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New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, Us

Recruited to turn around and strengthen effectiveness of data center strategies, teams, and service delivery models for this leading provider of business analytics to retail clients. > Spearheaded effort to re-architect data center services and to deploy 40G/100G backbone services that enabled build-out of a highly resilient, policy-driven infrastructure.> Drove migration of WAN infrastructure from EIGRP/OSPF to standardized iBGP/ EBGP protocol across global environment for two physical data centers, cloud resources, and 40 remote sites, resulting in 100% availability improvement. > Established foundation for a secure and seamless wireless environment across the 40 offices via deployment of Enterprise Campus structure. > Restructured team into three separate operations, delivery, and engineering teams for optimal effectiveness in product innovation, efficiency gains, and risk mitigation.

New York, Ny, Us

Recruited into newly established role to build the teams, services, solutions, and infrastructure to support the evolving needs of corporate, Fortune 1000, and mid-sized non-profit, financial services, and education sector clients.> Championed the establishment of new Managed Services-IT Service Automation through ITSM process automation enabling client onboarding at 50% of previous cost through a custom built application. > Built next-generation ITaaS architecture for new managed service environment through key partnerships with Equinix, EMC, HP, ServiceNow, Amazon, AT&T and Microsoft.> Implemented a next generation data center offering with AWS and Equinix that leveraged the Cloud Exchange Backbone to provide Managed Services for clients.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Promoted to drive the design of next-generation data center solutions for enterprise clients within the financial services, healthcare, and insurance sectors.> Restructured and aligned team of solutions architects with ecosystem partners’ technologies that resulted in the design of data center solutions that solved business resiliency challenges.> Led team in designing $10M data center solution encompassing compute, storage, and Ethernet technologies to launch comprehensive IaaS & PaaS offerings.> Collaborated with strategic partners on a $5M project to architect and deploy Vblock infrastructure for a large insurance company. Resulted in operational agility for deploying computing services and significant cost savings.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Promoted to dual role to design Data Center solutions and Unified Computing Systems technology solutions to customers throughout New York area; and to build and manage the New York Data Center Advanced Enterprise Technology Lab.> Designed and implemented private cloud solution leveraging Vblock 2 architecture into Advanced Technology Lab with best-of-breed Cisco, EMC, and VMware technologies. Delivered predictable performance for server virtualization within enterprise data centers.> Simplified inventory controls, while meeting business needs for financial services client’s low latency trading operations via CIMC and IPMI technologies solutions.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Advanced to assist enterprise customers in improving performance and increasing convergence over multiple data centers.Provided technical leadership and expertise to identify customers’ needs, demonstrate value proposition of solutions, and solve complex issues. > Architected and led the deployment of next-generation of data center infrastructure for multiple clients by successfully integrating security, virtual port channels, and virtualization into Nexus platforms that increased visibility, minimized risks, and improved fail-over.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Promoted from Systems Engineer I/II/III, Enterprise Customers (2000 to 2007).> Managed design and build out of data center that reduced 200% and improved business continuity.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business/Managerial Economics

Masters, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics