Stephen Jay Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

Toronto, Canada Area

-- Leadership --• Lead a global operations team of 6 people spread across North and South America and Australia.Proper planning and communication allowed my team to function as a single cohesive unit and accomplish goals such as infrastructure upgrades, and global application deployments.-- Strategy and Planning --• Migrated 3 globally accessed data center with less than 48 hours downtime. Through extensive planning and coordination I was able to migrate over 350 servers in a single weekend allowing the company to continue business as usual on Monday morning.-- Cost Savings --• Conducted a cost-benefit analysis which produced $1,000,000 in savings over 5 years on antivirus platform changes. • Introduced a new life-cycle on SAN infrastructure which lowered capital investment on hardware refreshes by $300,000. • Worked overtime to upgrade our South American ESX environment from 4.1 to 5.5 and saved $80,000 in consulting fees. • Introduction of virtual servers reduced the cost of physical server hardware and datacentre operating costs by $10,000 month-over-month.-- Vendor and Resource Management --• Remotely managed an office migration including all server hardware and networking equipment in our Barbados office by coordinating with local vendors to do the physical migration.-- Technology Innovation --• Deployed Datadomain as back-end storage for our backup environment Tivoli Storage Manager. This removed the dependency on a tape library, recovering precious rack space and avoided the need to move to a Colo facility due to space constraints. This saved $25,000 per month in Colo leasing.• Microsoft Windows 2003, 2008, 2012 administration• VMware vSphere 3.0 to 5.5• VMware VDI (Virtual Desktop)• VMware SRM (Site Recovery Manager)• EMC Clariion, VNX and VNX2 SAN management• EMC Avamar and DataDomain backup management

Toronto, Canada Area

Responsible for installing, configuring and maintaining a 24/7 globally accessed datacentre. My areas of technical expertise encompass the following:• Microsoft Windows 2003, 2008 administration• VMware vSphere 3.0 to 4.1• VMware SRM (Site Recovery Manager)• EMC Clariion SAN management• Tivoli Storage Manager• Citrix Xenapp• Microsoft SQL 2000-2012

Toronto, Canada Area

• End user support• MS Office application support• Desktop, Server hardware maintenenace

Toronto, Canada Area

• Wrote diagnostic scripts for IBM AIX systems• Created reports for administrators• Created menu driven solutions for monitoring off-hour processes