Director – It Security And Infrastructure
Bedminster, New Jersey, Us
Directed the companies Infrastructure (Security, Network, Server, Storage, Data centers etc,,,) through multiple expansion projects during a growth period from 50 employees to over 400 employees within a 2-year span. Built companies first data center from the ground up as well as a co-located offsite DR presence. Heavily involved in selection of new corporate headquarters and data center build project.Enabled business growth from two locations (with 2 data closets) to 9 global locations, 2 data centers, 200+ servers (virtual and physical), 20+ SAN nodes, and 10+ firewalls. The foundation of this growth was the design and build of an on-site corporate data center and a sister hosted facility providing redundancy and disaster recovery.Responsible for ensuring company data and security are not compromised.Maintained data integrity and documentation for all computer networks and personnel computers through proper backup, recovery and information security policies, procedures and practices.Defined and maintained Infrastructure IT budget and capital expenditures including, but not limited to, expenditures and capital requests in accordance with department, business units and enterprise IT objectives.