Experience

Citadel Securities

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Center Site Engineer

  • Jan 2023 - Present



NYC Health + Hospitals

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Center Operations Engineer/IT Facility Management

  • Jan 2019 - Dec 2022



Hospital for Special Surgery

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Center Engineer/Project Manager

  • Jun 2018 - Nov 2018



New York City Office of Technology & Innovation

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Data Center Support Engineer

  • Apr 2016 - Apr 2018



Millennium

• United States
• Investment Management
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Center Operations & Automation Engineer

  • Aug 2015 - Jan 2016

  • Responsible for supporting 2 Data Center facilities to ensure availability and reliability for a strong hedge fund organization. • Support of over 500 cabinets within a single facility. • Audited and documented data center inventory onto DCM software. • Organizing and documenting LTO tape backup and archives. • Complete hardware, software and OS build for new deployments. Working with a variety of servers such as HP, NetApp, Dell, IBM, Super Micro of all different generations and models. • Provide consistent support in maintenance and hardware troubleshooting. Monitored ticketing system and escalated critical tickets to other departments if needed. • Perform problem determination for all tickets, emails & phone calls including NOC monitor. • Server maintenance and repair with appropriate documentation. • Racking and un-racking of servers and devices. • Cabling and cable management (power/network). Hardware/Cabinet auditing and reporting • Leveraging excel to manage and automate calculations and workflow (scripting/analytics)



ConnX Inc.

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Project Engineer

  • Jan 2013 - Aug 2015

  Skillful experience in design, commissioning, improving, and supporting physical network infrastructures. Implementation and expansion of current data center facility. Placement and tracking of equipment in multiple data centers both production and test. Capacity planning, data center migrations, and decommissioning.• Extensive experience in data center operations, build-out, deployment and development in an enterprise environment.• Management and deployment of current 15 stories – 480,000 square foot Tier III data center facility. Remote and smart hands support- Racking/Stacking, infrastructure buildout and configuration.• Data center build-out from the ground up. Full planning, designing, deployment andinstallation. Capacity planning, data center migrations, and decommissioning.• Management and deployment of fiber optic MMR (Meet Me Room). Connectivity of single mode andmulti-mode fiber cable. Documenting and labeling of fiber connections to their destinations.• Proven ability to manage all phases of project life: inception, documentation, procurement, deployment, and turnover for monitoring and administration.• Possess essential skills in planning, implementing and operating networking systems including hardware and software, standalone, peer-to-peer networks and small to medium business local area networks. • Created and developed the project/program scope and schedules. Plan and assigns resources to associated tasks and deliverables as appropriate.

• Intern

  • Jan 2013 - Aug 2013

  Enterprise SIP and IP applications Specializing in Trader Voice, Professional Services, Staff Augmentation, Managed Services, Trading Solutions, Business & Strategic Assessments, Network Architecture, Design & Implementation•Installed cabling for wall jacks, switches, cameras, & IP phones.•Installation of cables through dropped ceilings, walls and tight spaces.•Cable cleanup work with construction engineers to plan and implement new network & wiring closet designs for building renovations and new building construction in a colocation environment.•Installation and implementation of Microsoft 365 for a small office environment, setting up Exchange email accounts, calendars, and contacts on Outlook.•Major inventorying of the organization's equipment within our network in several offices and data center’s environment. IP Phones, Servers, PCs, Routers, Switches, SBCs, Turrets, Firewalls, PBX.•Implemented networking devices onto logic monitor. Enabled us to have our devices monitored from all of our locations.•Installation of firewalls to allow traffic between multiple VLANs.•Remote support for employees using Team Viewer, RDP, VPN, and VMware Vsphere 5.5 software.•Installed security infrared sensor no touch exit button switch for an access control system. Biometric Access Control Fingerprint Device and door locks.