HAMILTON DAZA

** ******** **** • Beacon, N.Y. ***08

acbti8@r.postjobfree.com • 917-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Hands-on technical project manager and project lead for mission critical, high exposure enterprise projects

within the financial and regulatory industry. Demonstrated expertise in information technology leadership,

strategy, vision and completing multiple complex projects and work streams on-time and within budget.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Highly knowledgeable in technical implementations and integrations as it pertains to merger & acquisitions,

data centers, office consolidations, strategic system deployments and POCs.

Supervisory, leadership and budget responsibilities for all phases of major projects; capital & operational

expenditures, resource allocation and project codes.

In depth knowledge of the project life cycle, strategic planning, requirements gathering, risk assessment,

budget analysis and executive status reporting and presentations.

Outstanding oral and written communication skills. Proven track record of successfully building strong

relationships with project teams and members from various departments and divisions.

Excellent at multi-tasking; able to efficiently plan and prioritize projects.

Very strong organizational, technical and business management skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 2008 R2, VMware, Windows 7, OS X, Windows XP, Exchange 2010, NetWare 6

Environments: Active Directory, AD LDS, LDAP, Citrix Metaframe/Xen/Netscaler, VMware ESX, Virtual Center,

SharePoint 2007/2010, SQL Server 2008, Oracle 10, SEP11

Networking: SFTI, LAN, WAN, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, InfoBlox, Juniper MX960 Router, Juniper EX4200

Switches, Cisco 6500, Check Point FW

Tools/Utilities: Altiris 6.5/7.1, MS Office 2010, InfoPath, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Lync, ServiceNow, Remedy,

Check Point Endpoint Security, SharePoint Designer, ControlPoint, iLo Management

Hardware: HP Servers & Blades, EMC, NetApp FAS2220A, IronPort, MacBook, iPad

Telecom: Avaya VoIP, Avaya one-X Communicator, Aruba Wireless

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IntercontinentalExchange / NYSE Euronext New York, NY 12/03 - Present

Global IT Project Manager, Consultant

Notable Accomplishments: Office Automation Engineering Division

Merger & Acquisitions – Global IT Project Manager for all corporate merger and acquisition-related technology initiatives and

integration projects. Responsible for delivery of complex Day1 Close and Day2~100 technical work streams per HR, Finance,

Legal and IT requirements. Led the Office Automation (Messaging, Desktop), Network and Firewall teams towards Day1-

readiness in the following company acquisitions/mergers: Euronext (2007), Archipelago (2006), NYFIX (2009), TransactTools

(2007), Wombat (2008), Amex (2009) and ICE (2013).

Enterprise-Wide AD Migrations & Windows 7 – Project Lead directly responsible for the NetWare-to-AD desktop/laptop

migration for 2000+ NYSE Group users in U.S and Asia. After the acquisition to NYSE Euronext, another major initiative as

global IT project lead for the migration of 4500+ users to Windows 7 and MS Office 2010 in U.S, EU and EMEA. Both

migrations involved working with various groups to address over 150 complex internal and external regulatory applications.

Strategic System Architectures – Proposed to the BCP Committee a Post-9/11 enterprise solution to meet Board and SEC

mandates. Successfully provided POC and then led the project for production implementation of an enterprise business

continuity solution with Citrix Metaframe. In addition to business continuity, the solution facilitated working-from-home and

Day1 deliverables future merger & acquisition activities. Named “2006 IT Vision Achievement Award” by CTO.

Initiated, secured budget approval and engineered a SAN-attached virtualization solution using VMware ESX. Worked

tirelessly with internal management and various IT groups to solicit their buy-in for this relatively new technology. Achieved

cost reductions and minimized TCO in the legacy HW provision model via server consolidations for DEV, QA and PROD

environments. Both Citrix and VMware are now critical production infrastructures within the corporate enterprise.

Enterprise Collaboration – Responsible for the POC, training, daily user/site support and successful implementation of NYSE’s

first collaborative platform: SharePoint 2007. The platform’s success led to the recent migration to SharePoint 2010.

Responsibilities include project oversight including L1/L2 enterprise support for, but not limited to: implementing SharePoint as

a SaaS model, assisting business units with their team sites, site collection oversight, training, page customizations, Office 2010

integration, InfoPath Forms, document & list libraries and site governance.

Singapore Data Center – Responsible for leading the build-out effort of a new access center to facilitate and centralize the office

automation of all NYSE Euronext Asia offices: Manila, Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong and Singapore. The project required

managing capital and operational expenditures, working with diverse internal and external groups to meet tight deadlines with

challenging time zones. Upon completion, the build-out facilitated the next phase of the project – NYSE implementation of

standards and policies through integration and Windows 7 migration efforts.

IT Chargeback Model – Project managed the implementation process of IT chargebacks and service level indicators for the

Oracle data warehouse project on IBM. Engineered the IT algorithm models to facilitate department chargebacks and manage

the efficient distribution of computing resources and assets per Finance executives.

MFR Team Lead – Lead an operations team of 8 personnel overseeing day-to-day project, support and regulatory deliverables

for the Member Firm Regulatory division.

Environment: W2008R2, Exchange 2010, Windows 7, Citrix Xen, VMware ESXi 4.1, CheckPoint, IronPort, SharPoint, Data

Centers, Trading Floor, Altiris, Information Security

ABN Amro Bank New York, NY 6/02 – 12/03

Senior Consultant

• Co-lead for disaster recovery efforts to mirror the NY and NJ sites in case of a similar Post-9/11 event. This includes

facilitating discussions amongst all relative technology disciplines to meet tight deliverables. Work with global business

units on product deployments such as telecommunications through Blackberry and remote computing through iPASS.

Postmortem sale of the Prime Brokerage business unit to UBS.

