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Howell, New Jersey *****

732-***-****

acypld@r.postjobfree.com

** ***** ** *******/******* DELIVERY, IT INFRASTRUCTURE BUILDOUT, CUSTOMER SERVICE SUPPORT FOR WORLDWIDE, INDUSTRY LEADERS

Program / Project Manager, data center / application migration professional with over 30 years involvement in all phases of diverse projects from innovation to implementation. Strong experience in open systems, networking, storage area networks, network attached storage, and content addressable storage. Sound knowledge of SaaS, IaaS, Paas, Virtualization, Cloud Computing and data life cycle management.

Resourceful, results-driven technical leader with demonstrated ability and broad technical knowledge of application and data center migrations, large-scale storage engineering deployment, customer service support, and program management. Has an established reputation for maximizing employee performance and productivity, by building moral and motivating employees.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Align Communications – New York, NY Jan 2016 - Present

Senior Project Manager

Oversees project teams consisting of project associates, product engineers and implementation specialist both, onshore and offshore.

Client LOB Negotiator, Relationship Management, Incident Management.

Managed the execution of Data Center Consolidations as well as Data Center and/or Application Migrations.

Works closely with Product and Services Sales account executives, Technical Practices, Customer Support and other groups to coordinate and conduct the delivery and implementation of complex solutions.

Ensures cost effective and timely delivery of billable engagements that drive Align’s product and services.

Managed internal iniciatives for creating methodologies around Cloud Readiness Assesments and Portability.

Lead the efforts in the creation of Migration Process Flows from discovery of data center current state through design of future state.

Working in collaboration with my peers in the Professional Services group, created process flows, swimlanes, and documentation for a total data /application migration methodology.

Initiatives Delivered:

JPMC Data Center Initiative - Chicago IL

Lead a team of engineers assessing the current state of one data center consisting of over ten thousand assists in an effort to understand requirements, inefficiencies, inconsistencies and pain points as they exist today by providing:

A fully scanned physical inventory of each assest by rack location and u-hieght

Baselining the physical inventory against JPMC’s documentation and create reports identifying descripencies

Report findings to JPMC executives, schedule 12 additional Data Centers, and plan for Data Center consolidation

Core Service Initiative - New Jersey NJ

Cunducted an internal Align Train the Trainer program to introduce new appliance based Enterprise Storage Migration methodology. After the completion of training I engaged in a multi Storage array migration to prove out the functional concept and acquire an acceptance criteria for the following:

Cost of ownershio

Value delivered

Ease of use

Intergration to business culture

Federal Reserve Bank - Richmond VA

Responsible for putting together a Application Migration strategy to include tangible deliverables in including:

Project Kickoff Sample Templates

Detail Application Profile Questionnaire

Wave Migration Team Layout Document

Application Migration Scope Table

Consolidated Migration Validation Plan & Coverage Model

Future State Process Flow

Intitial Table Top Meeting Template

Final Table Top Meeting Template

Fully functional Migration Runbook with T-minus plan

Capital One Bank - Richmond VA

Responsible for the Data Center Consolidation and the Application Server Migrations from four Data Centers in to two. Meet with Application Owners and set the program expectations. Communicate with all LOB’s and demostrate cost savings associated with the Data Center migrations. Active contributor to the migration events, spearheading the:

Management of the Technical Infrastructure Leads

Management of the Migration Specialist, responcible for maintaining the migration wave runbook

Chairperson leading all meetings Program level related

Management of all the Application Groupings and Timings for Migration Wave

Management of the Migration Wave Leads

QED National Corp – New York, NY Mar 2013 – Jan 2016

Storage Systems Practice Delivery Manager

Contracted to EMC Corporation, assigned to BNYM:

Senior Technical Project Manager responsible for delivering enterprise projects for EMC’s leading accounts in the Greater NY Area.

Duties include, overseeing teams of system engineers, solutions architects, and implementation specialists responsible for the design, implementation, and migration of EMC hardware and software at fortune 500 companies.

Responsible for managing associated financials, cost budgets, problem escalation / resolution, and risk mitigation for each of these projects.

The Bank of New York Mellon

Following is a list of projects that I delivered at BNY Mellon focusing on Data Center Migrations, Organic and Non-organic Growth, Support, and Maintenance of BNY Mellon’s Enterprise Storage Infrastructure. This Infrastructure span’s several Data Centers, which are located in Nashville TN, Somerset NJ, and Northpoint PA.

BNYM efx Equinix Facilities Infrastructure Buildout

EMC SAN and Storage buildout for Equinix NY5 Data Center

BNYM Storage Transformation Project

Migration of 13 EMC Storage Arrays totaling over 2500 Servers

Rearchetecting Storage layout for the Server Farms

Consolidating on to IBM XIV and SVC Storage Pools

Computer Concepts & Resources, Inc. – Lincroft, NJ May 1999 – Mar 2013

Owner / Senior Project Manager

Contracted to EMC Corporation, assigned to BNYM:

Monitor program delivery and provide coaching, counseling, and motivation to maximize employee performance. Ensures the recruitment and hire of employees, based on global profiles, who can help grow and drive EMC's business. Drives cost effective and timely delivery of billable implementation services that drive EMC product and service revenues.

Responsible for the effective management of the life cycle of all projects from kickoff to customer hand-off.

Manage the delivery of several large-scale projects that included mainframe, open system migrations, and NAS deployment, in addition to archiving solutions for EMC’s Enterprise Account customers.

Responsible for the implementation and daily management of activities, which are coordinated with EMC employees and partners to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget and to the satisfaction of the customer and sales.

