Candidates About

 

Simon Shafir

 

An experienced professional with a proven track record of delivering tangible results across multiple industries.  Successfully interacts with all levels of an organization, and works with a sense of urgency and diligence in a dynamic environment while maintaining relationships.  Extensive, diverse experience in People and Project Management, IT and Managerial, Business Relationship Management, Talent Management, Client Service Delivery, Release Management and Vendor Management. Proven record of success in providing critical Business Value and aligning IT to Business processes.

 

Skills ·    Program / Project Management ·         Application Migration ·    Data Center Consolidation ·         Cloud Computing ·    Vendor Management ·         Process Improvement     ·    Contract Negotiation ·    SLA Implementation ·    Global Shared Services & Outsourcing ·         Change Management ·    System Life Cycle Management ·    Recruiting and interviewing

Industries ·    Pharmaceutical ·    Financial ·    Insurance ·         Transportation

 

Major Strengths

 

·    Ability to develop and implement coherent, powerful, and feasible proposals and project plans

·    Focus on people, process, design, technology, and discipline

·    Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills

·    Ability to develop, design, implement, lead, and manage teams to execute project plans on time and within a budgetary framework with profit/loss responsibilities

·    Mentoring, management, and leadership of regional personnel

·         Broad experience in business management, in the presentation of business cases, and in the execution of the business plans

·    Experience in the management of multiple vendors and contractors onsite, offsite and offshore

·    Statement of Work Development, resource and cost management

·         Proposal development and presentation from a business, physical, design, and electronic perspective, including requirements definition, gap analysis, and recommendations

·         Experience in migration and rollouts through all phases from assessment, design, development, implementation, review, maintenance and related methodologies to closure. This includes architecture, discovery of business drivers and enablers, and presentations to the customer. Skill covers preparation and review of proposals, statements of work, project plans, etc.

Experience

 

Medical Devices, Johnson & Johnson Company – Somerville, NJ; from 2016 to November 2017

Senior Project Manager / Beyond (SDDC) Project

 

Led decommission / migration projects for 100+ Global applications to the Software Defined Data Center environment, changing to application as a service delivery.  Using approved approach to application rationalization, planned and executed solutions for targeted applications in the Global Education Product Line portfolio.  Application rationalization process included; in-house virtualization, cloud migration or decommission.  Successfully provided leadership to Business, Technical Application Owners and Software Architects to establish / confirm a roadmap for each application in the portfolio, and manage their execution from inception to completion.  Effectively identified potential risks and designed strategies for contingency planning and risk mitigation ensuring full compliance requirements.  Tracked and reported project progress, and status on a regular basis to GES and Sr. IT Leadership.

 

CS Technology – NY, NY; from 2014 to 2016

Senior Consultant, Application Migration Team Multiple client engagements

 

Danske Bank – Led and Directed a Strategy Team designing the “Five Application Migration pilot” project for Danske Bank, the leading bank in Denmark.  The Bank is adopting a new strategy for providing IT Infrastructure and Data Center Services to improve IT response to changing business needs.  As part of insourcing for the Bank, created a Pilot to test an application migration process prior to moving their portfolio of 3,000 business applications. Responsibility included delivery of a full application migration strategy.  Managed development of documentation and templates to be used for all aspects of migration planning.  Led creation of application profiles, including validated inventory and dependency mappings.  Defined a migration strategy for each application and developed SOPs for move methodologies encompassing preparation of migration plans and schedules. Presented weekly progress to executive stakeholders.

MSCI – Effectively managed the migration of all corporate applications including those in Human Resources and Financial sectors.  In addition, acted as a Scrum Master running the daily application huddle-call where all application issues, tracked as JIRA tickets, were discussed, prioritized, and tracked until their resolution.  Initiated “no server left behind”, a search for orphaned servers and / or applications that were then migrated at an expedited rate to avoid service disruptions.  CST was engaged by MSCI, a US-based provider of stock market indexes and equity portfolio analysis tools, for a multi-year and multi-site data center migration program.

