I am a BSE Computer, Information Technology Engineer, a Senior Solutions Architect for 11 of my 23 post collegiate years'​ now focusing on the best of breed technologies in areas such as as securing global networks, data loss prevention, mobility devices, secured, encrypted and deduplicated data communication; from cloud to the handheld; thereby minimizing risk, while maximizing Enterprise ROI, data propagation and availability, with FIPS level security and zero day malware and virus controls. My field of expertise is diverse. I have worked with Fortune 50 firms, professional services organizations, and small internet start-ups; consulting and FTE about 50/50%.. My career began with traditional electrical engineering, and quickly overrun with highly computational computing systems, through SunOS/Solaris, AIX, HPUX, IRIX, Ultrix and Windows flavors; Firewalls, IDS, SANS, Global and local Load Balancing and Geo Fencing - all driven with high availability, Business Continuity with low latency data presentation or big data processing; - various forms of compliance, including FIPS, SOXS, SEC, HIPPA, PCI and PII and many versions of application documentation suites and products used by most agile and waterfall project implementations. At this 20+ year stage of my career I'm both a hands on (and off) Solutions Architect as well as a subject matter expert Project Manager. I have plenty of certifications, but my Engineering degree and experience outpaces those artifacts. One of my strengths in the past 20-year evolution in IT is my ability to communicate with a purposeful Win-Win attitude; through stakeholder requirements and scope, budget, design, and roll-out through a robust lifecycle management; with development, test, implementation and production roll-out, usually leveraging cross-functional vendor relationships across the globe. Specialties: Open systems engineering, Unix/Windows, Cloud, MDM, 802.1x, regulations, security and DR (DR /BCP) solutions.

Sr. IT Solutions Architect @ Senior Solutions Architect, with hands-on experience designing new data flows; at this fast paced, highly successful company. My FY2014 review summary was exceeding expectations; Without listing technology vendors and methodologies; read my summary; which is my work-set. I've completed multiple large-scale global projects, one in particular with proven savings in excess of $1MM US annually. Modern Data Management; -- Highly Virtual with strong multiple cloud emphasis. global replication; (DR/BC), with GR (Granular Recovery). Security and compliance is paramount. From January 2013 to Present (3 years) greater new york city areaSenior IT Solutions Architect @ Primarily responsible for working with product tower engineers and providing the Solution Architecture Plans and Packages for Projects pertaining to the various divisions within McGraw-Hill, including; Corporate, S&P / CapIQ, Education, Platts, JD Power, Construction and others. These architectural solution designs include all the necessary technical parameters to implement the solution (SD), including representations in Conceptual and Physical Diagrams, Configuration Worksheets, various stages of TCO and Bill of Materials accuracy, among other data-sets and artifacts of information. Systems Engineering, Performance Analysis, Level-3 Troubleshooting, and Cutting Edge Technology Exploration via proof of concepts (POC), hybrid public/private cloud adoptions through multiple vendors to XaaS, data aware cross connects, DMVPN connectivity, different virtualization paradigms (VM slices, LDOM and Solaris10u10 zones), as well as various securitization and encryption concepts are paramount throughout many of these modern (often SOX or PCI) solutions. KPMG styled ITIL might look familiar in the design process. From December 2010 to December 2012 (2 years 1 month) Greater New York City AreaEngagement Engineer - FTE Consultant @ Professional Services Engagement Engineer – Americas • Primarily engineering performance monitoring solutions, working with named accounts on a national and international basis, among which include financial, credit card, law enforcement and medical industries. • Architected solutions based on client requirements for monitoring, capacity planning, resource utilization and SLA reporting. • Created several design proposals, presenting to the client documentation in support of potential engagement projects. • Scripted various solutions (perl, ksh, sh), including PROGNOSIS extractors, DB collectors/ summarizations, using cross platform Windows, AIX, Linux / VMWare, Solaris / zones, Oracle and HP Nonstop NSK related operating systems. From November 2008 to May 2009 (7 months) Lead