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New York, NY, US

Newark, NJ, US

• Hands on leadership and management of teams for the architecture, engineering, operations, migration, customer training/support, and transition to new technology platforms (including public cloud infrastructure to.
• Design and build out of new datacenter, remote office and main office campus. Design, engineer, deploy, support enterprise Wi-Fi network for hybrid workforce and guest clients (15,000+ unique wireless connections.
• Develop and maintain strategy for enterprise platform operations strategy to align with firm goals and objectives. Identify opportunities for improvement and innovation in server, storage, virtualization, iSeries.
• Developed and implemented cloud automation systems for deployment, threat remediation, audit compliance (including HIPAA, SOC2 and FEP), and DevOps ad AppOps platforms utilizing Ansible, Chef, Puppet, vRealize.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Responsible for the development and growth of 10 multi-skilled engineers focused on the development and delivery of all facets of the infrastructure operational life cycle from ideation to sustainment
• Managed operational (OPEX) and CAPEX budgets for enterprise organization
• Responsible for all L2 and L3 infrastructure support personnel. Operational scope covering 2,500 servers (x86-64 and IBM AIX), 14PB of disk, distributed SAN and IP storage environments and 6500 operating system instances
• Responsible for leading teams through the infrastructure development lifecycle in the areas of: Data Center Strategy, Continuous Availability, Geo-diverse application architectures and data management
• Delivered a comprehensive risk and compliance infrastructure management framework that delivered 98% compliance with patching and remediation activities along with building reporting for all SOX and regulatory.
• Develop an ITSM strategy lining-up IT strategy with infrastructure allowing technology to become a source of competitive enablement leveraging ITIL certified processes within Service Now

New York, New York, US

• Lead the Server Engineering group providing infrastructure development and sustainment services across four continents.
• Developed, delivered and sustained a technology training and development strategy for infrastructure personnel to ensure organizational resources were aligned with strategic goals
• Designed, delivered, and sustained enterprise market data systems including Wall Street Office, Charles River Development, Dynamo, Financial Data Warehouse, SSC Recon, and Investran. This effort resulted in.
• Lead the effort to enhance and re-platform the application virtualization infrastructure focusing on application performance, availability and security. Design consisted of VMware compute layer (5.0 and 5.5) housed on.
• Delivered and sustained the mobile computing access business solution for firm leveraging Apple and Android devices utilizing Blackberry Enterprise Server, AirWatch, and Xen Receiver
• Create a support and service delivery function in the following areas: Active Directory, Enterprise Storage and systems administration, and disaster recovery/business continuity (updating firm’s Service Level.

• Senior Engineer/Architect for international financial services firm primarily responsible for firm and business critical systems within North American and European environment
• Designed, delivered, and sustained various enterprise market data systems including Thomson Financial Market QA analysis services, Bloomberg, Charles River Development, Microsoft Dynamics SL Accounting System Suite.
• Architect and deployment engineer for expansion of disaster recovery plan for multiple locations across two continents
• Led build out of Windows XP desktops; involved in planning for XP/7
• Architected, delivered and defined services for a new distributed SAN topology to ensure increased performance and recoverability. Reduced RTO from 12 hours to 2 across geographically distributed sites
• Deployed, migrated, and supported systems on legacy hardware to Egenera and HP blade system hardware system running on VMware server and XenSource virtualization platforms. Reduced server deployment time from 5 day.

Paris, FR

• Senior Architect responsible for strategic leadership and design of North American enterprise-wide environment
• Created, presented, and adopted technology (12-24 month span) roadmap for firm to senior management
• Designed, delivered, and sustained Windows 2003 Active Directory environment. Retiring and migrating legacy Windows NT 4 domain environment in the process
• Responsible for standardizing and delivery of workstation and Windows server standards to environment
• Designed, delivered, and sustained enterprise SAN environment consisting of two HP Enterprise Virtual Arrays (EVA) 6000 Storage Area Networks. Solution included tiered storage structure, migration and retirement of.
• Senior systems security architect for global broker/trader firm

Secaucus, NJ, US

Master Of Science In Information Systems Management, Data Security And Financial Systems

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mathematics