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Richard Sklar Boca Raton, Fl **428

201-***-**** adjnmg@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

AWS Administrator – Knowledgeable and Proficient in

Active Directory

FTP Server Configuration

S3 Management

Group Policies

Database Server Configuration

AWS Firewall

Web Server Configuration

Database Management

Creating Spot Servers

Terminal Server Configuration

Database Mirroring

Resolving Server Issues

Company Security Officer – Responsibilities included

Annual Vulnerability Scans

Led annual security trainings

Responsible for DR

Risk Assessments

Responsible for Company’s Security Manual

Keeper of Certificates and AWS passwords

QA Manager – Managed 3 Direct Reports – Implemented a QA process that reduced issues by 95%.

Highly skilled process improvement and application development specialist.

Wide-ranging experience in change and incident management as well as in reduction and remediation of application risks to the internal and cloud infrastructure.

Received numerous Employee Recognition Awards and Letters of Accommodations for developing cutting edge programming solutions and new business processes.

Professional Experience

Medforce Technologies – Suffern, NY/Boca Raton, Fl – QA Manager August 2008 to November 2020

QA Manager

oWas hired as a tester. After 4 months promoted to manager with 3 direct reports.

oImplemented processes and procedures which reduced customer issues by 95%.

oSet up of test environments.

Amazon Cloud Administrator

oManaged a production and test environment

oIncluded 2 DC Servers, 2 Web Servers, 2 FTP Servers and 10 Application Servers.

oManaged Active Directory, Firewall

oConfigured and cloned servers and created spot servers when required.

oManaged 120+ SQL databases with mirrors.

Security Officer

oPerformed vulnerability tests on internal and cloud servers. Implemented remediations where required.

oResponsible for Disaster Recovery plan and implementation of that plan

oMaintained the risk assessment.

oLed the annual company’s security class.

Created operational scripts

oSQL Queries

oPowershell

oDOS Command

oVbscript

oPython

Visentry – Paramus, NJ – Business Analyst/QA October 2007 to August 2008

Created a training manual to train new security guards.

Evaluated and tested new applications.

JPMorgan Chase – New York, NY – Senior Technology Officer August 1988 to December 2006

Software Compliance Officer; ePurchase – Ariba Buyer (2002 – 2006)

Head of QA for a web based application, Ariba Buyer, for all new changes and defect fixes.

Created and maintained all necessary documentation for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliancy.

Departmental representative for Project Life Cycle. Established departmental policies for Six Sigma and Capability Maturity Model (CMM)

Created functional requirements and test scripts for all Change Requests and Defects.

Trained and managed offshore QA testers.

Prepared the test environment for UAT testing.

Project Manager; Summary Billing and Summary Billing Inquiry (1996 – 2006)

Project Manager for one of the first electronic invoicing system reducing the invoice payment period from 60 to 90 days to next day payment.

Summary Billing processed on average annually 600,000 invoices, consisting of 1.5 million transactions for $210 million for office supplies and office equipment.

Summary Billing on average saved annually $1.4 million in prompt pay discounts for office supplies and office equipment.

The IT Consultant Payment process processed on average annually 45,000 payments, consisting of 185,000 transactions for $440 million.

The IT Consultant Payment process on average saved annually $7 million in prompt pay discounts.

Project Manager/Assistant Manager; Procurement’s Computer Department (1988 – 2001)

Performed day to day maintenance to keep the Procurement Computer Center operational.

Project Manager for the departments Year 2000 upgrade initiative for both hardware and software.

Assisted in budget planning.

Education

Bachelor of Science – Business Administration (1982) - Wilkes University, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania

Associate of Science – Electrical Engineering, Computer Science (1982) – Pennsylvania State University

MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) – Microsoft Server (2007)

Military

United States Air Force – Sergeant – Secret Clearance – Honorable Discharge

Awards/Recognition

Received 14 Emplyee Recognition Awards and 2 Letters of Accommodations. Five Awards were received for new programming solutions implemented. Nine Awards and 2 Letters of Accommodation was for implementing innovative business solutions and one award was for community volunteerism.

Skills

AWS Administration, Active Directory, SQL Database Management including mirroring, SQL Queries, Powershell scripting, VBSripting, Dos Command Scripting, Project Management, Process Design, Document Control.

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