Objective
A creative, energetic results-oriented Information Technology manager with over seventeen years of experience in operating systems, financial applications, storage solutions, capacity planning, performance tuning, change management, problem management, contingency planning and datacenter migration. Excellent leadership, project management, communication and people skills.

Staff DevelopmentDisaster Recovery Planning

Employment

1997 -  2008
IT Director/Senior Manager

Manage the design and support of infrastructure UNIX and LINUX based systems for HSBC North America. Currently based in Buffalo New York.
Manage a team of 55 systems engineers and over 3000 servers.
Align processes and procedures across geographical regions leveraging the ITIL framework.
Building of an offshore team to manager first level incidents and repetitive tasks.
Design and implement server infrastructure based on business requirements.
Interface with global peers to set strategic direction and standards.
Manage a $35 MM departmental budget.
Customer recharge-rate methodology and construction.

Senior Manager - Client Relations and Architecture2004 - 2005
Responsible for the Relationship Management, Project Management and Architecture teams for the Enterprise Systems Group. This included coordinating Audit responses, managing the departmental budgets and creating efficient repeatable process.

2000 -  2004
Senior Manager

Managed the design and support of Intel based systems and storage for the Commercial Investments Banking and Markets department.
Manage a team of 12 systems engineers and over 1500 servers.
SAN storage support for EMC Symmetrix, DMX, CLARiiON, Celerra and Connectrix.
Integral part of the disaster recovery planning team.
Deployed and enterprise backup solution on ADIC tape libraries using Veritas NetBackup.
Deployed a Calypso GRID comprised of 800 blade servers.
Planned and implemented and system consolidation strategy.

1997 -  2000
Senior Consultant

Responsible for the System administration of enterprise systems in the New York and New Jersey region for the former Republic National Bank.
Planned and implemented a business resumption plan for both servers and workstations.
Monitored the performance and provided capacity planning across all systems.
Migrated HSBCs datacenters into the Republic Nation Banks datacenters.

Miscellaneous
PSE and
amp ; G, Client Service Center1996 - 1997
LAN Analyst
Responsible for the system administration and support of an enterprise network that was comprised of over 200 Banyan Vines, Oracle, Windows and HP-UX servers.

Peel Board of Education, Information Technology and Services
Manager/Team Lead1990 - 1996
Lead a team of engineers in the deployment and systems administration of all servers and workstations in Canadas largest school board comprised of over 200 schools and branch offices.