AFFINION – Designed and implemented high availability program for Travel and Loyalty applications. Led work with Release Managers and Application Development teams to create hour by hour migration plans as well as a new release process that incorporated the Active – Passive Data Center Swing. Coordinated an effort with the Client and the Data Center hosting management to create a complex responsibility-matrix, KPI and Metrics to support the applications in the long run. The program was responsible for moving applications that services redemptions worth over $2.5 billion per year and is used by millions of consumers.  This resulted in improved availability and the creation of a competitive advantage for Affinion Group.

 

 

MetLife, Inc – Somerset, NJ; from 2005 to 2014

Information System Consultant, IBIT – Application Development, Enterprise Illustrations

 

Managed all aspects of MetLife primary Illustration systems with more than 100,000 defined users across the United States, producing more than 1,500 Life and Annuity Illustrations per day.  Required understanding business impact of new product introductions and aligning development along multiple business units and key vendors.  Led infrastructure deployment and upgrades as required by the continuous business expansion.

 

Controlled the contiguous application upgrade and release cycles as required by business product updates and regulatory compliance.  Managed up to 10 application releases per year, controlling their flow through multiple development and testing environments.  Created and maintained partnerships across 6 Global Development Teams as required for every deployment in each environment.  Reported status of all environments to executive sponsors.

 

Managed vendor relationships and weekly delivery of application updates.

 

Acted as the liaison between Illustration AD Team and 6 internal AD Partner Provider Teams to ensure the delivery of services, new product release quality, and issue resolutions.

 

Managed document updates and knowledge transfers to support teams as required by changing personnel.  The Go-To person for all support teams regarding any issue resolution.

 

Process owner for all Project / Change Requests as required for application promotion through every environment and all security scanning and compliance for an Internet-facing applications.

 

 

Ethicon, Johnson & Johnson Company – Somerville, NJ; from 2002 to 2005

Senior Project Manager / Data Center - Server Consolidation

 

Planned and managed the Somerville Data Center Consolidation Project as a part of the J & J North America Data Center Consolidation Project.  Responsible for creation of processes to relocate and consolidate 100 Wintel servers and 16 Midrange servers in a validated environment. Managed application testing and server-move teams. Ran weekly status meetings. Provided direction and reported to the Ethicon DCC Steering Committee and maintained the project dashboard.  Worked closely with the Central J&J NCS PMO office.

 

Lead a project team comprised of technical and business resources. 

 

 

World Corporate Headquarters, Johnson & Johnson; from 2000 to 2002

Senior Project Manager / Win2k Deployment

 

Member of the WHQ Business Infrastructure Project Management Team.  Lead a Server and SAN deployment in a major Win2k migration.  Created the User Data Migration process.  Built a $1M+ Win2k Lab to test concepts and processes.

Coordinated daily user data migration from multiple WinNT servers to Win2k Clustered File and Print Server as a part of rolling user’s desktop migration.

 

 

Siemens Business Services, Inc., NY; from 1997 to 2000

Senior Enterprise Consultant Multiple client engagements

 

MetLife - Senior PM  & Technical Lead

MetServe project (450 Sales Offices Nationwide – 500 Servers – 4,000 Workstations – 1,500 Catalyst Switches – Office in a Can concept – Multiple Offices per day deployment)

Managed daily deployments from the MetServe War Room in Bridgewater, NJ (War Room was active for the duration of a full project -

1 year).  The Go-To person for all issue resolution.

Developed strategies, procedures and documentation for nationwide deployment of Windows NT / Switched Ethernet Network (Server / Workstations/ Applications) for 450 independent Sales Offices.  Set up factory delivery and image burn-in processes in ISO 9002

Environment. Worked in the field through the Alpha stage of the deployment project.

 

Bell Atlantic Mobil, NY - Technical Manager - Cleanup Team

Managed a team tasked with solving and fixing server, email and printing instability problems in a multiple site installation.  Prepped up and documented network at Regional Headquarters for eventual migration to NT environment.

 

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY – Technical Lead

Developed strategies and documentation for Enterprise deployment of Microsoft NT (Server / Workstations) in 3000+ user environment spread over multiple sites.  Wrote scripts to automate a number of installation processes.

