GREGORY T BORYS
Cranford,NJ
Summary
As a seasoned Technologist, I have been involved in many aspects of IT-focused Infrastructure including management, solution architecture, global implementation, application support and engineering. Over the last 20 years I have continued to enhance my skillset in various changing technologies including cloud and security, which has included management, migration, implementation, and overall support. I have been tasked to help guide, recommend, design, distribute, maintain, and manage various Cloud and hosted (SaaS) on demand software solutions and migration initiatives. In other related roles I have been engaged to help scope, define, implement, manage, and support technology solutions and architectures. Even while in various roles, I have strived to remain technically hands-on, as I believe this is very important and necessary to be truly effective in this industry. I have also been involved in hiring, training, and mentoring staff.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Lead Architect
Wipro, NJ - S&P Global, McGraw Hill, S&P Digital Technology Services
06.2018 - Current
- Work with a cross-functional team in designing, planning, developing, and implementing initiatives around new and existing technologies and solutions for SPGI Global enterprise architecture and solutions
- Proactively connect with Senior SPGI stakeholders and CTO to discuss and advise on the technology and architecture roadmaps which promote global innovation and transformation specific to AWS and hybrid cloud
- Responsible for Solution architecture and strategic efforts within Enterprise Solutions Architect arena
- The primary focus is strategic and architectural direction for the Product Lifecycle and other segments related to the business
- Solution delivery process includes business analysis, review architectural design, detailed costing, contractual PPRs, SLAs, 3rd party proposals, and internal and client executive interaction, Cloud services and technologies including but not limited to public/private cloud/virtualization infrastructure, AWS, Azure, internal ESX based solutions, and container technologies
- Authentication Technologies: AD/LDAP, eRights, Oracle Identity Management/webgate, QAS, OPAM
- Assisted in creation of the long-term strategy, translating into operational plans for the teams to execute
- Provide direction and guidance on all technical aspects of the IT infrastructure, ensuring adherence to relevant technical strategies, policies, standards, and practices
- Provide a key role in understanding the Clients business requirements and contracted services, relating these to the Account technical strategy and mapping them to the various delivery streams
- Developed and maintain an Account Architecture Documentation which describes the end-to-end scope and design of the services being delivered to the client
- Maintain an awareness of and promote any relevant statutory, internal, or external regulations, standards, and codes of good practice, e.g., those relating to security, quality, data protection, audit etc
- Configure and manage various AWS services including EC2, Amazon RDS, VPC, S3, Glacier, CloudWatch, CloudFront, and Route 53
- Manage access control and security compliance through IAM, MFA and Service Control Policies (SCP) by creating, Users, Roles and defining access policies for various resources using least privilege practice
- Set up and Created a Three-tier architecture that consist of a web tier, an application tier and a database tier using AWS VPC, Gateway VPC Endpoints, S3, Dynamo DB, and provisioned EC2 instances using Auto Scale Group and ELB
- Train, mentor and guide team members on all internal processes and internal knowledge transfer.
Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect
Atos, Mason Ohio
06.2011 - 06.2018
- Responsible for Solution architecture and strategic efforts within Enterprise Solutions Architect arena
- The primary focus is strategic and architectural direction for the Product Lifecycle and other segments related to the business
- Architected Lift and shift of 9 core infra-apps and migrated to AWS VPC supporting Operational shared services model
- Console access to AWS and was hands on with build using EC2, S3, ELB, Route53, CloudWatch, Direct Connect Gateway
- Provided Solutions for Gold level Global projects including SCCM current Branch, Exchange hybrid 2013 Office 365 integrated, Citrix XenApp 7.6, Windows 2003 to Windows 2012 internal and DMZ, Migrated AD from 2003 to 2012, Cisco IronPort Refresh, EMC Storage refresh, WSUS Refresh, Casper refresh, NetBackup refresh and many other 3rd party global in-house complex projects all involving advanced networking, applications and infrastructure
- Provide direction and guidance on all technical aspects of the IT infrastructure, ensuring adherence to relevant technical strategies, policies, standards, and practices
- Provide a key role in understanding the Clients business requirements and contracted services, relating these to the Account technical strategy and mapping them to the various delivery streams
- Developed and maintain an Account Architecture Documentation which describes the end-to-end scope and design of the services being delivered to the client
- Maintain an awareness of and promote any relevant statutory, internal, or external regulations, standards, and codes of good practice, e.g., those relating to security, quality, data protection, audit etc.
