IT Manager Project, Data Center Migrations
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NORBERTO ‘Red’ MEJIAS
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** ***** ** *******/******* 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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