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Laurel, Maryland, Us

Laurel, Maryland, Us

Information Technology Consultant Data Center Operations/Facilities/SecurityT. Rowe Price, Owings Mills, MD 03/2016 - 09/2018Coordinate Corporate Facility and Jones Lang LaSalle events and activities (including Life Safety equipment) that are or could potentially impact the entire firm. Assist management with Preventive Maintenance schedule and ensures impacting events are accurately assessed, documented, and communicated for all US and International sites.Monitors environmental systems around the globe for potential or realized events, accurately assessing critical alarms before escalating issues. Utilize the infrastructure monitoring system to generate reports to determine trends that are potentially vulnerable to negative impacts. Responsible for coordinating necessary activities for both scheduled and unscheduled power outages, including IT equipment power down and up schedules, ensuring IT systems and applications are restored in a timely manner, along with interacting with Business Unit impacts.Approves all requests for physical access to all secured locations globally; ensuring T. Rowe Price’s technology assets are secured and protected. Determines if each request is appropriate and necessary to perform job responsibilities.

Mclean, Va, Us

• Managed Legacy Chevy Chase Bank Infrastructure Integration into Capital One footprint.• Responsible for high systems availability and recovery through Platform Day One conversion efforts and ongoing System application migrations.• Coordinated multi-year Services Integration project.• Integrated Legacy Chevy Chase Bank resources and contracts into Capital One Bank infrastructure.• Reduced and maintained low level of Severity 1/Customer facing incidents throughout integration efforts.• Provided end-user training to Capital One staff regarding plan development, operations and system maintenance.• Completed critical Legacy Chevy Chase Bank standardization.• Developed and executed Legacy Chevy Chase Bank Data Center decommissioning plan.• Exceeded deadlines for end of life infrastructure project by 50%.• Coordinated vendor activities for the sale of all surplus equipment.• Enforced audit requirements during system integration.• Ensured compliance for SOX Data Center audits.• Controlled and authorized all Data Center security.• Developed Disaster Recovery Plans and procedures to ensure the organization could respond to a disaster and critical business functions could be resumed within a defined time frame.

Mclean, Va, Us

• Managed the Infrastructure Technology Operations and Engineering for all Chevy Chase Bank IT systems.• Managed a staff of 68 associates, four contractors and all vendor relationships.• Accountable for the entire Data Processing Environment, operation and maintenance of all equipment and their functions.• Maintained the entire Data Center configuration, floor plans, documentation and internal auditing.• Planned and scheduled all of the system outages with all the I/S and Technical areas, providing onsite support through change control (TSO-Info Management and HP Service Manager).• Accountable for all service levels (SLA’s), internally define by the Information System management.• Assisted and supported all transitions, migrations, and conversions of new Operating Systems, new applications, new software with proper testing and scheduling with all members of Information Systems.• Managed day-to-day production environment, including the areas of Operations, Production Support, Print Facility, Help Desk, System Support, and Check Processing.• Managed 1,000 Automated Teller Machines (ATM) and supported 300 Bank’s branches and 4 buildings with back offices.• Developed and managed Disaster Recovery Plans, and procedures to ensure the organization could respond to a disaster and critical business functions could be resumed within a defined time frame.• Coordinated and facilitated various functional Disaster Recovery exercises• Managed a 20,000 square foot raised floor Data Center including power, HVAC, and Telecommunications Infrastructure • Assisted and supported Technical Support Services including Mainframe Systems Programming (Architect and Engineering), UNIX Systems Programming, Storage-Mainframe and Open Systems, and Systems DBA• Assisted supported Communications Services and Engineering (Voice and Data) including Installation, Production Support, Architecture and Engineering, and Field Services

West Hartford, Us