- Defining technical vision of the enterprise systems infrastructure.- Strategic partnerships governance.- Point of expertise for engineering staff, providing escalation support for unique operational issues and new initiatives.- Developed training program communicating changed procedures to support staff.

Responsibilities: - Providing technical guidelines for systems maintenance automation and manageability enhancements.- Managing consultants, hardware and software vendors, and cloud providers to execute on a vision, hold them accountable to deliverables.- Direct technical implementation of partners and counter-parties initiatives.- Create performance baselines, monitoring standards and capacity planning guidelines.- Point of expertise for systems engineering staff, providing escalation support for unique operational issues, publicizing new tools, as well as streamlining systems engineering workflows. Projects Accomplished: - Architected and managed roll-out of internal monitoring and automated response systems based on Microsoft SCOM and SolarWinds Orion products. - Improved company's virtual infrastructure by architecting and managing implementation of clustered VMWare vSphere production environment designed to consolidate / replace Citrix Xen 5 farm.- Re-architected and streamlined company's communication platform by consolidating pre-existing Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007 messaging platform into Microsoft Exchange 2010 environment. Ongoing improvements of the enterprise messaging platform, including: mobile, retention and compliance aspects.- Significantly improved systems manageability and cost-effectiveness through server consolidation, severely reducing server count and significantly lowering licensing fees.- Datacenter consolidation. The solution resulted in phase out of two regional datacenters.- Established internal automated systems governance by deploying Microsoft Systems Center 2012 suite of servers. Implementation allowed for establishment of comprehensive code and change reviews standards.-Fortified systems security via Symantec Endpoint Protection 2012 rollout.

- Developed the social strategy and the instructional objectives of the course.- Optimized student's online environment and improve the course technologies.- Moderated asynchronous course activities on the course website. - Assisted with student evaluation, evaluated student participation in live events as needed, as per course execution plans.

Responsible for enterprise Windows infrastructure architecture. Coordinate technical implementation of exchange mandated, options industry and FINRA initiatives.Work with statistical arbitrage and algorithmic trading desks in order to formulatetheir unique system configurations requirements, devising and executing implementationplans. Create performance baselines, performance monitoring standards and capacity planningguidelines for trading systems. Point of expertise for technical support staff. Identify needs and provide scripting solutions for windows administration automation,systems audits, and enhancing existing software installations.Projects Accomplished: Planned and implemented Windows domain controllers upgrade to Windows Server 2003 R2(2006) and Windows Server 2008 R2 (2009) AD upgrade (including DHCP, DNS roles migration).Carried out multiple physical infrastructure migration projects: directed local systemsengineers during ARCA quoting infrastructure move; coordinated Activ market data serversmigration from Group One-hosted data center to Activ-hosted environment; coordinated theGroup One specialist post move with the NYSE implementation engineers during AMEX mergerwith NYSE; planned and accomplished infrastructure servers' migration to a new data centerin NY region. Provided for FIX gateway servers migration from Linux/flat files to MicrosoftWindows/SQL Server platform. Designed firm-wide VMWare ESX server farm deployment. Established guidelines for servervirtualization. Devised, tested and implemented relocation plan for migrating firm's instant messagingplatform - LCS/MindAlign.Reduced physical servers count dedicated to Actant infrastructure (position management,market gateway, consolidated port servers) using virtualization. Rearchitected RTS deployment, reducing total Linux server count dedicated to running RTSprocesses while maintaining an equal capacity level.

Provided operational SLA based service and support of the underlying Microsoft Windows infrastructure consisting of 300+ Microsoft IIS web servers for the company’s pharmaceutical clinical trial SaaS product. Security monitoring and reporting. Performed SAN compartmentalization via FC zoning and LUN masking. Created of software deployment packages. Cooperated with DBA team on SQL operations. Documented and updated Installation Qualifications / Operation Qualificationsprocedures. Projects Accomplished: Designed and implemented Blackberry Enterprise Server upgrade from version 3.6 toversion 4.1 with minimal service outage. Improved business availability measurement by integrating Mercury Interactive SiteScopeinto Medidata environment. Arranged for external network vulnerability assessment and laid groundwork for futuresecurity certification. Introduced reverse proxy solution based on Fedora Linux / Apache to the hostingenvironment, as an intrusion countermeasure.Introduced remote software deployment via Group Policy. Created computer groups in WSUS with target group assignment via Group Policy. Designed fault tolerant DHCP solution for enterprise deployment. Server consolidation using VMWare products, P2V transitioning. Transitioned from tape backup (Veritas 10) to Iron Mountain Server Electronic Vaultingsolution.

Ensuring day to day operations of the specialist post and floor traders on the Americanand Philadelphia Stock Exchanges and managing underlying Microsoft Windows infrastructure.Managing operations of numerous TANSTAAFL proprietary services including centralizedPosition/Vol/Trade notification management, proprietary instant messaging platform, andprice feeds. Establishing business continuity and disaster recovery planning procedures.Providing for operations of proprietary applications (e.g. Goldman Sachs REDIPlus,Bloomberg TradeBook, Instinet Portal) within the TANSTAAFL network. Managing deployment ofautomated mass quoting engine (Actant AQTOR). Collaboration with software development team on various proprietary software projectsdeveloping derivative trading applications. Performance monitoring and formulation of performance baselines for quality assurance. Projects Accomplished: Designed Active Directory infrastructure. Deployed AD-integrated DDNS and DNS-integrated WINS servers.Accomplished migration from Exchange Server 2000 to Exchange Server 2003. Implementedremote email accessibility via Exchange Server OWA. Deployed high availability Microsoft Windows Server 2003/Microsoft SQL Server 2000cluster. Working closely with database architects in design and implementation ofTANSTAAFL SQL databases. Developed DTS packages and Stored Procedures using Transact-SQL.Created distributed SQL environment using replication. Installed enterprise AD-integrated certificates root authority, with X.509 certificatesautomatically assigned via Group Policy. Simplified software installation through design of SMS 2.0 implementation. Performedupgrade to SMS 2003. Worked on numerous projects involving administrative tasks automation through scripting(VBScript, WSH, ADSI, WMI, WQL). Directed workflow and trained branch office IT support staff. Created custom MMC snap-ins to simplify task delegation to lower tier administrators.

Z&I Consulting Services provided educational, analytical and trading technology servicesto equity daytraders. Proactively administered LAN with two Windows NT domains. Managed enterprise wide migration of NOS from Novell Netware 4.11 to Microsoft WindowsNT Server 4.0 and consecutive migration to Windows 2000.