Paul Nisski
Branchburg Township,NJ
Summary
Tactical Data Leader with a distinguished career spanning over 20 years, with Industry expertise in Pharmaceutical & Healthcare. Focused on effectively managing Infrastructure, Data Governance, Privacy, and Migration capabilities. Skillful in Cross-collaboration bringing together technical solutions to fit business partners' needs to accomplish common goals. I am ready to leverage my blend of leadership insight and technical expertise to drive digital innovations and governance oversight.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Manager of IT Infrastructure
Kenvue (Johnson & Johnson Consumer)
Skillman, NJ
11.2022 - Current
- Product Owner of Platform Automation, Database, and Server, driving operational excellence through global 24/7/365 DevOps teams.
- Managing 10 direct reports at the managerial level and above, overseeing four managed service providers, with 80+ indirect reports.
- Expert in supporting the enterprise landscape of 8,500 servers and 980 databases across a hybrid cloud.
- Established an infrastructure policy leveraging the ITIL framework for requests, changes, incidents, and problems.
- Driving continuous improvements in CMDB data quality.
- Mentored team leads in internal and external audit preparation and reviews for SoX, GxP, and data recovery, achieving zero findings across all areas for Server, Database, and Automation.
- Streamlined 140 qualification documents consolidating to 53, resulting in increased governance accuracy.
- Created roadmaps, RACI, and processes for infrastructure moving from VMware to Azure and AWS, driving to cloud-native by moving IaaS to PaaS for database hosting.
- Collaborated on a new strategy between leadership from Software Engineering, Architecture, Cloud Services, and Cyber on the direction for hosting cloud-native applications and the dependencies needed from each.
- Defined a 2-year roadmap and process for migrating from Oracle and MS SQL to the PostgreSQL open-source database solution for non-critical systems, resulting in a 20% reduction in licensing support.
- Directed the development of a bespoke data analytics solution using Python, PostgreSQL, and Power BI, and created a data pipeline from multiple data sources.
- Spearheaded a $15B corporate divestiture/spinoff of infrastructure and cloud for 26 global manufacturing sites, over 250 critical applications, 900 databases, and 6,200 servers.
- Optimized the MTO acquisition and divestiture process.
- Achieving a reduction in migration time by 63%, and increasing the operational qualification success rate by 88%.
- Established service ownership for an area of data, infrastructure, automation, database, and server by implementing governance processes and frameworks around ITIL, GxP, SoX, PII, and regional regulatory controls.
- Led the data migration strategy of SAP/ERP databases that exceeded 30 TB using VMware vSphere for instantiation, and Oracle GoldenGate for replication.
- Implemented a new solution to address vulnerability risk in collaboration with Cyber and Business Partners; we simplified the TLM policy for servers and databases.
- Spearheaded rapid deployment and optimization of MS Defender Endpoints on the server landscape, switching over from a high-cost, unsupported legacy solution.
- Restructured new Enterprise License Agreements for MS Server, SQL Server, Oracle products, Citrix, and RedHat in coordination with Procurement and Legal.
- Consolidated four managed service providers of operational support and automation development down to two.
- The deployed Intelligent Automation project reduced 18,000 incidents by 33% annually.
- Educated senior business leadership through workshops and office hours, in collaboration with enterprise architecture, on the critical importance of application/technical lifecycle management.
- Recognized for exceptional people leadership capabilities status among direct reports.
Manager of Cloud Database Platforms
Johnson & Johnson
Raritan, NJ
11.2011 - 11.2022
- Experienced leader overseeing global database services.
- Successfully managed engineering and operations teams, ranging from 4 to 8 indirect reports, while collaborating with external teams.
- Driving technical innovations, owning service delivery, implementing ITSM practices, streamlining processes, managing technology lifecycles, and ensuring regulatory compliance.
- Designed and deployed a global database monitoring solution to provide 100% enterprise visibility.
- Restructured the qualification process in collaboration with Quality by scripting the manual IQOQ process into a qualified, repeatable solution.
- Architected database modernization for manufacturing remote sites, moving from Oracle IaaS to PostgreSQL PaaS.
- Implemented a process matrix for determining if databases can migrate or transition from Oracle IaaS to PostgreSQL PaaS.
- Spearheaded a critical $16.5M Treasury project for an application that is responsible for upwards of $30B in transactions.
- Developed and deployed a high-availability solution in collaboration with the Unix and Storage teams to support a seven-year uptime cycle for pharmaceutical biologics manufacturing.
- Spearheaded the transformation and automation program for the global database team.
- Led a five-member team to develop automation capabilities to support global hybrid clouds.
- Achieved annual cost avoidance, saving $3.75M by automating repetitive tasks across 6,500 databases.
- Decrease Oracle enterprise licensing costs by $1.8M by deploying lockdown capabilities to identify and prevent unauthorized software from running on over 38,000 application VMs.
- Established coding practices following Agile methodology.
Lead Database Architect
Pfizer
Peapack, NJ
03.2011 - 11.2011
Senior Manager Data Engineering
iCueTV
Cherry Hill, NJ
05.2008 - 02.2011
Oracle Database Administrator
New Jersey Housing & Mortgage Finance Agency
Trenton, NJ
06.2001 - 06.2008
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Monmouth University
West Long Branch, NJSkills
- Team building
- Contract management
- Regulatory compliance
- Business strategy
- People management
- Operations management
- Budget control
- Team collaboration
- Contract negotiation
- Legal and regulatory compliance
- Vendor relationship management
Timeline
Senior Manager of IT Infrastructure
Kenvue (Johnson & Johnson Consumer)
11.2022 - Current
Manager of Cloud Database Platforms
Johnson & Johnson
11.2011 - 11.2022
Lead Database Architect
Pfizer
03.2011 - 11.2011
Senior Manager Data Engineering
iCueTV
05.2008 - 02.2011
Oracle Database Administrator
New Jersey Housing & Mortgage Finance Agency
06.2001 - 06.2008
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Monmouth University
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