SUMMARY

Innovative, energetic Information Technology Manager with extensive financial and business experience

Skilled at defining strategic and operation objective with executive management and executing the objective organization-wide

Proven track record of reducing operating expenses and increasing organizational efficiency and effectiveness

Possess excellent communication, leadership, analytical and problem solving skills with a strong focus on customer and employee satisfaction

EDUCATION

Columbus Technical Institute, Programming

Ohio State Continuing Education, Business Writing

EMC Technology Professional Certificate

ITIL Certification

SKILLS

Project Management

Vendor Management

Software System Selection

Resource Management

System Analysis/Integration

Software Development Lifecycle

Project Cost Estimation

Executive Presentations

EMC

EMC Control Center (ECC)

Hitachi VSP

Symmetrix

Clariion

Centera

Invista

SYMCLI

Brocade directors

TSO

DFSMS/HSM

TimeFinder

Open Replicator

Mirror View

Windows

Solaris

AIX

Linux

Novell

MS Office Suite

EXPERIENCE

Fifth/Third/Vantiv 2010 to 2015

Enterprise Storage Manager

Promoted to manager and recruited key talent to build team of systems engineers, contractors and vendors

Responsible for all aspects of Mainframe and Open Systems storage

Managed hardware and software vendor relationships with IBM, Hitachi, EMC, Brocade and CBTS

Responsible for $5,000,000 capital and $3,000,000 maintenance budget to support hardware/software purchases

Created a strategic project with the assistance of my team and the vendor on a 5 year plan to align business operations with new technology, resulting in an operational road map

Reduced Operational Expense for backup processing by $21,000 per month for a saving of $42,000 in 2013 and over $250,000 for 2014

Led the team that selected the IBM Mainframe storage platform, resulting in a $400,000 saving

Team implemented ahead of schedule with no impact to the business; This new solution improved storage performance by almost 20% and introduced a 15% reduction in all future mainframe storage cost.

Implemented a process that kept all storage systems patched and in compliance with Security requirements; The process was coordinated with the application owners, ensuring no impact was experienced during the patching process

Managed team that met key system performance objectives of 96% availability; Enterprise storage team exceeded assigned metric for both storage system and backups

Implemented a cross training program to educate the team members on all platforms in the storage environment; Mainframe storage engineers were able to learn and support Open Systems storage frame and vice versa

Implemented a solution that reduced tape cost by $220,000 by leveraging hardware in a remote location to defer purchases until 2014

Developed processes to separated data from Fifth Third Bank that would become the intellectual property of Vantiv once the transition/acquisition was completed

Installed Open Systems hardware and software to support the physical infrastructure of Vantiv

Migrated data off EMC to Hitachi VSP storage frame, reducing consumed capacity by 33%

Implemented Thin provisioning, Storage Virtualization and Dynamic Provision on Hitachi VSP frame

Huntington Bank 1998 to 2010

IT Technical Specialist/Systems Office

Managed over 750 TB of enterprise storage capacity for the Mainframe and over 200 open systems (Windows, Solaris, AIX, Linux, and Novell) servers

Lead Analyst for installation, layout, disk configuration and data migrations from various platforms

Designed and deployed SAN layout for connecting servers to disk arrays across the main campus and remote disaster recovery site in both core edge and dual fabric environment

Completed a swap-out of fiber cable for the SAN switches, resulting in an integrated environment for deploying servers and disk arrays to the SAN Infrastructure (Saved $100,000 on cable vendor installation hours)

Monitored fiber channel, FICON and adapter utilization for optimum performance throughout the environment for over 800 switched ports, using WLA, CMF and Brocade performance monitor

Part of architecture team that developed and deployed data classification and tiering model for ILM project

High level of understanding in the deployment of SRDF/s, and SRDF/ar and knowledgeable in the use of SRDF/a

Participated in regularly scheduled disaster recovery exercises

Maintained and implemented replication scripts using SYMCLI and EMC Control Center for various platforms

Developed best practices for administration, configuration, zoning, LUN masking and fiber/switch specifications

Responsible for capacity planning and making recommendation for storage purchase of drive types/sizes, directors and front-in channels

Responsible for SMPE installation of Mainframe EMC software and HCD disk configuration across multiple LPARS

Worked on EMC Replication Manager, SRDF/a POC, and Z/vm POC projects

Lead architect on multiple Requests for Proposal for sweep the floor disk purchases

Lead architect on performance evaluation/bake off between Hitachi, IBM, HP, and EMC at SNIA labs in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Analyzed existing technologies for appropriateness, fit, and functionality within the organization’s current technology and strategic plan

Chaired weekly meetings with storage vendors, server teams and storage team to ensure project schedules are maintained and issues resolved

Developed, implemented and oversaw policies and procedures to ensure storage provisioning and maintenance complied with company goals and objectives

Proficient in Project Management Methodologies

Two time recipient of Huntington Service Excellent Award

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