Project Manager Management

Daniel Zuckman

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Fanwood, New Jersey 07023

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Management ~ Cloud Computing Architecture ~ Security Architecture

Infrastructure ~ Vendor Management~ Business Continuity ~ Design

Summary

. Results oriented hands-on senior information management professional

with a successful track record of accomplishments in multiple

industries, thought leadership, change management, business functional

verticals, engaging C level executives, business and technology

clients.

. Management, planning and budget responsibility for those engaged in

hardware, software, security, network infrastructure management.

. Strong experience with architecting, planning and implementing cloud

computing applications.

. Lead the initiative to migrate Starr's Data Center and applications

from hosting services partner to newly built company Data Centers in

Atlanta, GA and New Jersey.

. Managed the Starr's client relationship with all hardware and software

vendors.

. Excellent leadership, written, communication, research, presentation,

analytical and problem solving skills.

Hardware: F5 LTM and GTM, Infoblox, VCE VBlock, EMC VNX, Cisco UCS, IBM

Blade, HP Blade, Dell Blade, Wyse terminals, EMC Recover Point

Software: Redhat Enterprise Linux, Suse Enterprise Linux, Microsoft

Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010, Windows 2003/2008 Servers, Citrix Xen App 6.0.

6.5, Citrix Xen Server Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Visio,

Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008, IIS 6/7, VMware ESX 3.5, VSphere 4.x,

5.x,V1000, VShield, VCloud Director, Uptime Software, Nagios, Solarwinds,

Quest tools, Symantec Evault, VMware SRM, VMWare VCops, VMware Orchestra

Services: Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, VMware HA, DRS, FT

Specialties: Active Directory Enterprise design, VMware Enterprise design,

Citrix Enterprise design, Enterprise Data Warehouse Architect, Togaf

methodologies.

Professional Experience

Company: Starr International USA (A Maurice Greenberg Company)

June '2011 to Present

Location: New York City, NY

Role: Director of Infrastructure/ Senior Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

. Successfully migrated all IT infrastructure from a hosted solution to an

in house solution, saving the company $2.4 million dollars a year

utilizing Togaf methodologies.

. Successfully managed a team of direct reports and multiple vendors on a

$20 million datacenter relocation project within a three month time

frame.

. Manage an infrastructure team which consists of system engineers, network

engineers and telecommunication administrators.

. Manage an outsourced 24/7 NOC (network operations center) team

. Manage a worldwide service desk/helpdesk

. Solely responsible for the vision and strategy planning of the company's

global IT infrastructure.

. Establish processes and key performance indicators to measure success.

. Chief project manager of all IT infrastructure projects utilizing Togaf

methodologies.

. Managed and worked alongside a team of Tier 1 consultants in the build

out of the multimillion dollar implementation of a two Vblock

environments.

. Played a major role in the building out of an Enterprise Data Warehouse

(EDW) infrastructure.

. Chief architect of the complete redesign of a VMware infrastructure both

in the US and UK for internal and cloud computing based applications for

partners utilizing Togaf methodologies.

. Played the role of managing consultant in support of Hank Greenberg for

a minority owned Starr Company located in main land China, therein

leading the local Chinese team in the conversion of 95% of their physical

datacenter into a virtual datacenter, as well as helping them design a

datacenter relocation plan.

. Redesigned Starr's newly acquired, Argentinian based, company Assist-Card

infrastructure and disaster recovery plan.

. Designed a complete DR environment in the cloud using Amazon Web Services

(AWS) utilizing Togaf methodologies.

. Designed the work flow process for the global service desk/helpdesk

utilizing Togaf methodologies.

. Successfully migrated all development and UAT environments to Amazon Web

Service. This migration saved the company upward of $1 million dollars

per year.

. Redesign of the backend infrastructure of a $350 million dollar a year

EBusiness insurance policy website called Starrlink.

. Designed and lead a team of Exchange engineers and consultants to migrate

and rebuild an Exchange 2010 environment.

. Reorganize a three thousand object AD environment.

. Implemented the roll out of a Citrix farm with over 40 applications,

which spanned multiple countries, within a month's time frame.

. Lead the design and worked alongside a team of network engineers to

replace both switches (Cisco 4500E) and routers (Cisco 2900) in over 20

locations within six months.

Company: HedgeServ Sept '2010 to

June '2011

Location: New York City, NY

Role: Senior Architect/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

. Lead the operation team with a focus on refining communication with

business units and clients, and improving the documentation process.

. Supervise the development team in reducing the time it takes for the new

client build process, currently reducing new client builds from three

days to four hours.

. Design, maintain, and control the Active Directory (AD) infrastructure

for the client side.

. Developed a process to improve the ability to troubleshoot SunGard Front

Arena, its components, and in-house applications, thus reducing downtime.

. Collaborate with the infrastructure team to redesign the Microsoft,

VMware, and Citrix infrastructures for future growth of the company

Company: Ziff Brothers Investment (Investment Banking)

Sept '2007 to Sept '2010

Location: New York City, NY

Role: Senior IT Manager

Responsibilities:

. Selected, architected, lead, and managed the implementation of a SAN and

VMware solution that includes DRS, HA and FT, which successfully reduced

the existing server sprawl from 170 to 130, and the development/staging

environment from 50 servers to 10 servers, thus creating more much needed

data center space and reducing single point of failure to production

applications.

. Spearheaded the migration of VMware ESX 2.5 standard to 3.5 enterprise,

and subsequently to Vsphere 4, in both the NYC and DR sites via

reallocation of SAN storage and Virtual Machines, successfully maximizing

the performance of the VM environment and efficiency of the end user.

. Propelled and lead the implementation of an emerging technology network

and server management/monitoring tool called Nagios, enabling IT staff

and multiple business units to completely monitor and control the entire

enterprise infrastructure, while maintaining cost.

. Worked closely with the network team to help with the worldwide

implementation of an MPLS network, which made multiple sites seem as one.

. Team lead for the implementation of a Citrix solution for a flight

scheduling application, and multiple trading applications, which give

pilots and traders the ability to do their work from any internet enabled

location, thus increasing efficiency.

Company: New York RoadRunner s(Sports) Mar '2004 to

Sept '2007

Location: New York City, NY

Role: Director of Networks/Data Communication

Company: Zuck Incorporated (Consulting) Mar

'2002 to Dec '2004

Location: New York City, NY

Role: President

Company: Seligman Data Corporation (Investing Banking)

Mar '2000 to Dec '2002

Location: New York City, NY

Role: Senior Network Engineer

Education

. Bachelors of Science (Business, Management, Economic and Information

Systems - Empire State College)

Affiliations

. Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA)

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