Abraham Narvaez, Jr.
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EXPERIENCE
HSBC 01/23-Present
Lead IT Project Manager/Program Manager – Corporate real estate in U.S.
IT Project management of newly constructed offices across the U.S. as well as the decommissioning / consolidations of some offices.
In charge of conducting surveys to ascertain what type of network infrastructure the office will need along with AV/VC kits.
In charge of hosting weekly meetings with key line of businesses and stake holders on various projects.
Creating budgets for all projects and making sure they get approved by our colleagues in U.K.
In charge of making sure all projects are completed on time and within budget.
In charge of managing all vendors from electricians, low voltage cabling, Cisco, Verizon, etc.
Making sure that the new network equipment ordered fits our budget and is installed into production successfully.
Project Management of day 2 supports making sure all WAPs, PC’s, phones & Logitech AV systems are working properly to successfully report back to the LOBs of a completed office.
In charge of final budget approval of all completed offices.
Tracking all projects via MS Project, Excel, Clarity, and SharePoint.
Presenting power point presentations to various lines of businesses and teams in the US & Europe of all completed offices including the new Larkin corporate headquarters in Buffalo, NY.
NYC D.O.E. 08/21-1/23
Infrastructure/ Telecom Project Manager & Data Center operations manager
Project management of bringing 5G Wi-Fi to every NYC public School
In charge of conducting surveys to ascertain what type of network infrastructure a school may need
Making sure that the new network equipment ordered helps the new Meraki APs function at 5G
Creating budgets for the upgrade along with DOE contractors to make sure we get budget approval.
Project management of the actual upgrade by supervising the network infrastructure and cabling vendors
Project Management of day 2 support to make sure all APs, PC’s, timeclocks, and phone systems are working properly in order to mark school completed in the NYC DOE SharePoint system.
In charge of scheduling vendors and providing access to all NYC datacenters.
Main change control approver for all datacenter adds, moves and changes.
Final budget approval of all completed schools.
NEW ERA/Comm-Works/JBN Associates 04/20-08/21
Independent Sub-Contractor/Lead Technical Project Manager/Program Manager
Structured cabling and fiber installation for new Chase branches and office build outs
Provide support in the NYC 5 boroughs for CW clients such as Starbucks, Chase, Michael’s & A.E.
Implement and oversee Bandwidth infrastructure upgrades indoor and outdoor
Oversee and participate in electrical conduit installations
Installs of all indoor and outdoor telecommunication networks, cell towers and AP devices
Oversee budgets, billing and invoicing for all Structure cabling, Fiber installs and AV projects
Making sure all projects complete on time and on budget
Data center upgrade and migration projects
Logistics- Ordering, Staging and Shipping Cisco & HP equipment.
JPMC Chase Branch 2.0 Bandwidth upgrades/ NEW ERA/Comm-Works, LLC 01/15-03/20
JPMorgan CHASE, Telecom Provisioning Engineer / PM
Provisioned 5M to 300M circuits for JPM Chase Retail and Corporate sites
Maintained and tracked circuit orders via Netpro, Share point and Excel
Attended daily conference calls with carriers such as Version, ATT, Crown Castle and CenturyLink
Took updates from our carriers to accurately schedule our Circuit test and turnup via fiber in our corporate sites, Colocations and Retail Branches
Managed the construction path of fiber installations of over 300 Chase branches
Interacted with CBRE / JLL Project, Facility Managers and branch managers to implement and oversee Bandwidth infrastructure upgrades
Created and scheduled work orders for external vendors via FP10
Developed portfolio budgets; Created and approving related construction costs
Performed site surveys of branches with JLL and other vendors for installations designs.
Reviewed and approved design drawings and floor configurations
Conducted coordination meetings with project group, vendors and branch managers
Worked on newly constructed Chase banks from the ground up
In charge of all telecom, network, VOIP, security and software equipment for all branches
Planned all network installations and production turn up
Logistics - Ordering, Staging and Shipping Cisco & Dell equipment
Whippany Campus and Data Center (Bear Merger)
Network lead Project Manager for a build out of a 50,000 sq. ft. data center space
Project Management on an Asset Inventory effort consisting of 15,000 assets
Provided Day One and on-site support staffing for a 300 workstation restack alignment.
