Kenneth Abrahamsen Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Program Manager for the IMIT Infrastructure Product Management department of the Business Unit Engagement group to integrate and migrate Eaton Vance applications into the Morgan Stanley environment. Completed the onboarding of 290+ applications towards the interim operating model framework in 8 months. Designed the Power BI reporting of program status for dynamic access. PowerPoint presentations prepared for upper management to review progress reports. Managing 6 Application Integration Engineers assigned to 8 business aligned Information Technology Service Officers to achieve target operating model goals as specified by asset risk ranking priorities. Tracking program accomplishments and milestones using Microsoft Project.

New York, Ny, Us

Manage the execution of a Cyber Resiliency program comprised of multiple workstreams to validate the data integrity of Oracle, SQL, PostgreSQL, Mongo and Sybase databases for Federal Reserve Resiliency and Assurance Program compliance verification. Multiple testing scenarios provided evidence of a safe, secure and hardened environment with the resiliency to recover from a major cyber event. Coordination of Enterprise Quality Engineering and Technology Services Group ensured an efficient execution of planning and strategy to achieve optimal results with minimal scope creep.  Managed over 20 LOB’s to meet compliance requirements for annual review to the Fed. Designed a SharePoint evidence collection system to facilitate audit reviews. Weekly data collection and analysis using pivot tables and vlookup to review and report progress and present status or discovery of anomalies to upper management. Program lead for transition of legacy tape backup systems to immutable Cohesity recovery solutions. Maintain all program documentation stored on Confluence for stakeholder availability.

New York, Ny, Us

Collect requirements for business stakeholders so that project plans can be developed in strategic alignment within all PMO standards. Coordinate the proper resources so that all tasks are performed within budget and on schedule. Collaborate with SME’s so that all parameters are vetted for functionality, efficiency, reliability and mitigation of risks that may affect the critical path. Track project status utilizing various tools like MS Project, Visio, Excel, MS Teams, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Gantt charts, RACI charts, RAG charts. DCIM with vROps, SCOM, ServiceNOW and SolarWinds. Using Agile method to manage the phased software rewrite of an IT compliance verification system. Windows 2008 Server retirement/upgrade/migration of vm's to Nutanix & Azure hyperconvergence. Cohesity backup and recovery deployment. Oracle Exadata and ZDLRA installation. Nutanix hyperconvergence installation.

Zurich, Ch

Level II and III Systems Team Lead of Windows, VMware and Cloud IaaS technologies for an international Fortune 500 financial institution. Designed, coordinated, automated and facilitated various system builds, upgrades and migrations for multiple business units.  Tracked software defects and deployments of code drops using JIRA, TeamTrack and ServiceNOW. Scoped out OS customizations, network assignments, SAN and NAS storage allocation, backups using NetBackup and disaster recovery planning to meet financial regulatory and SOX requirements.  Built and successfully executed a Site Recovery manager plan to automatically failover EMC SRDF storage from primary to backup datacenter, within minutes. Virtual Center was running an Oracle database that was later migrated to a SQL database to achieve vendor desired conformity. Documented procedures and integrated them into BCP for execution for future events.  Monitored and maintained the overall health of systems and architecture that might be alerted via predefined SNMP and MOM/SCOM event triggers. This information would be used to create baselines for trend analysis reporting. Installed and configured applications deployed by business units, aligning requirements with standards and policies of the firm to provide full functionality and account for proper licensing management for auditing purposes. Collaborated cross-functionally with various division management and departmental leads to maintain efficient, cohesive, and cost-effective infrastructure models through SharePoint, Lync, and WebEx.

Zurich, Ch

Directed trading floor technical support staff personnel through troubleshooting, diagnostics, installation, moves, adds, and changes. Managed all trading system technology, including a variety of server and workstation platforms. Coordinated application functionality requirements and needs, investigating network specifications and facilitating phone turret operation.  Collaborated with departmental directors, managers and external stakeholders on software and hardware project specifications so that business requirements could attain objectives.  Acted as Market Data Administrator for Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, Cantor Fitzgerald, TradeWeb, NASDAQ, and in-house trading applications. Maintained compliance for vendor license agreements. Led investigations for new technology and demonstrated to traders to better leverage the technology’s potential to increase effectiveness, efficiency and cost savings. Drove disaster recovery planning and coordination of all financial services data, communications, and hardware for the Transactional Products department.