Project Manager Engineer

DONALD S. KRUTE

Staten Island, New York ***** // 917-***-**** // ********@*******.***

Profile

Project Manager with variety of IT experiences, including data center

modifications/additions, physical infrastructure, telecomm carriers builds

and vendor management. Operate as a bridge between hardware and software

teams for project implementation in the financial industry. Successful at

vendor expense reduction. Career foundation in Market Data content and

delivery in a trading floor environment.

Professional Experience

REED ELSEVIER / LEXIS NEXIS New York, NY & New Providence, NJ 2009

Project Manager (consultant)

. Led weekly meetings with data, voice and procurement teams to identify

areas of potential reduction of telecom costs

. Generated substantial cost reduction through:

. Investigation and elimination of under utilized circuit capacity

. Consolidation of contractual agreements and renegotiations

. Negotiations of custom SLA's

. Provisioning management of circuits and wireless allocation through

3rd party vendor agreements

. Call center toll cost reductions to India

. VPN access upgrades to soft token

. Where technically possible high priced European carriers were replaced

with American based companies

. Presented status reports for financial division and steering committee

illustrating work stream results and initiatives

. Document and monitors project status using PPMC and MS Project

BEAR STEARNS INC. New York, NY & Whippany, NJ 2002 to 2008

JPMC Transition Team (2008)

Vice President, Carrier Services Engineering (2006 - 2008)

Project Manager, Carrier Services Engineering (2003 to 2008)

. Managed infrastructure implementations including: DWDM, WAN/MAN

additions, muxes, wireless services, optical and electrical (both

Carrier and firm managed).

. Collaborated with corporate real-estate. Surveyed and evaluated

potential new domestic business sites regarding feasibility of

construction for carrier Point of Presence (POP's) facilities.

. Reviewed and evaluated new vendor product offerings and recommended

viable products to network engineering.

. Managed vendors, concerning circuit pricing, ordering and installation

management.

. Evaluated carrier-provided networks for optimum cost-effectiveness and

technology deployment.

. Project managed office relocations.

. Created Visio network drawings and Excel Documentation of global

carrier related information.

. Leveraged vendor relationships in a multi-vendor, multi-Carrier

Environment ensuring high level service at the best price.

. Performed periodic WAN network carrier capacity studies.

LAN Communications Specialist, Communications Services Group (2002 to 2003)

. Managed daily LAN network maintenance issues. Coordinated IP

management for moves adds and changes. Resolved LAN issues.

MERRILL LYNCH, Princeton, NJ 1997- 2001

Assistant Vice President (1998 - 2001)

Consultant (1997 - 1998)

Release Management Coordination and Implementation (2001)

. Represented the Web Hosting group's position for on line software

product rollouts, delivery dates and managed internal client

expectations.

. Oversaw hardware and software work schedules and implementation

requirements, for online software rollouts (to be used as an internal

metrics tool).

. Installed software and custom built servers for proprietary software.

Hopewell Relocation Project (1999- 2001)

. Designed modifications to suit business needs and non standard

lab/data center requirements for software development and testing labs

at the new Hopewell Facility. Modifications included Cybex KVM

infrastructure requirements.

Network Support Group (1998- 1999)

. Directed installation of cable plant for Rubicon (Web Hosting) beta

data center at Old Trenton Road (over 5,000 gigaspeed network drops

and 3,000 voice grade circuits) establishing Merrill Lynch's on-line

presence.

. Vendor relations and management point person for installs and

production issues for Network Infrastructures group. Reduced expenses

by implementing economies of scale and establishing favorable SLAs.

. Reduced costs through elimination and consolidation of underutilized

bandwidth.

Market Data Group (1998)

. Conducted weekly meetings for FSW Project (Commodities Work Station)

tracked issues and significantly reduced software and data delivery

time to production.

. Chaired weekly meetings for: market data content, software developers

and user community.

. Tracked open issues and published daily status reports related to

software implementation schedules

. Point person for production, software and hardware issues.

. Coordinated and tracked production implementation schedules between

ILX programmers, Aspen Graphics, Bridge and Merrill Lynch developers

. Attained business unit certification for Y2K project

. Represented Market Data group at release management meetings.

OPPENHEIMER & COMPANY, New York, NY 1995- 1997

Market Data Manager

. Migrated stand-alone Market Data services to a network platform

resulting in significant cost savings.

. Reduced overhead by $1M annually by streamlining Market Data content

providers.

. Built Market Data Technology Group.

. Bolstered Trading Floor rewiring project.

SALOMON INC., New York, NY 1991- 1995

Market Data Engineer, Market Data Group (1993 - 1995)

. Supported all technologies on multiple trading floors. Designed,

documented and managed Market Data infrastructure additions.

. Introduced and installed Bloomberg equipment via Optical electric and

twisted pair delivery.

. Installed and maintained all Market Data Video

. Maintained trading floor technologies including testing and

troubleshooting infrastructure related problems.

Cable Plant Engineer (1991 - 1995)

. Supervised electricians and vendor personnel. Established and

maintained work schedules, designed, documented and managed

infrastructure additions.

MPL SYSTEMS, Inc. 1988 - 1991

Consultant

Clients: Salomon Brothers and JP Morgan

. Tested Cabletron local area network and IBM wide area network as part of

migration project. Created, organized and maintained termination scheduled

testing procedures for various connectivity technologies.

Education

PACE UNIVERSITY, Graduate School of Computer Science

M.S. Telecommunications

1994

RICHMOND COLLEGE

B.A. Political Science

Certifications

PACE UNIVERSITY PMP Express

11-2009

AMX University

Control Designer

1-2009

Control Installer

12-2008

Networking for AV Professionals

10-2008

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