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Director of Information Technology

Location:
New Rochelle, NY
Posted:
November 09, 2020

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STEVEN E. MANDRAS *** Stuart Drive

New Rochelle, NY 10804

917-***-**** (Cell)

adho1p@r.postjobfree.com

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Highly motivated and strategic technology executive with extensive enterprise cross platform management and integration experience. Effective business partner with demonstrated ability to architect, engineer, implement and support cost effective, advanced technology solutions. Strong track record of reducing and managing costs while increasing functionality and streamlining global process, procedures and platform lifecycles. SKILLS

Cloud, DevOps and Security Leader

Platform Architecture and Management

Platform Lifecycle Governance

Information Security Architecture

Technology Strategy and Execution

Program Management

Enterprise Budget Management

People Management, Coaching and Mentoring

ITIL V3 certified

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DEPOSITORY TRUST AND CLEARING CORPORATION, NEW YORK, NY Apr 2011 – Oct 2019 Executive Director, IT Architecture, Head of Enterprise IT Platform Architecture, Jun 2015 – Oct 2019 Responsible for managing all aspects of IT Platform, Security, Resiliency Automation and Cloud Architecture, Strategy and Roadmaps across Enterprise Infrastructure.

Led a team of 6 Senior Directors and 10 Solutions Architects covering all aspects of Platform, Security, Resiliency, Automation, DevSecOps and Private/Public Cloud Architecture. Managed overall $16M IT Architecture budget.

Developed a 5-year Enterprise Platform Technology Strategy and Roadmap which provided the foundation for the overall refreshed IT Strategy based on Security, Agile, Automation, Resiliency and Services.

Initiated Platform Cyber Recovery and Resumption Research using Hyperledger DLT to store all incoming and outgoing messages for recovery and replay of Clearance and Settlement.

Managed and oversaw the cloud platforms and deployments to support the DLT Performance Benchmarks for Equity Market trading volumes across four separate open source and commercial DLT providers.

Led the IT Architecture Agile CoE in the DevSecOps tribe, guiding and developing all products, services, metrics and internal marketplace integration through the CI/CD pipeline for ground and cloud application delivery.

Designed, pitched and implemented the DTCC Enterprise IT Lab and Technology Innovation Center, which emulates current and future datacenters, clouds, application hosting platforms and provides a secure area for 3rd party product proof of concepts and evaluations.

Development and implementation of New Technology Onboarding process, where all new 3rd party products and public cloud services must meet or exceed enterprise non-functional security, resiliency, automation, performance and operational requirements before use in the enterprise. Steering Committees, Advisory and Review Boards, Professional Development

Architecture Review Board voting member

Technology Risk Management Steering Committee voting member

Business Continuity Management Steering Committee voting member

Enterprise Hosting Advisory Council voting member

Container Portfolio Advisory Council voting member

Mentoring 1:1’s and Circles

Coaching Circles

STEVEN E. MANDRAS Page 2

Vice President, Clarient Global LLC, Lead Platform Architect and Co-CTO / Head of Infrastructure, May 2014 - Jun 2015

Startup, partnership with 6 Investment Banks to provide Client Reference Data as a market utility to lower individual firm’s expenses in support of KYC process and FATCA regulations. Responsible up to and including successful Soft Launch October 2015.

Overall cloud architecture, design, implementation at IBM/SoftLayer based on functional, performance, security and resiliency requirements from the business and development agile teams.

Managed and oversaw overall integration between IBM, InfoSys and PWC service teams for deployments, financials, operational and security functions.

Screened, interviewed and managed transition to full time staff. Vice President, Enterprise Infrastructure, Head of Distributed Computing, Productivity/Collaboration, Feb 2012 - May 2014

Managed a $90M budget and global staff of 140+ responsible for all architecture, engineering, implementation and level 3 support for all distributed platforms, cloud foundations, virtual and physical desktops, productivity and collaboration.

Instituted an organizational alignment to consumable service functions, Change/Enhance/Run the Bank.

Introduction and implementation of Converged Infrastructure for the Global Trade Repository in the US, Singapore and Netherlands, further embracing Linux and leading to AIX elimination

Led the first 2 foundational programs into public cloud for business applications, defining initial network, security and operational implementations.

Vice President, IT Architecture, Head of Infrastructure Architecture, Apr 2011- Feb 2012 New position within IT Architecture to provide Strategy, Guidance and Thought Leadership for the evolution of current and future infrastructure platforms, covering all areas under the CTO, from Data Center facilities through Enterprise Computing, Cloud, Middleware, Database, Application Integration, End User Services and Productivity/Collaboration platforms.

