Brian W. Judy

732-***-****

adhygj@r.postjobfree.com

www.linkedin.com/in/brianwjudy

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

An information technology leader with 15+ years of professional experience in designing, implementing and maintaining financial services networks in an ever-changing technology landscape. Manage and engineer economic projects of all types from multi-continent distributed networks with asynchronous or synchronous replication to threat detection and response security solutions.

Accomplished measurable results while leading teams of 14 in a dynamic, fast-paced finance environment. Manage multiple lines of risk to protect services, assets, property, and equipment valued over $15B while meeting the expectations of senior leadership and empowering the business for success.

● Budgeting

● Personnel Management

● Project Management

● Data Analysis

● Process Automation

● Policy Implementation

● Disaster Recovery Planning

● Training & Development

● Troubleshooting/Repair

SKILLS

Hardware – Dell VxRail, Cisco UCS, HP Proliant BL460c, DL360, DL380, HP C7000 Blade Enclosure, Pure Storage, EMC VMAX, EMC VPLEX, Virtual Connect, 3PAR V400, NetApp SAN / NAS, Cisco 4507 / 4506 / 4900 / 4948 / 3750, PaloAlto, Riverbed Steelhead, EMC Data Domain 640 / 565 / 530 / 510 Operating Systems - Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012 & R2, Windows Server 2008 & R2, Windows Server 2003 & R2, Windows Server 2000, Solaris 8 / 9 / 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Ubuntu 9.10 / 9.04, Mac OS X Software - Microsoft Exchange Online / 2013/ 2010 / 2007 / 2003 / 5.5, Microsoft SQL Server 2012 / 2008 / 2005 / 2000, Microsoft Cluster Services, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Advent Geneva 7 / 8 / 8.5, VMware ESX 6.5 / 6.0 / 5.5 / 5.0 / 4.1 / 4.0 / 3.5 / 3.0, DoubleTake, EMC SourceOne, HP SIM, BackupExec 2010 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9, Symantec IM Manager, Facetime Unified Security Gateway

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MACANDREWS & FORBES, INC.

Director of Technology April 2019 – Present

● Hands-on manager responsible for all technology with 14 reports; Engineering Manager with a team of 3, Helpdesk Manager with a team of 4, Telecom Manager with a team of 2, and 2 Audio/Video technicians

● Responsibilities include supporting $15+B Private Equity Firm with 500 users, 8 Office/Residences, 200 virtual servers, 2 G650 jets, 2 helicopters, 1 300+ foot superyacht, and advisory services for 12 portfolio companies

● Established IT department standards, policies, and procedures that align with business needs while mitigating risk

● Stabilized, remediated and redesigned an end of life network infrastructure which was failing multiple times a week

● Rearchitected and implemented the entire compute, network and security infrastructure for our District of Columbia office, Teterboro, NJ office, and 5 private residences of the chairman

● Managed project teams and implementation efforts for all Microsoft Office 365 / Azure tenant and services

Azure Multi-Region Network

Azure Active Directory

Azure Backup

Azure DNS

O365 Conditional Access

SaaS - Microsoft Dynamics, Artbase, Policybase

IaaS - Azure Migrate VMWare to Azure

Office 365 Deployment with InTune

● Develop and manage a $2.2M annual budget that allows for technology growth and business empowerment

● Plan, budget and manage all infrastructure projects (2019 & 2020 examples below)

Microsoft Office 365 Introduction

Microsoft Exchange Online Migration

Implement Managed Active Threat Protection

Conduct Penetration Testing

Windows 10/Office 365 Deployment with InTune

Built Azure Network and Services

Implement Network Monitoring Services

Wide-Area Network Upgrade

Network Load Balancer Replacement

Firewall/IPS Replacement

● Achieved budget savings of $600K through redundant system eliminations, enhanced solution integrations, and efficiencies in vendor contracts

● Produce quarterly key performance indicators (KPI) for all departments outlining support metrics: Support Ticket Count, Support Resolution Time, Employee +, Asset +, and Trending Issues

● Manage all software/hardware/telecom vendors and service provider relationships ensuring optimal return of investment and awareness of industry progress

● Mitigated high risk of data loss and business disruption by developing and implementing a disaster recovery plan and directed annual business continuity testing

● Advised and collaborated with our portfolio companies to enhance synergies across business industries to maximize economies with the following vendors: Microsoft, Cisco, Dell, and VMWare

● Established and conducted an annual team-building/networking conference with portfolio companies COHEN & STEERS, INC.

