Asad Gilani

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Armonk, NY *****

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Executive Summary

• Result-Oriented, on-time project delivery, ownership and responsibility leading to insure on-time delivery in short timeframes for clients to gain competitive edge. Highly focused and energetic IT Professional with expertise in delivering broad-based technology-driven Business Solutions for end-to-end support of corporate strategies handling multiple roles as Sr. IT Technologist, Network and Security Architect and Technical Project Manager. Keen ability to understand business needs and deliver technologies that drive change. Experienced in handling Global Projects in AMERS, EMEA, LATAM and APAC

• Experience specializing in Network/Security Planning, Design, Implementing and troubleshooting High-Availability Data Center, Ultra Low Latency Market Data, co-location Networks.

• Adept at leading and directing major initiatives: Project team selection, defining high level requirements, project timelines and tasks, allocating resources, cost/benefit analysis and presentations to Senior Management.

• In his recent engagement at Bank of America (GBAM),

Involved in migration of old architecture Data Center into new implement low Ultra Low Latency Infrastructure for Rates and Currencies. Implement Interactive/7Ticks using Arista Switches in New Jersey and Chicago. Implemented e-Speed, CME, NYELIFE, SFTI. Trade-x, 7Ticks, Gus ALGO. Managed multiple Market Data installations.

Managed implementation of high-availability data center infrastructure at Kansas City and Richmond Data Center. Management Global SQL server project. Experienced in e-Connect.

Build and Migrated B2B offices in LATAM for Global Research

Market Data Analysis of BT Radianz and TNS for decommission. Experienced in Market Data decommission.

Experienced in co-location to NYSE, SAVVIS, SunGard, and Equinox co-locations.

Project Managed Low Latency Market Data Network, installations of feed handlers and Order Execution engines.

• Experienced Managing GBAM NOC Standup. Maintain Portfolio Level Governance control procedures for managing GBAM STAND UP. Staffing, GBAM NOC Standup, Network Monitoring, Process and Procedures Development, Training. Managed 50+ matrix resources. Portfolio wide initiatives such as resource utilization, financial, scope, quality, Risk and day to day issues. Provided weekly Project Status to GBAM CTO.

• Experience in HP Network implementation and project management.

• Experienced in building Multicast infrastructure and development of NYMEX/COMEX (Multicast) Trade Management (TMS), Order Matching System, Clearing 21 and Price Reporting (Market Data Distribution). Experienced in migration of X.25 application to Multicast based application. Supported development, Testing, Quality control, staging, Bug fixes and Release Management,

• Led “Next Generation Wireless Authentication” Project for New York City Department of Education 1850+ schools and 1.2 Million Students. Managed three years and a half a billion Program Office. Deployment and integrations of thousands of access points, 6500 switches, ASA’s and upgrading network infrastructure to NYC schools. Managed internal and external matrix resources from vendors including IBM, Cisco, EMC, VMware, Apple, Microsoft and Aruba to successfully deliver the solutions to school.

• Experienced in Trade Analysis using NetScout for Morgan Stanley, NYMEX and Creditex. Working with developers. Performed trade profile using Netscout. Used Corvil Trade Analysis tool for Citibank.

• Experience with Dot Frank at Booz Allen Hamilton

TECHNICAL SKILLS

DATA ARCHITECTURE/MODELING: Teradata and Green Plum

STORAGE SYSTEMS: SAN/NAS, SSA, EMC / SRDF, ESS, VMX, AVAMAR

DATABASE MANAGEMENT: Oracle, IBM UDB, Sybase, SQL Server

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: Java, SQL, Korn Shell,

SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION: PVCS

WEB SERVICES TECHNOLOGY: Tomcat, Apache, Bea WebLogic, IBM

MESSAGING TECHNOLOGY: MQ Series, MO71, MQ Toolkit, JMS, TIBCO

BUSINESS PROCESS: Design, Implementation, Incident, Problem and Change Management

OPERATING SYSTEMS: VMware 4, HP/UX, AIX, Novell, Linux, NT, MVS

NETWOKING PROTOOLS: SNA, LU 6.2, NETBT, TPC/IP, MULTICAST, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS

NETWOKING PRODUCTS: Cisco 6500 Switches, Nexus 1000, 5000, 7000, 802.11, Arista Switches

LOAD BALANCER & DNS: F5, Netscaler

DNS: HP BIND 9.0

FIREWALLS AND SECURITY: Checkpoint Firewalls, Cisco Firewalls, Proxy Bluecoat

SECURITY SERVICES: Security Risks and Gap Analysis, Penetration and Vulnerability Testing, SOC Operations.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS:

M.S., Telecommunications, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY

B.A., Computer Information, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY

PMP, CCNA, CISSP, CEH, CSA, LPT, VCP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BANK OF AMERICA, NY

(APR 2011 - Present)

Project Manager – Bank of America Global Banking and Markets (GBAM) and Global Wealth Investment

Management (GWIM)

• Experienced in Market Data Analysis, Consolidation Projects, Ultrafast e-Trading Low Latency Network Projects, Market Data, Equities and Global Banking and Markets. Implemented Project on (GMRT) Global Equities, Trading, Global Rates and Currencies Trading, Sales and Research Operations, Global Enterprise Functions Technology and Operations

• Managed SIAC source IP for CTS/CQS Multicast Feeds to Market-data servers. Coordinated with Vendors to ensure that Quotes are in Sync with Market Data.

