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New York, NY, US

Greater New York City Area

Matawn, NJ

• Promoted to build relationships with innovative technology vendors to create first-to-market digital innovations that aligned with team goals and company initiatives.
• Collaborated with business analysts and business partners to understand and frame business needs to develop business cases for utilizing new innovative solutions.
•  Researched and investigated selected emerging technology areas (Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, Augmented Reality, Robotic Process Automation, Mobile Enablement) and built detailed solution design paths for.

Matawan, NJ

• Focused on design and technical project management of highly available, secure, robust, and scalable global environments.
• Conducted in-depth technical analysis of systems in a large global enterprise, including governance framework, architecture, disaster recovery, and business continuity, and delivered gap analysis and recommendations.
• Provided cradle-to-grave management of large-scale IT implementations, liaising between business and technical areas to achieve on-time, on-budget, and on-spec project completions.
• Guided global technical teams, articulating project goals and scope, translating business needs into technical terms, preparing detailed work breakdown structures, and instilling shared accountability for achieving.
• IT architecture solutions design and delivery, including business cases, risk management, and project management, to ensure all business needs were met.
• Designed and managed the implementation of large white-label Extranet solution, including a Managed File Transfer solution, for remote partner access to internal application with very high security requirements.

Princeton, NJ

• Managed an international IT team supporting 24/7 operations support system/business support system Windows and UNIX infrastructures.
• Directed all aspects of infrastructure integration related to the purchase of ITXC, including technical aspects of office and data center moves.
• Served on the Sarbanes-Oxley and Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology design and implementation team.
• Designed and implemented hardware and application high-availability solutions, including clustering, load balancing, storage area network technology, and backup infrastructure.
• Managed the evolution of legacy systems into large scale Citrix and VMWare virtual implementations, reducing the datacenter footprint and increasing resource utilization, application availability, and scalability.

Princeton, NJ

• Supervised all technical aspects of two mergers and acquisitions, including back office and Management Information System (MIS) infrastructure integrations.
• Directed all aspects of the MIS Department in a 24/7 customer-affecting environment, including servers, network and security, and desktops for 300 end users.
• Managed and performed hands-on administration of the email, database, and domain infrastructure.