The Bank of New York Mellon

Following is a list of projects that I delivered at BNY Mellon focusing on Growth, Support, and Maintenance of BNY Mellon’s Enterprise Storage Infrastructure. This Infrastructure span’s several Data Centers, which are located in Nashville TN, Somerset NJ, and Northpoint PA.

BNYM Avamar 7.0 Beta Rollout Project

Manage the coordinated efforts of Rolling out Avamar 7.0 (US & UK)

BNYM SRDF Brocade FCIP Switch Migration

Migrate SRDF Network from Cisco to Brocade using Fibre Channel over IP Technology

BNYM Avamar NDMP Consolidation Project

Consolidation and Migration of EMC Avamar Nodes - Performance Enhan

BNYM Open Systems SAN Refresh Wave 1

Cisco SAN Switch Hardware Upgrade and Migration in CNJ and TPC Data Centers

BNYM EMC Storage Array 1430/1440 Migration to VMAX

EMC Data Migration from older EMC Technology to Newer EMC Technology

BNYM EMC Storage Array 1630 Migration to VMAX

EMC Data Migration from older EMC Technology to Newer EMC Technology

BNYM Brocade DCX Services Northpoint & TPC

Installation of new Brocade WAN Equipment for Disaster Recovery and Data Replication

BNYM SAN Refresh

Fibre Channel SAN Switch Refresh in TPC and CNJ - Associated Data Migration

BNYM EMC ECC Chargeback

Project Management of a Custom Application Development effort for Enterprise Storage

BNYM EMC Control Center Performance Analysis

Analyze Storage Performance, rollout Enhancement Tools and train the BNYM team

BNYM GNMA Data Migration

EMC SAN buildout for GNMA and Data Migration from CLARiiON to DMX

BNYM Tech Refresh and Storage Growth

EMC Data Migration of all Storage Arrays including Open Systems, Mainframe and VMS

Pershing Project Unity Open Systems Migration

Cisco SAN Switch Migration of the entire Pershing Data Center

Pershing Open Systems Infrastructure Deployment

Integration of Pershing in to the BNYM Enterprise Storage Production environment

BNYM Custom Reports Enhancement Project

Project Management of a Application Development/Chargeback, Custom Reporting for Enterprise Storage

Pershing Performance Analysis Project

Perform Quarterly Storage Performance Analysis for TPC and CNJ

BNYM Colsen Data Center Infrastructure Buildout

Storage Infrastructure Buildout - Cisco SAN and EMC CLARiiON Storage in TPC and CNJ

BNYM TPC Data Center Buildout, Bunker Data Center Buildout, SRDF-A/STAR

Consolidation of NY and NJ Datacenters, Buildout Tennessee Datacenter, Migration to TPC

BNYM POC STAR/SRDF-A

Proof of Concept in preparation for TPC Migration

BNYM Raid 5 Conversion

In place Data Migrations for three Datacenters - Migrating all Data to RAID5 Layout

Other Projects delivered for EMC include:

Barnes & Noble

Quest Diagnostics

Visiting Nurses Services

Open Exchange.com

Woman.com

Adecco Staffing USA

CableVision

BNP Paribas

Morgan Stanley

Lehman Brothers

Barclays Capital

Credit Suisse Asset Management

NYSE

Philip Morris/Altria

Skadden Arps, Slate Meagher, & Flom LLP.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, & Garrison LLP.

SIAC

HIP Health Insurance

Datanomics – Piscataway, NJ May 1992 – May 1999

Technologist/Project Manager

Managing a staff of over 100 IT professional consultants in a infrastructure support roll. As a lead member of the Distributed Systems Management Services team, responsible for leading several key projects, both as a Project Manager and Technical Liaison. Duties include, overseeing teams of system engineers, system/network administrators and desktop support personel.

Responsible for the daily management and sustainability of production Data Centers supporting thousands of clients and servers throughout New Jersey. The main charter of these teams was to provide customers with new technologies, Data Center Consolidations, reduced operating costs, and better, faster and more secure computing environments. Major projects supported to date include.

Lucent Technologies Consumer Lease Services

Motorola

Philips Consumer Communications

AT&T

Newman Pharmaceutical Distributors

Monroe Systems for Business – Morris Plains, NJ Sept 1988 – May 1992

Manager, Third Party Maintenance

Assisted in the development and implementation of a plan to become a major Third Party Personal Computer Maintenance Company.

Naporano Iron & Metal Co. – Newark, NJ Oct 1984 – July 1988

IT Manager/Business Operations

IT Operations Manager Responsible for 80 personal computers located in three facilities.

Introducing Novell Networking Technologies.

Building Computer Automation to a fully manual operation.

Professional Training

Riverbed Application Profiling

AWS Cloud Foundations

Service Now Fundimentals

EMC- Enterprise Storage Foundations

EMC- EMC Data Manager (EDM)

Storage Attached Network

Network Attached Storage

UNIX Fundamentals

UNIX System V Internals

UNIX System V Advanced Administration

UNIX System V Release 4 Advanced Administration

IBM PC DOS Certified Professional

LAN Manager Network Administration

LAN Manager Network Hardware Configuration

TCP/IP Networking

Windows NT Advanced Server

Novell Networks Service and Support

Novell Networks Systems Manager

IBM PC, XT, AT Hardware Repair

A+ Certification

Hitachi Laser Technology

Administering Microsoft NT

Supporting Microsoft NT Enterprise

Exchange Server Series Design & Implementation

Microsoft Networking Essentials

ADP Interactive Accounting Financial Training

Supervisor/Managers Assertiveness Skills

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Education

Electronic Data Processing College, Puerto Rico USA

Computer Science, 1984

Referances

Furnished upon request

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