Joseph Cipriano, PMP

Summary:

Experienced Network Data Center Project Manager with a strong background in managing complex technical projects involving network infrastructure and data center systems.

Skilled in collaborating with cross-functional teams, managing resources, and ensuring projects are delivered on-time and within budget and project management certification, and familiarity with project management methodologies such as Agile or Waterfall.

Excellent communication and leadership skills with a proven track record of managing multiple projects simultaneously and prioritizing tasks effectively.

Adept at risk management, budgeting, and resource allocation.

Skills:

Program Management

Project Management

PMI Member

Scrum Master Certified - 696446

Planning and Scheduling

Risk Assessment

Task Delineation and delegation

Budget Tracking

Change Control

Market Data Connections

Cisco/Arista Networks

Data Center/Co-Lo’s Build-outs

End of Life Upgrades

Education:

A.S. DEVRY Technical Institute, Woodbridge New Jersey

B.S. Montclair State University, Montclair New Jersey

Certifications:

PMP – ITU

Scrum Master Certified - 696446

Cisco CCNA

ITIL.V2

OSHA-10

Achievements:

AT & T Worldwide Customer Service Legends Award – For outstanding service management support provided to Merrill Lynch for successfully completing the Campus DWDM Ring Insertion & Recalibration to add Bank of America Tower. A Fourteen (14) week project in Six (6) weeks.

AT&T Encore Award- For exceptional contributions in Support of a Thompson Reuters External client Implementation

Project Experience:

MTA New York, NY 10004 April 2022 – Present

Cybersecurity Project Manager

Identify critical systems across all agencies & improve its crisis management capabilities to respond in an integrated manner to an adverse cyber incident by effectively engaging key constituencies such as security, IT, line of business and corporate functions including daily updates to MTA senior management.

Manage the Critical Systems Incident Response project to achieve compliance with Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Directive 1582-21-01.

The directive was issued due to the ongoing cybersecurity threat to surface transportation systems and associated infrastructure to prevent against the significant harm to the national and economic security of the United States that could result from the “degradation, destruction, or malfunction of systems that control this infrastructure” Align project approach with systems owners, understand system specific considerations, identify critical stakeholders, communicate and agree on specific dates, and facilitate document collection.

TEKsystems Chicago, IL 60606 August 2021 – April 2022

Northern Trust Bank

Project Manager

Responsible for structuring a project, performing the detailed planning, and managing project execution and completion of moderate to large projects using a prescribed methodology.

Project in the pipelines include running pure Waterfall or hybrid methodologies.

Responsible for project documentation, project schedule, meeting agendas, minutes, status reporting, etc. Also responsible for Risk/Issue tracking and mitigation.

New Era Technology Paramus, New Jersey

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc, Jersey City, New Jersey August 2017 – August 2021

Project Manager

Manage a global virtual team responsible for delivering network and server infrastructure utilizing Project Management Methodology while supporting Colo/ULL (Ultra Low Latency) connectivity and application environments across various global co-location facilities.

Provide Global Financial Services Data Center project management experience and direction.

Managed MS Office 365 Rollout. Managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items. Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.

Monitoring progress and performance.

Managed MS Teams Rollout. Managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items. Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.

Monitoring progress and performance.

Presidio, Inc. Iselin, New Jersey June 2016 – August 2017

PMO Network Program Manager

Provide Management oversight for PMO Project Management team consisting of five project managers. Activities include Cisco CUCM Upgrades along with Cisco Network Refresh project initiatives for Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Clients.

Service Delivery – Client Engagement – Perform onsite Customer facing Meetings including PowerPoint Slide Deck Presentations, Visio High Level Design Documents and Microsoft Project Plans, RAG Status reports.

Duties: Manage Project Portfolio using Agile PM Methodology, Employee resource Management, Promoting Process Improvement, Strategic Planning, Budget tracking, Risk Mitigation.

Coach, Inc. New York Jan 2016 - June 2016

PMO Program Manager Consultant

Accomplish strategic objectives by overseeing multiple Network project activities related to New Hudson Yards Corporate Headquarters build-out.

Service Delivery – Client Engagement - Chaired onsite Bi-Weekly PM Meetings with Tishman Construction Vendor and Customer (Coach, Inc) to track weekly construction task initiatives.

Performed weekly Customer Facing Coach Status Meetings including Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations.

