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Floral Park, NY, US

In the evenings, I teach business / IT courses for Fordham's Gabelli School of Business. I enjoy sharing real world experiences with undergraduate and graduate students and try to "give back" to these bright future leaders.

Greater New York City Area

Retired - IT consulting firm with experience in managing IT infrastructure, technical product and program development, and service delivery. Recent roles supporting infrastructure deployments and solution engineering for HR systems.

Greater New York City Area

Retired - Director on the Global Business Systems Infrastructure team executing operational service improvements including data center consolidations, public/private cloud migrations, improved ITIL based operations process framework, SOC2 IT audit management. Manage a growing team, working with business IT to establish a preferred internal processing.

Lower Manhattan

In September 2013, I moved over to manage our Global Operations in India, Manila, Buenos Aires and New York. Managing these sites across all our product offerings entails full operations oversight including technology, facilities, HR policy (comp, benefit, etc.), IT, business continuity and disaster recovery, financial review, compliance to international.

From 2010 to 2012, I was the senior technology interface for MHFI's corporate technology division to the CIO levels for both S&P Ratings and Capital IQ. I provided Service Delivery Management as well, ensuring service /demand management and collaborating with product development to ensure the needs of the business were addressed. Accomplishments included.

Managed UBM's central infrastructure, web, and AD teams. A medium sized business, we delivered core infrastructure products from data center to end user, assessed insource/outsource options to maximize efficiency for the firm's divisions, managed vendor providers, and worked with division level CIOs to build an strategy aligned with business.

Manage all infrastructure and web technology for Sixth Gear, a full spectrum auto lender. Joined as employee number 9 as CTO, to build core network, server, messaging, telephony, client support services. Reported to co-CEOs to deliver seamless mix of internal and outsourced technology services to support the new, growing business. Delivered a national MPLS.

First managing infrastructure and web services for Chase Auto Finance, and later (2005-2007), managing over 3000 server distrbuted computing platform for Treasury Services. Chase Auto included local and wide area networking management, desktop management, management of internal service provider, BC/DR compliance readiness, telephony, and internet site.

Managed the creation and deployment of internet, intranet, and web services for JPMChase corporate and Retail Banking units. Delivered Chase's first website in 1996 by leading efforts from corporate technology across all business divisions at CIO levels, including alignment with cross-firm disciplines including Audit, Technical Risk, Marketing, Legal, and.

Working in architecture and End User Technology services, helped manage the firm's direction in Local Area networking, video conferencing, desktop comuting services, and telecommunications services.Delivered the bank's first (pre-worldwide web) online banking deployment with Quicken and MS Money in 1994, as technology lead on cross-functional team.

Started career in various technology roles in financial services industry, including NYSE, KPMG Peat Marwick, Thompson McKinnon brokerage, and Wang Labs

Bs, Psychology

Mba, Management / Marketing