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PROFILE: Senior Infrastructure leader with over 15

years of hands-on experience and history of excellence leading

Project Life Cycles from inception to completion of technical,

multiphase projects, with a distinct focus on data center

infrastructure design, system integration and

optimization system migrations and disaster mitigation and

recovery. Strategic planning for future requirements in

conjunction with assessing current technology trends; Architect

and implement solutions to meet business

requirements. Experienced in leading technical professionals-

both dedicated and matrixed-and creating synergy between

disparate teams and resources to accomplish required goals in

the data center/cloud/virtualization/optimization realm.

EDUCATION: M.B.A. Dowling Graduate Business School Long Island, NY

GPA 3.97, 2005,

B.S. Computer Science, City University of New York College of

Staten Island NY, 1995

A.S. Ship Mechanic and Navigation Diploma, Naval Military

School, Moscow, Russia 1989

CERTIFICATIONS Enterprise Architecture TOGAF@9

AND TRAINING: ITIL v3 Certified, 2008

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, MCSE, 1998

Microsoft Certified Professional, MCP + 1, 1998

Cisco Certified Network Administrator, CCNA, 2001

CISSP Certification-anticipated 2013

Cisco / CCNA College of Staten Island

Citrix MetaFrame Implementation and Administration, New Horizons

Managing Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003, New Horizons

Implementing and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 New

Horizons

Windows Scripting, Learning Tree

EMC Centera Administration

ITIL v3 Foundation Boot Camp, Global Knowledge

VMware 4.1 Boot Camp

MEMBER OF THE New York Microsoft Exchange Server User Group (NYExUG)

FOLLOWING GROUPS: New York Virtualization Technology User Group

ASNP: Association of Storage Network Professionals - NY Chapter

TECHNICAL

SKILLS: Network Engineering: Cisco, OpenRoute, Netopia class routers;

Cisco Catalysts, 3Com SuperStack, Netbay switches; VPN,

dedicated circuits, FDDI.

Network Security: Cisco PIX/ASA, SonicWall, RSA ACE server, MS

ISA Server, Linux Squid Proxy, Trend Viruswall, Trend Server

Protect, Norton Anti-virus Corp Edition, Sophos Enterprise

Manager, IDS (Linux Snort), Honeypot (Linux Noneyd) IPSec, L2PT,

PPTP, SSH

Role Based Access Control, TripWire

System Administration: Active Directory, Windows 2003/2008/2012

Servers, Linux, Sun Solaris. MAC OS, MS Exchange 2003/2010, SMS

2003/SCCM, MS MOM/MS SCOM, MS IIS, SNMP, DNS, WINS, DHCP, LDAP,

ARCServe, Veritas NetBackup & BackupExec, HP Insight Manager,

IPSwitch, NI Network Scan, Citrix XenApp, Terminal Server,

IPSwitch, NI Network Scan, NSI Double Take.

Directory Services: LDAP.

Storage: EMC CLARiiON CX500/CX340/CX4-120, EMC CELERRA, EMC

CENTERA, Replication Manager, EMC RecoverPoint, EMC Unisphere,

Navisphere, PowerPath. (UNIX and Windows environment). NetApp

FAS NAS.

EMC V Block:

Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS); Nexus 1000v and Multilayer

Directional Switches (MDS); VMware ESXi; EMC CX4-120

Clustering: Virtual Infrastructure 3.0/4.1/ESXi, Clustering with

VMotion, DRS and HA, Windows 2000 Advanced Server. Windows 2008,

Virtualization: ESX Virtual Infrastructure 3.0/3.5/4.1/ESXi;

Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop VDI

Desktop: Windows OS, Apple MAC OS 8.x, 9.x, 10.6;10.7

Business Applications: Salesforce, Charles River, Bloomberg,

Reuters, NASDAQ, TradeXL, Thomson1, Triton, Liquianet, Fact set, RFP, Holt, Lipper, Stock Val

Cloud: Microsoft Azure Infrastructure; Microsoft Office 360;

Amazon EC2; Private Cloud; IAAS

EXPERIENCE:

March 2012 Brookfield Asset Management (Enterprise with 24,000

employees and 18.7 bn Revenue)

