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[itroundtable] Digest Number 2560

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1.: LEAD: Dir Data Ctr Ops - NYC - NYU Med Center From: john sampson

2.: LEAD: Apps Devel Mgr - NJ - to 75/hr - 6 mos gig From: john sampson

3.: LEAD: Jr Scrum Masters - NJ - to 110k + Bonus From: john sampson

4.: GenY Networking Group - Meeting Reminder Sep 7th, Library of the Cha From: Joseph J.

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1.: LEAD: Dir Data Ctr Ops - NYC - NYU Med Center

Posted by: "john sampson" jcsspike@yahoo.com jcsspike

Sun Sep 4, 2011 8:41 am (PDT)

Director of Data Center Operations, NYU Medical Center
Midtown NYC
Full-time
Highly competitive salary
Excellent Benefits
Relocation covered.

If your credentials are a strong match for this please send resume to fawad.ali@nyumc.org

II.            POSITION SUMMARY

Reporting to the Vice President of Infrastructure Operations & Engineering, the Director of Data Center Operations for the NYU Medical Center IT Department (MCIT) is responsible for maintaining NYULMC's data center (DC) and disaster recovery center operations. The Director provides direct supervision for all aspects of operations, maintenance, MCIT personnel and third party vendors to ensure 24 x 7 operations at the data center. The Director is responsible for maintaining awareness of technologies pertinent to the MCIT goals and objectives and working collaboratively with all constituents from the MCIT community, serves a leadership function for the effective delivery of all systems within the DC.

The Director participates on various MCIT operations, standards, and advisory committees, and delivers to the goals set by the senior MCIT leadership to accomplish business goals and objectives. The Director works with the management team within Information Technology, and within the individual components of the Medical Center, to develop operational processes following utilizing industry best practices (ITIL) to drive best in class operations. The Director has budgetary responsibility, and accountability, for the activities of approximately ten professional IT employees and in support of over 700 servers, core services such as email, file sharing, remote systems access, storage, Citrix, virtualization and networking equipment's. The Director is also responsible for the technical supervision of the MCIT DC-OPS team and the strategic outsourced service provider to ensure day-to-day service delivery and support based on the SLA.

Functions for the Director consists of:

Management of ITIL processes: Incident, Change, and Problem management
SLA management as agreed to by NYULMC and the third party vendor
BCP & DR planning and communications
Outage communications and executive level communications related to P1 incidents
Coordination and facilitation of P1 incident "war-rooms"
Reporting of service metrics related to performance for all MCIT areas (Applications and Infrastructure)
Monitoring and Alert notifications via third party is performed as agreed
DC and DR site Asset management
Owner and driver of the CAB (Change review board)
Champion of Service Quality Processes and the ITIL initiatives
Owner of the third party agreement and relationship with DC/DR services provider

This position will line manage resources belonging to other functional groups reporting directly to Senior Director of Convergence Technology & Network, Senior Director of Distributed Computing Services, and other areas. The Director will be required to partner with functional peers to ensure effective delivery.

III.           POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

1.       Manage a matrixed team made up of direct reports to other functional areas as well as direct reports.
2.       Possess strategic vision and execution capabilities to operationalize best practices utilizing ITIL framework.
3.       Working knowledge of ITIL best practices and processes for operational excellence.
a.       Implementation of ITIL best practices to improve operations
b.      Experience managing data centers and internal operations
c.       Improvement in incident and problem management processes
d.      Reporting of SLA's and metrics
e.      Outage management and leadership through coordination, communication and facilitation
4.       Experience with monitoring technologies and processes.
5.       Data Center management.
a.       Understanding of effective use of DC power consumption with segregation of hot/cold isles and efficient floor planning
b.      Green energy technologies as it pertains to DC's
c.       Effective cable management and ensure maintenance and upkeep of all data closets across NYULMC facilities
6.       BCP & DR Processes
a.       Development of BCP/DR plans
b.      Facilitation of enterprise wide BCP/DR exercise and planning
7.       Financial management responsibilities.
a.       Management of CAP-X, OP-X and 3rd party vendors
b.      Asset management
c.       Execution of cost containment strategy
d.      Vendor management (leveraging vendor resources, relationship building)
e.      Cost reduction strategy experience (Technology, Process, Resources)
8.       Organizational and staff development experience.
9.       Operating in staff augmented support model.
10.   Manage strategic out-source relationships and building in-source delivery/support models.
11.   Excellent follow through skills and detail oriented.
12.   Customer first mind-set and ability to lead an organization to the desired state.
13.   Exceptional communication and presentation skills.
a.       Experience developing and delivering presentations that can be shared with organizational leadership (VPs/CIO)
14.   Performs and directs overall administration of department including budgets and HR

