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Westwood, Ma

Westwood, Ma

Braintree, Ma

Westwood, Ma

Lexington

Leadership • Led Infrastructure teams in Waltham, MA and Manufacturing IT teams in 7 continents.• Deployed infrastructure to support peak holiday sales of $10.8M/day on an average order value of $38. The new infrastructure approaches dramatically decreases work to prepare for holiday annually.Service• Developed long-term strategic plan for servers, storage, virtualization and networking. The plan visualized potential CapEx savings by over $2M annually while supporting growth and new facilities.• Reduced key data center footprint from 32 racks to 15 by increasing virtualization density, replacing SAN with Software Defined Storage and moving about 15% of our workloads to AWS (EC2 & S3)• Virtualized over 95% of Vistaprint’s servers.Operational Excellence• Led Annual Disaster Recovery Summit and Scalability Summit• Member of Business Continuity Working Group• Member of Due Diligence team IT Lead for post-merger work on 5 acquisitions.

Waltham, Ma

Waltham, Ma

Roadmap Planning /Process Improvement• Developed the strategy and mock-testing of a new Disaster Recovery plan for all critical applications.• Partnered with EMC as a beta tester for Atmos object storage solution. It enabled Vistaprint to deploy 900TB storage racks at a cost of $.02 per GB while also eliminating data center expansion needs.• Deployed DataDomain to improve off-site data loss to less than 24 hours, down from 14 days.Project Management/Complex Implementation• Moved Vistaprint’s web site to a new data center in Bermuda with 3 hours of downtime. Planned details of move across 10+ different groups, coordinated the move effort of 7 employees and utilized disaster recovery plans to limit the downtime during the move.

Lexington, Ma

Participant in design and implementation of a new infrastructure for Vistaprint to support its growing website at over 35% annually and improve web site reliability. From concept through deployment, refinement, maintenance, and end of life, deployed VMWare, high-end physical servers, DFS and Database mirroring increasing Vistaprint’s front-end uptime from 95% to 99.95% in just over 18 months.

Maynard, Ma

Influential Technical Leadership• USAJobs.gov - Provided on-site technology leadership and support for over 20 government job search sites in Washington DC. Travelled weekly improving the reliability of the solution and building team.• TMP Worldwide ER/ES - Provided on-site technology leadership for 3 months and support for parent company business unit located in London, UK. Relocated for 3 months to rebuild the infrastructure. Completed training and turned over improved solution to the local technical team for ongoing support.Operational Excellence• Maintained a high availability (99.5%), mission critical 7x24x365 environment for Top 25 website.• Virtualized 4 of 6 QA environments on VMWare ESX. Utilized SAN and VMotion to improve reliability. Infrastructure contained 250 machines on 8 ESX host systems in 2006, lowered DC costs.• Balanced multiple projects and initiatives to support constantly shifting priorities without compromising results or infrastructure integrity.

Maynard, Ma

• Monitored Monster.com website and addressed issues as needed. Led rollout of patches and major releases. Managed log collection service capturing customer data and provided to 3rd party for additional reporting.• Tuned existing web servers to get the best performance out of Content Indexing and Operating systems. Tuning of registry decreased OS CPU consumption on Windows NT/2000 servers by over 25%.

Boston, Ma

• Managed the Help Desk troubleshooting hardware and software issues for Dell PC’s and laptops, docking stations, palm pilots and LCD’s for 325+ users in 7 offices.• Research and evaluate new software applications and equipment.

Braintree, Ma

• First technical hire at police department. Helped them move from older AS400 mainframe/dumb terminals on a token ring network to client-server software solution on Cat5 cable system. • Developed specialized software to improve billing and paying of police details. Reduced the effort for an employee from 5 days down to 2 hours per week. • Led both the police and fire departments to implement the enhanced 911 system and later led a town-wide roll-out of a new telephone system for all town offices (on-time, on budget, conducted training sessions).

Canton, Ma

• Developed software for use by medical professionals to facilitate patient care in both inpatient and outpatient environments.• Deployed new software and worked closely with local staff to integrate existing solutions.• Was part of team working on complex blood bank and pathology issues for demanding customers.