Professional Summary

Highly skilled, hands on, senior technical leader with more than 19 years of experience in the financial industry.
Currently focusing on SDN and automation of the data center.
Strong technical foundation and focus on high performance compute and infrastructure automation.
Architected, implemented, and deployed numerous worldwide large-scale mission-critical systems.
As a consultant, I have relentlessly and successfully pursued my goal of shifting the paradigm from technology-focused systems to business-focused systems.

Professional Experience

Independent Consultant / President LG Technology Inc. 12/03 to Present

SDN Architect and Network Automation Engineer Bank Of America 1/15 to Present

Part of the Global Network Architecture team which is responsible for designing and automating the future Software Defined Agile Network.

Senior High Performance Compute and Network Automation Engineer ADP 7/12 to 1/15

Lead designer and programmer of a fully automated way to deploy configs and operating systems to all switches across the network. Built a front end web gui to build the configs and register the devices in IPAM. Built a fully automated ZTP/ZTR environment for Arista switches to load a python boot file which would determine the config and EOS version to download and install on the switches.

Desinged and built a highly scalable and agile, tap and span environement using Arista DANZ, passive taps, and NetScout Infinistream devices. Also included an additional specialized infrastructure for Voice and Video analytics using NetScout NVVM.

Working on an SDN framework to leverage the automation tasks completed on the switches to also include the virtullization and provisioning of server instances and storage.

Part of the Global Network Services Architecture team which is responsible for all network architecture driven projects. Reviewed overall network topology and provided solutions for several key areas of the network which required immediate remediation.

Senior Market Data Engineer Merrill Lynch / Bank of America 10/06 to 7/12

Lead Engineer WOMBAT MAMA /29West LBM Low Latency Ticker Plant in the US. Specializing in US Equities (NYSE, ARCA, INET, NASDAQ, BATS, Direct Edge), and OPTIONS FUTURES (OPRA, CME, CBOT, NYMEX, ICE) data.

Interface to the business development group to provide assistance on data interpretation to support regulations, as well as provide additional details of market data products that are available.

Designed and Implemented a new low latency colo plant at 2 redundant sites consisting of over 200 LINUX AS5.6 servers using 10Gig Mellanox Cards to the Servers and Arista Switches. Servers utilized XCAT infrastructure to have a consistent build across all servers and the ability to easily upgrade and manage drift.

Designed a next generation Low Latency Market Data Plant utilizing 10 Gig RDMA_oE (OFED) and the use of VERBS to deliver Multicast using kernel bypass.

Bridged LBM environment into Desktop Applications using WOMBAT MiddleWare (WMW) and REUTERS SSL RMDS Infrastructure.

Worked on the deployment of the TMX CDF feed to offer additional liquidity from the Canadian Exchanges via the CDF including CHIX, ALPHA, PURE, TSX, TSX Venture and SELECT.

Designed Monitoring / Capacity Management Infrastructure including SAR, CEP (CORAL8), TIBCO HAWK and various open source tools: (RRDTOOL, R Statistics, PERL CGI) Implemented Network Monitoring Tools including NetScout and IPSLA, and various PERL SNMP tools to detect Multicast microbursts and packet drops.

MAMDA C++ API Knowledge to troubleshoot / monitor the ticker plant.

IP Core Services Engineer Merrill Lynch 12/03 to 10/06

Lead Engineer for IP Services Build out in New Data Center. (PROXIES, LOAD BALANCERS, DNS, VPNS, AAA RADIUS/TACACS+ 802.1x, NTP, DHCP, Netflow Collectors and Packet Sniffers)

Architected and built CISCO IPSLA Latency Monitor for all Direct Exchange Links using opensource SNMP, SQL, PERL CGI, RRDTOOL and CSS.

Global PROXY SERVER CACHING Infrastructure using Inktomi, NetApp and BLUECOAT Caches. Developed OpenSource Benchmark Test Bed using Web Polygraph and DummyNet.

LOAD BALANCERS WIDE-IP DNS, Infrastructure using NetScaler and F5.

Designed SYNC HOLE VIRUS Capture Infrastructure using NETFLOW OSU Flow Tools

Lead Architect on a Secure GLOBAL Remote Access Solution for all workers.

Xerox Sales Representative 11/02 to 11/03

Made 120% of quota for the 2003 year within 11 months. Ranked #1 Salesman in the office (out of 15 reps) two months in a row. Generated new business by spearheading the use of Xerox low end color printers located in client offices to automatically email the Xerox sales reps when supplies were low. This allowed the reps to stay customer focused which would generate more revenue through more product sales.

Xceedium, Inc., New York, NY Vice President Technology 7/01 to 3/02

Managed and supervised a team of technology professionals responsible for all technology projects and critical research and development initiatives for Xceedium, a product development and managed service provider company. Dual report to the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operational Officer. Position was 80% hands on and 20% management.

Designed and built a network resource monitoring and trending tool. The product was ranked in the top 10% of new products at COMDEX Las Vegas 2001 in the category "Best New Service Offering"

Merrill Lynch, New York, NY Vice President Internet Support Services 6/00 to 7/01

Directed, and grew technical side of Internet solutions for Merrill Lynch. Designed reference and framework architectures and oversaw implementation of core security for client and vendor access. Established and managed Vendor Management contracts. Position was 70% hands on and 30% management.

Managed a group of 15 UNIX Systems administrators, which consisted of 10 full time employees and 5 consultants. Their specialties included system security and Internet system infrastructure. The group was responsible for system architecture along with network architecture, integration, testing, change control and production support.

Over 450 systems under management including Solaris 2.6 servers running CheckPoint Firewall-1, Nokia Devices, Inktomi Proxy Servers, SMTP Mail Relays, BIND Wide-IP DNS, Cisco Load Balancers / Distributed Director, Apache / Netscape Web Servers.

Instinet, New York, NY Vice President Network Engineering and Security 3/00 to 6/00

Managed the Network Engineering and Security department responsible for all Instinet offices and connectivity to Institutional clients globally. Managed multiple vendor relationships for network and security products. Reported to the Senior Vice President of Global Infrastructure.

Merrill Lynch, New York, NY Assistant Vice President Internet Support Services 6/96 to 3/00

Assistant Vice President Internet Support Services

Managed a group of eleven Unix System Administrators for implementation and support of Firewalls, Proxy Servers, Web Servers, Database Servers, DNS, and Mail Servers. The group was responsible for design, installation and support of over 420 security Internet related devices. Position was 80% hands on and 20% management.

Information Security Analyst London Office

Developed, executed and supported a secure network infrastructure for Merrill European and Middle Eastern offices. Standardized the deployment of various security products and infrastructure throughout the European offices. This included setting up various multi-tier security infrastructures for the deployment of Internet Access and various Market Data Feeds.