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Morristown, New Jersey, United States

Iselin, New Jersey, United States

Developed innovative technical solution designs for the large & diverse portfolio of data warehousing, data analysis, data modeling, data visualization, business intelligence, knowledge & other client facing enterprise applications. Participated in the portfolio wide analysis identifying unique integration dependencies while assessing & documenting on-prem to cloud migration feasibility for each application. Leveraged deep systems architecture & engineering expertise in cloud architectures in migration & system design to address reliability, performance, information/data security & other risk considerations in each stage of the migration process from POC to development, from testing to production deployment, from transition & documentation to ongoing support.Working with multiple global technical teams, domain architects, security officers, service delivery managers & business users, reviewed & documented on-premises workloads, system dependencies & business requirements. Mapped the documented workloads to the IaaS & PaaS role instances for the refactored applications & databases within Microsoft Azure environment.Provided feedback & significant contributions to development of policies & guidelines around adoption & governance of EY Fabric cloud platform architecture. Provided technical leadership & guidance to other architects on the team that conveyed best practices & common pitfalls for cloud system design. Helped to identify a comprehensive set of risks posed by cloud computing services & assisted in developing risk-mitigation-mapping matrix for coping with & overcoming such risks.Created a large number of Software Architecture Documents for each managed project using standardized document templates.Conducted & lead a large number of application design meetings & solution brainstorming sessions.

Jersey City, Nj

Developed technical solutions by discerning, documenting and ultimately transforming client’s business requirements into viable and scalable environments in compliance with corporate architecture standards. Collaborated with business, project management, security, risk, application development, infrastructure and engineering teams to create designs that support client’s platform requirements. Generated artifacts e.g. technical and business architectures, solution design documents, context diagrams, logical and physical diagrams, process and workflow diagrams. Offered costing, scheduling, infrastructure procurement, network design, operations management guidance and supportGlobal (U.S., EMEA., AsiaPac) EA/SA lead for Finance, Actuarial, Investments, ERM, & Security Architected multi-site high-performance computing (HPC) environment for Catastrophe Modeling (CAT) data analytics platforms from RMS and AIR WorldwideArchitected multi-site high-performance computing (HPC) environment for Willis Towers Watson Igloo Enterprise Financial Modeling Software for AIG Property & Casualty (P&C) insurance divisionDeveloped performance optimization techniques for mapping HPC processes to processor cores at runtime and reduced communication overhead by taking advantage of dedicated 40 Gigabit Ethernet networkLead solution design and deployment of ClusterSeven end-user computing (EUC) governance platform to satisfy regulatory (CCAR & SOX) and other audit requirementsLead solution design reviews and presented solution blueprints to the standards governance boardsLead projects from concept to completion with successful hand-off to operations

Greater New York City Area

Leading strategic initiative designed to ensure that the organization central IT infrastructure complies with its own policies, procedures, and Standard Operating Environments (SOE) standards defined for various technology platforms. Developed and implemented repeatable process for design, implementation and ongoing verification of Standard Operating Environments (SOE) standards.Fostering progressive improvement of IT infrastructure Standard Operating Environments (SOE) in conjunction with quality assurance best practices.

Cranbury, Nj

Infrastructure Architect tasked with the oversight of all non-functional requirements (security, scalability, availability, performance, et al.) in conjunction with the technical infrastructure design for the suite of broadcast quality video applications. Responsible for ensuring compliance of the application architecture with the enterprise architecture guidelines. Participated in project and design reviews to evaluate and ensure that the applied design meets policies, principles, and standards.Reviewed and aligned 3rd party product choices to avoid redundant efforts and still ensure that enterprise architecture standards are met.When projects and/or applications had requirements that were not met by the standardized platforms, developed an appropriate custom solutions that met each specific project needs and fit within the rest of the technology infrastructure.

New York, Ny

Worked in conjunction with the global account teams as the lead subject matter expert to develop solutions and recommend services that meet customers’ business requirements. Supported development of business drivers, business case and high level transition/implementation plans as well as building and communicating the company's value proposition of the end to end solution to decision making executives. Responsible for qualifying opportunities, deal scoping and pricing, contract negotiation, and transition into implementation management of outsourcing contracts being delivered.Developed conceptual solution architecture using combination of client's standard products and third party suppliers to produce winning technical solutions.

New York, Ny

Provided leadership to staff and technical projects, defining project management processes, and ensuring engagements are delivered on time with within budget.Managed relationships with key customers, create responses to Requests for Proposals (RFPs), and develop Statements of Work (SOWs) for project opportunities.Developed and maintained partnerships with multiple vendors and service providers to develop technology that seamlessly integrates with their products into CGS offerings.Responsible for projects resourcing and budgeting. Manage project execution, track progress, and provide reports to internal and external customer stakeholders. Drived resolution of technical issues.

New York, Ny

Recruited by the chief technology officer to develop the company’s SaaS infrastructure and to lead IT support organization.Responsible budgeting and technical direction in the all areas of corporate technology.Increased averaged production applications availability from 89% to 99.93% resulting in overall improvement customer satisfaction based on the customer surveys conducted by a third party.Efforts in revamping corporate LAN/WAN architecture and corporate PC environment resulted in the reduction of support calls by over 90 percent.Redesigned SaaS platform and operational process improvements resulted in stable Operational Effectiveness Rate (OEE) even as the numbers of customers using the system grew by 400% over a 10 months period.

New York, Ny

Responsible for the management and successful operation of all Multex.com Inc. product lines, including but not limited to MultexNET, MultexEXPRESS, Market Guide and Multex Investor properties.Directly managed four key support groups – Network Operations group, Network Engineering Group, Systems Operations group and 24/7 Operations group. Established corporate standards for Data Center operations, created a release to production methodologies that support Multex.com Inc. initiatives worldwide, and was responsible for ensuring production schedules and service levels are met. Negotiated enterprise service contracts as well as SLA’s

Greater New York City Area

Responsible for design, architecture, implementation, security and support of large multi-site, messaging (Exchange) server environment.Exchange Architect supported company merger activities that would include email cut-over, forward capability, as email addresses masking.Managed post merger integration, migration and consolidation of the exchange servers.