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Nyc

2nd Watch enables the “modern” enterprise to leverage the power of the public cloud. 2nd Watch Mission Statement:Make the public cloud fit better for the enterprise by providing tailored and durable design and management solutions through our integrated enablement expertise, systematic workflows, service automation, and seamless partnerships with world-class public cloud and service providers. Our next generation cloud services give companies more transparency, simplicity, and agility for scaling public cloud usage securely, compliantly, and cost-effectively to support their dynamic business demands.Enabling Enterprise Cloud Adoption 2nd Watch Enables the Full Lifecycle of Cloud Adoption Methodology:Application Assessment, Migration Strategy, Design, Build, Maintain / Support, Optimize includingDevOps / Automation with Puppet, Jenkins, Chef, Ansible / Continuous DeploymentDocker Integration PartnerSecurity: Alert Logic / Evident.ioIoT, Kinesis, Redshift, Aurora, Dynamo DB, Lambda, Cognito

Stamford, Ct

Direct multiple concurrent high dollar value, high visibility projects at one of the world’s leading hedge funds with more than $10 billion in AUM. Instrumental in the design and implementation of the strategic infrastructure plan and $42 million annual IT budget. Report directly to the CTO. Initiated a new, structured approach to project management. Analyzed an extensive portfolio of projects, identified key priorities, and led the most critical projects with a specific focus on compliance related initiatives.Spearheaded the Communication Analytics Project, which provided compliance with improved event tools and surveillance in the wake of a $1.8 billion fine levied by the federal government. Directed project from inception through operation. Drove creation of key requirements document. Orchestrated pilot rollouts of two solutions, which resulted in the recommendation of Palantir as the sole vendor. Collaborated with the executive leadership team to reconcile conflicting priorities and ensure achievement of project deadlines, deliverable goals, and budget objectives.Designed strategy that secured project approval for the Cloud Based Infrastructure Initiative. Surveyed the vendor landscape, created RFP, and oversaw pilot workload testing. Identified AWS as the preferred vendor and negotiated contract. Directed deployment of the total Palantir stack to an off-premise cloud environment. Generated $2.5 million in savings over five years, while enabling the rapid up/downscaling of infrastructure and leading to the decision to close a co-location facility.Redesigned the HP/Autonomy platform to automate the monitoring of employee communications and meet all regulatory, compliance, and internal risk mitigation requirements. Pioneered the first Chinese and Japanese language HP/Autonomy implementations.

Transferred from Nicholas Applegate Capital Management to lead integration activity of combined infrastructure organizations and implement best practices from combined organization to provide robust and scalable infrastructure for the business.• Directed operational and capital budget of up 12 million to support the needs multi-region Global Asset manager with over 50 billion in AUM and over 1,000 employees. • Implemented functional support model for infrastructure services across US locations. Supported employee growth over 40%, server and WAN growth over 100% with ~10% infrastructure growth.• Represented AGI-Global on the Allianz Standards Working Group (15 team members globally). This team set global technology standards for over 200,000+ employees worldwide.• Initiated and championed virtualization program resulting in direct cost savings of over 15 million USD over 4 year period. Indirect cost savings of over 2 million USD. • Integral in the adoption of best practices in the areas of project management, incident reporting and change control providing transparency for both technology professionals and business stakeholders. • Led contract negotiation key vendors to insure favorable cost structure for AGI. Revised contract with Microsoft resulting in cost savings of over 600,000 in a three year period.

Led infrastructure teams in providing resilient and scalable technology infrastructure to up to 500 customers at seven locations in the US, London and Australia. • Reduced department by 50% over 4 year period in response to continuing revenue decline in the business. Service levels maintained despite no reduction in services supported. Continued providing career opportunities to engineers during difficult time.• Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Management – identified, proposed and drove implementation of reciprocal arrangement with affiliate resulting in savings of over $250,000 per year while improving response time and reducing travel.• Early adopter for VPN technology and later MPLS. Adopted VPN over internet for inter-office communication and remote access in 2000. Improved performance and availability while reducing cost 50%. MPLS adopted in 2002 to provide superior performance for real time communication (VOIP trunking and Video Conferencing)• Information Security Officer - responsible for IT security and audit reporting. Numerous internal and external audits resulted in clean findings.

Led innovative projects to introduce new technologies within the business. An example would be electronic data interchange project resulting in cost savings of over $400,000 per year.

Led IT department at biotech firm whose primary business was rapid diagnostic tests for physicians offices and home use.

Mba, Information Systems

Bs, Mathematics