Peter Prunty Email & Phone Number

Danbury, Ct, Us

Owner – Crossroads Technology Partners LLC 1/2015 – Present• Clients: HedgeServ, Sun Life / DentaQuest, REDI , Refinitiv, LSEG (London Stock Exchange)Data Center & Client Broker Connectivity - Planning Coordination- Key contributor to design and deployment of new VMWare 6.7 with vSAN implementation for 4 datacenters world-wide running on HPe Synergy 12000 Frames and HPe ProLiant servers over a Cisco N9K Spine / Leaf backbone. Project will have an ROI of over $4 million through reduction in data center footprint, power and support costs. Next Gen network design includes automation tooling and integrated testing as well as CI/CD pipeline integration using Ansible, Jenkins and robot framework. - Worked with the business and technology groups to define and support the Client and Broker migration from Goldman Sachs to the global REDI data centers. This scope was to migrate connectivity to the REDIPlus industry-leading execution management system (EMS) and FIX connectivity. REDIPlus is a broker-neutral platform with connections to over 150 unique brokers for the trading of equities, futures and options across all major markets globally. REDIPlus facilitates hundreds of millions of transactions for thousands of clients across markets and regions.

Danbury, Connecticut, United States

Focused on Infrastructure and InfoSec technologies with emphasis on Network Engineering management and coordination. Required hands-on support of Network Infrastructure and management of the Network Engineering team. Responsible for defining, developing and governing technology strategies to drive business decisions, growth and meet regulatory requirements. Supported hybrid On-Premise data centers and Oracle OCI cloud based infrastructure.

New York, Ny

Utilize state of the art technology to build workflow solutions for the hedge fund industry supporting Administration, Reporting, Trading and General Ledger.Infrastructure technology supports specialized financial software applications marketed to Hedge Funds and Private Equity firms.Worked across engineering teams and Corporate IT teams in the planning and deployment of client hosted systems to ensure their successful implementations without disruption.Developed Service Desk Operations concept to oversee daily operations and incident management.Streamlined new client provisioning process.Responsibilities included: Implementation and project oversight, Develop Configuration Management standards, Asset Management, Change Management, Improve Operations Workflow Process, Improve global technology standards/planning and Business ContinuityManaged Facilities (Data Center - Design / Operations / Expansion)

New York, Ny

Manage a team of Technology specialists to design, deploy, and support the infrastructure used to operate Citi electronic trading solutions (Equities & Foreign Exchange). The clients supported by this environment include US/International Banks, Investment Banking, Broker/Dealers, Market Makers, Hedge Funds and Institutional Investors. These products are used to consolidate market data distribution, and order execution capabilities across major liquidity sources, including NASDAQ, SFTI/NYSE, CME, BATS and others. Oversee the design, deployment and management, for 2000+ Wintel/Linux servers/clusters, SQL databases, 105 Terabytes SAN storage (EMC DMX), 47 Terabytes NAS storage (Network Appliance), over 600 Cisco routers, 100 Juniper Firewalls, and 2000 circuits and telecom gear across 7 global data centers (3 US data centers, 2 in Europe, and 2 in Japan) . Organized the Technology team into six distinct technical practice areas including: Internetworking, Systems-Storage, Database, Security-Compliance, Capacity Planning, and Telecommunications. Within each discipline the teams are responsible to select and deploy best of breed technology while still keeping focus on the business needs for functionality, supportability, and regulatory compliance. Work closely with Citi internal/external audit groups to maintain compliance with SOX, SEC, and RegNMS. Perform risk assessments, prepare corrective action plans, and publish process and procedure documents.Sponsored the creation of a new Technology Delivery Manager (TDM) role to act as a representative between Technology and the Business UnitsCreated a 24x7x365 Command & Control Center (CCC) to provide a comprehensive cross technology team to manage and support the environment. The goal of this team is to provide level 1 and level 2 support of the infrastructure while adhering to ITIL Service Management best practices.

Stamford, Ct

Stamford, Ct

White Plains, Ny

Provided guidance on the strategic use of existing and new technologies to help USTA management effectively leverage technology to drive their business and grow the sport of tennis.Championed the upgrade and re-design of the legacy data center environment in Pittsburgh, PA to provide a higher level of redundancy. Provided a more effective staging and production server environment for the suite of WEB-based TennisLink applications. The USTA WEB-based applications service the 700,000 plus membership community. Managed the primary outsource vendor to ensure compliance with SAS 70 as well as our own specific requirements for event readiness (US Open), business continuity, and disaster recovery.Introduced the USTA to VMWare (Virtual Machine) technology which consolidated the QA/DEV environment. Created virtual server check-in / check-out process to allow more effective use of server resources for product development teams. Performed POC (Proof of Concept) for VMWare as a stable and cost-effective solution for production applications.

White Plains, Ny

Partner - Business unit manager - responsible for the management and delivery of professional services to new and existing accounts. Managed 25 senior consultants and engineers in the CT, NJ and NY metropolitan area. Ensured that these engineers were on the proper career path both technically and professionally.Managed the relationship with the clients and was responsible for putting together the right delivery team for each engagement. Specified project life-cycles that included: an assessment process, a design effort, system deployment and a management solution. Full P&L responsibility for the business unit and was measured by overall utilization and revenue. This required a high level technical understanding of each of our practice areas and services. The practice areas include: Internetworking, Systems & Storage, Directory Services, Performance Management, Convergence, Security and Network Management

Southbury, Ct

Founder of Access Systems, Inc., which offered system/network integration services and provided a wide variety of data communications products and solutions. Access Systems, Inc. supported products and systems from many major manufacturers and service providers. Responsible for marketing, sales, maintaining customer accounts, providing company focus, project management, network systems design, managing vendor relationships, project scope and proposal creation, day to day management of 15+ employees, and on-going recruiting and employee training.