Steven Padula
abmczd@r.postjobfree.com *** Noel Street Staten Island, NY 10312
Home: 718-***-****
Education:
BS - Project Management at Colorado Technical University (Summa Cum
Laude)
AS - Business at American Intercontinental University (With Honors)
Experience:
Consultant: 2009-Present
Facilities Management
CableVision
Facilities Manager (Nationally) 2008-2009
. Responsible for facility planning, operations, maintenance,
installation for inside/outside plant sites (equipment, power,
cabling, labeling, documentation), circuit: (pricing, installation,
contracts) colo sites and contracts, power: (AC&DC) and financial
success of a facility (or facilities).
. Manager's office supplies and their vendors.
. Manage all outside vendors for colo sites as well as vendor services
and contracts. Purchase networking equipment.
. This position manages the remote facility support function for the
purpose of supporting the organizations goals and objectives in a
critical facility.
. Develops and implements business processes that assure cost efficient
facility operations and minimize/eliminate unplanned infrastructure
and building systems downtime.
. Negotiates circuits pricing, colo pricing, and everything associated
with the Colo.
. Responsible for effective cost management associated with maintaining
the facility/colo, equipment and furnishings. Identify and implement
savings initiatives.
. Well versed in Visio and AutoCAD for drawings.
. Develop overhead (sector), operating and capital budgets; responsible
for facilities group savings targets and maintaining the facility
budget.
. Establish and administer estimated/actual pass-through expenses.
. Negotiate building leases.
. Assure optimal functioning of building systems (HVAC, Security, UPS,
Generator, fire/life safety equipment, kitchen equipment, etc.)
. Manage and maintain access control system and management of the access
cards.
infoUSA
Director of Facilities (NY/NJ) 2006-2008
. Manage 5 buildings in the NY/NJ area, and servers as liaison to local
building management.
. Managed all contractors and vendor work while managing
contractor/vendor relationships.
. Design/Create project work plans, project budgeting build outs, and
all internal moves.
. Negotiate and approve contracts for subcontractors and supplies and
maintenance.
. Maintain interdepartmental process and procedures.
. Manage building systems including mechanical, fire/life safety,
elevators, OSHA, etc.
. Ordered and controlled all office supplies, and all mail related
duties.
. Hired all security 24x7 and maintained all security polices, and mail
room staff.
. Written/Maintained facility budget and operating expenses, and
physical condition of premises.
. Maintained office inventory of supplies.
. Negotiated and implemented contracts for Cleaning services, Building
and Ground maintenance,
. HVAC, Electrical, Plumbing, and Security. (Static Switch Gear, Pre-
action Fire systems, Building Control Systems, UPS, Generators, PDU's,
-48DC)
. Ability to read and analyze Electrical, Mechanical, and Plumbing blue
print.
. Oversee logistics group for packages, mail, inventory and supplies.
Bruns-Pak
Project Manager (Nationally) 2004-2006
. Scheduled and coordinated times and days for contractors/vendors to
perform any new installation work.
. Design/Create project work plans, project budgeting, and build out of
$50,000,000+ data centers/buildings.
. Managed all contractors and vendor work while managing
contractor/vendor relationships.
. Experience in problem solving, process improvements, as well as
creating and driving communications strategies.
. Develop statement of requirements, kickoff requirements and an agenda
for new customers.
. Perform business analysis and write specifications, and create and
track project plans.
. Manage scope throughout the project lifecycle and meet all TIA-942
standards.
. Develop project design budget and create comprehensive program
document.
. Estimation and management of project costs, review of construction
plans, gathering of general contractor bids, coordination of
architects, designers, QA, construction schedules and supervision of
fieldwork.
. Site visits to monitor progress, motivation and direction to the team,
supervision of purchasing agent as it relates to procurement of
construction materials.
. Review and approve plans submittal procedures, markups, design
requirements, drawings, and specification changes.
Sprint
Facilities Manager 2001-2004
. Manage 7/24 call center operations.
. Maintain the integrity of the data center for customer SLA.
. Provided customer support, quality control and problem solving.
. Hired all security 24x7 and maintained all security polices.
. Handle all large customer projects/installs, as well as any new
construction/renovation projects for brokerage house and large
financial institutions.
. Conducting customer tours and events of the facilities for sales.
. Worked with sales for new and existing customers.
. Establish and maintain policies and procedures.
. Written/Maintained facility budget and operating expenses.
. Scheduled and coordinated times and days for contractors/vendors to
perform any preventive maintenance or new installation work.
. Sent out e-mail notification of work that was going to be preformed.
. Negotiated and implemented contracts for Cleaning services, HVAC,
Electrical, Plumbing.
