Chris Ferraro

Current

• Systems Engineer at IMC

Past

• Architect at Ronin Capital, LLC
• IT Manager at Azavar Technologies
• Rock Climbing Guide at Apex Adventure Alliance

• Sr. Systems Specialist at Hubbard One

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Education

• Northwestern University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Chris Ferraro’s Summary

Having demonstrated over the course of my professional career solid technical skills and a unique ability to relate to coworkers on a personal level, I see my next position combining these traits and leading me into a team lead / architecture role.

My goal is to help build a solid systems team that is counted on heavily to improve the bottomline, while ensuring that the individuals on the team enjoy showing up to work.

Chris Ferraro’s Specialties:

SAN/NAS, Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, group policy, disk to disk backups

Chris Ferraro’s Experience

• Systems Engineer

  IMC

  (Partnership; Investment Management industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

• Architect

  Ronin Capital, LLC

  (Financial Services industry)

  August 2005 — March 2008 (2 years 8 months)

  One of three senior engineers/team leads/architects in the firm. Lead back-office integration of market maker into existing AD/Exchange/storage environments. Architected a multi-server Exchange 2003 environment and improved performance by offloading anti-virus and anti-spam workload to Barracuda appliances. Maintained firm's SEC compliance with an Iron Mountain based journaling solution as well as a WORM compliant storage solution. Architect of an Evault disk-based backup solution designed to maintain high-availability for all mission critical firm data. Designed storage environment consisting of a clustered NetApp 3020c solution that yielded higher reliability and increased storage capacity. Automated all Windows server maintenance to occur with minimal end-user interruption. Architected an Active Directory infrastructure to heavily utilize group policy to ease administration burdens. Trained staff to broaden Windows knowledge across the firm.

• IT Manager

  Azavar Technologies

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2004 — April 2005 (8 months)

  Responsible for the maintenance and enhancement of the firm’s internal and colocation environments. Led datacenter migration yielding an increase in security and availability of all affected client sites. Managed a team of developers responsible for the complete development life cycle of major upgrades to the production environment. Consulted for a large holographics firm and was responsible for implementing a redundant network connectivity solution to ensure communication between branch offices.. Responsible for all security initiatives and patch management solutions in collocation and internal environments.. Authored project plans and was responsible for the final implementation. Overhauled Active Directory environment to improve efficiency and scalability of LAN. Designed and implemented backup plan for both internal and consulting environments. Implemented and maintained various firewalls in production and internal environments.

• Rock Climbing Guide

  Apex Adventure Alliance

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2003 — 2005 (2 years )

• Sr. Systems Specialist

  Hubbard One

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  September 1999 — June 2004 (4 years 10 months)

  Responsible for the architecture and support of an Active Directory infrastructure for LAN and data center environments. Architect of a two-tiered DNS solution to separate public and private DNS namespace for LAN and datacenter. Responsible for the support of remote office WANs. Architect of multiple Checkpoint 4.0, 2000 (NG), Express Firewall-1/VPN-1 solutions for both LAN and datacenter environments. Architect for LAN security, including automation and maintenance of a patch management solution and centrally-managed antivirus solution. Responsible for the design and support of a Microsoft Exchange 5.5 mail solution and subsequent upgrades to Exchange 2000 and 2003. Responsible for the administration of a Microsoft SourceSafe based development environment. Responsible for the design and implementation of an asset-tracking and procurement system.
  Responsible for the architecture and maintenance of a tape and file based backup solution for mission-critical servers.

Chris Ferraro’s Education

• Northwestern University

  Biomedical Engineering 1996 — 1999

  Activities and Societies:

  Theta Chi Fraternity, Club Baseball Team

Additional Information

Chris Ferraro’s Interests:

rock climbing

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