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Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is a publicly traded Fortune 500 Company. The Data Center at the Rensselaer Information Systems Center (RISC) in Troy, New York is the command center operations for all of MetLife’s mainframe, UNIX and Windows environment.Maintain High Availability of all MetLife systems through effective Risk Management in the Data Center. Provide leadership for the selection of Global Co location of MetLife systems through the effective Measurement and Evaluation of Global Data Centers. Managed the day-to-day activities for all physical and environmental systems within the Data Center. I manage the Data Center deployment of physical devices to ensure the elimination of any, and all, single-points-of-failure within the physical structure. Conducted on-site inspection and developed measurement and evaluation tools to provide upper management criteria for selection of Global Data Centers to house MetLife systems and applications. Maintain and Develop raised floor architecture for a 45,000 square foot data center. Maintain documentation on all devices for data center inventory management (DCIM). Work closely with building management for requirements concerning floor space, power and cooling. Maintain floor space according to industry best practices. Manage incoming and outgoing IT devices while keeping a 5-year plan for future implementations.

New York, Ny, Us

In addition to duties of the Data Center Specialist:Data Center Design and Implementation • Manage Data Center Reviews for Global Data Center Integration Initiatives. • Serve as Technical Solutions Lead for Global Data Center Builds. • Conduct Vendor Management to ensure completion of tasks for project completion.

New York, Ny, Us

Technical Services Management • Provide support, manage placement and physical design of vendor installed devices including: Cisco Networking Devices Intel-based Distributed Servers IBM and SUN Midrange Servers IBM Mainframe and Storage Devices DELL/EMC Storage Area Network and Network Addressed Storage Devices • Provide support to Command Center Operations on site monitoring and management of the Data Center Hardware. Conduct first and second level incident management and problem determination on Data Center devices. • Manage the day-to-day activities of the raised floor infrastructure to ensure completion of tasks for major projects and ongoing processes. Technical Hardware Support • Ensure Business Continuity through the development of infrastructure documentation and recovery plans to maintain day-to-day activities for batch processing during recovery drills and actual disaster situations. • Participate in Business Continuity exercises to test and improve recovery plan. • Provide Network support for incident and problem resolution. Included with this would be system hardware integrity, software configuration and connectivity disruption, • Quality Assurance: Eliminate any single-point-of-failure within the hardware and infrastructure environment. • Plan and Design the computer bay raised floor layout.

New York, Ny, Us

Project Manager for all Data Center Operations initiatives. • Managed projects for long term data center and facility projects. Scheduled resources, maintained budget and coordinated activities for internal and external MetLife customers and outside vendors to insure task completion toward project success. • Developed and initiated Educational Services for command Center personnel to increase knowledge-base and create a more effective Command Center. • Researched, designed, and managed vendors during implementation on a new Command Center build. Completed in 2001 and is still a contemporary data center almost 20 years later.

Voorheesville, New York, Us

Director of all Activities related to the Administration of the Voorheesville Cross Country and Track & Field teams including serving as Head Coach, managing coaching staff, conducted daily schedules for practice and competition.

The Center for Donation & Transplant is an organ procurement organization, associated with the Albany Medical College in Albany, New York, serving 44 hospitals in the upstate New York and Vermont region.Position: Organ Procurement Coordinator, Center for Donation & TransplantResponsibilities included but were not limited to:• Develop/implement educational programs for hospital staff, schools and the community.• Evaluate patients’ suitability for organ/tissue donation.• Offer option of donation to the patient’s legal Next-of-Kin, if appropriate.• Medically maintain donor patient for surgical procurement.• Placement of donated organs with appropriate recipient, in compliance with the United Network for Organ Sharing policies.• Coordination of organ transport, visiting surgical teams, and other time-line dependent items.• Assisting surgical procurement team through surgical procurement process.• Follow-up of donor family and organ transplant recipients.• Organized/supervised tissue procurement team for bone, heart valve, vessel and skin.• Maintain office computer hardware and software.• Educate staff on computer application software.• Public relations activities for the promotion of organ & tissue donation.

M. Ed., Educational Psychology

B.S.E., Physical Education Teaching And Coaching

Bachelor'S Of Science In Education, Physical Education Teaching And Coaching