Vice President, Head of IT Infrastructure June 2016 – April 2019

● Hands-on manager responsible for all infrastructure and 11 reports; Engineering Manager with a team of 3, Desktop Engineering Manager with a team of 4, one network and security engineer and a database architect/administrator

● Responsibilities include supporting $62B asset manager with 335 users, 550 servers globally including 80 physical servers (Mostly VMWare ESX) (NY, NJ, UK, HK, TK)

● Plan, budget and manage all infrastructure projects

● Architected and implemented the entire compute, network and security infrastructure onsite in our London, Hong Kong, and Tokyo offices

● Produce quarterly key performance indicators (KPI) for all departments outlining support metrics

● Develop and manage a $3.5M annual budget that allows for technology growth and business empowerment

● Achieved budget reduction of approximately $1.2M through improved IT expenditures on remote support and inflated consultant contracts

● Manage all software & hardware vendors and service provider relationships

● Created IT department standards and worked closely with legal & compliance to define policies to ensure data integrity and enterprise security

● Developed and implemented a disaster recovery plan and also directed biannual business continuity testing TACONIC CAPITAL ADVISORS, LP

Infrastructure Manager / Senior Systems Engineer April 2009 – June 2016

● Hands on Team Lead responsible for three desktop engineers, one server engineer, and a DBA

● Responsibilities include 2nd and 3rd level support for 200 servers (Windows, Unix, OS X) globally including 45 physical servers, 30 ESX hosts and 155 Virtual Machines (NY, NJ, UK, HK)

● Annually create a multimillion-dollar budget that allows for technology growth while recognizing cost efficiencies that impact the bottom line

● Work with vendors/service providers for budgetary quotes and sales contracts

● Planned and executed Headquarters migration from 450 Park Ave. to 280 Park Ave. of 120 users including owners, partners, traders and all support staff with no downtime

● Spearheaded planning, execution & implementation of multimillion-dollar production data center migration to Colo facility with no downtime

Selected, designed and prepared Colo facility cage and racks

Evaluated, purchased & installed multiple redundant 10GB circuits

Planned and coordinated move with relocation services and vendors

Updated all warranties and contracts for Colo facility

● Created IT department standards and worked closely with management to create compliance policies to ensure data integrity and enterprise security

● Developed and implemented entire disaster recovery plan and also directed the disaster recovery tests for the company leveraging a combination of SAN replication, VMware, SQL database mirroring and custom scripts (Powershell, VBS, Batch, Bash)

● Implemented and maintained Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 with vendor support

● Solely responsible for all services company-wide: Exchange 2010, VMware, Active Directory, SAN, HP Virtual Connect, Blackberry, File, Print, SQL, DNS, DHCP, Web Services, Cluster Services, and Cisco network

● Developed project plans and upgraded to VMware ESX 5.5 across 2 HP C7000 Virtual Connect chassis, 2 Cisco UCS chassis fiber attached to an HP 3PAR V400 SAN with 10 Gigabit Ethernet FORTRESS INVESTMENT GROUP, L.L.C.

Lead Server Engineer June 2007 – April 2009

● Hands on Team Lead for 2 Senior Engineers and 1 Junior Engineer, which provided 2 nd and 3 rd level support

● Responsible for 350 plus servers globally (NY, NJ, UK, GR, IT, AU, HK, TYO)

● Administered and maintained all services including Exchange 2007 / 2003, Active Directory, SAN, NAS, DNS, WINS, File and Print, VMware, Blackberry, Web Services, and Disaster Recovery

● Developed project plans for Exchange 2007 project team for migration from Exchange 2003

● Built three 2 node Exchange 2007 Clusters distributed across two sites with opposing single node DR clusters all iSCSI attached with SAN LUN mirroring for DR

● Developed a project plan and implemented a 5 node VMware ESX Cluster iSCSI attached to SAN

● Created project plan and implemented two NetApp SAN Cluster

● Administer and maintained Blackberry server to the most current versions of the software

● Responsible for Disaster Recovery procedures and high availability system backups CAXTON ASSOCIATES, L.L.C.

Systems Administrator May 2003 – June 2007

● Responsible for 80 plus servers in three locations, New York, New Jersey, and London

● Responsible for all services including Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2003, Active Directory, DNS, WINS, File and Print, Disaster Recovery, Blackberry, Web Services, and RAS

● Lead and developed a project plan for the migration and implementation of Active Directory

● Developed project plans for Exchange 5.5 migration to Exchange 2003

● Designed, implemented and administered BMC Control-M Enterprise Scheduler on Solaris to monitor and manage workflows critical to business service management

● Implemented and maintain group policy for the Caxton Associates desktop environment

● Given the responsibly from network administrator to configure and troubleshoot ports on Cisco switches

● Administered and maintained Blackberry server to the most current versions of the software

● Developed and maintained Windows 2000 server migrations to Windows 2003 server, using unattended installs

● Planned migration and upgrade of File and Print and Exchange cluster servers from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003 UNITED STATES NAVY

Electronic Warfare Technician June 1998 – June 2002

● Passive radar signal analysis and classification in Operation Enduring Freedom – Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, and Afghanistan

● Member of a team responsible for missile deterrence system on USS Arctic EDUCATION

The Chubb Institute

Network or Computer Systems Administrators – Windows 2000 Server and Professional, Windows XP Pro Electronic Warfare School

Radar Signal Analysis and Classification \ Radio Wave Propagation Missile Deterrence System \ Basic Electronics Anne Arundel Community College

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