Ferdinand John Reinke

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE seeks to unlock value for an organization. Concentrate with IT Architecture and Business Process Reen- gineering on effectiveness and efficiency. Mine past assumptions, decisions, or situations that represent yesterday's opportunities for the raw going for- ward material. Generate new energy from existing positions without necessarily adding resources. Simultaneously use standards, planning, and gov- ernance to prepare for future opportunities. Develop existing talent.

Global consultant on technology opportunities. Opinions on internet acquisitions. Alignment of business processes and technology operations. Confidential projects: Infrastructure strategic plan; Gather requirements for network upgrade; HIPAA for individual doctors.

• Develops technology solutions that allowed our Customers to enjoy entertainment and services from our Cable, Internet, and Phone offerings. Everyone talks about convergence, but we are delivering it.
  

• Focused on integrating High Speed Data and VoIP telephony into a new architecture of universal services using both database and directory technology.
  

• Solved knotty technology problems. Customer impacting ones! Ofter in different organizational silos. Without a formal charter to do so.
  

An individual "one man show" consulting on "Discovery & Definition", Business Process Reengeering, Information Technology Architecture, Quality, Security, Recovery, Project / Process Management, and anything else someone wants to buy that I can do.

Closed and collected on approximately 750k of revenue for myself and others in my "wolf pack".

Executed an Exchange 2000 & Active Directory correction and clean up project for 121k users in a single forest covering a global environment of 80 independent country domains that had over 40k errors (i. e.: tombstones, orphans, duplicates, and interim accounts). Simplified the (broken) replication strategy from over 4k paths to under a hundred (working). This in preparation for a complete W2000 desktop upgrade, server migration to W2003, and Exchange migration to E2003.

Completed several plans: To prepare a Global Architecture covering two data centers and 80 countries. To remove Lotus Notes from the environment replacing it with future Microsoft Products like Sharepoint 2. 0 and Content Management Server. To introduce Microsoft's SMS and MOM into the environment to stabilize, inventory, and mange the environment.

Completed an inventory of all standards, compiled them into a standard format, and published them internally by website.

Single point of contact and accountability in the Pinnacle Alliance for Risk-related activities for CSC facing off with other CSC units, JPMC, and the Pinnacle partners (e.g., Verizon, AT&T, IBM, Anderson).

Identified and communicated to Senior Management (e.g., Chief Operations Officer; Operating Unit Risk Managers; Business Managers) and / or process owner (e.g., BIM; BIRM; TIM; Info Owner or Guardian) existing or potential information security and risk exposures & vulnerabilities.

Implemented secure sign on for 4k new Novell workstations, in addition to retrofitting other UNIX and Windows. This encompassed engineering the prototype for NY and Houston JPMC offices. Supporting the roll out to the users. And responding to all questions and problem tickets related to the work.

Established, implemented, and managed the Information Security Management Program in-line with Business strategies and priorities. Advised business areas on information security/controls and associated procedures.

Managed and drove the Security Awareness programs in both business and aligned technology teams (i.e. AD; TIMs). Managed the Information Risk Management Program for CSC-FSG-IMS-CPA and client environments (e.g. firewalls; network; DMZ; mainframe; midrange). Managed and conducted Information Risk Assessments. Assessed external connectivity requests. Approved Risk Acceptances for all environments, all clients

Ensure that the security monitoring process for all business-aligned applications/infrastructure is functioning properly. Escalate issues; remediate outstanding problems; validate findings.

Teamed with Infrastructure groups to create a Global Business Network (a four-tier IPv4 Cisco / AT&T network across 280 locations on five continents spanning 42 business units) replacing 31 legacy networks with diverse protocols, economics, and business cases. Simplifying all controls, eliminating layers of administration, and improving "speed".

Secured the Trusted Global Advisor (500M$ retail brokerage workstation replacement), the Microsoft NT351 platform, and the IPv4 network connecting globally.

Advised business units on technology issues, including Windows domain strategy, cryptography, certificate authorities, secure protocols, VPNs, and SSL.

Designed an AI security paradigm enabling automatic administration across multiple platforms with different OSs by end users.

Reviewed the capability and suitability of organizations seeking to become outsourcing partners for Business Units, Infrastructure Units, or Service Providers.

Provided management and technical consulting services in strategic technology planning, design and implementation.

Produced a Consulting Services marketing plan for niches not covered by the AT&T formal marketing plan; shaped AT&T's IT Architecture practice.

For a Northeastern retailer, designed a project for a new IT application and the associated infrastructure, including determining technical requirements, time frames, funding, staffing requirements, and mapping available resources for various phases of infrastructure project.

Personally sold $12 million of IT Services for my customer AT&T Services Division. Supervised the global delivery of $750 million IT Consulting Services in pharmaceuticals, banking, and brokerages centered in the Eastern region.

Led Information Security for this full-service investment bank, with P&L responsibility for corporate security / information systems policies and standards; managed a staff of 35 professionals and an operating budget of $22M. Planed, directed, and managed all security activities in the global CSFB IT Infrastructure and Applications.

Took charge of implementing HPS, a multi-tier application architecture using Stratus minis and a DB2-based repository, modeled after the rules based computing trend. Project was stalled by implementation and design issues. Reduced defects from 3k per week to 3 per quarter. Introduce the daily development build. Partitioned development from production. Sped up schedule reducing budget overruns. Debugged the migration process. Created quality assurance and acceptance testing environments. Automated testing. Installed the first seven applications without additional resources.

Improved trading floor productivity by introducing measurable criteria, single call problem reporting, single sign on, 24-hour help desk procedures, physical security, and source code recovery.

Reduced the information security budget by 50%; $3M to $1.5M and staff from 21 to 10.

Supervised a 15-person group of RACF administrators and analysts in corporate systems security. Administrated a $2.5 million general operating budget, plus a $62M Data Center budget charged back to end-user departments.

Devised and tested a Data Center disaster recovery plan, generating a 20M$ cost avoidance and a $600k annual savings in insurance.

Relocated the corporate Data Center to 388 Greenwich Street for improved availability, faster user response time, and higher capacity for computing at a lower cost.

Caused a one standard user id / password policy with supporting procedures corporate-wide. Delivered user single sign on across all corporate systems.

Joint Services Commendation Medal for classified work on the computer representation of non-English non-Cyrillic languages such as Burmese, Thai, and other Bali-Sanskrit languages.