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Professional Summary: Extensive experience in Executive Management & Engineering for Networking, Distributed systems and Applications. Financial Services IT experience including Cisco and as a Senior IT Executive at two Major US Financial Institutions managing a staff 120+. NYC Branch Manager for an IT consulting firm with staff of 100+. Systems designer and QA/test engineer for a defense contractor. Senior Engineer/Technical lead for a DoD contractor.US patent holder in the field of Financial Network Architecture.Proven capabilities of relationship development with senior management, managing teams and staff. Manager/VP of Global Network Engineering and Architecture for two Major NYC Financial firms, which included the budgeting process, staffing of 120 plus, vendor management and all major projects globally. Cisco Senior Support Manager / Customer Success Manager for JPMC/Goldman Sachs/Deutsche Bank and others. Management of Cisco & Customer efforts towards joint success. This has included the guidance of Cisco Teams and Customer teams to successful achievement of joint goals. Successful development of custom metrics and use of standard metrics to guide process improvements in both Cisco's and the Customer's environments. Involved in early adopter UC, Networking & Security deployments in several major Financial Customer networks.

Listed skills include Patent Holder, Ip, Patents, Managed Services, and 19 others.

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