Manager Engineer

Michael Marrano

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CTO/Vice President of Information Technology

Professional Profile

An accomplished IT management professional, with 14 years of extensive

technical experience and over 10 years of managing IT in Trading firms,

Hedge funds, and Asset management firms. A creative thinker with in-depth

hands-on abilities in managing, analyzing, designing, and implementing a

wide range of successful IT projects.

Technical Skills

Extensive hands-on technical experience managing and implementing IT

systems in the following areas:

OS Platforms & Features Communications & Security

Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 Dedicated secure multi-office and

Workstation 2000/XP/Vista/7 International communication

Active Directory, Group Policy solutions such as MPLS links

Objects (GPOs) Network vulnerability assessment

VDI, Terminal Server & Citrix TCP/IP & routing protocols

VMware ESX, ESXi, vSphere 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless systems &

System Monitoring & Application security

Software VOIP & PRI phone systems

System performance & security BGP Internet connectivity and

monitoring redundant internet solutions

Viruses, Malware, & perimeter BC/DR Planning & Maintenance

protection Hot, warm, & cold backup site design

Remote access & network management

solutions Data replication hardware & software

MS Exchange and all MS Office

applications Exchange email archiving & failover

Web content filtering and monitoring solutions

Experience with multiple backup

Data Center / Server Room Design sites in North East area including

Temperature & power monitoring SunGard, Berbee, Diversified, etc.

systems Financial & Market Data Systems

Data cabling & patch panel layout Bloomberg

Air Conditioning, power, & UPS Thomson Reuters

requirements Factset

Surveillance & security Advent (Moxy, Axys, Partner)

Infrastructure Hardware Eze Castle OMS

Cisco firewalls, routers, & switches Tradeware Market Center

(L2&L3) FIX connectivity

HP & Dell servers

NAS, SAN, RAID storage systems

Array Network Appliances

Business and IT Management Skills

Extensive IT/IS management expertise including:

. Assessing regulatory technology requirements to meet the needs of

Legal and Compliance teams.

. Successfully Managing IT project teams using organizational,

interpersonal, and planning skills.

. Analyzing business needs, IT capacity planning, and available

technology to determine best solutions.

. Creating IT and Market Data budget requirements and cost analysis for

system upgrades and support.

. Assessing skills and qualifications of existing and/or potential

employees, contractors, and vendors.

. Performing Risk Assessments, Business Impact Analysis, and creating

Incident Management Plans.

. Creating technical documents, user guides, and corporate technology

policies.

Professional Experience

Buckingham Research and Buckingham Capital

Chief Technology Officer - Present

Vice President from January 2006 - December 2008

IT Manager from March 2004 - January 2006

Business Summary

Leader of the IT department providing technology expertise to a Broker

Dealer and Asset Management firm with a 25 year history on Wall St.

Major Accomplishments

. Responsible for building the Buckingham technology department and

producing the first in house IT engineering and support team after 10+

years of outsourced IT services.

. Provided technical expertise to Compliance and legal teams to

implement technologies to exceed FINRA/NASD, SEC and Dodd-Frank

requirements in areas of electronic message security, capture and

retention. Also managed all IT aspects of forensics and E-discovery

for NASD/FINRA exams, SEC inquiries and other legal and compliance

matters.

. Providing all levels of executive technology functions such as

procurement and creating budgets, providing reports to board members

and management, managing vendors and contract negotiations for IT and

Market Data system while maintaining a senior engineer skill set and

leading the technology team.

. Design and management of redundant LAN/WAN using Cisco ASA firewalls,

Cisco 3750 switches, and Cisco 2800 routers utilizing HSRP and BPG for

high availability internet connectivity.

. Planned and implemented Windows 2008 Active Directory Tree Structure

for a firm with no tolerance for downtime based on MS SQL servers,

Windows 2008/XP and MS Exchange 2007 messaging system.

. Design of firm wide BCP/ Disaster Recovery and Contingency planning

utilizing NSI Double Take, VMware ESXi, Array Network appliances and

Citrix terminal servers to provide data mirroring and high application

availability. Also responsible for Business Impact Analysis, business

continuity upgrades and testing of procedures.

. Manager of firm Market Data systems (Bloomberg, Thomson, Reuters,

Factset) including management of vendors, contracts and product

evaluation. Technology lead on multiple OMS installs/migrations (NYFIX

to TradeWare and Moxy to Eze Castle) responsible for FIX connectivity

and network design.

Itochu Corp - Itochu International of Japan

IT Manager from January 2003 - January 2004

Business Summary

IT Manager for the North American flagship of a publicly traded Japanese

asset management firm with assets in over 60 countries around the world.

Major Accomplishments

. Creating, managing and mentoring the Itochu North America support team

responsible for supporting over 800 employees in 25 locations.

. Project manager and lead engineer on the relocation of the Itochu NYC

data center to a secure Sungard facility in NJ. In a mere 24 hours 40

pieces of Compaq/HP, Sun, and other mission critical equipment was

moved, tested and certified for production.

. Spearheaded the design and rollout of an MS Exchange 2003 cluster

system and the migration 1000 mailboxes including the migrating all

users from Outlook Express to MS Outlook 2003.

. Lead on the build out of a 50 person trading floor, designed redundant

BGP internet connectivity, installed and supported market data

applications such as Bloomberg, Instinet and Reuters.

Wolverine Trading - IT Manager

March 2000 - January 2003

Business Summary

IT Manager for the NYC and Philadelphia offices for a financial institution

specializing in proprietary trading, asset management and order executions

services headquartered in Chicago.

. Migrated Philadelphia and NY offices from FOC and SLK outsourced IT

infrastructure to in-house Wolverine infrastructure including all

levels of support to traders and specialists.

. East coast lead engineer for Win 2000 Active Directory migration and

Exchange 2000 rollout.

. Administration of LAN/WAN connectivity using Cisco 3500 switches,

Cisco 2600 and 3700 routers and EIGRP routing protocol. .

. Management of Avaya PBX phone and messaging system, trader Turrets

phones which includes installing phones, punch downs, and cable

testing.

IBM - IT Engineer

June 1997 - March 2000

Business Summary

IT Consultant assigned to be the lead Windows engineer and support IBM

Corporate Internet Programs (IBM.com) .

. Responsible for installing and supporting IBM Servers, PC's,

Thinkpads.

. Spearheaded Y2K hardware and software compliance project.

. Responsible for training end users in MS Windows NT, MS Office, Lotus

Notes and Internet/Web browsers.

Education

Saint Johns University, New York

Bachelor of Science Degree (1997)

Major: Criminal Justice

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