IV.          SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS
·         The applicant must have at least 10 – 15 years experience in the Information Technology field and specifically at minimum 5 years in the data center management discipline.
·         Experience with hands-on implementation of ITIL best practices.
·         The applicant must have excellent analytical, communication and organizational skills.
·         The applicant must have strong facilitation and communications skills both verbal and written.
·         The applicant must be a team player that will help create a positive team environment and has the proven ability to work on a variety of projects.

V.            EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
B.S. degree in computer science, information services or related field required.

Thanks,

Fawad Ali
IT Staffing Specialist
NYU Langone Medical Center
* One Park Avenue - 16th Floor | New York, NY | 10016
fawad.ali@nyumc.org

MIS Ntwk Assoc Mtg Dates:

Aug 30 - Tues - No Meeting Labor Day Holiday

Sept 6 - Tues - No Meeting Labor Day Holiday

Sept 13th - Tues Reg Mtg - 6 pm - Berman Larson Kane Offices, Paramus - DO NOT use GPS for directions - Get dir from BLK site - Bring 15 copies of your resume

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2.: LEAD: Apps Devel Mgr - NJ - to 75/hr - 6 mos gig

Posted by: "john sampson" jcsspike@yahoo.com jcsspike

Sun Sep 4, 2011 9:02 am (PDT)

Our Client, an industry leader has an immediate opportunity in Newark, NJ for an Applications Development Manager

If qualified and interested, please send your resume to Tony at arapa@contech-it.com

Director, Solutions Engineer

Description
Primary accountability for the conceptual design and engineering approach for complex business system solutions aligned with Annuities' architecture roadmap specifically related to the applications used by the Annuity Actuarial Organization.
Leverages current industry expertise to develop solution options, proposals, and recommendations
Develops and documents conceptual design and engineering approaches that address functional and non-functional business requirements and meet architectural standards and objectives
Ensures overall solution alignment across business capabilities
Ensures detailed design and technical implementation achieve engineering objectives
Validates technical solution designs through an in-depth understanding of technical requirements
Provides specific solution and technology expertise throughout the systems development lifecycle
Primary interface between the Delivery and Architecture teams

Responsibilities include:
Accountability for technology leadership in conceptual design and engineering approach for complex system solutions aligned with Annuities' architecture roadmap
Leveraging current industry expertise to develop solution options, proposals, and recommendations
Developing and documenting conceptual design and engineering approaches that address functional and non-functional business requirements and meet architectural standards and objectives
Ensuring overall solution alignment and approach across multiple concurrent projects, across business capabilities, and across organizational boundaries
Effectively transitioning conceptual design and engineering approaches to the project delivery teams for detailed design and implementation
Driving flexible design solutions that take advantage of and create reusable components where possible
Validation of technical solution designs and solution architecture documentation through an in-depth understanding of technical requirements.
Accountability for Architectural Review Board documentation and providing primary interface between delivery project team and Architecture, including directing and guiding the project team in the creation of the Architecture Review Board documentation throughout the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Providing technical leadership throughout the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for the implementation of initiatives, enhancements and other system changes as requested by the business partners.
Providing mentoring to the analysis and development teams throughout the systems development lifecycle by providing specific solution, technology and industry expertise.
Bringing external perspective on technology and solutions through the maintenance of knowledge of industry trends, development patterns and best practices.
Being a sounding board for Analysts/Developers/Quality Assurance and accountable for the overall design and development effort as it relates to all components of the architecture.
Being the primary interface to the architecture team and influence architectural decisions.
Accountability for influencing and adopting architectural framework and standards in engineering solutions.
Other duties and/or tasks may be assigned on an as-needed basis.

