Canisius College, Buffalo, NY Bachelor of Science in Accounting May ‘94

EDS Top Gun –Cisco inaugural graduate 2006 Cisco VoIP design/integration, Tasman Dr, San Jose California

Cisco Certified Voice/Design/Network Professional (CCVP) 12/2006(CCDP) 6/2005 (CCNP) 2/2004

Payment Card Industry Qualified Security Assessor (PCI QSA) 3/2008-2011

Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) 05/2015

SKILLS & EXPERTISE:

Hardware• Cisco, Juniper, EMC, Linux, Solaris, Checkpoint, E1/T1, ISDN, PSTN, SIP Trunk

Network• VPN, IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, Frame, DNS/WINS, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, QoS, IDS/IPS, Mars,

• Rapid7, Palo Alto, Splunk, InfoBlox, Nexus5000/7000, Cisco ASR, Cisco ISR

Compliance• ISO 27001, Payment Card Industry (PCI), HIPAA, NIST, Sarbanes- Oxley (SOX), COBIT

WORK EXPERIENCE:

ZCM Consulting- Buffalo, NY

Senior Enterprise Architect/OwnerMay 2012- Present

March 2014- Current HP (contract)

• Responsible for enterprise migration of multiple PCI Leveraged Data Center locations

• Datacenter Transformation Team Onboarding documentation & procedures creation

• PCI Assessment and procedures creation for newly designed & implemented PCI Compliant compartments

• Design & implement PCI solution product line offering for all PCI clients migrating to Leveraged Solution

• Western Union Sacramento and Charlotte Migration plan including 1500 devices, 4 mainframes, 327 racks

March 2013- March 2014 Coopervision (1 yr. contract)

• ISO 27001 / NIST Gap Assessments, Report on Compliance and Executive Summary presentations

• Created and Verified technical drawings and solutions drawings based on project need and scope

• Cisco Nexus 5k/7K migration Datacenter core upgrade, redundancy F5 integration

• Riverbed Cascade Wan optimization design and implementation

• Network Architecture/Design and Compliance Remediation for CooperVision

• Firewall and DMZ rule consolidation and redesign project to reduce vulnerabilities and properly secure DMZ’s

• Security Assessment and recommended compliance Gap issues for Coopervision (PCI, HIPAA SOX)
• Rapid7, Palo Alto, Firewall Rule redesign, IBM Turnover, FW, VPN, IDS & Bluecoats for Coopervision

• Cloud Computing Design for Coopervision Disaster Recovery and Data Center Consolidation Projects

Oct2012 –March 2013 Boston College (6 month Contract)

• Boston College Campus IPv6 Design/Architecture including Implementation Matrix and address allocation

• Scheduled and Led information gathering sessions with each team in IT on campus to discovery usage and need

• Created technical drawings and proposed solution drawings detailing information gathering sessions’ findings

• Network Security Architecture review/design for IPV4-IPV6 conversion, Implementation and Datacenter migration

• Cisco 6500 Core, Nexus 7K migration plan, 1GB to 10 GB upgrade integration, VPN consolidation project

May 2012 – Oct 2012 Baker Hughes/ Landry’s (6 month Contract)

• VoIP staging, site build documentation, and implementation for Baker Hughes Co, Cisco ISR 3800 routers

• Sip Trunking Design, Implementation including turn-up and testing corporate wide for Landry’s

Vaspian, LLC- Buffalo, NY

Chief Information OfficerJuly 2011 – May 2012

• Defined/Aligned IT objectives and programs to enterprise objectives, strategies and FCC guidelines
• Established strategic service providers, suppliers and vendor partnerships & private VPN connections
• Optimized and designed enterprise processes and procedures to leverage IT efficiently and effectively
• Defined and created IT standards and technologies in a chaotic non standard environment
• Designed/Implemented 500 device network including router refresh/configuration standardization

• Saved 10K monthly in dead Circuit fees and 25K monthly in renegotiation of existing circuit charges

• Documented and detailed drawings for Datacenter and customer connections including Core infrastructure

Arsenal Security Group- McLean, Virginia

Senior Enterprise Architect/EngineerMarch 2008 – July 2011

  • Cloud Architecture design and implementation for multiple enterprise customers for resiliency and cost savings

• Conducted Information Gathering sessions with Clients technical and executive staff prior to engagements

• Conducted Information Solutions and findings sessions with technical and executive staff in summary

• Documented and detailed large infrastructure drawings and proposed solutions for project work (Firewall, VPN, etc.)

• Network PCI remediation for multiple clients across varying industries, DNC, Tween Brands, and DSW

• DMZ creation, review and remediation for vulnerabilities for multiple customer firewalls and environments

• PCI Assessment, Report on Compliance and Executive Summary presentations, including QSA assessments

• Designed, implemented and turned over to support multiple secure enterprise networks including cloud architecture

• Trained and mentored junior-level engineers CCNA/NP, provide quality assurance reviews and project oversight

• Managed ongoing and new customer client relationships, financials, forecasting and annual IT planning

• Penetration testing, external /internal vulnerability scans with technical and executive deliverables Frontier Airlines

• IDS/IPS design, implementation & event correlation, router refresh project (over 1800 devices Tween Brands)

• DNC PCI Gap Assessment and implementation plan for PCI Compliance

• DNC PCI Implementation plan – Hired, managed team of 7 Employees to remediate & achieve PCI Compliance

Electronic Data Systems- Amherst, New York

Senior Enterprise ArchitectSeptember 04 – March 2008

• Enterprise VoIP template creation, design, documentation, engineering & Octel integration

• Designed, installed and tested EDS South America Cisco VoIP Cluster in Sao Paulo Brazil

• Implemented EDS SA VoIP cluster servicing Brazil, Argentina, Chili and Columbia

• Realized extreme cost savings by least cost routing EDS VoIP HQ (TX) with EDS South America Cluster

• Global Dial plan integration and planning using gatekeepers and inter-cluster trunks

• Designed, Documented and implemented Xerox VoIP proof of concept cluster which became production service

• Instructed CCNP/DP/VP classes to peers, provide quality assurance reviews and project oversight

• Pioneered EDS Top Gun Cisco Program for elite EDS staff to interface on Cisco Campus in breaking technologies

Senior Security Architect/Senior Network ArchitectMay 00 – September 04

• Founding team member of NE LAN Design Cell & Americas Firewall Design Cell

• Documented process and policy for junior engineers to follow, interviewed 1000’s of candidates

• Designed, Implemented & Troubleshot Enterprise Firewall, IDS/IPS, Network (LANS & WANS) solutions

• Lead engineer for many large datacenter migrations and network upgrade projects (NASD, Nextel, and BoA)

• Leveraged resource for multiple managed /monitored services, with often various roles & responsibilities

Security Administrator/Business Associate - Delphi Thermal-Harrison July 95- May 00

• Designed, installed & trained users on 1400/2600 desktops with GM standards for COe

• Supervised teams of College/High School co-op students

• Designed, installed, and supported Unicenter and Firewall Campus Security policies

• Security administrator for 75 seats, diverse platform UNIX workstations