Senior Systems Engineer
Grey Group
Manhattan
06.2011 - 11.2011
- Work as member of a cross-functional global infrastructure team who design, implement and Support Grey Group's Active Directory, Messaging, and 800+ server environment with a global footprint more than 200+ offices
- Action service requests related to Windows server operating systems, Active Directory, Exchange, Blackberry,
- Citrix, Netbackup, VMWare, Big Fix, Sophos FDE, Sophos AV, SQL and IIS, Cisco, A10 and F5 networks
- Create documentation of server systems, operational procedures, topology, and hardware /software inventory
- Maintain and coordinate servicing of all networks connected servers and peripherals
- Troubleshoot, analyze, and resolve systems problems related but not limited to Active Directory & Exchange
- Rapidly deploy fixes to systems in response to newly identified stability and security threats
- Provide governance, support, and operational escalation for the production Active Directory & Exchange
- Proactively monitor using Solar winds and What's Up Gold to identify areas of concern
- Work using MS Project and EPM Live to maintain all projects
- Provide level 3 support to end uses when issues were escalated
Lead Desktop Engineer
Hearst Corporation
Manhattan
07.2005 - 11.2008
- Lead Desktop Engineer at Hearst supporting a wide variety Software technology platform for this for this 5000+ user base Media Giant including BES Server, Citrix Server, Windows Server 2003, VPN SSL, Checkpoint Firewall, Domino Server, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and other third-party software applications
- Support Hardware ranging from IBM and Dell Notebooks, Workstations, Blackberry's and all their associated Hardware, including Dell Poweredge servers, Cisco 1900 Catalyst, 3550 and 6509 switches and their cabling and configuration structure
- Maintain Top Level Executives for whatever their needs are, which requires travel with issues ranging from a Home Networking issue to in office issue involving both complex Hardware and software issues
- Maintain several remote applications to assist me in servicing the end user regardless of location and time including Netop, PC anywhere, DameWare, Citrix, RDC, Cisco VPN, Checkpoint VPN, and a Verizon Broadband PCMCIA card
- Migrated 8 midtown Building locations into one, (The Hearst Tower) which involved complex issues which required the experience and technical ability to achieve quick effective Solutions
- Currently Migrating the Email System Companywide for LA, Detroit, Chicago, Houston, San Francisco, Charlotte, Atlanta, and The New York Office from Domino to Exchange Server 2003
Senior Systems Engineer
NIP Group
Woodbridge
11.2008 - 11.2011
- Primary responsibilities at NIP include working with wide variety of technologies including designing/supporting/upgrading Windows servers, Exchange, IIS, BES, SQL/Oracle Databases, Doubletake, Cisco routers/switches, SAN, FC switches, Checkpoint Firewalls, Liebert UPS, HVAC cooling, telephony, Tandberg VC, Link balancing, SCCM, Amazon Cloud, VPN, User administration (AD), Tape backups, Storage allocation and maintenance, Desktop support when needed
- Successfully implemented firewall upgrade from Cisco Pix to software Checkpoint firewall and subsequently migrated to hardware-based checkpoint UTM devices configured in failover architecture
- Started initial planning process for upgrading Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010
- Implemented ISP hardware load balancing to provide redundancy and additional bandwidth capacity
- Actively involved in major software deployments within the organization
- Actively involved in day-to-day maintenance, support and administration of key software and hardware
- Actively involved in monitoring security best practices and implementing them as seen fit
- Actively involved in research of new technologies and present them to management for improving overall business strategy
- Develop and test DR plans and practices.