Solutions Engineer, Client Service Manager @ MERRILL LYNCH, Fixed Income and Commodities Group (FICC) Consultant, MBO Partners Enterprise Infrastructure Architect, Lead Solutions Engineer (LSE), and Service Coordination Manager (SCM) • Liaison between Global Technology Infrastructure (GTI) and Global Applications Group (GMI) to design, coordinate and implement solutions for new and existing applications. • Incorporated a firm-wide contingency and recovery (C&R) SLA and application footprint for next generation, granular recovery (GR) contingency and Recovery (C&R). Collected 273 tier one trading application candidates and converted multiple tier one applications to granular enabled and therefore internally GR certified. This included implementation, and conversion to, 3DNS/WideID dynamic naming schema, unique replicated storage sets per application granule, and for srdf replication, migrating storage sets (LUNS) to their same frame. • Architected the retrofit of applications and initiated a variety of server and database consolidation efforts to firm-wide farm clusters, including Sybase/Solaris10, Oracle/Solaris10, Oracle/Linux as5, and Solaris10 utility containers (application servers). • Architected and managed NAS and EMC Centera LUN and storage group consolidations (Premium+, Lite+, Lite, CASS, NAS), thereby making srdfs/srdfa, and tier 2 NAS contingency fail-over configurations possible, as well as providing significant cost savings to their specific business areas, on a per function, and or application basis. • Using application requirements and Team Quest performance statistics, architected and executed applications migrations and replacement of end of service life hardware and operating systems (EOSL), including Sol6-9, SQL 2000, Oracle 8+, Sybase 9.x, and Windows 2K+. • Targeted and managed the virtualization of many white box Wintel implementations to a firm driven, cost saving VMware solution, providing significant cost savings the business. From September 2007 to May 2008 (9 months) Professional - Application Support Engineer and Project Coordinator @ Professional, Application Support Engineer and Project Coordinator • Managed multiple offshore teams responsible for approximately 70 applications in varying phases of lifecycle development for Investment Banking (IBD), Global Capital Markets (GCM), and Real Estate (MSRE) divisions. • Migrated, setup and coordinated offshore team management of 24x6 global systems and applications monitoring. This involved migrating an outgrown, in-house monitoring solution to a firm-wide managed solution with Netcool, Microsoft MOM, Linux/Solaris kernel agents and Perl API integration. • Worked within a global level-2 support team, executing daily ready for business (RFB) checks, as well as weekly and emergency change management turnovers and break fix diagnosis and repair. • Facilitated application deliveries through production, roll-out and engineering ready for business (RFB) procedures, providing runbook and Twiki style documentation. • Architected a vendor entitlements engine for IBD, writing a scripted ldap, SQL and AD mail lookup aggregation and delivery mechanism (perl/pgp). Triggered by an Autosys event scheduler, confidential content is delivered to approximately 12 market data providers, via encrypted Comet delivery service and monitored through a perl API interface into Netcool. • Managed multiple vendor applications and external market data provider data feeds, as well as both thin and fat client applications. • Managed an Autosys job migration project from Solaris to Linux platform, cataloging IBD business unit’s many existing Autosys jobs and identifying 126 candidates for a Solaris to Linux migration. Performed the port of numerous jobs and associated perl scripted applications. From April 2006 to April 2007 (1 year 1 month) Network Operations / Core Engineering Team @ Consultant through Princeton Information • Architected a new enterprise backup solution; a heterogeneous environment of 50 clients and five media servers consisting of UNIX (Solaris/Irix/Linux), Netware and Windows (NT2000/2003) servers, including Exchange, SQL, DB2 and open file agent extensions via switched 1GB channel sharing native read/write and control access to multiple LT0-2 tape devices. • Managed IBM installation and assisted implementation of a Blade Center consisting of Intel Xenon blade servers SAN booted to a LC channel FastT700 and tertiary 10 TB SATA storage array. The environment supported an IBM Content Management System (ICMM) with DB2, Websphere and various video on demand (VOD) applications. • Architected the upgrade of the SGI IRIX 6.21, Linux and Open Systems