Present Senior Systems Architects

. As the BCO Senior Systems Architect I am responsible for the

following:

o Responsible for enterprise wide IT operations including the

data center operations. (over 650 servers and over 600TB of

storage)

o Establish operational strategies for IT Operations

department.

o Establish high-level objectives for the department and

oversee the cascading of those objectives to managers, and

their reports. Balance short-term operational needs with

long-term strategic goals. Ensure operational strategies

are in line with the organization's goals including service

quality initiatives.

o Monitor mission critical issues.

o Partner with organization's executive leadership to provide

overall technical and managerial strategies for the

organization with focus on IT Operations.

o Provide technical leadership across the organization, from

the project planning level to strategic decision-making.

o Work closely with key decision makers in other departments

to identify, recommend, and implement the appropriate

technological solutions that directly support the

architecture vision and roadmap.

o Provide a line of service support responsibility for the

teams involved in supporting the core infrastructure.

o Ensure that the architecture 'blueprints' are properly

defined, documented and communicated.

o Work with management, business shareholders and technology

teams to coordinate solid architectures necessary for

successful systems and products.

o Manage teams of five to fifteen engineers on multiple

simultaneous projects as well as provide technical

leadership for multiple teams in the company ranging from

five to twenty engineers.

o Help establish best practices for development teams and

assist in evaluating and acquiring tools (source control,

build automation, unit testing, etc.) to aid the

development team.

. Achievements:

o Established five-year road map for private cloud compute

model.

o Reduced hardware facilities costs by consolidating

recourses and increasing resource utilization.

o Designed business optimized cloud services and reduced

demand for physical and static virtual resources.

o Implemented architecture optimized for private clouds and

increased vm/hosts ratios.

o Enabled additional consolidation of legacy systems and

enhanced utilization of IT resources.

o Reacrhitected storage infrastructure for the private cloud

computing model.

. Currently responsible for the following service components &

projects:

o Next Generation Data Center Design (Private Cloud Model)

o Collaborating with strategic partners on a $5 million

project to architect and deploy private cloud

infrastructure for enterprises that will improve

operational agility for deploying computing services while

achieving significant cost savings through consolidation.

o Architecting the build out of environment leveraging Cisco

Unified Compute, Nexus Switches, New Generation Storage

platforms, VMWare platforms and Recover Point technologies.

o Large Centralized/DR/Regional Data Center Facilities &

Management

o Enterprise Scale Virtualization farm & management

environment (VMWare, Citrix)

o Global Active Directory upgrade projects - including

federation & migration techniques

January 2011 2012 FF (Ford Foundation), INC.

IT Manager

. Responsible for development, implementation and support of

critical business infrastructure and

management of local outsourced data center operations.

. Researched, implemented, administered and ensured security of

the hardware, operating systems, and software required to

support Internet/Intranet/Extranet initiatives.

. Prioritized projects and day-to-day workload of the Windows

support team.

. Handled the daily operation of corporate enterprise computing

environment consisting of over 200 servers Windows 2003/ 2008.

. Designed Active Directory logical structure, OU, Group Policy

and user rights hierarchy.

. Created trend analysis, daily status reports (DSR), and monthly

status reports (MSR) based on

ITIL Service Management Service providing governance and

support.

. Conducted systematic performance tuning and capacity planning.

. Performed feasibility studies with technical personnel for the

solution and justification of new

or upgraded systems and controlled prioritizations, submissions,

and implementation of requests for service to the department.

. Provided problem analysis and support in technical areas leading to

improved productivity and

better integration of technology into operations.

. Responsible for system and operational problems, and providing

advice on purchases of

hardware and software.

. Re-architected Help Desk operations to maximize efficiency.

. Coordinated with all Application and Business partners on upgrades,

deployments and re-design

efforts to ensure smooth delivery and minimal disruption to

business activities.

. Defined standards for system builds and created server build

procedures to reflect server

functions.

. Acted as central contact, coordinating, network engineering, system

security and data-center

operations tasksracked project life cycle to ensure timely

completion per contract

requirements, reviewed server build scripts for technical

accuracy and provided hands-on

Technical support.

. Supported private cloud Computing Environment based on VCE

VBlock.

