Project Manager/Senior Consultant

CHRISTOPHER A. PAJAK

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SUMMARY

Seasoned solutions architect and project manager offering decades of success owning delivery of comprehensive IT infrastructure strategies that transform client IT organizations. Specialize in infrastructure architecture with a track record of resolving complicated issues swiftly in methods best suited to a business. Global enterprise experience with multiple platforms and a vast combination of hardware, software and networking tools and migration technologies. Draw on deep knowledge of product functionality resulting from strong professional relationships with industry vendors, including testing and proof of concept for products in the data storage and migration field. Ensure that business and delivery risks are mitigated within the solution.

Proven team lead, enhancing team dynamics by garnering trust and credibility and employing superior organizational skills to keep timelines and deliverables on track in both Waterfall and Agile environments. Skilled communicator and presenter, leveraging technical and business acumen to engage customers, developers and all levels of management. Particularly adept at troubleshooting and problem solving in fast-paced environments. Trusted to mentor consultants, advise IT directors, rescue off-track projects and function independently as needed to drive projects to completion. Broad and deep experience in a range of settings, including seven years with the US Department of Defense.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Data Center Migration • Storage Migration • Cloud Technologies • Disaster Recovery Strategy

Planning & Tiering • Storage Cost Optimization • Systems Integration • SOW Scoping

Solution Architecture & Design • Project Management • Agile & Waterfall SDLC Methodologies

Cross-Platform Consolidation Strategies • Infrastructure Architecture & Design

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IBM, Endicott, NY May 2018–June 2020

TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS MANAGER, CLOUD MIGRATION FACTORY

Design, develop and deliver new, complex, high-quality end-to-end migration and systems integration solutions to clients with responsibility for their overall cost, quality and deliverability. Manage 10 to 25 people at one time, collaborating with transition and transformation (T&T) teams, account teams and other service lines, ensuring that all related aspects of a T&T solution are solutioned properly by the relevant parties and that there are no gaps in IBM scope against customer requirements. Employ in-depth knowledge of leading-edge products and technology in conjunction with industry and business skills to respond to varying business requirements and influence clients, explaining the solution, the risks and reasoning for its costs.

Increased ROI for each new business opportunity by reducing the technical resources required by IBM to accurately solution required technical services for a given client.

Utilize a cloud technology-based approach, employing technologies such as Amazon EC2, VMware on IBM Cloud and Azure Kubernetes Service or customizing services to meet any customer requirement.

Dell/EMC, Hopkinton, MA May 2011–September 2017

PROJECT MANAGER / SENIOR CONSULTANT

Planned and executed multinational data center migrations, consolidations and storage optimization projects worth over $3 million using Waterfall methodology while managing a team of up to 10 technical staff, successfully delivering projects on time and under budget. Led work streams and managed workflow for multiple projects at one time without compromising results. Spearheaded development of technical documentation for

storage-related strategy projects, assessed backup and recovery operations processes and policies against best

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practices and assured quality deliverables linked directly to SOW commitments. Advised on IT process efficiencies, staff utilization and structure, tracking mechanisms, and proper alignment of applications and their associated technology tiers.

Created an estimated $10 million in savings for various clients through data gathering, gap analysis against best practices and industry experience, and detailed deliverable development to realize storage cost avoidance and savings.

Led development of data center migration methodology used worldwide for safely moving data centers.

Four-time winner of Excellence@EMC Award for project management and mentorship of consultants on Verisk-Woodmac project, Northrop Grumman VITA project and Penguin Random House project

Won Total Customer Engagement Award for NG/VITA VA State Agency Server Relocation

Recognized for personal accomplishments on Spectra Energy project while continuing to ensure satisfaction among customers on all projects via an EMC Stock Grant

IBM, Endicott, NY October 2006–March 2011

IT ADVISORY ARCHITECT

Advisory-level consultant responsible for multiple complex data center strategy, migration, and consolidation programs. Supplied high-level architecture and design for optimization and consolidation of data centers. Led process and toolkit development and implementation of multi-year data center programs; communications, escalations, metrics and reporting.

