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Consultant-President Software Guru, Inc.

August 2002 - Present

Provide both infrastructure and application development support to both financial services firms and the traditional SMB market.

Provide firms with managed teams of highly skilled, difficult to locate specialists for application development.
Provide 24x7 data center production and corporate systems support.
Recent and current client lists includes:

Portfolio Auditing Services
Syndicated Loan Trading Platform
Benefits Consultants
Financial Services ASP's
RIAs
Wealth Management/Family Office Reporting Platorms
Internet Television and Broadcasting Company as well as multiple traditional Small to Mid Sized businesses.

Client: Blaze Portfolio Systems

Infrastructure Manager, DevOps Architect, January 2016 to Present
- Manage RackSpace Private Cloud Infrastructure & Relationship
- Manage & adminster FIX Connections with trading partners.
- Developed Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Plan
- Deployed geographically distinct, vendor distinct warm spare VMWare Cloud environment.
- Full migration of all production servers to new SAN based VMWare Cluster
- Deployed new Development Cloud.
- Work with Enterprise Clients in deploying BPS trading platform

Client: Virtus Partners LLC (Virtus Trade Settlement)

February 2015 – August 2015 
- Post-acquisition integration of Virtus and Trade Settlement, Inc. hardware and software infrastructure
- Replace SungardAS web and SQL Servers with Virtus Rackspace servers, migrate application and support infrastructure.
- Move issue tracking system from Fogbugz to Jira, code management from Source Gear Vault to TFS.
- Assist in bank client audits of both TSI and the new VTS (Virtus Trade Settlement) application and infrastructure.
- Decommission old office and server infrastructure, migrate users and service applications to Virtus Cloud environment.

Client: NCREIF--National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries

April 2014 – January 2015
- Re-Architect and lead development of new Data Submission and Index Production Application (C# WnForms)
- Architect and develop Member Web Portal (C# ASP.Net WebForms) providing platform for next generations Investment Analytics system.
- Implement internal development standards, procedures, version control, issue tracking and new 3 tier development platform.
- Consolidate production environment, implement new development, staging and production systems.

Client: Trade Settlement, Inc.

Full Time: 2007-2008; Project Basis: 2010-August 2015

Recent Project Based Services
- Managed implementation of secondary failover cloud environment at Sungard Availability Services
- Principal Administrator for production servers in Sungard Cloud as well as corporate infrastructure servers. Vendor relationship manager.
- Migrated production environment from Amazon Web Services to Sungard Cloud
- Migrated production environment from ATT Managed hosting to AWS.
- Primary relationship manager and administrator TSI and ATT
Prior full time achievements
- Managed client review and auditing for TSI. TSI's clients are all top tier banks which require audits to be performed initially and periodically. I managed this process for TSI.
- Managed 7 production servers including Windows 2003 Cluster. The production environment processed $10B per month in syndicated loans.
- Designed, developed, implemented and regularly tested Investment Bank mandated disaster recovery and business continuity plans and systems.
- Grew corporate and development infrastructure from 1 internal file server and 5 external hosted servers to 16 internal servers and a SAN in NYC, and a branch server and VMs in Dublin Ireland joined by VPN network. Hyper-V servers hosting another 30 Virtual Servers.
- Built automated infrastructure management and monitoring system that allowed 2 administrators to fully manage and maintain a combination of 80 physical and virtual servers. All servers had centralized full audit trail monitoring of physical, operating system, security and application events.
- Migrated production and development databases from SQL 2000 to SQL 2008, and eventualy 2008 R2. Worked with lead developer and QA team to ensure application reliability.
- Hiring and training of both administrators and developers
- Provided strategic advise and consultation on technology architecture, security, compliance and requirements for meeting large bank IT data and security standards.

Client: Harvest Investments, Ltd.

Full Time: 2009-2013; Project Basis: 2002-2009; 2013-Present

Design and Implementation of a Security Master and Price Master System for Portfolio Auditing
Nightly Processing of:
- All US Equity Trades (all US Exchanges)
- All US Municipal Bond Trades
- All US Corporate Bond Trades
- Significant percentage of world wide US Treasury Trades
Design and Implementation of Level 2 Pricing System for days with no reported trades in a security.
Multi-Terabyte SQL warehouse database system
Multi-feed Security Master System
- Moody's Analytic's
- S&P Ratings
- Nightly Bloomberg BSYM
- Integrated Bloomberg Data License feed
Design and Implementation of Automated Portfolio Auditing and Compliance System
- SQL 2012 Back End
- MSMQ Based .Net WinForms Analytic's application for Research and Price Analysts
- Integrated real time reporting system
- Client Reporting System, Client Portal Website
- Comprehensive Knowledge Management System with integrated Contact Management System
- Designed, implemented and managed disaster recovery and business continuity plans and infrastructure.
- Designed and led implementation of all hardware/software infrastructure for the company.
  - Multiple Equallogic Storage Arrays spanning primary and secondary production facilities.
  - SQL Server 2012 Enterprise High Availability Group Failover Cluster of multi-dabase, multi-terabyte system.
  - Design and performance optimization of large scale analytic SQL Server database system.
  - Multiple Hyper-V server array system for Application VM Servers
  - Integration of Exchange/Sharepoint/TFS system with both the Application Support System as well as the over all Application Life-Cycle.