Infrastructure, security and architecture projects at industry leaders, including: S&P Global, Ernst & Young, Citigroup, Dun & Bradstreet, AEGIS Insurance Services, Prudential Insurance, AIG, ChaseMellon Shareholders Services, inVentiv Health, Merck & Co., Bankers Trust, American Express, and Blue Cross Blue Shield.

Responsible for Global Transformation Projects for critical applications, creating reference architectures by working with business, engineering, DevOps and operations on roadmaps for cloud migration.

Translate business needs into technical requirements and architect hybrid infrastructure solutions for AWS & Azure Cloud and consolidated data centers with adequate security thru out environments and transfer of data.

As AWS Cloud Technology Architect & Strategist, create & provide Technology Roadmap, Governance, and Capacity Planning. Handle digital transformation, roadmap of migration creation that includes technology, economics, tradeoffs, security and risks for private vs hybrid vs public cloud infrastructure.

Partner with senior level business managers to accelerate business processes, agility and improve collaboration.

Effectively communicates technology matter to optimize, implement, manage and support business processes.

Delivers strategic initiatives and key transformation programs.

Analyze complex business needs and recommends and drives technical solutions and strategies.

Drives cohesive, integrated, cross-team strategic short and long range projects to achieve IT transformation objectives.

Excellent communication skills whether with client, vendor, technical or business. Previous vendors have included Cisco, IBM, Oracle, AVAYA among others

Highly adept at aligning state-of-the-art technology with overall business strategy.

Unique ability to collaborate at all levels in an organization.

Oversees development of technology standards, business cases, new solutions, financial management and annual budget planning.

Earlier experience in software engineering and project management for Bankers Trust, American Express and Blue Cross and Blue Shield.

TECHNOLOGY

Cloud Computing – AWS, Amazon EC2 and S3, Microsoft Azure, Google Apps;

Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, Software as a Service, IoT; Enterprise Data Center Infrastructure, Enterprise Security and Risk management, TOGAF and Zachman Frameworks;

Virtualization – VMware ESX, Hyper-V, Docker Containers, Solaris Containers, LPAR; ThinApp, VDI, App-V, XenApp;

ITIL v3, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF), Agile Scrum Framework;

SOA, J2EE, .NET, AJAX, Mashups, OO technologies, DCOM, Orbix, CORBA, MTS;

Web 2.0, WOA, Internet, Intranet, Extranet; VOIP, Unified Communication, Messaging, Telepresence, BlackBerry BES, iPhone; Active Directory, LDAP;

HARDWARE

VBlock, HP, CISCO UCS B & C, DELL, IBM servers, SUN Enterprise Servers; CISCO routers, switches, firewalls, WAAS; Big-IP, F5; Citrix NetScaler, Juniper, PaloAlto, Fortinet; Riverbed, SilverPeak, Blue Coat, Panzura; EMC VMAX, XIO, VNX, Isilon, ATMOS, CLARiiON CX3, CX4, NetApp FAS Series;

SOFTWARE

Windows NT 3.1-2012 R2 and XP/Vista/7/8.1/10, UNIX, Solaris, AIX, LINUX, Citrix; TCP/IP, Firewall, Proxy, SSL VPN, network switches; Active Directory up to 2012 R2, DNS, DHCP; SCCM Configuration Manager, SCOM Operation Manager, VMware vRealize Suite, Ansible/Tower, Chef, Puppet; VSAN; Security information and event management (SIEM) LogRhythm, NetIQ, Splunk; MS SQL, SYBASE, Oracle, MySQL, NoSQL; EMC Avamar, RecoverPoint, Navisphere, NetApp SnapManager; Websphere, webMethods, BizTalk, Plumtree, TIBCO, BEA Systems; PeopleSoft, Siebel; SAS Grid, Tableau, MS Power BI, Documentum, FileNet, Captiva, Vignette; Office 365, Exchange 4.0-2013, SharePoint MOSS-2013, Lotus Notes, Work Flow, FAX.

Career History

Enterprise IT Architect, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of NJ 01/2017 – 04/2017

Consultant with Technology Roadmap, Governance, and Capacity Planning. AWS Cloud Technology Architect & Strategist for digital transformation, creating roadmap of migration, including technology, economics, tradeoffs and risks for private vs hybrid vs public cloud infrastructure. Develop and Deliver Strategic Cloud Architecture, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and cybersecurity.

