NASSAU COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Mineola, NY
December 2022 – Present
Technology Specialist III
Maintain desktop technology infrastructure and facilitated the procurement of infrastructure equipment, software, and support renewals. Leverage IT knowledge and experience to identify opportunities for automation and process improvement.
• Assist users with application knowledge improving efficiency, saving time, and increasing accuracy
• Resolve users daily operating issues allowing them to focus on their responsibilities
• Install, move, and maintain desktop equipment for the benefit of Nassau County DA staff
• Apply large corporate move procedures to DA technology moves to decrease move complexities and decrease move time leading to a higher quality of execution and user confidence
• Automate RFQ creation utilizing pricing within Appendix-E schedules from OGS reducing creation time, increasing accuracy, and facilitating procurement for the purchasing department
• Create complex and detailed RFQs from lengthy and detailed vendor quotes leveraging self-created automation and utilizing pricing within Appendix-E schedules from OGS
• Create cost-plus RFQs for vendors with a cost-plus pricing agreement with Nassau County
• Create a structure to log and monitor the purchase process from quote request to RFQ creation
• Create detailed configuration, operating procedure, and knowledgebase documents to facilitate both common and rarely used tasks reducing time to implement and facilitating process improvement
• Automate printer and scanner inventory management using MS Access and Visual Basic for Access
• Create “DA Staff” Access database using Visual Basic, to extract user information from Outlook Address Book and to scan the network for network hosts and the current logged in user
• “DA Staff” Access database creates an environment to allow IT to easily associate hosts with users and to copy and paste address book fields into any application saving time and increasing accuracy
• Create Access database using Visual Basic, to reconcile annual asset audit with DA inventory list
• Use Access database and Visual Basic, to automate the creation of asset sign-out sheets saving time
NASSAU COUNTY CLERK
Mineola, NY
February 2020 – November 2022
Accounting Clerk
Perform daily Nassau County Clerks Bank Deposit procedure and other daily, weekly and monthly tasks.
• Engineer and automate NYSCEF to 20/20 reconciliation process, using MS Access and Visual Basic
• Analyze and separate the entire checks, cash, and EFT deposit procedure, into a work breakdown structure, to streamline workflow and to identify tasks to be automated, resulting in process improvement
• Automate daily deposits and the conciliation of credit card payments with 20/20 receipts from NYSCEF
• Perform daily cash and check deposit for the County Clerks office and reconciling with 20/20
• Create detailed configuration, operating procedure, and knowledgebase documents to facilitate both common and rarely used tasks reducing time to implement and allowing for process improvement
• Prepare and manage cash draw initial denomination used for making change from cash payments
• Other tasks include: cashier EFT, create refund checks, and prepare NYS IT-2663 form
Leveraged networking knowledge and experience for the benefit of Nassau County.
• Resolved bank login account lockout issue when scanning checks for deposit by disabling password vault in browser
• Resolved network connectivity issue by using “IPConfig /all” to discover the IP address lease had expired and failed to renew
• Prevented cyber security attack in March 2020, just after being hired, and just after the Suffolk County network breach, by unplugging the AC after discovering a part-time attorney’s PC was being prepared as a vector to encrypt network
RELIABLE ICSD
East Meadow, NY
Website: www.ricsd.com
February 2018 – February 2020
Senior Technical Consultant
• Provide contract technical and project management professional services to various clients
• Manage software development, infrastructure implementation, expansion and relocation projects
• Skills include: AWS, WordPress, Bluehost, data governance, project management, LAN/WAN
WISDOMTREE ASSET MANAGEMENT
New York, NY
April 2006 – January 2018
IT Manager/Project Manager
Successfully built the technology division at WisdomTree, an ETF (Exchange Traded Funds) provider. Design, build and implement technology solutions exceeding SOX compliance and regulatory requirements. Expertise include project management, software development life cycle (SDLC), cyber security, business continuity, disaster recovery and SOX audits. Assemble, manage, motivate and coordinate technology and business teams consisting of employees, consultants and managed service providers.
• Establish technology vision and strategy leveraging the current technology landscape
• Manage a highly outsourced IT environment and align IT vendors with business objectives
• Ensure long-term business objectives and technology architecture are consistent with each other
• Significantly reduce costs and increase efficiencies by streamlining IT operations and workflow
• Onboard, motivate and train technology teams, demonstrate leadership, create consensus, resolve issues
• Create RFPs, analyze SOWs and level quotes from IT outsource vendors and service providers
• Prepare high value capital budget, operating budget and budgets for business proposals
• Establish and implement proprietary cyber security procedures to protect network and architecture
• Create and maintain disaster recovery, business continuity and contingency strategy and plans
• Provide leadership in business governance including compliance audits, SOX audits and data governance
• Manage large software development, infrastructure implementation, expansion and relocation projects
• Engineer innovative modular intra-net application utilizing process configurable code maximizing Agile
• Collect requirements, develop business cases, specifications, design documentation and project plans
• Oversight of application development (SDLC) and implementation including quality assurance testing
• Perform KPI (Key Performance Indicator) analysis to ensure a cost-effective implementation
• Automate repetitive tasks including data uploads and downloads using scheduled scripts
• Skills include: SaaS, VMware, Windows, Linux, SANS, LDAP, LAN/WAN/WLAN, DNS/DHCP, FTP
• Software: MS Office, MS Access, MS Project, MS Visio, MS SQL, Visual Basic, Scripting Tools
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
New York, NY
July 1997 – December 2005
Project Director/Project Manager
• Demonstrate leadership managing inhouse and outsourced application development staff
• Implement the Iterative and Incremental software development life cycle (SDLC) a predecessor of Agile
• Develop business cases, business requirements, functional requirements and project plans
• Create documentation, QA and UAT test plans, procedure manuals and knowledgebase