Experience

Independent Contractor

• Ireland
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Senior Manager Information Technology Infrastructure

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  • Reporting to CTO - Lead Architectural Review Board, Technical Risk Assessment, for Engineering Team to manage multiple phases of Application / platform life cycle deployments (from requirements to implementation, post implementation support, commissioning / decommissioning) to address the security gaps with remediation, compensating controls and exclusions to meet benchmarks to gain approval for the product release management and report adherence on periodic basis. • Reporting to CTO - Lead Architectural Review Board, Technical Risk Assessment, for Engineering Team to manage multiple phases of Application / platform life cycle deployments (from requirements to implementation, post implementation support, commissioning / decommissioning) to address the security gaps with remediation, compensating controls and exclusions to meet benchmarks to gain approval for the product release management and report adherence on periodic basis.



Startup 500

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Various Leadership Roles

  • Dec 2010 - Jan 2021

  • Major strengths in action plans, analytics tracking and oversight, audits, big picture strategies, bridging gaps, infrastructure planning and implementations, infrastructure lifecycle – commission / decommission, software development life cycle (SDLC), capital expenditure evaluation and capacity planning, change management, collaboration and facilitation, compliance management, conflict resolution, continuous improvement, corporate vision and execution, creating positive business impact, C-Suite stakeholders, cultivating strategic partnerships, culture development, customer education and presentations, data management and analysis, data-driven decisions, development and achievement of goals and objectives, development of short and long-range plans, diversity and inclusion, driving & directing technical vision, as evaluations and performance reviews. • Knowledgeable and experienced in all phases of government and organizational compliance, healthcare information technology (HIT), increasing productivity, internal and external programs and initiatives, international relations, investigations and responses to complaints, IT infrastructure library (ITIL), IT service management (ITSM), key customer relationships, knowledge sharing, new product development, online training courses, DevOps, SysOps, SecOps, CI / CD, Site Reliability Engineering (SLA/SLO/SLI/Error Budget), performance management, policy and procedures development, product quality, product management, quality assurance and management, risk mitigation and management, root cause analysis, staffing and scheduling, standard operating procedures (SOP), strategic planning, succession planning, testing and release management, contract negotiations and management, along with tracking and reporting oversight with Well Architected Review. Show less



Startup 100

• United Kingdom
• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Lead

  • May 2002 - Dec 2010

  • Migrated Applications to a newer platform with upgraded versions of underlying software components such as IBM WebSphere Application Servers, IBM HTTP Serviers, Siteminder Policy Servers, PeopleSoft (HRIS / Folklore), SDL Tridion Content Managers, CISCO CSS / GSS devices for Context / Geo Location based routing, Federated User Registries with SunOne / Novell e-Directory Services. • Manage multiple local and remote teams responsible for 24/7 security monitoring, patching, event logging, user provisioning, vulnerability management, auditing, incident response, and enterprise compliance with applicable federal laws and regulations. • Galvanized accountability for SLA metrics and ITIL processes such as incident, problem, change and inventory management. Launched the transition of new projects to offshore teams for 24/7 support. Managed application availability on Live (Livingston, New Jersey) and Active Standby (Fortworth, Texas) Datacenters for Disaster recovery and Business continuity. • Directory and User Management Services based on SunOne LDAP. Authentication and Authorization Services for User Access Management based on Siteminder Policy Servers. User, Disk, Storage, Network, I/O and Peripherals Management. Scheduling and Automation of Administrative Tasks. Clustering, Performance management and Resource Monitoring with various monitoring tools. Disaster Recovery in conjunction to Capacity Planning. • Create scripts for automating tasks like installation, migration, application deployment, backup, recovery, housekeeping, etc., Configure Web Server plug-in, Database (JDBC), Messaging (JMS) components, SSL Certificates from the WebSphere Application Server end. Perform Patching (fix packs), Upgrades, etc on Web System Instances. Manage Security Configuration, Keys, Certificates, User Registry, etc., Show less