Duties: Provide Project Roadmap using Agile PM Methodology, Planning, People Management, Promoting Process Improvement, Strategic Planning, Dealing with Complexity, Analyzing Information, Vision, Performance.

Morgan Stanley, New York August 2012 – Dec 2015

Senior Market Data Project Manager

Lead Project Manager for Capital Markets and Fixed Income Application Migrations [Development/Production] from Legacy Data Center in (Brooklyn N.Y.) to New Co-Location Data Center facility in Piscataway New Jersey.

Managed Storage Area Network (SAN) Device installation cabling infrastructure.

Manage all cross-connect connections to Equinox Data Center.

Define Application requirements to ensure successful platform migrations including (Operating systems, Management Tools, Network Architecture, Storage requirements, Virtual Machine configurations).

Lead Project Manager for all EDC Data Center project initiatives including new equipment installation including Arista 5548 and Nexus 7150.

Manage Market Data and External Client connectivity.

Provide PMO Project Management using Agile and Waterfall Methodologies with respect to Data Center migrations including detailed Hardware & application inventory, Security inventory, Migration planning, Budget management, RFP & SOW management, Vendor Management, ensure New Data Center facility ready for migration, ensure Data backup plan tested and in place.

Liaison with internal Business Units

Provide RAG reports for reporting metrics

Sanofi-Aventus, Bridgewater, New Jersey January 2012 – August 2012 Infrastructure Program Manager Consultant

Implemented EMC VPLEX (Virtual Computer Data Storage) solution. Migrated (4,000) applications to Virtual platform

Provided PMO Agile and Waterfall Methodology, Mentoring guidance and support to IT staff

Liaison with internal Business Unit Stakeholders

Managed IT Data Center Consolidation Plan encompassing (26) Data Centers Reduced IT Footprint from (26) to (3) Data Centers globally.

Improved Storage utilization by 30% while reducing operating costs by 20%.

Postpone future storage expenditure

Deutche Bank, Jersey City, New Jersey May 2011 – December 2011

Client Solution Manager

Program Manager/Relationship Manager for Common Services Business Domain

Managed IT Budget of $800,00.00 Euro for forty lines of Business (LOB)

Provided IT direction / Guidance to Business Domain clients for IT Service requests related to memory, Storage, Windows Virtual hardware and Oracle Virtual Hardware

Produced weekly Common Services Budget Report

Savvis Corporation, Weehawken, New Jersey July 2010 - October 2011

Client Service Partner-Financial Consultant

Lead Program Manager/Relationship Manager for Merrill Lynch/Bank of America Service Delivery Account

Managed daily change call activities related to GPC On-Line initiative

Provided PMO management and technical support for server implementations in multiple data center sites located in Jersey City, New Jersey and Santa Clara, CA.

Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, New York June 2007 – July 2010

Senior Project Manager

Lead Project Manager for Bank Of America Data Center Transition

Managed Campus DWDM Ring Insertion & Recalibration initiative to add Bank of America Tower into existing Network Topology

Managed Circuit provisioning to include AT&T, Verizon Business and Market Data

Managed engineering, vendor, security resources

Performed user acceptance testing of final IT infrastructure installations.

Managed budgetary issues and assisted in lowering project overhead costs.

Performed IT compliance. Uploaded Project Management reporting data into Share Point site

JP Morgan Chase Bank, New York January 2005 – June 200

Data Center Project Manager

Lead Data Center manager for retail banking technical upgrades

Managed switched Ethernet and Cisco voice over IP migrations

Provided configuration engineering support for Cisco IOS port turnips/turndowns

Configured VLAN creation, port speeds, duplex modes.

Provided Circuit provisioning with AT&T, Verizon Business, Testing of T1, T3, OC3 Circuits

IBM Global Services, New York April 2003 – January 2005

Senior Network Infrastructure Engineer

Lead engineer for retail banking technical upgrades

Managed switched Ethernet and Cisco voice over IP migration effort

Provided IT support for Metro media Fiber Network Data Center implementations

Managed Vendor Relationships

Provided testing of all related cabling

Produced Planning, design and implementation documentation

Lead SPOC for all SAN storage implementations

Verizon, New York November 1996 – April 2003

Senior Network Infrastructure Engineer

ITT Cannon Network Systems & Services, New York December 1993 – November 1996

Group Lead, Infrastructure Services

Lehman Brothers November 1985 – December 1993 Senior Analyst

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