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Greater New York City Area

Led mainframe business continuity / disaster recovery processes for Wealth Management and Institutional Securities business which constituted 8 mainframe complexes across 2 data centers using real time replication and semi-annual data center swaps.Coordinated mainframe SIFMA/RegSci compliance inclusive of annual streetwide testing.Directed mainframe vendor management with relationships with approximately 35 vendors including IBM, EMC, SAG, and many ISV vendors.Established mainframe asset inventory used for SOX compliance.Launched mainframe internal product management inclusive of product briefings, product catalogs, and roadmaps. Led annual mainframe cost savings initiatives (greater than $5M annually).Managed mainframe upgrade cycles including end of life compliance. Coordinated all mainframe proof of concept/production evaluation testing including the development of testing documents, non-disclosure agreements, final analyses.

Greater New York City Area

Co-Headed Wealth Management Enterprise Projects.Managed Strategic Outsourcing Relationship between MS and IBM Global Services (greater than $100M annual relationship).Defined Mainframe Instructucture migration for Smith Barney acquisition. This included porting and testing 90+ mainframe applications, acquisition of 18 mainframe software packages and phased migration from Citibank processing to Morgan Stanley processing.Planned Branch Server consolidation project. Cost avoidance of over $4MM/year upon completion. 600+ branch servers decommissioned with directory, file, print, and middleware services updated to service-specific offerings. Complex migration logistics and planning touching over 20,000 users.Organized deployment of Wealth Management distributed infrastructure into IBM Data Centers.Led 9/11 WTC infrastructure recovery. Managed the acquisition, installation, relocation, and deployment of the technology infrastructure of over 3400 employees displaced from the World Trade Center due to the September 11, 2001 disaster. This was a multi-year, multi-site recovery and reconsolidation across 5 NYC locations. Directed creation and deployment of initial SOX (Sarbanne/Oxley Act) documentation for Wealth Management.