Qualifications
Bachelors Degree or equivalent work experience required.
8+ years of IT based software development.
Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills.
Demonstrated expertise in high-level systems design, modeling, and implementation
Demonstrated expertise in articulating and documenting conceptual design and engineering approach
Demonstrated ability to articulate technical concepts, collaborate on design approach, and influence senior technical and business stakeholders.
Strong understanding of solution and application architecture principles
Demonstrated experience aligning systems solutions with architectural standards.
Expertise databases and programming languages (specifically Oracle, SQL Server, C##, .NET and ASP.NET)
Knowledge of JAVA and Websphere
Experience with actuarial or calculation intensive applications
Experience implementing software solutions through a structured systems development lifecycle
Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor project team members in detailed design and technical implementation.
An active participant in the growth of the organization; Being a Change Agent.
Demonstrates a Strong Moral Compass.
Establishes/Support a Clear Vision and Strategy.
Has a Talent Mindset.
Focuses Externally.
Takes Intelligent Risks.
Collaborates to Seize Opportunities.
Transforms Strategy into Action.
Excellent customer focus.
Multi-site team environment experience preferred.
Skill at resolving conflict and negotiating effectively and tactfully.
Ability to inspire and motivate teams and individuals.
Strong Interpersonal (listening, written and verbal communication) and presentation skills.

MIS Ntwk Assoc Mtg Dates:

Sept 6 - Tues - No Meeting Labor Day Holiday

Sept 13th - Tues Reg Mtg - 6 pm - Berman Larson Kane Offices, Paramus - DO NOT use GPS for directions - Get dir from BLK site - Bring 15 copies of your resume

Sept 27th Tues - Recruiter Night Out Dinner Mtg - Joe Gadino Moderator - Jack Renahan: NEMA TIP TOP NA - Karin Leggaminn: CMK Select - Carolyn Mandaro: Mitchell Martin -

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3.: LEAD: Jr Scrum Masters - NJ - to 110k + Bonus

Posted by: "john sampson" jcsspike@yahoo.com jcsspike

Sun Sep 4, 2011 9:09 am (PDT)

Junior Scrum Masters - (US-NJ-Franklin Lakes)
Multiple Positions

Compensation: $90K - $110K / Year
Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: CMEJA26

Salary is listed above. Firm also pays bonus

Agile
Scrum
Prefer CSM, but not required

Will work as part of a team developing systems

Email resume in Word to TheBigGameHunter@cisny.com. Please include the job code for the position with your resume.

NO RELOCATION. NO VISA TRANSFERS. NO OVERSEAS RESUMES. NO 3RD PARTIES

MIS Ntwk Assoc Mtg Dates:

Sept 6 - Tues - No Meeting Labor Day Holiday

Sept 13th - Tues Reg Mtg - 6 pm - Berman Larson Kane Offices, Paramus - DO NOT use GPS for directions - Get dir from BLK site - Bring 15 copies of your resume

Sept 27th Tues - Recruiter Night Out Dinner Mtg - Joe Gadino Moderator - Jack Renahan: NEMA TIP TOP NA - Karin Leggaminn: CMK Select - Carolyn Mandaro: Mitchell Martin -

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4.: GenY Networking Group - Meeting Reminder Sep 7th, Library of the Cha

Posted by: "Joseph J." joseph.finazzo@yahoo.com joseph.finazzo

Sun Sep 4, 2011 11:36 am (PDT)

Wednesday, September 7, 2011, 7-9 PM: GenY Networking Group Meeting
Please pass this info to a person in their twenties who may benefit from
this new networking group …
Join us Wednesday, September 7th for the next meetings of the GenY
Networking Group. Participate in a forum dedicated to the specific
dynamic of Generation Y. Discuss and explore today's job market and
economic realities. Review the basics of networking, job search, and
career development. Sessions moderated by Mike Palestina, Certified
Coach and Leadership Consultant.

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Wednesday, September 7th 7:00–9:00 PM
Library of the Chathams, 214 Main Street, Chatham, NJ

Directions to Library of the Chathams:
http://www.chatham-library.org/directions.html
<http://www.chatham-library.org/directions.html>

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View or Download the meeting flyer here:
http://www.slideshare.net/jjfinazzo/gen-y-flyer-sep-7-2011

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Mike Palestina - Mike is an International Coach Federation Certified
Coach and Leadership Consultant with strong motivational and
organization development skills required to inspire and transform people
and organizations. His style is focused but informal, with an emphasis
on collaboration to establish a secure, trustworthy, and relaxed
environment in which to remove obstacles and achieve results.

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We look forward to seeing you at the Library of the Chathams on
Wednesday, September 7th for an interactive GenY Networking Group
session. Please feel free to arrive at 6:30 PM for extra open
networking time, and BRING A FRIEND!

RSVP's are not required.

For more information, contact Joe Finazzo: joseph.finazzo@yahoo.com
<mailto:joseph.finazzo@yahoo.com> , or see our Facebook – GenY
Networking Group

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