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Rosemont, Illinois

MB Financial Bank is a Chicago based commercial bank with approximately $20 billion in assets and more than a one hundred year history of building relationships with middle-market companies and individuals.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

• Principal network engineer for a leading global provider of specialty food ingredients and technologies in over 85 locations throughout the world including manufacturing facilities, laboratories and customer facing.
• Project managed the upgrade of the global Cisco video telepresence infrastructure.
• Project managed the video teleconference enhancements made to executive conference rooms.
• Installed and configured multiple SolarWinds applications to support network and system engineers.
• Leveraged SolarWinds Orion to monitor network health, network performance, analyze network irregularities, improve network visibility and create efficiency.
• Lead in the installation of Microsoft Azure Equinix ExpressRoute cross connects in the major data centers for Azure Private Peering and Azure Site Recovery of critical manufacturing plant backups globally.

Greater Chicago Area

• Brokerage and Treasury between 7 locations focused on customer facing, project based engineering, as well as operational support for a financial institution that includes approximately 3,000 internal users, 2,000.
• Developed and implemented global network architectures and standards.
• Assisted in implementing the network target operating model while merging the network infrastructure of Fimat, Calyon Futures and Preferred Trade for Newedge resulting in savings of $5 million.
• Migrated the Fimat and Calyon Futures networks supporting the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Board Options Exchange to Newedge networks.
• Assisted in architecting Newedge’s global network to ensure high availability and quick provisioning times to our diverse customer base exceeding our cost savings targets by achieving $2.8 million dollars in savings.
• Designed and implemented new server farm infrastructure in the data centers to support Clearing, Market Data and the VMWare server virtualization environments.

Greater Chicago Area

• Principal Engineer focused on customer facing, project based engineering for a large financial institution, ABN AMRO, that includes 26,000 clients, 7,000 servers, 1,000 branches, 180 extranets, 4 Internet complexes, 6.
• Major contributor to the network separation of LaSalle Bank from ABN AMRO Bank to Bank of America.
• Major contributor to the design and build out of ten new, high speed firewall complexes that supported core production traffic, delivered in 2 months for ABN AMRO.
• Major contributor to the design and build out of a new, high speed data center for ABN AMRO in the New York vicinity when Royal Bank of Scotland acquired ABN AMRO.
• Created and implemented the automation of the configuration change scripts and engineering processes that increased associate engineers’ efficiency, as well as enhanced error free implementations for entire team.
• Assisted in the transformation of 1,000 branches from ABN AMRO to Verizon Business’ managed services.

Greater Chicago Area

• Assisted in the build out of a new 200 desk (600 node) trading floor in Chicago including the migration of traders, trading systems and market data feeds including Reuters Dealing, Reuters Prime, RMDS, TIBCO.
• Assisted in the complete redesign and build out of a 500 person Call Center.
• Assisted and implemented many of the MAN/LAN networks for a new 31-story corporate downtown headquarters, ABN AMRO Plaza, which has 1.3 million square feet of space and supports 5,000 servers and 5,000 users.
• Assisted in the implementation of a DWDM architecture for the Chicago campus network.
• Implemented an IP telephony design in the Chicago campus network.
• Assisted in the design and implemented a Business Recovery site outside Chicago to support 1,800 clients that includes a trade floor and IP telephony handsets at each station.

Greater Chicago Area

The Northern Trust Corporation is a multi-bank holding company with over 7,000 employees. The network consisted of 5 downtown locations with subsidiaries in 8 states as well as 44 affiliate locations.Technical Consultant in Network Technology Management, 1994 - 1996Trust Technical Consultant in Network Development, 1992 - 1994Application Systems Manager.

Ms, Computer Science/Data Communications, 3.8/4.0

Bs, Mathematics And Computer Science