Experience

NATURES BOUNTY

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Web Operations Engineer

  • Sep 2018 - Present



MW Sage Consulting

• CIO

  • Sep 2005 - Present

  Established MW Sage Consulting L.L.C. to provide Fortune 500 companies consulting services focused on Data Center consolidations/migrations, infrastructure projects, Information Security and service delivery/operations. Established MW Sage Consulting L.L.C. to provide Fortune 500 companies consulting services focused on Data Center consolidations/migrations, infrastructure projects, Information Security and service delivery/operations.



ComplySci by COMPLY

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Operations

  • Feb 2014 - Jul 2018

  Responsible for managing the IT infrastructure for production web sites in two datacenters and the corporate office in NYC. Responsible for managing the IT infrastructure for production web sites in two datacenters and the corporate office in NYC.



Cablevision

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Project Manager

  • May 2013 - Jan 2014

  Leading the core network upgrade project utilizing new Cisco 9922, 7609 and Nexus 7K series switches. The project was completed on time and on budget. Leading the core network upgrade project utilizing new Cisco 9922, 7609 and Nexus 7K series switches. The project was completed on time and on budget.



MarkitSERV

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• US Head of Global Infrastructure

  • Dec 2010 - Nov 2012

  Responsible for managing two datacenters and the North American operations team with a budget of $2 million. Web sites were swapswire.com, Markit Trade Manager (mtp.markit.com) and Markitserv Portfolio Reconciliation (portrec.markitserv.com).  Managed the DBAs, Network Engineers and System admins responsible for the servers, networks, databases, security, DR Testing, change control and 200+ servers in two datacenters.  Consolidated from three to two data centers – Managed a data center move from 3 datacenters into 2 new datacenters. This project included purchasing new server and network hardware, new OS and DB installation, QA testing, business signoff and a cutover weekend. Outlined and detailed a project plan to systematically move the systems to new datacenters. Performed presentations to senior staff detailing the system configuration and interconnects. Negotiated and resolved many issues to create the most efficient merger plan of systems and datacenters and executed the plans successfully. Budget of $3m. Used Oracle 11G RAC, HP blades and servers, Cisco Nexus, Checkpoint, F5 network equipment, VMWare and Netapp for storage. Show less



City of New York

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• IT Director

  • Mar 2008 - Oct 2009

  Operations Process Improvement – Implemented ITIL based processes to improve the Operations and Development of a major intranet website (200,000+ users) based on n-tiered architecture (Oracle 10 RAC, Websphere, Webseal, VMWare, Remedy, ClearCase, BMC Patrol, SUN and EMC). Created Service Level Agreements (SLA) for measuring the performance of a 3rd party vendor providing J2EE code development, helpdesk, and server hosting. Operations Process Improvement – Implemented ITIL based processes to improve the Operations and Development of a major intranet website (200,000+ users) based on n-tiered architecture (Oracle 10 RAC, Websphere, Webseal, VMWare, Remedy, ClearCase, BMC Patrol, SUN and EMC). Created Service Level Agreements (SLA) for measuring the performance of a 3rd party vendor providing J2EE code development, helpdesk, and server hosting.



General Motors Asset Management

• Senior Project Manager

  • Sep 2005 - Mar 2008

  - Provided Technology Leadership – Successfully planned and managed the migration of General Motors Asset Management’s (Manages $170B in assets) data center and operations from New York to new sites show-casing a thin client model (Citrix) framework and robust disaster recovery capability. Utilized CMM level three methodology (SDP-21). Budget of $4 million. Identified Cost Savings of 10% on the project due to my experience with SAN, database, and replication infrastructure.  Created IT Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP) and successful failover testing of the datacenter.  Created Information Security Policies (ISP) and increased security by providing application access controls, Entry/Exit Policies, firewall rules, penetration testing, OWASP vulnerability scans and email retention for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX 404) compliance. Show less



JPMorgan Chase & Co.

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Operations Manager (VP)

  • Feb 2001 - May 2005

   Managed the Operations team responsible for the design and operation of 8 eBank environments comprised of Production, QA and Development in three datacenters and 200+ servers.  Led the Bank One and JPMorganChase internet banking infrastructure merger - Represented JPMChase and identified synergies and gaps for the combined end state infrastructure. Outlined and detailed a roadmap of projects to systematically move the systems to new datacenters. Performed presentations to senior staff detailing the system configuration and interconnects. Negotiated and resolved many issues to create the most efficient merger plan of systems and datacenters.  Architected Twenty Minute Remote Site Failover – Built a new Datacenter for disaster recovery containing the production backup site. Designed and implemented the databases, server builds, SAN, replication, performance testing and firewalls. Documented and tested the fail over procedures and processes. Program budget of $15 million. Show less



Arrow Electronics

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• System Admin

  • 1998 - 2001