• Managed Network connectivity ECN (BGC) from 7Ticks/ eSpeed Gus (FX Algo), InstaQuote network and server connections to provide additional liquidity to the system, and to allow testing of Infinity market data. Testing for route validation, and connectivity testing between Businesses Application Servers and Exchange Vendor

• Experienced in Market Data Analysis, Consolidation Projects, Ultrafast e-Trading Low Latency Network Projects. Market Data, Equities and Global Banking and Markets. Implement Project on (GMRT) Global Equities, Commodities Trading, Global Rates and Currencies Trading, Sales and Research Operations, Global Enterprise Functions Technology and Operations.

• Implemented Low Latency Network using Aresta Switches. Managed Market Data Vendors and network installations of CME, 7Ticks, E-Speed. NYLIFFE, CME. ICE, NYSE, SFTI, TNS, BT Radianz, BATT and NSASDAQ Market Data feeds.

• Implemented Global Sales and Research office in LATAM. Implemented Network in record time to weeks. Coordinated Network resources, procurement, Installation and testing and verification in record time of two weeks.

• Decommission, perform analysis TNS and BT Radianz with 700 clients and migrate to new low latency network infrastructure.

• Managed GWIM Voice Notification Project Globally.

• Managed Global Banking and Market Network Operations Build out with new enhanced SLA Globally in AMERS and EMEA supporting 114 sites Major, Small and Virtual. Managed Integrated Projects, Planning, NOC Physical Standup, Monitoring, Staffing, Process and Procedures. Site Validation, NOC Hotline Build out, NOC Network Build out, Installation of Dashboard, IPSLA, Net cool and E-Health on Eyes on Glass Monitors WAN/LAN discovery of 114 Sites, Developed integrated Incident, Change and Problem Management Processes and Procedures for NOC. Developed NOC Analyst Schedule. Turnover Procedures, Morning Check

BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON – NEW YORK, NY

Cyber Security Center of Excellence (April 2010 – April 2011)

• Project Management Office Setup for Booz Allen Hamilton Financial Startup for existing Service Offerings and New Service Offerings identification based on Financial Market Trends, Identified gaps based on ISO 27001.

• Provided Leadership, guidance and organization to the Booz Allen Hamilton Financial Market Startup. Developed processes, procedures, managed resources and provided direction how Commercial Consulting works as compared to Government based consulting.

• Setup Cyber Buyer’s Challenge Sharepoint Structure to Organize and the development of Service Offerings for Financial Market.

• Experienced Security, Vulnerability an Risk Assessments

• Developed Service Offering Life-Cycle Development Process, Procedure and Governance and ported to Project Management Environment for accurate delivery and update. Developed Service or Capability Delivery work plan schedule.

• Managed Service Offerings for Financial Market, Cyber Buyer Project, Data Center Capabilities Development Project, E-Discovery Quick Look Assessment Project.

NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Program Manager (Oct 2008 – Apr 2010)

• Next Generation Wireless - The World’s largest wireless security implementation

The diverse technology delivery project included: Project interface with IBM on and DOE wireless

Engineering Team for E-Rate network infrastructure refresh (Cisco 6500 Switches with Sup 32, firewall upgrade, Cisco 4400 Controller installation, 1242 access point installation) Managed IBM, Cisco, EMC, Apple, Microsoft.

• Managed airwave wireless network management implementation of 6500+ Cisco access point and Cisco 700+ Cisco 4400 control units. Schedule training, airwave vendor management.

• Managed airwave vendor for on-time delivery of Workstream schedule.

• Managed Windows 2008, Active directory, Workstream, Design, PoC, pilot and implementation Workstream. Windows 2008 N+1 scheduled Windows 2008 Training. World’s largest active directory with 30 read/write domain controllers and 1250+ Read Only Domain Controllers (RODC). Managed 50+ matrix resources.

• Managed XP and Apple Wireless 8021.X installer Workstream, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) from development, functionality testing, and quality assurance testing to products’ readiness.

• Managed instructional active directory virtualization with Nexus 1000.

• Designed and implemented with VSphere 4, EMC NS120 and NS110, MirrorView.

• Developed DIIT deployment process and procedures for Next Generation Wireless Swimlanes: Plan and engineer the school performed Integration in the school, closeout and move to operation. Developed roles, responsibilities and skills requirements and the resource requirement. Share point deployment portal and imbedded controls for management reporting.

• Managed the Client Integration. Deployment Client Integration over 1600+ Schools. Planning, Scheduling, Integration and Warranty Support. Managed 15 direct reports and 40+ matrix resources.