Key resource in the planning and execution of a multi-year program at Fortune 100 financial institution; 10,000+ server migrations, 15,000+ server decommissions, and 1,000+ applications.

Successfully executed the migrations of thousands of servers and mission critical applications with no negative business impacts.

Primarily focused on Wintel/Unix consolidation for data center migration, consolidation and optimization. Completed discovery and analysis, developed migration solutions and created runbooks. Provided technical support with PlateSpin migrations.

Manpower (contractor to IBM), Dallas, TX January 2006–October 2006

IT ADVISORY ARCHITECT

Developed and led the optimization of hardware platforms and software systems for large-scale enterprise projects, employing expert knowledge in hardware and software consolidation and ability to design and implement solutions based on client needs.

Analyzed existing server configurations (memory, processors, primary function), architected new hardware solution in logical partitions to minimize cost and optimize performance and created consolidation study report effectively describing the solution for the client.

Aligned hardware configuration and architecture recommendations with client needs utilizing a cost of ownership model including the analysis and documentation of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and in-house application performance characteristics, inter-process communications, messaging, middleware and collaborative software on various hardware platforms.

Cameron of PGH (contractor to ALCOA), Pittsburgh, PA April 2005–December 2005

PROJECT MANAGER / SYSTEMS MIGRATION ENGINEER

Led server refresh of the original migration project and consolidation of application servers to one single server for replication back to the North America Data Center (NADC). Managed workflow for each migration, including gathering site data, reviewing the data with the site, scheduling the migration procedures with the site and performing the actual data and printer migration.

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Utilized technical expertise to create Active Directory structure, DFS shares, DNS and DHCP changes to the new configurations, and create Veritas Replication Points for the backup replication of the sites data back to the NADC.

Migrated MS Exchange servers, File/Print server, file share moves to W2K DFS and mailboxes. All workstations and user accounts were migrated using Quest FastLane Migration Tool.

CAREER NOTE

Additional tenure as Systems Engineer/Project Lead at Infinity Technology Services (contractor to ALCOA) (Pittsburgh, PA); Systems Engineer/Team Lead/Project Manager at Openpages (Westford, MA); Systems Consultant at Cotelligent (contractor to ALCOA and Ernst & Young) (Pittsburgh, PA); Systems Manager Team Lead at ARC (contractor to IBM) (Pittsburgh, PA); CIS Manager at L.D. Astorino & Associates, Ltd. (Pittsburgh, PA) and Support Specialist at Intercomputer Communications Corporation (Cincinnati, OH).

Department of Defense tenure includes multiple roles at RCF Information Systems (Fairborn, OH) and ACUREX Corporation/AREOTHERM Division (Dayton, OH): Proposal/Documentation Manager, Project Administrator/Systems Analyst, Sales/Marketing Manager, Project Manager, Systems Analyst, Computer Systems Manager and Task Schedule Analyst. Details available upon request.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY

DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS & COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE

MS Access • Oracle • SQL Server • Amazon EC2 • Azure Kubernetes Service

Transition Manager TM • Zerto • VMware HCX • Carbonite • StorageX • Cirrus • Cloudscape

MS Project • MS Access • MS Exchange • MS Query • MS Office • Dameware • Hyena

Active Directory Migration Tool ADMT • IBM Systems Director • Veritas NetBackup • Veritas Replicator

PlateSpin Migrate • Primavera • Secure Copy • NTSEC Security Tools • FTP • HTTP • Telnet

OPERATING SYSTEMS & UTILITIES, NETWORK SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGIES

Windows • MacOS • UNIX • Linux • TCP/IP • WLNP/WNP • Cisco Routing

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Project Management Institute Expected 2020

PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL (PMP)

IBM Badges 2018–2020

IBM GARAGE METHOD FOR CLOUD EXPLORER • ARCHITECTURAL THINKING

IBM CLOUD MIGRATION METHOD • TEAM SOLUTION DESIGN

ENTERPRISE DESIGN THINKING • IBM MENTOR

Dell, Inc. 2016

DELL EMC TRANSITION MANAGER (TM) TRAINING

EDUCATION

Community College of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA

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