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Foster City, Ca, Us

North Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Worked cross functionally with infrastructure and Application teams in AbbVie to close out identified security configuration and control gaps and drive remediation activities. - Drive cybersecurity security control improvements into various Abbvie Enterprise Software Platforms. - Perform analytics on previous incidents and usage patterns to help enhance current security controls.- Managed Security Architecture Review and Consulting process to ensure SARs and SACs are assigned to Architects and completed within the established SLAs. - Maintained Security Roadmap in collaboration with other security and infrastructure teams.- Developed Security standards and baselines.- Established Security Verification Service to collect and review evidence from Security Architecture Requests to ensure security controls have been implemented. - Established and Reported monthly Security Technology coverage and lifecycle metrics.

North Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Responsible for all aspects of Pharmacyclics Information Technology and Cybersecurity Security aspects - Planning and Budgeting for Infrastructure and Security departments.- Responsible for all aspects of Pharmacyclics IT Enterprise Architecture activities - Developed and maintained Infrastructure and Security Roadmap.- Worked with business unit leaders on establishing short/long term strategic Technology Plans ensuring alignment with overall business goals.

Foster City, Ca, Us

Foster City, Ca, Us

- Primary responsibility for solutions architecture in the Infrastructure services domain covering Data Center, Servers and Storage. - Responsible for providing technical leadership for new proposals and existing projects inclusive of analysis, requirements definition, architecture, design, qualification, implementation.- Responsible for working with domain SMEs to define IT Infrastructure standards for Server, Storage, Backup Technologies and Data Center, Monitoring, Systems automation and Virtualization Technologies.- Working with various domain architects to provide end-to-end solutions to large and complex global business projects. - Lead and evaluate new technologies.- Developed estimation models for Infrastructure costing.- Analyzed project portfolios and provided recommended actions for the in-flight and future planned projects as part of the transformation program planning.- Provided technical, solution development expertise to various projects throughout the company- Developed reusable assets such as solution architectures, both physical and logical.- Lead the Design and Implementation of Capacity Management platform utilizing a SaaS provider.

- Infrastructure Process Architecture - Disaster Recovery Planning- IT Outsourcing- Cloud Computing- Data Center Migrations- Infrastructure Project Manager- Infrastructure Assessments.

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

Manage the Technology Operations and Support team, which consisted of Server Administrators, Storage Administrators and Database Administrators.Lead highly technical teams responsible for all project related server and storage provisioning and day to day operations of over 500 Development, QA and Production (Windows and Linux) web servers, VMware ESX Servers and NetApp SAN technologies.Technology Operations lead for infrastructure build-out and migration of two data centers with over 500 servers to a new co-location facility.Implemented Splunk software for server and application log collection and reporting across all production servers and network equipment.Evaluated and implemented a new performance monitoring platform which gave a consolidated view across Network, Servers and Storage.

Dublin 2, Ie

• Responsible for 350+ production and Research and Development Systems, validated physical and virtual servers located over two datacenters on the west coast. • Manage a team of 5 that support all design, engineering and implementation efforts of all new projects.• Lead the Network services team on the initial design, Architecture and successful implementation of infrastructure to support a new business partnership.• Responsible for the daily operational infrastructure Hardware and Software support, consisting of production servers and enterprise applications such as Active Directory management, GPO management, Exchange, Blackberry, Citrix and backups.• Work vigorously within the team to develop, train and mentor each member of staff. Create development and training plans to ensure growth potential and internal career maturity are realized, as a result the retention of staff is at an all time high.• Ensure all current policies and procedures that govern Network Services operations are updated in a timely manner and in accordance with our ISO 9001 and 27001 requirements.• Implemented a new monitoring system based on CACTI for monitoring various critical enterprise systems in order to allow for a timely insight into the real-time state of the infrastructure. • Designed and implemented a new reporting system based on SQL Reporting Services and VBScript for Patch management, server Logbooks, software licenses counts and user account reporting.• Lead project manager within Network Services on all infrastructure related initiatives, such as the 2009 data-center expansion, which consisted of new server racks, cabling and switches as well as re-racking and cabling server equipment to allow for future growth.• Designed, Architected and lead project to replace existing Microsoft ISA servers located in several élan sites with Websense servers for filtering and reporting of Internet traffic bound traffic.

Petaluma, Ca, Us

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Senior IT Manager of the Production Support Department with a staff of 20, which was responsible for Application Support, Windows/Unix Support, NOC and business continuity.Environment consisted of 400 Windows Servers, 91 Unix Servers, 3000 desktops and over 500 Cisco routers, firewalls and switches.Build out of new Disaster Recovery data center in Texas, which resulted in a annual savings of 500K per year from previous outsourced vendorWorking in conjunction with Security Management ensured Production and Development systems were in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and COBIT control standards

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Senior IT Manager of the LAN Administration Department with a staff of 10, which was responsible for all Windows Server / Application implementations and day to day Windows Server and Application supportProject managed successful Migration from Citrix Metafrmae 1.8 to Citrix Metaframe XPa, which consisted of 70 servers.Project Managed company wide Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 conversion, which consisted migrating 3500 user mailboxes from 40 Exchange 5.5 servers down to 13 Exchange 2003 servers.Responsible for technical recovery of GreenPoint Mortgage Windows systemsWorking in conjunction with Security Management ensured Production and Development systems were in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and COBIT control standardsInfrastructure lead in the build out of two offshore locations located in Banglore India.