VMware server; VMware Site Recover Manager; EMC CX4-120 Storage

Arrays; EMC Recover Point Replication; Cisco Unified Computing

System (UCS); Nexus 1000v and Multilayer Directional Switches

(MDS);

. Redesigned business processes for IT consumerization.

. Implemented MDM to discipline data asset management

. Implemented policy and Mobile Device support and eligibility

matrix.

February 2004 to

January 2011 SCHRODERS INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, INC.

SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER

. Part of a multinational team of System Engineers dedicated to

the maintenance and architecture of critical business

infrastructure.

. Responsibilities included the overall responsibility for the

analysis, design, implementation and support of Windows Business

Applications.

. Handled the daily operation of corporate enterprise computing

environment consisting of over 100 servers Windows 2003/ 2008

resulting in 99.9% network uptime.

. Successfully implemented automated solution for compliance

policy management "Tripwire" to illuminate unauthorized changes

on critical business systems.

. Designed and supported multisided Active directory

infrastructure including: Replication topology; DNS/WINS/DHCP,

Printing services; Delegation control; Disaster recovery.

. Managed circuit requests, router installation, and maintenance of

multiple Microsoft networks.

. Setup and configuration of Cisco routers, switches, and ASA

firewalls.

. Designed Active Directory logical structure, OU, Group Policy

and user rights hierarchy.

. Responsible for designing an effective change control procedure,

providing a mechanism for accepting changes that improved the

project overall, while rejecting those that degraded it. As well

as providing a historic trail of the development of project

work, including all proposed changes.

. Deployed Citrix based remote access and remote application

serving solution.

. Deployed a multi-national infrastructure management server

solution (MS SMS 2003/SCCM) providing centralized Patch

Management services and software package distribution for all

remote sites. Sites included in this deployment were US-NY, US-

Philadelphia, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Bermuda, Cayman Island and

Argentina. Local staff was also trained to utilize these

services.

. Increased Help Desk productivity by instituting Domain level

password change ability and delegating centralized printer

management functions, which resulted in decreased down time for

domain users.

. Formed and led both Security and Virus Response teams to

properly handle potential enterprise-wide security threats.

. Created Help Desk virus escalation and response matrix.

. Developed SunGard based, fully functional, host-backup site.

. Designed and Implemented successful disaster recovery program

that recovered 100% of data retrieved within 3 hours of RTO.

. Implemented comprehensive and accurate in successfully logging

malicious network activity NIDS ("Snort" under Linux OS) system

to identify attacks, suspicious activity and security

vulnerability and weaknesses.

. Successfully designed and integrated EMC Clarion CX500 SAN

implementation that increased disk utilization; reduced data

center/rack floor space; improved data availability; improved

LAN/WAN performance; reduced storage maintenance costs; improved

protection of critical data; reduced CPU loads on servers to

free up more computing power, data protection and reduce down

time of the primary file server.

. Deployed cast effective host-based real-time data replication

solution NSI Double-Take to improve data protection and reduce

down time of the primary file server.

. Deployed Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005/ SCOM

enterprise solution with integration for MS SMS 2003 and MS

Exchange 2003.

. Integrated Role Based Access Control (RBAC) into the corporate

Infrastructure.

. Participated in VMware ESX server and Virtual Center project

deployment and achieved the following goals:

o Increased hardware utilization by 40%

o Decreased hardware and software capital costs by 40%

o Decreased operating costs by 35%

o Reduced required datacenter square footage, rack space,

power, and cooling, cabling, storage and network components

by reducing the sheer number of physical machines.

o Decreased labor costs by simplifying and automating labor

and resource intensive IT operations

. Redesigned Data Center cooling process and achieved the

following goals:

o Lower electric usage/ energy bills

o Lower data center temperature by five degrees

. Deployed Citrix VDI solution and achieved significant cost savings

without negative effect on performance.

2001- 2004 SERVICE SPAN, INC.

1999 - 2001 GREEN COMMUNICATIONS DESIGN

1998 - 1999 COMPUSA CORPORATE INTEGRATION SERVICES

1996 - 1998 ESSC/GENICOM CORPORATION / NASDAQ

Bi-Lingual - English/Russian

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