J ULIAN S TYSIS

Brooklyn, NY ***** 740-***-**** ace865@r.postjobfree.com

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

Performance-driven and business-minded technologist offering 19 years of IT experience, with specific expertise in data and

systems migrations and infrastructure solutions in global IT environments in the industries of finance, healthcare, manufacturing,

education, state government, non-profit, media, and travel. Possesses a consistent track record of driving projects from inception

to completion and maintaining secure and reliable computing environments with SLA up times greater than 99.95%. Core

competencies:

Project Management IT Infrastructure Deployments & Migrations Budget and Resource Management

Needs Assessment Process Improvement Change Management Vendor Relations Data Center Management

Outsourcing Strong Analytical, Problem Solving, and Communication skills ITIL Foundations Certified

P R O F E S S I O N A L H I S T O RY

Hitachi Data Systems 7/2013 – 6/2014

Senior Project Manager

Responsible for service delivery of integration of HDS SAN and NAS appliances into customer environments, data migrations,

upgrades, and new installations. Managed resource allocation, budget, expenses, and project timelines.

• Liberty Mutual Insurance Company – Non-disruptive data migration of 400 physical and virtual Windows, Linux, and AIX

hosts from HDS USP to HDS VSP storage arrays.

• United Natural Foods, Inc. – Integration of two HDS HUS-VM storage arrays into the customer environment, storage

virtualization, storage replication, data migration from EMC VMAX and older HDS arrays to HUS-VM.

New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority 6/2012 – 5/2013

Lead Project Manager for Data Center Migration

Satisfy the business requirement of vacating a data center under a non-negotiable deadline by physically relocating all hardware

to a new facility. Perform the migration with no down time by building a new Business Continuity environment at a third site to

run production during the move.

• Conducted a proof of concept for a new backup solution and SAN performance. Developed a comprehensive DR plan.

• Identified gaps in project management and documentation processes. Implemented effective meeting practices and

introduced formal logging of decisions, deliverables, critical dependencies, and risks.

• Identified a critical flaw in architecture and migration plan for shared storage. Engaged vendors and senior management to

develop a corrective course of action.

• Oversaw collaboration of six independent MTA agencies and four external vendors in architecture of local and wide area

network, ISP circuits, storage infrastructure, data synchronization, security, operating systems, and databases.

• Tracked provisioning of data center power and cooling, cabling, and network installation.

• Determined system requirements and procured server hardware. Managed installation of new hardware and operating

systems, configuration of the virtual environment, installation of applications and databases, and establishment of data

replication. Developed old hardware disposition plans. Managed decommissioning process.

• Tracked testing and certification of interfaces with banks and benefit providers, application testing, validation, and

certification. Resolved building logistics for the physical relocation - loading dock restrictions, ramps, elevators, and

weight/height limitations.

• Developed minute by minute migration plans. Established a command center. Managed the entire migration process,

reporting, and issue tracking.

CS Technology New York, New York 1/2011 – 6/2012

Senior Consultant, Technical Project Manager

J ULIAN S TYSIS

Brooklyn, NY 11201 740-***-**** ace865@r.postjobfree.com

Westpac Institutional Bank Data Center Migration – Responsible for market data and trading platform vendor

management: Bloomberg, Reuters, EBS/ICAP, IPC, and Verizon. Developed detailed installation, testing and cutover

plans for each vendor. Coordinated installations of new trading equipment and circuits, supervised cutover activities.

Discovered an oversight in power capacity planning and developed a resolution. Produced comprehensive project

documentation, weekly status reports, dashboards, project plans, and formal meeting records.

Princeton University Data Center Migration – Project manager for a physical relocation of 1000 servers, Hitachi SAN,

DDN SAN, Oracle SAN, BlueArc SAN, NetApp NAS, and two tape libraries from multiple locations to the newly built

High Performance Computing Research Center. Performed detailed project planning, scope discovery, application

decomposition, dependency discovery and analysis, and vendor management. Identified server and application criticality,

developed tier level definitions, created day-by-day, hour-by-hour migration schedules, and supervised their execution by

client’s IT staff, equipment vendors, and the mover to ensure smooth, successful migrations within narrow downtime

windows.