Responsible for ordering telecom cabinets and provisioning all power in accordance to hardware specifications
JPMC Branch Refresh and Bank of New York (Acquisition)
Managed a team of 25 field technicians with technology refresh of legacy data and Voice over to VOIP
Assisted team members with installation, configuration and training of VOIP phone set
Conducted on site VOIP phone set training for all JPMC and heritage Bank of NY branch employee
Performed QA and follow-up post implementation assessments
4 MetroTech Data Center, Data Center Operations Team Lead (Bank One Merger)
Order Cisco hardware, switches, routers, load balancers, firewalls and peripherals
In charge of staff scheduling and 24 by 7 support
In charge of change control record approvals for access into the Data Center and add, moves and changes to the Network
Handled rack elevations, organizing/stacking of equipment; handled all hardware copper and fiber cabling
Provided servers patch connections via a structured and non-structured cable layout
Installation of windows, UNIX and linux servers; Initial server builds on Linux and windows servers
Initial router/switch configurations
JPMorgan Chase Client Router Installations (JP Morgan Merger)
Responsible for providing network Data Center Facility environmental requirements for vendor owned routers i.e. Bloomberg, Reuters, AIG and Thompson Financial and other ECNs
In a Project Management/Lead role, scheduled ECN cutover and hosted conference calls
Provided all network connectivity between servers and network devices onto the firm’s intranet and internal networks
Pre-tested all T1 and T3 circuits prior to network turn-ups
COMM-WORKS, LLC. NEW YORK, NY 01/09-01/15
Technical Project Manager (consultant)
Apple Store Remodels
Old Navy, Banana Republic & Gap Server, POS, Network, Wi-Fi installs.
RCC (consultant) NEW YORK, NY 09/08-12/08
RCC- IT Project Manager / Data Center Manager
Whippany Campus and Data Center (Bear Merger)
Network lead Project Manager for a build out of a 50,000 sq. ft. data center space
Program and Project Management on an Asset Inventory effort consisting of 15,000 assets
Project Manager and managed site support of global company’s primary NOC and its staff moving from one site to another
Provide Day One/ Day Two onsite support and staffing for a 300 workstation restack effort
Responsible for ordering telecom cabinets and provisioning all power in accordance to hardware specifications
JPMORGAN CHASE – Consultant; 4 NYP. DOWNTOWN, NYC 2/00-9/08
NY Network Implementation Engineer/Manager
Team Lead for GTI-DCO Network Infrastructure team in the New York region
Managed team of 15 FTEs and FTCs responsible for SAN, server and network implementation and operational support
Compiled weekly reports of all team network turn-ups, completing projects and network trouble tickets worked on by the entire New York region.
Primary Contact for IOC/Change Control Centers network outages for two (Site deleted in response to RFP) Data Center sites on evenings and weekends.
Configurations of CISCO switches and routers as well as turning up all network ports for work performed by the entire team.
EDUCATION
Bank One University: TCP/IP, VOIP, Network Plus, HP Server (Acquired Completion Certificate) 2005-2006
Network Project Management, ADTRAN/Nortel/Avaya phone systems.
Career Learning Center: New York, NY 2000-2003
Courses: Networking Essentials, Intro to Cisco, CCNA (Acquired Certification), and MS Project
Learning Tree: New York, NY 1997-1999
Courses: Access level 1, Windows NT Administration, TCP/IP. (Acquired Certification)
CBT Courses: Notes 4.5/4.6 administration, Excel 97 (Acquired Certification)
John Jay College: New York, NY 1989-1994
Major: Communications (bachelor’s degree)
SKILLS
PM Skills: Technical/Infrastructure/Telecom & Construction Project Management
Electronic Mail Packages: Microsoft Office 365, Outlook, Lotus Notes Mail, X400 Platforms 84/88 standard, Familiar with MS Exchange.
Cabling Knowledge: Single/Multi mode fiber, Comm-Scope Cat 6A structured cabling & Coax.
Applications: Google Suite, MS Project, Microsoft office / teams with concentration on Excel, Power Point and Visio; Windows NT, Novel Workstation, Rumba Mainframe, Cyber Security
Hardware: Routers, Switches, Load Balancers, Firewalls, Network Sniffers, Bridges, Terminal Servers,