Provide IT advisory and consulting services to Fortune 500 companies. Manage complex, high risk technology consulting engagements delivering projects successfully by integrating quickly with IT staff and business unit representatives to determine and align IT specifications with business requirements.
Recent Projects:
Government Sponsored Mortgage Company
Migration lead: Reviewed current state of the client’s data center portfolio and provided a detailed strategy to meet space and power consumption reductions required to facilitate shuttering of an existing data center by migration of compute assets from Virginia to an existing Maryland location.
Provided leadership to the migration execution team, coordinating all planning and scheduling efforts for migrations. Present migration plans to stakeholders, CTO, and business units, develop and manage migration-reporting dashboards. Leading a team of 5 consultants coordinating the efforts of client and 3rd party vendor resources performing the actual migration program.
Fortune 1 Retail Company
Member of a consulting team providing thought leadership and strategic insight to assist the client with development of an enterprise grade cloud environment solution. Reviewed existing shared services intake and order fulfillment processes and identified inefficiencies and opportunities for reduced delivery time and increased customer satisfaction. Defined target deliverables to be used as a road map for cloud based development initiatives based on current workload and orders. Led a team developing the user experience (UX) criteria for a new internally facing web site to be used for ordering shared services including PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS.
Managing projects for customer facing applications and systems. Including roll out of wifi services to subscribers across multiple MSOs, voice infrastructure and IP based streaming video projects .
Information technology Consulting Firm
Specializing in Project Management, IT infrastructure and corporate relocation planning.
Provided PM services to Cablevision corp.
Senior project manager for IT relocation, infrastructure build and review,BCP,and upgrades. Specializing in trading floor telephony and network infrastructure including VoIP, Turrets, private lines, carrier services, LAN, and WAN.
PTS is a rapidly expanding professional services firm located in mid town Manhattan.
Senior project manager for IT relocation, infrastructure build and reveiw,BCP,and upgrades. Specialiazing in trading floor telephony and network infrastructure including VoIP, Turrets, private lines, carrier services, LAN, and WAN.
Standard Project Responsibilities:
Technology Needs Analysis
Develop Budget.
Review existing and future technologies for implementation.
Generate project schedule.
Space Planning
Determine square footage.
Specify carrier access routes.
Specify riser and station cable routing.
Design data center and TR room layout
Determine HVAC and electrical loads.
Provide schematic room layout.
Bid Phase
Identify vendors.
Generate and issue RFPs.
Evaluate and level responses.
Negotiate contracts and develop statements of work (SOW).
Maintain budget.
Implementation:
Coordinate schedule milestones.
Manage vendor deliveries and implementation.
Manage CWL project team ranging from 2 –10 members.
Retained to restructure the information systems and develop the technology strategy to drive the aggressive growth targeted for 1998 and beyond. Responsibilities encompassed all functional areas of IT, including applications development, strategic planning, project management practices, quality assurance, testing and infrastructure.
Primary deliverables:
Upgrade of existing infrastructure system to allow for rapid expansion.
Coordination of field service staff.
Development of central database to migrate from existing paper records.
Manage relocation of corporate offices to larger space.
Senior consultant for IT relocation, infrastructure build and reveiw,BCP,and upgrades. Specialiazing in trading floor telephony and network infrastructure including VoIP, Turrets, private lines, carrier services, LAN, and WAN.
Projects including site selection studies, data center relocations and new corporate headquarters builds.
Director of operations and engineering staff for support of Telecom, network and market data operations for mid size banking/trading firm.
Supported 250 trading positions, plus back office in NY as well as satellite offices throughout the US and South America.