Mark Skinner Email & Phone Number

Roseland, Nj, Us

Roseland, New Jersey, Us

• Lead a team of architects/engineers responsible for strategy, design and implementation of infrastructure architecture components to support the ADP business units.• Lead the architectural design and implementation of a datacenter modernization effort for numerous ADP datacenters. The guiding principles for this effort were to improve performance, resiliency, security, agility and the user experience. We achieved these goals by providing a software defined datacenter that resided on a multi-AZ robust infrastructure design. We created an API enabled private cloud built on RedHat Openshift, RedHat Openstack, Cisco ACI and to be driven by an internal self-service portal integrated with ServiceNow.

Roseland, New Jersey, Us

Lead a team of results-focused architects/engineers responsible for strategy, architecture, engineering and operations for the ADP US Storage Chapter supporting the ADP application portfolio.• Next Generation Block Storage/SDS: Managed multiple storage RFIs and POCs to identify new all flash standards (SAS/NVMe) for general purpose consumption that align with technology and performance requirements of the business. These new solutions will simplify the storage migration process going forward• File Services Refresh: Contributed to the creation of a new all flash file services platform and migration strategy. This refresh reduced the monthly run rate by $250K by cleaning up stale storage and moving ESX workloads to a new hyperconverged environment• Data Protection Strategy: Developed a data protection strategy to introduce cost effective solutions that align with backup and recovery objectives of the business and infrastructure teams• Storage Migrations: Provided direction for a multi data center migration team responsible for refreshing older block, file and backup storage platforms. This team returned numerous storage arrays over the past couple of years which resulted in a yearly cost avoidance of $31M+• Self Service Storage Technology Portal: Manage an engineering team focused on automation and process improvements. The team has produced an initial technology portal that provides storage estate visibility, storage migration enhancements and the ability to provision block and file storage. The team continues to provide enhancements that align with the overall storage portal vision• Agile Way of Working: Member of a leadership team focused on transforming the entire technology organization to follow an agile way of working. This methodology is a flexible, iterative process that promotes agility and continuous improvement

New York, Ny, Us

Led a team of architects/engineers responsible for strategy, design and implementation of cloud, storage, compute, network, network security and virtualization technologies.• Next Generation DC: Led the architectural design and implementation of a robust, agile and secure DC to minimize risk and improve provisioning times using private cloud advanced designs on a software defined network (Cisco ACI)• DC Migration: Provided tech leadership for the design, planning and execution of the migration of a legacy DC into a new Tier 3 facility which resulted in a monthly cost avoidance of $700K per month• Enabling Cloud: Provided tech direction for an Amazon (AWS) IaaS solution that promoted agility and improved business opportunities. Contributed to the development of cloud security controls for the public and private environments• Offshore Design: Provided leadership around the design of a new consolidated VDI platform that meets the intense compute and performance demands of the offshore community• Virtual Server Hosting Platform: Developed an innovative, resilient, scalable converged infrastructure platform, designed to reduce costs, decrease provisioning time and improve performance• Netw Security: Provided standards and controls around the DMZ and perimeter environments which included netw communications, fw, reverse proxies and trust zone definitions. Improved the security posture of Internet communications by introducing SSL based Bluecoat proxies that were seamless to the end user while reducing risk to the firm• Infr Strategy: Responsible for development of strategies for Cloud, Storage, Compute, Netw, Netw Security and Virtualization technologies• Pervasive Wireless: Drove teams in the design and implementation of a Cisco enterprise wireless solution• Enterprise File and Block: Managed the design team for new storage platforms to support the exponential growth of storage for the business

New York, Ny, Us

Led a team of architecture/engineers responsible for strategy, design and implementation of infrastructure and core services to support the KPMG US professionals. Played the role of the trusted advisor to the CIO/CTO.• Architecture Review Board: Member of Architecture Review Board that created and approved technology standards for the firm• Cloud Management Platform: Drove the design and implementation of a cloud management platform from Cisco (CIAC) which significantly reduced system provisioning time through automation of virtual and physical compute images• Campus Connectivity: Updated the legacy office access switch design to support growth and future technology• Video Anywhere: Designed and implemented a firm wide video solution (Qumu) to improve leadership and business communications• Network LAN Security: Created a network authentication strategy to prevent unauthorized access to the corporate network. Implemented standard NAC guidelines including 802.1x technologies• Remote Access: Provided an enterprise VPN solution with DR capability for ~12K end users• Data Center Computing Infrastructure RFP: Managed a DC RFP to select a new converged computing infrastructure that met business requirements and aligned with the KPMG cloud strategy. The $130M RFP compared Cisco, IBM, HP and Dell compute and cloud management solutions• IP Telephony: Designed and implemented an enterprise Cisco IP Telephony platform• Data Leakage Protection: Contributed to the development of a DLP solution (Vontu) that protected the firm without user impact• Improved Core Services: Designed and implemented a resilient, scalable DNS/DHCP platform (InfoBlox)• NIST: Created a NIST environment following special publication guidelines while aligning with business requirements

New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for infrastructure strategy development based on emerging technologies, industry trends, vendor analysis, competitor research and alignment with firm wide strategies and business requirements• Video Strategy/Video Communications Strategy: Created a video strategy to deliver powerful, high quality, flexible video solutions for training, leadership/business communications and improved collaboration• Telecom Strategy: Created an enterprise Telecom strategy to enable business growth• Data Center Design and Migration: Designed the core infrastructure network design for a new data center• DR Design: Contributed to the Business Continuity/DR definitions and strategy• Offshore Platform: Created the initial thin client (Citrix) platform to support offshore users• Virtualization Platform: Created the initial virtual platform (VMware) design for KPMG and influenced leadership on starting a virtual first program• Server/Storage Strategy: Created a Server and Storage strategy focused on consolidation and virtualization• Network Protection/Netw Bandwidth Mgt/QOS strategy/Wan Optimization: Design and implementation

New York, Ny, Us

• IP Telephony/Network Standards and Design/Load Balancing: Designed and implementation • Office Network Standards: Created network access and aggregation configuration standards• Designed/Contributed to Internet Enhancements, SAN Design and DMZ Design• Focus Group Membership: Global Network Focus group and chaired the US Network Focus Group

New York, Us

- LAN/WAN Design of LAN/WAN, DMZ A/V and O/S Directory Services - Advanced Support/Email/Backup design/Remote Access/Infrastructure/Applications - Retail Inventory Solution/Core Services/Applications

Bs Computer Science, Computer Science

Bs Computer Science, Computer Science