. Design drawings of cabling infrastructure, cabinets, cubicles,
electrical and all hardware, using blueprints, schematics, AutoCAD,
and Visio.
. Managed all contractors and vendor work while managing
contractor/vendor relationships.
. Implementation of new network technology and business application.
. Solicit bids and proposals from union and non-union contractors and
vendors as well as the evaluation and negotiation.
. Provided technical support to internal and external departments.
. Knowledge of reading power requirements for network and server
equipment.
. Oversee and manager all documentation for equipment and cable
connections.
. Attended EPL review calls for customer installations, and prepared
drawings in CAD.
. Current in UPS, Generators, and PDU's, building infrastructure, and
security practices.
. Always communicated up to senior management as well as across lines to
peers within the organization.
. Experience in problem solving, process improvements, as well as
creating and driving communications strategies.
. Other duties included, Staff hiring, personnel performance reviews,
handling employee issues, scheduling and tracking technical training,
setting career paths, inputting to managing data center budget.
Digital Island Inc.
Facilities Manager (Internationally) 1998-2001
. Supporting the region's data center managers.
. Cooperatively engaging with all Digital Island departments.
. Maintain interdepartmental process and procedures.
. Design/Create project work plans, project budgeting build out of
$50,000,000+.
. Laid out all designs for copper and fiber cabling as well as cabling
highways.
. Built EMP rooms for financial institutions and brokerage houses.
. Negotiate and approve contracts for subcontractors and suppliers.
. Maintain the integrity of the data centers for on-time completion of
installations.
. Design drawings for power layouts, cabinets, and cabling, using CAD.
. Maintain spreadsheets for documentation.
. Strong communication, presentation and facilitation skills.
. Circuit provisioning, testing, terminating, and acceptance. (Coax,
CAT5, Fiber Cable)
. Handle all large customer projects/installs while keeping within
budget guidelines.
. Conducting customer tours of the facilities and taking charge of the
customer visits and services.
. Maintain budget and scheduling for all projects simultaneously under
tight deadlines.
. Worked with sales and all parties involved for customer
meetings/implementations.
. Coordinated with the different engineering groups for rack and
stacking network equipment in the cabinets.
. Always communicated up to senior management as well as across lines to
peers within the organization.
. Was current in UPS power, backup generators, building infrastructure,
and security practices.
. Other duties included, scheduling and tracking technical training,
setting career path, inputting to managing data center budget.
Telehouse International Inc.
Network Specialist/Supervisor 1994-1998
. Provide first level of technical support to the communication group
for any hardware/software problems that occur.
. Provide technical support to the communications group in maintaining
international carrier service for our customers.
. Responsible for updates on outages and providing updates to Senior
Management and customer contacts.
. Responsible for communication of all open and outstanding problems
during shift turnovers.
. Responsible for creating work orders to coordinate circuit
installations, schedule acceptance testing for circuits, and any
equipment or configuration support required.
. Provide additional Customer Assistance Center technical support as
required on a daily basis.
. Supervise the customer site preparation for business recovery testing.
. Interface with the business recovery management team to review test
support requirements.
. Responsible for identifying, documenting, and resolving all problems
for the business recovery services.
. Responsible to maintain the availability of each business recovery
site.
. Will backup department manager during his absence.
. Responsible for other departments to obtain and verify support
requirements for daily operations.
. -Ensures that all deadlines, once established, are met.
. Accomplishments: Compiled information that created customer profile
books. Provided tech. training and cross training classes, for all
customer sites.
Other Professional Experience:
Metpath Inc. City Federal Saving's
Sr. Network Technician/ Supervisor Communications Analyst
Hardware:
IBM: 3090, 3274's, 3174's and CAU's and MAU's, PC's, Mac's, LANs, Patch
Panels, PDS, Modems, 110 Hardware, LDM's Multiplexes, Timeplex, NET, SPX
Series, PDS Wiring, Definity Generic 3S2, SAN's, DSU/CSU, NewBridge
4602,Cisco Works, Cisco Routers & Bridges, SUN Servers, Compaq Servers.
Software:
Windows, Word, MS Mail, Visio, MS Project, Excel, Netscape, Auto Cad,
Meeting Maker, Microsoft Outlook, Eudora Pro, Secure CRT, Vantive, Remedy,
Netcracker, Kintana.
Certification
Basics of Accounting and Finance AutoCAD
Business Fundamentals AT&T Systimax (TM)
PDS
Business in the Global Environment Network Design
Human Resource Development Local Area Networks
Project Planning Network Design
Managements Essentials Project Management Specialist
Organizational Systems Improvement