PUSHKAR SHARMA

Wappingers Falls, NY ***** ● Cell: 845-***-**** ● Email: ac8pgr@r.postjobfree.com

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A highly distinguished IT professional with 20+ years of experience in driving transformative strategies through completion focused on middleware, technology infrastructure, compliance and other IT solutions.

• 13+ years in Financial services industry focused on providing hands on support, building and managing teams to provide infrastructure support and solutions for hedge fund and private equity clients. A proven track record in leveraging IT solutions to drive organizational growth, improve business performance and profitability for numerous clients within the financial services sector. Driving results by leading and motivating teams to achieve a high level of productivity while forming cohesive team environments. Technical Skills

Operating Systems: IBM AIX, SUN Solaris, Linux (RHEL), Windows 7, Windows 10, Mac OSX and VMware. Hardware: Cisco UCS, HP Proliant & Integrity Servers, IBM pSeries Servers, Oracle Enterprise Servers, Brocade Fibre Switches, EMC Storage Appliances and NetApp Storage Appliances. Software: Cisco UCS Manager, VMware vSphere, VMware vMotion, Oracle Solaris, IBM AIX, IBM WebSphere MQ Series, EMC Navisphere/Unisphere, NetApp ONTAP and MS Office. Certifications

Certified Virtualized Datacenter eXpert 5 (CVDX 5). Special Classes and Training

AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials, Leadership Development Initiative, Leadership in Team Environment, Project Management Fundamentals, Contracting and Financial Management for Project Managers, IBM WebSphere MQ Series Advanced Systems Administration, VMware vSphere 5.1 Boot Camp, Enterprise Linux Systems Administration, Introduction to Storage Networking, Planning and Implementing a Storage Area Network (SAN), Solaris 10 Advanced Systems Administration, AIX System Administration Advanced. Professional Experience

Associate Director IT Jan. 2012 to Sept. 2018

Manager IT Jan. 2009 to Dec. 2011

Associate Manager IT July 2005 to Dec. 2008

SS&C Technologies, New York (2012 – 2018)

GlobeOp Financial Services, New York (2005 – 2012) Grew progressively with the company through series of promotions to positions of increased challenges and complexities. Managed global teams responsible for the design, implementation and support of IBM WebSphere MQ servers, VMware infrastructure, managed services, data center operations and other enterprise IT solutions. Provided strategic and tactical support across IT infrastructure, disaster recovery, vendor management, and technical design.

• Provided hands on support for hedge fund and private equity clients. Built middleware team from ground up and managed a global onshore/offshore team of 4 specialists responsible for the administration of IBM MQ series middleware servers that provided application message bus for the largest independent fund administrator. Middleware infrastructure supported transactions for over $1.6 trillion of AUM. Architected solutions for client’s onboarding.

• Provided hands on support and managed a global onshore/offshore team of 10 IT specialists supporting UNIX/LINUX servers, VMware infrastructure, Cisco UCS infrastructure, EMC & NetApp San storage and San fabric providing support for all hedge fund and private equity clients.

• Acted as the lead business and technical analyst in evaluating historical data and future growth projections for multiple clients in order to design reliable and scalable infrastructure solutions to support future business growth. The analysis led to cost savings of over $1 million annually. Generated a RISK tracker and DR strategies for applications and provided mitigating solutions to reduce and eliminate risks.

• Founding member responsible for creating managed services, business focused on providing IaaS (Infra as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service), co-location and business continuity seating. This new business resulted in over $2 million of additional annual revenue. Led project planning meetings, technical consultation services and project plans for clients.

• Acted as a technical lead for research, design and implementation of all new technology initiatives to standardize infrastructure across multiple divisions which resulted in cost savings of over $5 million dollars. Standardized and migrated the storage infrastructure from EMC to NetApp saving over $1 million annually.

• Acted as a technical lead for the design and relocation of a large datacenter from colocation to GlobeOp owned facility. Migrated all servers and applications to the new site with minimal business impact including adherence to stringent BCP SLA’s. The relocation entailed moving over 1,000 compute, storage, and network devices for an annual savings of $3 million.

• Acted as a technical lead for creating solutions to migrate applications to standardized IT infrastructure for all new mergers and acquisitions that provided over $5 million in cost savings by consolidating technology footprint. Responsible for evaluation and purchase of all new infrastructure hardware and software requirements. Partnered with multiple vendors to design solutions for various client requirements. Evaluation included development of POCs and business cases to support implementation of new technologies.

• Managed a team of 6 datacenter operations personnel responsible for mission critical New York data centers. Provided services and support to clients as well as internal applications. Handled RFP/RFI’s for customer requests regarding the data centers.

Senior Systems Engineer Oct. 1999 to June 2005

UBS AG, New York, NY.

UBS Financial Services

Responsible for installation and implementation of IBM P-Series and Sun Enterprise servers to support Managed Accounts business application which generated over 40% of UBS Wealth Management business revenue.

• Managed project to migrate highly critical and large revenue generating IBM AIX servers for Managed Accounts application to new OS level AIX 5.2 and new P-series hardware.

• Managed project for planning and implementation of LPAR technology on IBM servers.

• Managed project for purchasing new Hardware and implementing new version of IBM WebSphere MQ Version on central MQ servers. Installed and supported all WebSphere MQ Series implementation and production issues including clustering for WebSphere MQ Series.

• Installed, implemented and supported new IBM RS/6000 P690 servers for World Class Reporting project with EMC storage. Install and implement EMC software SRDF, PowerPath and Infomover.

• Provided system support for all Managed Accounts application IBM AIX servers. Worked on rollout of new version of GIM2 / Managed Account application utilizing new version of Informix and AIX.

• Installed, implemented and supported different models of RS/6000 servers for multiple applications and databases on AIX operating system. Databases supported were Informix, DB2, Sybase and Oracle.

• Installed IBM RS/6000 S80 servers in HACMP configuration with AIX as the operating system in New York and configured disaster recovery server in Stamford, CT.

• Created new File system based on most optimized layout for installation of Oracle database and Global Plus applications at best performance and reliability.

• Co-ordinated Disaster Recovery tests at the Business Continuity Plan site in Rutherford, NJ. Systems Integrator / Administrator June 1997 to Oct. 1999 International Business Machines (IBM), Poughkeepsie, NY. Maintained and supported the global Lotus Notes architecture on the RS/6000 SP environment.

• Maintained AIX servers in RS/6000 SP environment.

• Applied latest software changes and fixes for AIX and PSSP to the servers.

• Managed performance tuning of the overall network taking into consideration latest technology to increase productivity and performance.

• Responsible for change and release management which included getting appropriate parties together to schedule a hardware or software change, resolving customer problems and getting customer concurrence for closure of problems.

• Answered calls from customers requesting help on different applications on multiple different platforms.

• Wrote documentation to help achieve higher level of knowledge and understanding of a particular subject.

• Acted as a Member of team responsible for Level 2 software support of internal IBM Microsoft Windows 95 roll out.

• Built systems as per specifications for Level 1 and Level 2 customer support. Education

B.S. in Computer & Systems Engineering May 1997

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.

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