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect, ATOS/McGraw Hill, 05/2016 – 12/2016

S&P Global Transformation Project - Technical Architect Manager for eleven critical applications creating reference architectures by working with business, engineering, DevOps and operations on roadmap and security for cloud migration.

Research, create diagrams and documentation for business logic, data flow, applications layers, network components and security.

Interacting with business on service requests, developing and implementing solutions while keeping cost in mind in IT areas of: Datacenters, Storage, Compute, Networks, Security, Virtualization, and Operations.

Consultant, managing improvement of services working close with engineering and operations, following processes based on ITIL service strategy, design, transition, operation and improvement.

Large projects: MS Office 365 migration (27,000 seats) and AWS & Azure Cloud automation (Infrastructure, vRealize suite, Chef Infrastructure, Ansible/Tower, Cloud Foundry).

IT Consultant, Individual projects for Small-Medium Businesses, 01/2016 - 04/2016

Presentation for architecture infrastructure modernization with cost benefits and risk analyses as individual projects.

Upon approval, performed appropriate hardware refresh, operating systems upgrades and applications updates to current releases.

Executed migration to Office 365, documents consolidation and as applicable migrate workloads to IaaS/PaaS/SaaS using Azure, AWS or similar resources establishing adequate security thru out environments.

Director Enterprise Architecture & Infrastructure, inVentiv Health, 10/2011 – 12/2015

InVentiv was loose association of large number of acquired companies, agencies and units that are coming into the corporate umbrella with their own resources, policies, sometimes-strong preferences and distinctive culture. As a director, my main responsibility was to create standards and polices; identify, assess and prioritize risks and in economical fashion minimize and control it; establish new data center and rationalize and consolidate applications across all business lines.

Accomplishments

Provided architectural vision, strategy & roadmap, also leadership and expertise in development of standards, frameworks, architectural governance, design patterns and IT best practices.

Created and maintained organization-wide reference architectures, view of current and future business and application architecture in support of company goals and objectives.

Translated business needs into technical requirements and architected hybrid infrastructure for AWS & Azure Cloud and consolidated data centers (vBlock & Cloud, VMware, vRealize, Ansible, Citrix, Palo Alto & Cisco firewalls, Cisco routers & switches, F5 load balancing & proxy, InfoBlox).

Managed engineering and operations during transformation, migration and implementation, then providing 3rd level for ongoing support.

Reporting to the CIO, currently responsible for ensuring 24x7 smooth operations of the firm’s global technology infrastructure.

Ensured quality metrics on delivery are met or exceeded and security at the highest possible level.

Established transformation plan (AD, local LANs and MPLS-WAN), business continuity and Disaster Recovery (mirror of primary DC).

Managed design, implementation, migration and ongoing support of Multi-Vendor Networks and Security throughout all locations with public key infrastructure (PKI) implementation.

Worked with business and technology leaders to identify business requirements that affect enterprise architecture and provided solutions that integrate into overall architectural vision and strategy. Introduce new designs and implemented shared services model that is cross-organizational with minimal customization.

Engineered and implemented key compute priorities – maintenance, resources and administration, by enabling seamless scalability and extensibility, and accelerating deployment by means of delivering services via the dynamic infrastructure of the hybrid - in house and Cloud, with simple, self-service provisioning for users based on their desired function, capacity, cost, and agreed level of performance.

Researched and provided risk assessment of new and disruptive technologies which can provide technological edge to the business. Collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure that technology decisions align with the overall Enterprise Architecture Framework and Roadmap.

Designed and managed development, data migration and configuration of more than ten autonomous systems into SalesForce and Veeva, then integration thru ETL and ESB.

Architected and planned consolidation and migration Enterprise wide to Oracle PeopleSoft 9.2 - Human Resource Management Systems, Financial Management Solutions and Enterprise Performance Management.

Created environment where all understood, and were committed to, providing excellent service to internal and external customers.

Established working relations & partnerships in a matrix management environment with business, vendors & peers.

Worked with business to address critical issues and resolve major problems. Monitored business satisfaction levels on a regular basis, alerting teams to any problems. Responded to daily business requests and interactions. Communicated effectively up, down and across the organization.

Always created clear goals and performance targets for the team while rewarding initiative, discipline, dedication and technical excellence.

Helped individuals develop their careers, assigning them to projects tailored to their skill levels, long-term skill development, personalities, and work styles.

Design & Solution Architecture Manager, Ernst & Young, 03/2011 – 09/2011

Consultant responsible for driving strategy and innovation of global architecture infrastructure platforms.

Analyzed business requirements, created design and implemented solutions that fit within the E&Y systems and architecture standards.

