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New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, United States

Directly oversaw a team of engineers in spearheading the design and delivery of a multimillion dollar infrastructure upgrade for Goldman Sachs by performing in depth feasibility testing, creating detailed system architecture schematics and documents (architecture decision records), and established design standards that were later adopted globallyCollaborated with client software engineers to deploy an Nginx reverse proxy on a Debian Linux server hosted on an off-site ESXi server, ensuring 99.99% uptime for web traffic by automatically redirecting users during downtimeAutomated internal pricing estimators using VBA and a SQL database (MySQL), reducing price estimation time from 1-3 days to instant results by referencing past contracts and eliminating the need for lead engineer approvalsPublished organization wide documents for technical procedures (SOP), streamlining company’s serviceLed and mentored a team of engineers by directly overseeing the team’s calendar and project assignments, and communicated with clients to schedule network access to ensuring timely completion of the scope of workMigrated organization resources to Azure Cloud and integrated authentication with Azure AD ensuring reliable uptime

New York, New York, United States

Created Python scripts to push hardware configurations via SSH, eliminating manual setups and reducing errorsAutomated backups for 20+ servers using PowerShell scripts and enforcing incremental backup strategies, reducing backup job times by 80%Supported a financial trading firm's office relocation by installing and configuring critical trading software, enforcing strong SMTP policies, and collaborating with the ISP to establish redundant network connections for the trading team workstationsDesigned and deployed a 100 Mbps P2P bridge over one mile using yagi antennas to connect remote buildings to a main campus’s network for real-time SNMP traffic, saving the customer over $40,000 in infrastructure upgrade costs

New York, New York, United States

Troubleshooted and resolved performance issues in complex network environments for clients by identifying bottlenecks and providing documentations with actionable recommendations to improve stability and speedImplemented STP for L2 routing, resolving disconnections on clients that authenticated with the AAA RADIUS serverEstablished off-premise disaster recovery plan with a 1 day RTO, ensuring business continuity against major outages

New York, New York, United States

- Assisted the engineering team in daily tasks and resolved support requests

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

Associate Of Science - As, Network Administration And Securities