Armando Garcia

Sr. Technology Project Manager

Major Accomplishments:

●Tasked with the closing of a 3,500-plus server in Silver Springs data center and re-plat forming and migration of all applications from Wintel, Solaris to AIX 790 platforms.

●Responsible for working with the SAS, app managers, design and capacity planning, budgeting and other persons in the different departments to guide them in preparing financial documentation and assist with getting the groups to provide their re-engineering documents and justifications as well as work with the groups to schedule the migration time-lines for the applications and/or servers.

●Built a cohesive group for the storage SAN, VIO and hard LPAR AIX frame designs to ensure adequate memory, CPU, and SAN to support the initial migration.

●Coordinated with the users to meet the migration dates then tracks the decommissioning of the legacy equipment.

●Built and maintained MS Project plans for the project, present to upper management update reports on the deliverable and mile stone dates.

●Produce power point presentations and excel scorecard for C-level management on project impact

●Meet with SME and Management on weekly basis end all end users to provide project updates

●Managed budget approvals and upgrade of Legacy equipment and storage to the new NAS and AIX 795 environments.

●Senior project manager with a strong record of successfully managing infrastructure, network, data center and trading floor upgrades and rebuilds.

●Successfully managed, global and domestic technology operations for industry leading companies in industries such as financial services, advertising, consulting and health-care.

●Led the full build out of data centers and trading floors.

●Successfully designed server, network and cable infrastructure building dashboards for senior management and stakeholders to track budgets.

●Successfully managed global information technology Infrastructure budgets/forecasts for large technology implementations as well as direct interface with multiple stake holders including C-level managers to present budgets, design plans in fast-growth and Fortune 500 companies.

●Managed, developed and implemented all aspects of Data systems for American Express Shearson Lehman in North America: Including IVR, VRU with seem-less integration to the IBM 3090 as well as engineered, and implemented the first distributed fiber network in New York.

●Managed the career development and performance for a staff of as many as 50 technology professionals and departmental budgets of $20M at American Express.

●Designed and developed global information technology Infrastructure business-critical, fault-tolerant infrastructures and enterprise network systems for leading companies such as American Express, Lehman Brothers, IBM, Barnes & Noble, and TIAA-CREF.

●Negotiated aggressive Global Telecommunication contracts, which included service level agreements and discount pricing, help in reducing cost by 15%.

●Conceptualized and created strategic plans, including cost analysis for worldwide deployment of VOIP technologies, resulting in a 20% reduction in cost around the world.

●Implemented and restructured technology manpower plan aligning current technology manpower with mission critical priorities and business needs.

●Responsible for the design, and implementation including HVAC and Power requirements including pricing schedule for www.LIDARC.com (Long Island Disaster Recovery Center) co-location data center.

●Identify risk and controls that could mitigate risk, decision for what controls are needed with the business manager. The team's conclusions as to what risks exists and what controls needed are documented along with a related action plan for control implementation.

●Create and manage overall project plans based upon identified time-lines, scope and resources

●Create executive dashboard reports for governance meetings

●Coordinate with relevant internal teams for project scoping, Identifying requirements and providing appropriate resources

●Work hand in hand with other support teams along with the vertical team and customer stake holders

●Create weekly status reports and trackers for general consumption

●Track project financials and costs including management and reporting.

●Track project resources management and reporting

●Vendor and third party management and reporting

●Clearly identify gaps in project delivery – time, cost, resource, deliverable, etc. and escalate as appropriate.

●Develop action plans (go to green) for metrics deviations from the scope of work or current project plan.

●Guide and manage project team with focus on project plan adherence and quality delivery.

Professional Certifications:

●Graduate, Certificate Program in Traffic Engineering

Systems operation, programming, and networking design/management training

George Washington University, Washington, DC

Professional Experience:

International Rescue Committee March 2016 through June 2016

Senior Project manager

Responsibilities:

Provide Proof of concept project with Silver-Peak and River bed Wan optimization to include all 200 Plus Africa locations for IRC

Assist in ISP and vendor consolidation of multiple to carrier to one realizing a 33% savings and centralized management services

Develop the Scope of work (SOW )

Create x-cross impact analysis

Determine Feasibility study, to develop budget for Project

Track Financial service related to project

Manage vendors

Managed all Change management requirements

Tasked with identifying and replacing all African site end of life, firewalls, Servers, Routers, and Switches

Tasked with identifying and partnering with in country providers to assure maximum performance for Africa sites

JPMORAN Chase Jersey City NJ May 2015-through November 2015

Project Manager:

Responsibilities:

●project to analysis and determine if Print & File Servers in all North America branches could meet Latency threshold of 10 milliseconds, allowing us to long-line service back to Local data-center or refresh office with new file and print server, encompassed over 200 offices

●Develop the Scope of work (SOW )

●Create x-cross impact analysis

●Determine Feasibility study, to develop budget for Project

●Track Financial service related to project

●Manage vendors

●Managed all Change management requirements

Bank of America, New York NY December 2013 –February 2015

Senior project manager

Responsibilities:

●Tasked with the replacing corporate wide End of life, firewalls and intrusion detection systems

●Managed teams and configurations of associated equipment, router, switches, and firewalls

●Initiated and managed site surveys, which resulted in documentation and flow chart of each environment to prepare NRF, which was approved through change management cabs after review and understanding actual change of production Firewalls and traffic.

●Worked with data center staff to assure, equipment placement of new or replacement firewalls to assure environment can fully support such as: power, space and HVAC.

●Complete comprehensive line of business report, extracted from, all source and destination information provide from Firemon and internal systems to provide one comprehensive report that would identify Line of business and application that would be impacted.