BSD plant, installing patches and providing a new two GB conduit to the above IBM VOD system. • Configured Sudo, SAMBA and SSH for interdependent authentication. • Engineered upgrade for 10 Oracle database and application servers, replacing legacy environment with Sun V440i and V240 servers with Oracle CPU based licensing and warm stand-by high availability. • Architected back-end off-site disaster recovery facility; a four rack footprint at a shared collocation facility via remote access, real-time data replication and consolidated server application functionalities, thereby providing access to mission critical data. From June 2004 to April 2005 (11 months) Data Center and Application Project Manager @ Consultant through Sun Professional Services (SPS), • Created and managed project plans from post 9/11 boilerplate templates, matching a discrete number of available configurations to fulfill business units’ requirements. • Facilitated project plans though procurement, change request, asset allocation, and coordination of functional silo activities to fulfill a successful completion. From August 2002 to November 2002 (4 months) Manager, Systems Administration Group @ (Walker Digital, Priceline, and Disney Venture) Manager of Systems Administration, Sr. Systems Administrator, Sr. Architect • Designed and implemented a 5x9 highly available load balanced collocated environment; including Firewall and IDS clusters, VLAN segments trunked via host and Cisco Cat OC12 bridging, various management and event notification systems, redundant multi-carrier 50 Mb internet conduit; vendor VPN leased lines, redundant multi-SAN, multi-tiered DMZ for Iplanet, Weblogic, and clustered Oracle OLTP, data mart with SAP database repositories. • Installed Veritas filesystem, VCS Oracle Business Suite and Netbackup cluster Tape SAN repository. • Refined and tuned load balancing through clustered Local Director static content Iplanet web servers and dynamic content Weblogic servlet engines via threaded resource pools to database management systems, internet, and (VPN) vendor functions. • Managed engineering and operations team in the implementation and facility built-out of the collocation project; ultimately achieving a successful on-time, on-budget completion. • Built a firewall separated IP network and a zone separated SAN for DEV, QA and PROD environments; with a replicated QA staging area, source code controlled, linked via a clustered enterprise backup solution. From July 2000 to January 2002 (1 year 7 months) Sr. Unix SA, Equities Core Engineering Team @ Consultant through Norgate Technologies; Sr. Systems Administrator, Sr. Systems Architect • Incorporated Linux architecture for file and print services into a test QA lab environment (LabNet). • Built a new listed block trading web-reporting service in a client server distributed environment. • Designed a QA lab environment for an Equities server consolidation including decimalization expansion. From December 1999 to July 2000 (8 months) Sr. Systems Administrator (Unix) @ Consultant through Sun Professional Services (SPS) • Audited network and system design, with respect to Sun Solaris Enterprise systems, Sun Storage and HA clustering, correcting several system inefficiencies. • Built several Ex500 servers, with Ax500 Sun STOREdge disk arrays, Veritas Volume suite, Solstice Backup (Legato), and Oracle DMBS server configurations. • Built and tested Linux workstation image, with Xll/Motif font libraries, GNU, Legato and Solaris RM 6.1.1, thereby migrating management clients from X-Display to local executable environment. From August 1999 to December 1999 (5 months) Sr. Systems Administrator , Sr. Design Engineer @ Consultant through Princeton Information Systems Sr. Systems Administrator , Sr. Design Engineer • Designed network and infrastructure components of SunAmerica’s Broker Dealer trading application, Vision2020. Through white board engineering analysis, recommending vendor specifications to exceed application requirements, on through the development and beta-production site in New York, and final roll-out implementation of the production environment in Woodland Hills, California. • Built VCS clustered Sun Ultra class, Oracle DBMS, Sun U60 SNA/X.25 gateways, DNS, sendmail and ftp servers (all Sun Solaris, Veritas foundation suite, and Sunscreen SPF 200 Firewalls with SSL and SKIP/VPN encryption. • Configured SAN storage to EMC Symmetrix DASD (hardware mirrored, raid 1, and Veritas plex r3/5/10), four channel Ultra SCSI, with DMP, providing a cumulative bandwidth distributed across multiple controllers. • Installed and configured backup systems; via Legato in New York, and cluster