Responsible for hands-on design, managing, building, testing and implementation of global infrastructure solutions and European Data Centers consolidation.

Performed strategic and tactical project planning, management of multiple projects simultaneously, supervision of timelines and budget.

Interacted with program managers and clients at all levels for purposes of requirements gathering and architecting solutions and designs.

Infrastructure Engineering Manager, Citi Global Transaction Services, 06/2010 – 03/2011

Consultant responsible for mapping performance and capacity of services within the GTS portfolio of application across Windows, VMware, Sun and AIX environments.

Defined and maintained the performance, capacity and availability metrics of applications within their operating environments.

Assessed the risk and associated impact on capacity, performance characteristics and metrics in preparation for full consolidation under VMware of Windows applications and services, migration from Sun to AIX with establishing standardized environment for WebSphere, Tibco and other services.

Established sizing for new architecture thru capacity planning and preliminary budget for planned consolidation and migration activity.

Senior Project Manager Infrastructure Architect - CTO, AEGIS Insurance Services, Inc., 06/1999-02/2010.

Ensured 24x7 smooth operations of the firm’s global technology infrastructure.

Reported in to the CIO.

Accomplishments

Reengineered IT operations to reflect latest industry trends and leading edge technologies, transforming IT into strategic business partner.

Researched cost/benefit and assessed risk/rewards for technology investments and purchases. Revised and renegotiated all technology related contracts reducing expenses 35%.

Architected, planned and managed migration to virtual servers (VMware, VSphere, ESX, SRM with EMC CLARiiON), reducing number of physical servers by 75% and improving server time readiness from 3 weeks to under 1 hours.

Architected grid and managed market simulation development for Windows Compute Cluster, later migrating to HPC 2008.

Hands on management of environments and migrations of Windows and Active Directory 2000,2003,2008-R2, Exchange 5.5,2003,2007,2010, SharePoint 3.0,2003,2007, MS SQL95, 2008.

Project managed office and data center move that was completed fourteen days ahead of schedule and required only minimal outages.

Implemented and supervised standard monthly maintenance of servers and desktops, performance tracking for service level agreements, reducing maintenance from 80/20 to 60/40 and freeing up support personnel from lights-on maintenance.

Introduced standard desktop and automated builds saving 4 to 6 hours per desktop. Further on enhancing process utilizing App-V, ThinApp and VDI.

Dramatically improved customer satisfaction metrics through reduction of weeklong average helpdesk backlog to 95% responsiveness within same day.

Significantly improved end user productivity and contentment by combining e-mails, voice mails and faxes in one mailbox by migrating to Voice over IP telephony. Implemented stand alone and desktop video conferencing.

Manage development and execution of an enterprise-wide disaster recovery and business continuity plan, reducing recovery time from days to minutes.

Orchestrated and managed consolidation of all electronic files and images into SharePoint MOSS 2007 and Documentum.

Liaison for the company’s technology vision with top executives and serve as subject matter expert for new technology initiatives that support business goals.

Developed and communicated business/technology alignment plans to executive team, staff partners and stakeholders through a series of management training sessions – “how IT works.”

Defined requirements for new technology implementations reducing training costs of help desk and end users.

Partnered with business analyst and application developer’s teams to broaden their use of existing technology infrastructure and identify new technology solutions.

Independent Consultant, 1997 – 1999.

Clients:

Ernst and Young LLP. Worked with infrastructure group to establish platform for applications and future projects to be used by 2000 - 3000 users from any location. Also build, test and tune various scenarios and models for business experience and infrastructure utilization.

Dun and Bradstreet. Re-engineering of Internet/Intranet system.

Merck & Co., Inc. Development and re-engineering of Intranet/Internet pilot Java applications for worldwide support.

Prudential Insurance. Consolidated 6 regional production Prudential Global Data Services systems into one environment with tuning, testing and user experience optimizations.

ChaseMellon Shareholders Services. Managed infrastructure group planning and architecting Call Center upgrade and consolidation. Also Data Center migration with upgrade.

AIG Systems Architect of Architecture and Emerging Technology, 1995 – 1997.

Personally defining and managing all internet/intranet, and mobile computing projects.

Architected and managed Data Center and Desktops migration.

** Earlier experience in software engineering and project management for Bankers Trust, American Express and Blue Cross and Blue Shield.

Education

Masters, Computer Science / BS, Business Administration – Warsaw Technical University

Multi-lingual: English, Polish, Russian, and German

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