svp -cio (United States)

5130 Pine River Trail, Castle Rock, CO 80108
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Qualifications for: Executive-Level Information Technology Management
CIO, CTO or Senior Level
Consultant Position

. Managed IT Capital & Expense budgets exceeding $300M
. 20+ years of Senior IT Management, Engineering & Information Security
experience
. Managed over 300 employees in US and International Locations
. Established Capacity and Performance goals that ensured no user
outages
. Responsible for IT re-engineering efforts that have produced savings
of over $100M a year
. Increased the year-over-year reliability of multiple IT environments
. Consistently delivered customer solutions on-time and under budget
. 20+ years of experience managing IT vendors and outsourcers

Professional Experience:
December 2001 to April 2009 - NASDAQ OMX Group
Senior VP of Infrastructure & Operations
. Established a Cloud Architecture for the trading environment that
allowed customer connectivity at multiple points and with scalable
capacity.
. Supported the re-engineering of the NASDAQ Stock Market trading
systems using open source UNIX and JAVA technologies.
. Responsible for an organization of over 200 employees in five
different locations, both domestically and internationally, with a
budget of over $300M a year.
. Designed and engineered a co-location solution for low-latency trading
customers connected to the NASDAQ Stock Market using high-speed
switching equipment.
. Evaluated possible merger and acquisition opportunities for NASDAQ
from an infrastructure and operations consolidation perspective.
. Responsible for the strategy and management of all IT Infrastructure
areas including server operations, system administration, information
security, database administration, storage management, network
operations and engineering, corporate desktop and voice in a high-
availability environment.
. Established and implemented an advanced DWDM network infrastructure
that provides superior reliability and performance, while reducing the
network budget by $120M a year.
. Established an aggressive change and problem management philosophy
that increased availability from 99.98% to 99.9995% resulting in no
major stock market outage over a seven year period.
. Developed and implemented a multi-year strategy for data center,
server and storage consolidation efforts that saved over $35M a year.


. Established disaster recovery directions that used a shared hosting
center resulting in $2M savings and reducing power usage by 50%.
. Established information security direction and measurement criteria to
ensure compliance with corporate policies and SEC requirements.



January 1996 to December 2001 - Galileo International
VP of Worldwide Network Services
. Responsible for 150 employee organization located in six different
locations, both US and international, with a budget of over $250M a
year.
. Managed the worldwide network supporting Galileo International and
United Airlines travel reservation system with over 30,000 end-user
locations.
. Resolved network reliability issues within the first six months of
assignment by implementing network redesign and aggressive problem and
change management philosophies.
. Designed and implemented an advanced MPLS network design that combined
multiple services on a single TCP/IP infrastructure that retired
Galileo International's legacy networks using IBM's SNA and X.25
protocols and reduced the annual network budget by $50M.
. Installed and configured a 50 node MPLS backbone network and migrated
over 30,000 end-user locations in 18 months.
. Designed and implemented network operation centers in both the US and
UK to support and operate the 30,000 end-user network in a 24 by 7
environment.

June 1992 to December 1995 - Galileo International
Director of Data Center Operations
. Responsible for 100 employee organization with a budget of over $50M a
year.
. Reduced computer operations cost by 40% in 1993 by migrating the
Galileo UK Data Center to Denver, Colorado from Swindon, UK.
. Responsible for the computer operation departments providing travel
reservation services to both Galileo and United Airlines at 99.99%
availability levels in a 24 by 7 operations environment.
. Responsible for the operations and support of 22 large IBM mainframe
systems running MVS and TPF operating systems. The environment
included over 100 TB of disk storage and 400 tape drives.
. Responsible for the following technical areas: computer operations,
system administration, storage management, database administration,
desktop support, facilities and problem/change management.
. Designed and implemented a complete system management solution using
HP Openview in support of the migration from IBM mainframes to an open
system environment.
. Identified and implemented efficiencies within the computer operations
area by consolidating storage and automating tape operations.



March 1988 to May 1992 - Galileo International
Manager of System Engineering and Application Development
. Responsible for 100 employee organization with a budget of over $15M a
year.
. Managed System Engineering Group that assessed new technology and
determined applicability for use in the Galileo Reservation System.
. Sponsored and managed new technology projects that enabled Galileo to
deploy Windows workstations in United Airlines airport locations.
. Implemented a project to populate large airline schedule database
using advance EMC storage devices thus reducing the processing time
from 23 hours to less than one hour.
. Designed and implemented large test environment supporting several
hundred developers by consolidating multiple systems into one large
IBM mainframe thus saving the cost of two systems and increasing the
reliability of the development environment.

March 1981 to March 1988 - various companies
Manager of Data Center Operations and Technical Support
. Managed various operations groups averaging 50 employees and budgets
of approximately $35M.
. Managed three large data center consolidation projects reducing the
overall cost of operations by over 50%.
. Managed the build out of a 100,000 square foot data center during an
eight month period and consolidated large IBM mainframe systems from
older computer centers in the support of the breakup of AT&T.

Education:
. MA in Management - Webster University, St Louis
. BS in Computer and Management Science - Metropolitan State College,
Denver
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