Austin Idubor
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Profile
A dedicated worker seeking a challenging management level position that will
utilize my technical, multitasking, project and people management skills.
Capable of simultaneously completing multiple long-term projects, as well as
day-to-day operations, by using the wide range of organizational tools at my
disposal.
Education
2004 Kean University, 2000 DeVry University, New Brunswick, NJ.
Union, NJ.
Bachelor of Science, Computer Associates Degree, Information Technology
Sciences - Management
Information Systems
Certification: ITIL Foundation v3, December 2007
PrOFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
January 2005 - May 2013 CITI / Datacenter Operations
Rutherford, NJ & Columbus, OH
Infrastructure Senior Systems Analyst
Manage the daily operation and installation projects for the Datacenter.
Datacenter Liaison to project managers and Systems Administrators for all
pending installation at the Datacenter. Manage onsite consultants and vendors.
Use of Aperture Vista to create workflows for installation and decommissioning
of servers, complete device elevation in cabinets, provision space and power,
allocate network and SAN resources, update device type and location, and create
report for management and compliance review.
Evaluate systems designs and provide recommendation based on best practices and
available infrastructure resources.
Create, review, approve and implement records and trouble tickets such as TCRS,
Change management and Incident management records, Virtual Tech and ResolveIT.
Responsible for communicating, prioritizing and assigning project tasks to
Datacenter Vendors and Service Delivery team.
Responsible for communication projects status to Senior Management and stake
holders on Conference Bridge and by email.
Plan and coordinate infrastructure build out for open datacenter space and
modification of existing infrastructure to accommodate incoming hardware
Worked with a team to plan and execute the closure of Weehawken Datacenter, 111
Wall Datacenter and Silver Springs datacenter. Decommissioning, relocation,
consolidation and virtualization.
Develop process control manuals (PCM) with quarterly review and updates to
ensure its integrity and efficiency.
Participate in periodic audit for compliance and process improvement.
Plan and coordinate all datacenter and facility expansion project for Cabinets,
Power strips, UPS, PDU, CRAC units and generators, and provide continuous onsite
support and maintenance.
Hardware procurement for datacenter expansion and for inventory. Manage RFQ and
RFP process, and review of responses.
Infrastructure capacity planning, placement and resource allocation for
distributed and mainframe systems.
Plan, install and manage network, SAN, power and cooling infrastructure for the
Datacenter.
Responsible for the logistics of all incoming and outgoing hardware for the
Datacenter site.
Responsible for all devices on the raised floor in the Datacenter.
Manage all server hardware build including but not limited to hardware assembly,
iLO configuration, OS install, Memory upgrade, peripheral installs and testing.
Manage and provide on-site, first and second level support for the Datacenter
distributed systems infrastructure, including hands-on break/fix support to
resolve complex distributed systems problems escalated from the Global business
level 1 or 2 Systems Administrator.
Systems Administrator for NADC disk wiping servers. Responsible for hardware
build, OS installation, application deployment, day to day support and training.
Responsible for managing the IT asset disposition process across all CITIs
Datacenter in North America.
Acted as primary liaison for CITI Americas Datacenter to Citi Procurement
Services and various vendors during IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) RFP vendor
selection process.
Manage a physical and revolving Inventory of over $100 million, procurement and
allocation of IT hardware for Inventory and projects.
Manage IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) process.
November 2003 - Jan 2005 CITI / CTI Distributed Hardware Planning Group
New York, NY
Senior Officer / Technical Analyst
Responsible for coordinating the day-to-day activities of the department,
including assigning tasks and setting priorities.
Achieved a strong record of success in a dynamic environment.
Developed, implemented and monitored service level agreements with team and
clients, ensuring compliance and quick resolution of specific issues. Achieved
98.5% client satisfaction.
Manage external vendors to support the ITAD by conducting weekly meetings,
acting as a single point of contact for clients and vendors, and addressing any
issues that may arise.
Act as backup to the department manager in the event of absence.
Responsible for creating weekly and monthly metrics reports that senior
management can use to gauge departmental performance and individual
contribution.
Manage a revolving inventory of hardware worth over $50MM and ensure all
equipment can be accounted for from purchase, through storage, and deployment to
clients.
Manage the daily group activities while working on other projects as required by
senior management.
Spearheaded several process improvement efforts, including HITS which have
resulted in greater work efficiency that saves the department over 30 man-hours
per week.
Coordinated cross-functional team training exercises to ensure that all members
of the group could act as backup to each other during absences.
February 2000 - November 2003 MPL Systems, INC.
Totowa, NJ
Technical Consultant/Project Coordinator
Team Lead for several of MPL's short terms project and MAC at Goldman Sachs,
Bank of America, Dutch Bank and Merrill Lynch.
Organized and managed some Branch Conversion and upgrade from Windows NT 3.51 to
NT 4.0.
Participated in the Salomon Smith Barney's (SSMB) Nextgen 2.0 Migration, Where a
thirty-two member team from MPL provided hardware and software support before
and after migration, PC builds and configuration, User Acceptance Testing (UAT),
User Data Backup, site survey of users prior to migration, updating user
information to meet the new SOE requirement, and Inventory Reconciliation
ensuring that for every SOE PC deployed, there is a corresponding Novell PC
collected.
Retain by SSMD after the Nextgen 2.0 migration project to join Desktop Technical
support team. Monitoring and troubleshooting servers and desktops on a daily
basis in fast paced environment.
SUMMARY OF SKILLS
Proficient with the use of Citigroup tools such as TCRS, Virtual Tech, P2P, TAS,
Aperture Vista, WASP and PeopleSoft.
Proficient with the use of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Project,
Outlook, Visio, HTML.