Developed a comprehensive Enterprise Storage Strategy to create financial and operational efficiencies across all block and file storage platforms residing within the firm’s managed datacenters.

Developed, and subsequently implemented, the firm’s Global Trade Repository Platform Architecture which was deployed across domestic data centers and international colocation providers to satisfy financial and time to market challenges for the Derivatives business.

Drafted and adopted Linux First and Virtualization First enterprise policies, which led to an IT wide consolidation of bare metal and operating system deployments. NOVELL INC., WALTHAM MA Apr 2009 – Apr 2011

Director of Product Management, Datacenter Management Product Portfolio Manager Responsible for managing the integration, evolution and evangelism of the Datacenter Management product line efforts across the recent PlateSpin and Managed Objects acquisitions.

Reporting to the VP of Product Management, responsible for 2 product portfolios comprised of 9 products representing over $30 million in revenue

Define and maintain market vision by creating and maintaining business plans and cases, analyzing product performance, creating epics and themes, and build/buy/partner models

Identify and promote distinctive competencies, competitive positioning and evangelize offerings

Ensure customer satisfaction, win-loss analysis, and maintain/promote product line and portfolio roadmaps BEAR, STEARNS & COMPANY, NEW YORK, NY Jun 1997 – Sep 2008 Managing Director Principal, I.T.G., Global Head of Platform Engineering, Feb 2004 – Sep 2008 Responsible for managing R&D and sustaining engineering efforts across all distributed technologies, including Unix/Linux and Windows Operating environments and lifecycle, blade/server/desktop/mobile hardware platforms, SAN/NAS/Archive, WAN/MAN/LAN/Wireless communications, Corporate Messaging and Collaboration, Middleware, application packaging and deployment, Virtualization, Compliance and Security. STEVEN E. MANDRAS Page 3

Provide reference architectures for “cradle to the grave” solutions for current and next generation technology platforms and application integration.

Manage level 4 support and vendor escalation for all infrastructure and 3rd party applications.

Responsible for acquisition, certification, standards, provisioning, patch management, software distribution, documentation and best practices for global Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux environment.

Responsible for certification, standards, provisioning, patch management, software distribution, documentation and best practices for Windows server 2003 (32/64), Windows XP and Vista Enterprise.

Architected the Active Directory 2003, SharePoint 2007 and Exchange 2007 global environment upgrade, including implementation and operational support methodology, process and procedure.

Architecture, certification, implementation, documentation and level 4 support for VMware ESX and Workstation, primarily used for development, QA, production server consolidation and high availability for Windows server 2003 and XP/Vista desktop platforms. Managing Director, I.T.G., Manager, UNIX Administration, Feb 2002 – Feb 2004 Managed a 30+ FTE Systems Administration and Hardware Technician group responsible for global support of over 2200 heterogeneous UNIX servers, storage, networks and applications in a 24X7X365 environment, including direct support of all developer and trading system groups. Associate Director, I.T.G., Manager, Fixed Income UNIX Administration, Jan 2000 – Feb 2002 Managed an 8 FTE Systems Administration group responsible for all Fixed Income UNIX servers, storage, networks and applications, directly supporting all FI developers and traders. Vice President, F.A.S.T., Systems Engineering and Administration, Jun 1997 – Jan 2000 Responsible for project design, implementation, and systems administration for the Financial and Analytical Structured Transactions group’s server and desktop assets. BRIDGE INFORMATION SYSTEMS, New York, NY (EJV Partners L.P.) Feb 1992 – Jun 1997 Manager of Sybase Database Administration, 1992 – 1997 Responsible for managing a 6 FTE Database Administration group supporting a 24x7 Open Server/Open Client architecture consisting of 145 Sybase SQL domestic servers. BURLINGTON COAT FACTORY, Burlington, NJ Jan 1991 – Feb 1992 Systems Administrator

Responsible for the installation, maintenance and support of a 600 user UNIX platform consisting of Sun and Sequent based hardware and software.

AT&T COMPUTER SYSTEMS, New Castle, DE Aug 1987 – Jan 1991 Customer Engineer

Responsible for the installation, maintenance, support and administration of hardware and software for PC, workstation, and 3B2 mini-computers running under Unix System V. FORMAL EDUCATION

Southern New Hampshire University

Bachelor of Arts, MIS concentration, May 2021

Pennsylvania Institute of Technology

Associates in Applied Science

Computer Engineering Technology, 1998

Pennsylvania State University

Two years of study completed 1983-1985

Mechanical Engineering



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