse) Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Work Instructions, and Checklists for GxP workstation migrations to be used worldwide. Decommission of a large data center in 16 weeks time allowing the facility to go on the market earlier than planned. Activities included proposing and executing a strategy that remediated over 100 servers, multiple storage devices (SANs, NAS, tape libraries), network re-configuration, and production outage windows.Managed Technical Services and Demand Management teams to create a process guide for incoming project/service requests to adhere to the ITIL 3.0 guidelines.Managed a team of two junior project managers. Developed their skills utilizing the project management lifecycle methodology.

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

Preferred Project Manager for all Pharmaceutical sector projects. Responsible for fixing support issues between IT Shared Services and Pharmaceutical Research and Development sector. Led a team of 'subject-matter experts' to create and publish new processes and RACI charts after a recent re-organization.Mediated a globally accepted High Performance Computing technical solution between IT Shared Services and Bioinformatics group that benefited all stakeholders and had clear upgrade paths for future use.Led negotiations to move a major Research & Development application from a local best-effort support model to a global SLA-driven support model including a 24 x 7 model for Linux RedHat support between IT Shared Services and Affiliate. Collaborated with vendor, IT and business partners across North America to upgrade and migrate an electronic lab notebook product in half the time and cost projected by stakeholders. Managed the SOW and project plan to purchase and deploy the first Oracle 10g RAC on Linux solution. Negotiated IT Shared Services DBA support.Coordinated the movement of servers, people, printers, and conference rooms of an acquired company to our local building.Migrated all local Windows servers using Direct Attached Storage (DAS) to an EVA storage device resulting in better managed disk allocations. Migrated all backups from diverse backup libraries to a consolidated NetBackup environment sharing the same tape library between UNIX and Windows.

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

Dedicated Project Manager for all local infrastructure installs and upgrades including servers, storage, networking, GxP (lab) and High Performance Computing Machines. Responsible for managing design and implementation of any new complex conference rooms. Subject Matter Expert (SME) for all IT related items during new building construction.Executed RFI / RFP to install 12 highly available, easily schedulable, easy-to-use audio/visual conference rooms to be used primarily by VPs, Directors, and Managers across the company. Managed multiple vendors to install one of five 'World Class Conference Centers' used by Executive Committee and other key management to save on travel dollarsDesigned and supervised the development of an automated self-service request system for IT related services. HR, IT, and Management contributed process documentation resulting in the ability to bundle together any combination of IT related services, culminating in a one-stop shop for hiring managers to get everything IT related set up in advance for new workers.Consolidated multiple physical servers on to VMWare and decommissioned idle servers resulting in significant savings for the Affiliate. Coordinated the movement of over 200 users, their computers, phones, printers, network de-activation / re-activation in the course of one month with minimal downtime. Managed the migration to a new architecture of NMR instrument data including the installation of the application to a shared server and 8 new instrument workstations.Managed the installation of RIB boards on all Windows servers for remote management, and the upgrade of servers and switches to Gig-E in preparation for a LAN upgrade.

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

Key contributor to initial concept of Virtual Collaboration at Johnson & Johnson. Responsible for investigating, reporting, and recommending a diverse collection of collaboration tools. Deployed a pilot of an instant messaging client across the enterprise, creating appropriate security documents and Total Cost of Ownership documents to be presented to managementCreated a low-cost "Collaboration Conference Room" prototype using all existing equipment (video conferencing equipment, Smart Board technologies, ceiling microphones and speakers.)

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Arts, English