Created presentations for upper management.

 

 

Credit Suisse First Boston, NY, NY – Investment Banking Group; 1995 to 1997

Sr. Technical Consultant/ Team Lead

 

Lead re-organization and re-location project for all miscellaneous technologies used by Investment Banking Division and other

Corporate Groups (Finance, Legal, Facilities, Library and HR).

Delivered a complete inventory of equipment.  Identified key personnel, developed move procedures and managed move execution for corporate ccMail, NetWare, HP-UX, and Intergraph CAD environments.

 

Developed, tested and documented an NT 4.0 server on HP platform.  Built, tested and managed deployment into production across

North America new NT based file and print environment.

Installed and configured HP NSA to monitor all hardware components of the new HP based NT servers (SNMP based).

 

Managed several Upgrade and Support Teams after the Bank’s relocation.  Provided 24-hour technical support to Data Center Operations Team.  Utilized the Sniffer to troubleshoot LAN routing problems in a 2000 plus node enterprise environment. Designed and tested migration from Vines only printing to multiprotocol printing environment for Investment Banking Division.

 

Instrumental in the redesign, test and coordination of infrastructure upgrades and modifications (incorporating fiber optics, Cisco routers, and Chipcom hubs).

 

Worked with Cheyenne Consulting Team on Enterprise Backup and Disaster Recovery project for Microsoft NT Environment.

A comprehensive set of step-by-step recovery documentation was created, and tested.  Multiple copies of this set were stored in strategic locations.

 

Central person accountable for stability of 50x Banyan Vines servers, 4x Novell NetWare and 1x HP9000 Series 800 HP-UX server, including disaster recovery, protocol analysis, and NOS optimization and patching.

 

 

New York Currency Research Corp, NY; 1995

Senior Network Consultant

 

Planned and built a high speed switched Network System for a new currency-trading firm.

Worked with NT servers, providing NT infrastructure, database, RAS and Internet capability.

Created full network and server documentation, maintenance schedule and Disaster Recovery plan and procedures.  Tested all procedures and turned over to the IS manager.  Trained client staff in usage and support of the new technologies.

 

 

InfoQuest Group Inc., PA; from 1994 to 1995

Enterprise Consultant Multiple client engagements

 

Implemented and supported large enterprise networks.  Performed system assessments and recommended required hardware / software solutions for various corporate clients.

Developed specifications, testing procedures and documentation for NOVELL and BANYAN network projects as well as for Windows rollout projects.

 

Johnson & Johnson, World Corporate Headquarters

Performed migration of 30+ Banyan Vines servers on the corporate Token Ring backbone. Supported LAN Operations group on a daily basis

 

Merrill Lynch Financial Planning Group

Planned and executed migration of a Financial Planning Group to the new platform integrated into an existing NetWare and UNIX

Environment. The Financial Planning Group was spread across three sites: Princeton NJ, Somerset NJ and Denver CO.

Evaluated the impact on the network when multiple protocols are used concurrently by applications.  Captured and analyzed Sniffer data.  Assisted UNIX Administrator with sorting out IP routing for new application.

 

Federal Reserve Bank (Philadelphia)

Performed an audit of a large NetWare environment.  Provided findings and recommendations to the Director of Network Services.

 

 

 

NYC Department of Transportation (Bureau of Highways), New York, NY; from 1993 to 1994

Computer Associate/Network Analyst

 

Network administrator for 250+ node mixed Novell NetWare v.3.10 and Banyan Vines v.4.11 environment.  Responsible for design and implementation of new LAN/WAN network components which included; dial-in communications gateways, SNA gateways, Advanced Communications Server for Vines (LU 6.2), Microsoft SQL servers for Windows NT, network management systems.  Performed installation of all new workstations and trained users in network access techniques.  Supported the user community with Help Desk functions which included full troubleshooting of workstation configurations, print and physical network problems. Interacted with a wide range of users, from field workers to Directors and Assistant Commissioners.

 

 

Education and Certification

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