Veritas NetBackup in CA, both utilizing Oracle EBU hot backup interfacing to DLT7 tape libraries. From March 1997 to August 1999 (2 years 6 months) Sr. Systems Administrator and Architect (Unix) @ Debt Markets - Securities Information Service (SIS) Consultant through Princeton Information • Responsible for global Smart Trading System (STS) Production and development domains (SunOS). Engineered, built, implemented, and administered above domains, Sun Solaris 2.5.1 based, with approximately 50 nodes, which services approximately 20 developers and 1000 global client nodes. • Created and populated eight NIS domains, consisting of 100 plus Sun workstations. Installed numerous disks, printers, modems, software packages, and users’ accounts. Also created many scripts for monitoring, starting, stopping and restarting applications and server services. • Upgraded equipment and operating systems from SunOS 4.1.3, which over time, was converted through through Solaris 2.4 to Solaris 2.6 running on Ultra class hardware using VxFS, VCS and SAN storage. From March 1995 to March 1997 (2 years 1 month) Associate Engineer, Systems Administrator (HPUX) @ Consultant for SIAC, ITPN 1/95 - 3/95 • Developed methodology for distributing and organizing man pages for in-house written scripts for Operations. • Participated in the design, test and implementation of component, fail-over recoveries on the BBSS and POSDBK NYSE client applications. From January 1995 to March 1995 (3 months) Unix SA, Equities Equities Trading Floor @ Consultant through Princeton Information • Responsible for a series roll-out of SS20 machines with newly enhanced kernels supporting Sybase and real-time market data. Assisted in various upgrades and roll-outs of new software to the trader’s tool suite. Among these included; Track Data via SNA3270 terminal emulation, Lotus Notes, Lotus 123, Mosaic, Aplix, Frame and others. • Assisted and maintained Sun Net-Manager and beeper service to closely monitor critical conditions within each workstation on the floor. • Built and configured two SPARC-20 Sybase servers, utilizing Sun On-line Disk Suite and Sybase replication. • Installed SunLink BSC3270, configured and built gateway link to IBM mainframe, and configured client software to access Bridge Ord-Pro Trade Entry system. From December 1994 to March 1995 (4 months) Associate Engineer, Systems Administrator (SunOS) @ • Primarily responsible for setup and administering global client-server architecture supporting an Exotic Options Trading desk headquartered in New York, with offices and workstations in London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Zürich. • Engineered, built and performed global roll-out, using both existing and newly acquired hardware and software, primarily Unix based. • Responsible for administering a small Risk Management division within Equities Trading which utilized Reuters real-time data feeds via Aplix software real-time database links. • Various software was installed and configured, integrating and emulating the Windows NT environment into the Unix based trading plant; including Sunlink 3270 (SNA and X.25) SunOS, SoftWindows, Wingz and Lotus123 analytical software, ODBC and real-time data feed hooks into db2 and Sybase. From February 1994 to December 1994 (11 months) Electrical Engineer, Unix Systems Administrator @ Martin Marietta Electronics, Information and Missiles Division Dod Secret Security Clearance (inactive 1995) (Falcon Air Force Base and Orlando locations) • Performed electrical engineering troubleshooting and design breakdowns • System Administrator for heterogenious Unix Internal Reseach and Development Lab (IRAD). • Supported serveral request for proposals (RFP) and concept demonstrations; including the Closed Combat Techtical Trainer (CCTT) for the Department of Defense, and the Integrated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) for the FBI. • Scripted various solutions (ksh, sh), including round robin lab tape backups, system monitoring, NFS, software installations and other LAB SA tasks.. From September 1990 to February 1994 (3 years 6 months)

BS Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Economics @ Colorado School of Mines From 1986 to 1990 Pre BSEE Courses ~ 11 Credits Transferred to Mines, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 4.0 @ Fort Lewis College From 1985 to 1986 Stephen Miller is skilled in: Technology Solutions, Server Virtualisation, J2EE Architecture, Electrical Engineering, Solaris, Linux server administration, HPUX, AIX, Windows Server, Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Net Backup, Legato Networker, Syncsort, Brightstor, Oracle Financials