Application Specialist/Executive Support Specialist
Proskauer Rose LLP
Manhattan
07.2003 - 02.2004
- Consulted with major law firm in a detail-oriented migration project from a Novell 5.5 to Windows Active Directory Backbone Infrastructure
- Maintained and supported 5 branch offices in LA, DC, Newark, Boca Raton, and Paris out of our NY office for a variety of Exchange, Blackberry Enterprise, SQL, and OS issues over the WAN
- Specialized in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting, Windows 2000/XP, Outlook, GroupWise, Office XP, DocsOpen, Lexis Nexis Checkcite, Deltaview, Innova, Summation, and other Special Law Firm software packages
- Known at Proskauer for the versatility of technical abilities and able to work in multiple environments including LAN/WAN, Special Applications, Hardware, OS, and Email environments
Senior Systems Analyst
MTA-New York City Transit
Manhattan
06.2004 - 07.2005
- Subcontractor for Lockheed Martin /Affiliated Computer Services, employed by Spherion Supported over 1,100 in house users over 25 floors with a variety of technical issues ranging from LAN connectivity, Workstation Drive failures, application issues, MS Office Suite issues, WAN connectivity, OS builds and configurations including Windows NT, 98, 2000 and XP Professional
- Responsible for LAN network security using NWADMIN to administer end user accounts in a Novell 6.5 environment as well as TNG Unicenter Suite to remotely troubleshoot application and login issues
- Responsible for correctly diagnosing Ethernet segment connectivity issues using Fluke Meter 685
- Specialized in the installation and configuration and support of Oracle Developer Software platform which ran Oracle Discoverer, Lightspeed, SAS, PSR, ARMS21, DocsOpen, Hummingbird, Attachmate 6.7, Peoplesoft, Lexus Nexis, Choicepoint, Contracts Portal Management, Kronos, and other various applications which were all supported by our team
- Worked closely within our team environment and Server Administration team to dissect and solve complex application and Server related issues to achieve fast corrective solutions to the end user
- Monitored Network Associates Magic Service Desk database to follow and track incident detail reports to accurately document all call activity to meet standard level agreements
- Maintained very professional, friendly client relations with the 1,100 users on site to ensure complete customer satisfaction
Lan/Dekstop Engineer
Momentum Resource Solutions
Edison
01.2003 - 07.2003
Desktop Engineer
Siemens
Old Tappan
07.2001 - 12.2002
Education
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DeVry University of Technology
01.1997 - 01.2001
Skills
Ability to direct the software/hardware deployment of multi-user computer systemsExtensive experience providing technical assistance to computer users and vendorsExperience proposing, designing, and completing the implementation of a client/server networkHighly skilled at developing and implementing technological as well as procedural processes within the companyOver 15 years of Network Deployment, Planning and Troubleshooting experienceExperience in load balancing and Clustering technologiesExpertise in AWS architecture, design and migration using EC2, ECS, ELB, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Cloud watch, Cloud Formation EB and autoscaling Ability to design and manage cloud Infra to deliver required performance, Security, and availability requirements for large complex global environmentsStrong system/network/internet security knowledge and skills both conceptually as well as hand on including AD GPO, Content Filtering (WebSense), Antivirus and Antimalware, Server hardening and best practices, Firewall (Checkpoint, Cisco pix), Network access protection, application control, IPS, Geo-Protection, Secure Email (voltage, currently evaluating Data Motion)Disaster Recovery planningTechnical SummaryOperating Systems: Windows, Redhat, Solaris, Mac OSApplications: MS Office, Crystal Reports, Citrix, IIS, Microsoft RAS, Exchange 2003/2007/2010,2013 SCCM 2012, ArcServe Enterprise Backup, Netbackup, Bigfix, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Qualys, Palo Alto, Riverbed, netscaler, Elfiq link balancing, Fatpipe, Net Brains, Unity, Cisco Telepresence, F5 BIG IP, A10 load balancers, Cisco Nexus core Switches, Fortinet Firewalls, Cisco ACINetwork: TCP/IP, EIGRP, IGRP, BGP, Frame Relay, ATM, ISDN, PPP, PoEDatabase: Oracle 10G, Access, MySql, Provide X, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008,2012Security/Router Appliances: Sonicwall, Linksys, Cisco, Check Point, Netopia
Timeline
Lead Architect
Wipro, NJ - S&P Global, McGraw Hill, S&P Digital Technology Services
06.2018 - Current
Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect
Atos, Mason Ohio
06.2011 - 06.2018
Senior Systems Engineer
Grey Group
06.2011 - 11.2011
Senior Systems Engineer
NIP Group
11.2008 - 11.2011
Lead Desktop Engineer
Hearst Corporation
07.2005 - 11.2008
Senior Systems Analyst
MTA-New York City Transit
06.2004 - 07.2005
Application Specialist/Executive Support Specialist
Proskauer Rose LLP
07.2003 - 02.2004
Lan/Dekstop Engineer
Momentum Resource Solutions
01.2003 - 07.2003
Desktop Engineer
Siemens
07.2001 - 12.2002
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DeVry University of Technology
01.1997 - 01.2001