BT GLOBAL SERVICES (Creditex-ICE)

Network and Security Architect (2004-2008)

• Conducted numerous penetration tests region

• Security Policy development

• Security Policy Design/Review

• E-Banking Security Risk Assessment

• Designed, Implemented and Supported High-Availability Low latency trading floor using BT Radianz 6500 with 7200, 4600, and 3560 switches. Extensive experience with spanning-tree, BGP and EIGRP.

• Designed, Implemented and Supported Firewall Security Trading Floor infrastructure for Internet, Extranet, Intranet and Market Data Firewalls. Implemented 12 Pair of PIX Firewalls Active/Standby 7.x and 2 Pair of ASA 5520 in High-Availability mode. Tested and documented Active/Active Multiple Context mode.

• Implemented Site-to-Site IPSEC connectivity with the Vendors and World-wide locations.

• Implementation and Operation of Call Manager 4.0 with Unity, 8511 Gateway and integration with BT Turret system.

• Designed, Implemented and supported High-Available Multi-Vendor, Multi-homed Internet design based on BGP. For the Trading Floor using RCC and Tower stream. Used 3825 with switching module.

• Design and Implemented and supported High-Available Load-Balance BGP using two Inter-nap sites.

• Implemented ACS 4.0 and supported day-to-day operations.

• Migrated F5 Contend Switch to Citrix Net-Scalar Implemented Net Scalar for the Trading based-application.

• Design and Implemented Secured Remote Access based on Cisco 3000 concentrator based on the stick. Implemented IPSec

• Design and Implemented Market Data Firewall and connectivity with Bloomberg, Radianz Network, DTCC connectivity for Straight-through-processing application and connectivity to Morgan Stanley.

• Experienced in implementation of trading infrastructure and troubleshooting at SunGard managed services.

• Experience Security Risks Assessment

• Experiences Security GAP Analysis

• Experience Vulnerability Analysis

• IPS Monitoring/Intrusion Analysis

• Firewall/Proxy Design, Installation

CIGNA HEALTH CARE

Network Engineering, Project Manager (2000-2004)

• Developed business contingency plans for Company field offices, data center and trading floor. Scheduled periodic Disaster Recovery testing with SunGard and ATT.

• Managed data and voice (Lucent G3 Switches) and call center staff of in multiple field offices. Responsible for build-to-suit field offices from 100+ to 2000 seats for data, voice, HVAC and on-time implementation. Experienced in OSPF routing. Experienced in 6500, with Supervisor One, Cisco 4000 switches and 7200 routers.

• Designed and implemented Company trading floor, fault tolerant and redundant network for 100 equity traders and 50 backup seats. This included 1500 seats migration with 100 equity traders. The design was based on redundant 6500 switches, PIX 525 Firewall redundant for Market Data and 4000 for access switched. Installed Market Data from Bloomberg, Reuters, JJKenny, and Bridge. Experienced in OSPF.

• Developed and implemented engineering and implementation formal process and procedure for the Company engineering team. The processes included Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Technical Design Review (TDR), Capacity Planning Management (CPM), Event Correlation (EC), Project Management (PMI – PMO), Change Management (CM), Testing and Quality Assurance (TQA) and Quality Gates and move to production process. (QGMP), Infrastructure Engineering

New York Mercantile Exchange

Director, Technology Planning (1996-2000)

• Designed and implemented first IP Multicast LAN and Wan network with IP Dense-mode for LAN and Sparse-mode for WAN Network.

• Designed, implemented and managed clearing fault tolerant network and access overnight trading network. Designed and managed projected the first Worldwide IP Multicast enabled frame relay with EIGRP routing protocol. Prepare frame relay RFP detail project budget (54M+), design and implementation project plans. The project is in the implementation phase utilizing Cisco, Multicast with AT&T.

• Supported the Price Reporting System Market Data network to the vendors. Supported Multicast Wallboard network.

• Designed the wireless data and voice wireless infrastructure for trading floor. Performed Radio Frequency using Cisco, Symbol and Eriksson Voice System for trade reporting wireless system. Performed wireless capacity analysis using PICO Cell Design for Trade Management System.

• Designed and implemented the WAN using Stateroom Equipment IGX, BPX, AX for the trading floor for east of migration of Trade Management System X.25 applications to TCP/IP.

Morgan Stanley BANK

Network Engineer (October 1995- Oct 1996)

• Performed worldwide LAN/WAN analysis to determine operations issues.

• Performed application profile to understand bandwidth impact, current utilization and user-specified changes to predict network impact. Designed and implemented Ethernet CDDI and WAN Frontier Probes to monitor network traffic worldwide.

• Designed and implemented multiple Market Data projects including, Open Bloomberg, Bloomberg Auto Execution, EJV, Cantor Fitzgerald, BONY, JJ Kenny, SIAC EPN, SSL Network Design, Quality Assurance LAB, SNI Connectivity, TCP/IP Client connections.

• Performed Windows NT (NetBIOS) impact analysis on the network.

• Worked with UNIX Server consolidation project to determine the network impact on the current network infrastructure.

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