J ULIAN S TYSIS

Brooklyn, NY 11201 740-***-**** ace865@r.postjobfree.com

Cablevision New York, New York 8/2010 – 1/2011

Project Manager / Technical Architect

Migration of Novell GroupWise from NetWare to a SUSE Linux high availability cluster, and virtualization of email web servers.

JetBlue Airways New York, New York 4/2010 – 8/2010

Project Manager for Datacenter Migration

Performed project planning, scoping, risk assessment, and execution of the migration of mission-critical JetBlue applications and

services from a private datacenter to an outsourced cloud, consolidation of datacenter space, power capacity planning, server

virtualization, and personnel moves. Performed complete application decomposition. Discovered and documented application

architecture and dependencies. Identified application stakeholders. Planed migrations, managed resources, obtained stakeholder

approvals, and followed a strict change control process. Supervised migrations and provided detailed, timely, and proactive status

reporting.

Novell Inc., Data Center Services New York, New York 6/2008 – 4/2010

Senior Systems Engineer – HSBC Bank - Provided escalation and third level support for 5,000 SUSE Linux Enterprise and Red

Hat servers across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. Assisted customer with migration planning, and

implementation of best practices. Maintained highest levels of customer satisfaction as indicated by engagement surveys. Areas of

support included: Bug identification Performance optimization EMC Storage support Multipath configuration NIC

bonding LVM VMWare support VMI Kernel NFS on static ports SSH Tunneling ACL over NFS TCP Window sizing

Blade server support Static routing NTP, LDAP eDirectory on SLES

Novell Inc., Managed Services New York, New York 9/2005 – 6/2008

Assistant Project Manager, Senior Systems Engineer, Onsite Technical Lead

Continuum Health Partners – a healthcare organization comprised of five hospitals and 10,000 users. Led a team of seven local

and remote Novell engineers. Responsible for an SLA of a 99.95% uptime, technical project work, weekly operations reviews

with the CIO, quarterly service reviews, and change control processes.

• Assistant Project manager for the migration 50 standalone, at risk servers from remote data centers to highly available

clusters in a centralized location.

• Rotating Information Systems Officer – member of the technical management team responsible for emergency issue

resolution, escalations, and service delivery. Reported to the CIO.

• Managed 100 Novell NetWare, SUSE Linux, and Windows servers, SAN, two fourteen-node Novell clusters, Blackberry

Enterprise Server, and a 10,000 user GroupWise system. Continually exceeded the SLA requirements, which resulted in

quarterly bonuses paid to Novell by the customer. Bridged disparate teams of Novell consulting and support services to

achieve common goals and deliver enhanced value to the client. Developed new business for Novell at Continuum. Delivered

cross-team training.

Citigroup, Senior Systems Engineer 2004 – 2005

The New York Times, Consultant 2003 – 2004

Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC), New York Stock Exchange, Consultant 2003 –

2003

The Gillette Company, Senior Systems Engineer 2001 – 2003

Minnesota Department of Revenue, NetWare Engineer and Team Lead 1997 – 2000

US Bank, Corporate Trust, Network Administrator 1995 – 1997

E D U C AT I O N A N D P R O F E S S I O N A L D E V E L O P M E N T

Bachelor of Arts in Management Eastern Nazarene College Boston, Massachusetts

Main areas of study included Team Management and Leadership, Professional communication, MIS,

Organizational Behavior, Accounting, Economics, Business Ethics, and Business Law.

Professional Development Technical Training

Novell Corporate Training Benchmark Computer Learning, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Management Essentials – leadership, motivation, Full Novell CNE training course

communication, team building

ITIL Foundations, SLES 10 administration, Storage Certifications

Area Network Administration, Novell Clustering ITIL Foundations, CNE NetWare 5.x, 4.x, CNS, MCP

J ULIAN S TYSIS

Brooklyn, NY 11201 740-***-**** ace865@r.postjobfree.com

P E R S O N A L I N T E R E S T S : L eadership of mountaineering expeditions. Entrepreneurship – brining indoor

s kydiving to New York. Event planning and coordination. Motorcycle safety instruction.

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