●Set up meetings with line of business to explain the impact of replacing production firewall to their business negotiate bets time of outage, understand and discuss if re-routing traffic would be needed to assure a successful migration

●Assist in the RFP process of equipment ordering, form placing and tracing equipment and resources

●If necessary, request new cabling (copper or fiber ) from existing network switches to new firewalls

●Plan and Coordinate rack and stack of new firewalls as well as all resource and team

●Identifying and mitigating Risk.

American International Group, Livingston, NJ (June 2012 – March 2013)

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

●Sized, planned and migrated database and application (Sybase, Oracle) servers in Latin America.

●Worked with the teams around the globe to ensure security, compliance requirements were met

●Worked with teams to order and track installation and migrations.

●Navigated through a global organization with minimal supervision.

●Worked as a hands-on project manager in project delivery not in PMO process roles.

●Focused on the full application development life cycle.

●Proven experience in dealing with and presenting to Director/VP level sponsors.

Telecommunication Group Service, New York, NY (November 2008 – April 2012)

(Citigroup)

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

●Tasked with the closing of a 3,500-plus server data center and the re-plat forming and migration of the applications from Wintel, Solaris to an AIX platform.

●Responsible for working with the SAS, app managers, design and capacity planning, budgeting and other persons in the different departments to guide them in preparing financial documentation and assist with getting the groups to provide their re-engineering

●Documents and justifications as well as work with the groups to schedule the migration time-lines for the applications and/or servers.

●Built a cohesive group for the storage SAN, VIO and hard LPAR AIX frame designs to ensure adequate memory, CPU, and SAN to support the initial migration.

●Coordinated with the users to meet the migration dates then tracks the decommissioning of the legacy equipment.

●Built and maintained MS Project plans for the project, present to upper management update reports on the deliverable and mile stone dates.

●Managed budget approvals and upgrade of Legacy equipment and storage to the new NAS and AIX 795 environments.

●Sized, planned and migrated database and application (Sybase, Oracle) servers in Latin America.

Align Communications, New York, NY (May 2008 – November 2008)

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

●Assigned to customer projects responsible to design and build co-lo sites and move active trading data centers for several insurance and brokerage houses in Connecticut for Align customers.

Econotek Communications, New York, NY (March 2007 – May 2008)

Vice President

Responsibilities:

●Provided executive leadership as Head of Technology, responsible for all aspects of strategic technology planning implementation and support as integral component of business plan in developing strategic plan to implement and support voice over internet protocol, internet protocol television, internet protocol servicing commercial client and residential clients.

●Responsible for development and design of LIDARC.

●Managed and implemented new co-location/datacenter in Long Island developing all aspect of a Tier 3 Data center, I.E.: System ground noise cause and effects issue, supporting NCPI, power factor, backup surge factor, provide power consumption forecast and cost per square foot.

●Developed strategy for redundant power feeds including incorporating switching gear and negotiating better primary feed and reduced KVM per unit cost from utilities.

Solomon Smith Barney, New York, NY (January 2006 – February 2007)

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

●Managed end-to-end project life cycle responsibility, include requirements analysis through design, development and deployment.

●Met with key decision makers from each business unit to understand business process flows and developed comprehensive project plans addressing their needs and requests.

●Initiated a comprehensive process improvement study of current distributed technology delivery process and lack of resources, which resulted in the development of a strategic direction in the technology service area.

Ogilvy & Mather, New York, NY (March 2003 – December 2005)

Regional Technology Director/Latin America

Responsibilities:

●Managed staff (28), and $3.34M aggregate operational budget, and a $1.9M budget for capital expenditures.

●Established and managed regional Help Desk operations.

●Evaluated and recommended regional business systems and applications (including GL and AP functions).

●Provided advanced network troubleshooting support to fill a void in regional technical skills Designed and implemented a complex strong of critical but largely invisible technical innovations (e.g., Checkpoint security audit/firewall, Lotus Notes migration, and deployment of global DNS servers) that greatly improved performance and flexibility.

●Developed a strategic technology plan and direction for a region covering 20 countries and 28 offices, with a focus on cost reduction and standardization of applications and hardware, which resulted in overall savings of approximately 28%.

●Designed and developed comprehensive World Wide VOIP Strategy implemented VOIP across Latin America, Europe, Asia and North America.

Global Technology Organization, Paramus, NJ (November 2001 – February 2003)

Principal/Senior Vice President

Responsibilities:

●JP Morgan: Engineered and executed relocation involving 800 people, servers and workstations in a strategic effort to consolidate infrastructure and increase efficiency.

●IBM TJ Watson Research Center: Installed fiber backbone and managed the infrastructure and network migration and cutover.

●Created project plans and managed timelines for this 6-month effort affecting 5000 users.

Bowne Informational Systems (1999 – 2001)

Network Director

Responsibilities:

●Accountable for the smooth and efficient operation of Global network operations covering North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada and Latin America.

Shearson Lehman American Express (1986 – 1999)

Vice President, Voice & Data Systems

Responsibilities:

●Managed all technical and strategic elements of voice, data/market data, and applications.

●Managed the career development and performance for a staff of as many as 50 technology professionals and departmental budgets of $20M at American Express.

●Managed, developed and implemented all aspects of data systems for American Express Shearson Lehman in North America: Including IVR, VRU with seem-less integration to the IBM 3090 as well as engineered, and implemented the first distributed fiber network in New York.

●Developed and implemented first interactive voice response unit (IVR) application for stock trading services.

Education:

●Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology and Systems Engineering

Belford University, TX (Graduated June 2007)

●Electrical Engineering Program

Queens Borough Community College, Queens, NY (two years)

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