• Continue BAU efforts including: cost reduction, implementing disaster recovery plans, consolidating server and user

domains, Windows XP deployment, user moves adds and changes (IMAC), change management oversight and new product

rollouts.

• Team leader for the WholeSale Consumer Services (WCS) division supporting the day-to-day Desktop and HelpDesk

customer operations in the Jersey City office. Third level responsibilities and escalations included: maintaining appropriate

staff levels, prioritizing production issues, senior technical lead, problem assignment and liaison with engineering teams to

resolve infrastructure issues. Coordinate the IMAC for various business units relocating from Midtown to the Jersey City

office. Work with business heads and server engineering team to successfully consolidate the server infrastructure and user

domain to a single forest single domain ACMS architecture.

Environment: Windows 2003, Windows XP, Active Directory, SQL Server 2005, Exchange 2003, Remedy

Bond Technologies, Inc. New York, NY 5/96 – 2/02

Practice Manager

Notable Accomplishments:

Accountable for an IT practice of 40+ staff generating approximately $8M in consulting revenue a year.

Managed all aspects of the practice including technical delivery, project management, staff hiring and

development, daily operations, pre/post sales and revenue projections.

Technical Lead particularly responsible for the infrastructure, financial trading support and application

development aspects of the practice. This includes identifying billable work through sales and leveraged

accounts. Client expectations were managed, IT deliverables met and relationships solidified.

Responsibilities include helping clients measure risk, stabilize their processes and implement the right

solution through well-defined business plans.

Engineered and implemented technical and business solutions for Fortune 500 and other large companies such

as: Swiss Bank Corporation, Depository Trust Company, Perot Systems Corporation, Merrill Lynch, ABN

Amro Bank, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, TIAA-CREF, Financial Times, HSBC, Nomura

Securities, Capital-Z Partners, NYDA, Prudential Securities, Deutsche Bank, GFT USA Corp., Lehman

Brothers, MultiPlan, Society Generale and many others.

Co-Director of the downtown office and responsible for meeting quarterly office and practice projections.

Accountable for client management through relationship building. This includes generating revenue

through sales, meeting project deliverables and identifying project extensions.

IT staff development and work with sales teams to target vertical markets and define sales pitches.

Chase Manhattan Bank New York, NY 12/94 – 5/96

Officer / System Specialist

• Responsible for evaluating and participating in several merger related activities for various banking sectors. Coordinate and

project manage the consolidation, implementation and migration from a Netware server environment to Windows NT.

Responsible for technical support of the server environment and ensure that bank standards are adhered. Provide technical

direction to departmental staff and the client base on a wide range of hardware, shrink-wrapped and in-house applications.

Responsible for PC and LAN Change Management processes across the Private and Middle-Market Banks.

• Primarily responsible for research, integration testing, benchmarking, evaluating, recommending and implementing new

software and hardware for decision support purposes. Products tested include Windows NT and Netware 4.1. Provided

third tier technical support for a 4500+ user network. Conducted network performance tests and application impact analysis

for the production environment. Designed, setup and performed ongoing maintenance of the integration test lab mirroring

the private bank production WAN. Make implementation recommendations to internal clients based on testing and research

data. Conduct research on various PC’s networking hardware and software for multiple projects. Composed white papers

documenting procedures, tests and results.

Environment: Windows NT, Windows XP, MS Test, NetWare 4.1

AT&T – Bell Labs New Brunswick, NJ 9/91 – 12/94

Application Developer / Unix Admin, Consultant

• Provided production and end-user support for large-scale management applications in Operator Mega Centers.

Responsible for installing, maintaining and troubleshooting software applications and hardware peripherals on

the NCR and AT&T Starserver E platform running Informix OnLine RDBMS. Heavy user training and

production site networking with MX, TCP/IP, UUCP and Datakit for machine access and file transfers.

Assisted in the coordination and troubleshooting of site rollouts and deployments.

• Redesign the current Force Management Systems through a re-engineering process using object-oriented

technology. Assisted in the design of an extensive and flexible reporting subsystem implementing the Shlaer-

Mellor OO methodology. Information, state and process modeling was implemented using Cadre Teamwork

case tools in a Sun client/server environment. Responsible for installing and evaluating GUI development

tools, report writers and Oracle RDBMS for the Sun Sparc platform.

• Designed and implemented application modules using UNIX/C, Informix 4GL and Korn Shell for the

MFASys (Multi-Force Administration System) project. Initiated and implemented a modification request life

cycle for software development using SABLIME – a software release and source code management platform.

QA Engineer

• Developed and tested application modules and common libraries using Informix 4GL and ESQL/C for the

employee preference, schedule and assign subsystems of the MFASys Project. Performed software integration

and system testing on the IADS and OSIM modules. Wrote extensive detailed and high level designs with unit

test cases for code walk-thru. The force automation system was to facilitate operator assignment for every 15-

minute interval across all data centers.

Environment: Unix System V, ksh, Sun Solaris, ESQL/C, Informix Online, 4GL, Cadre, Shlaer-Mellor, Oracle

Dynamic Technologies New York, NY 8/89 – 10/94

Principal Consultant

Privately owned business providing Unix and Windows services to NY/NJ clients. Developed a SCO Unix menu driven Tour

Operator system using C and Informix as the relational database. The application serviced and streamlined individual tri-state

client needs for inbound and outbound tourists worldwide. It managed tour schedules, hotel bookings, operator/vehicle

management, AR, AP and invoicing. Administrative duties included managing user accounts, software installations, maintaining

file system integrity, backups and monitoring the IP network. Performed extensive PC software and hardware configurations to

meet workgroup needs.

Environment: SCO Unix, Windows, Wyse Terminals, Informix DB, C/C++

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY, 1991

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