MOVING FORWARD MEANS CHANGE, CHALLENGE, SUCCESS.
One of the few constants in business is change:
Companies change ownership, merge, purchase other organizations, and move to new facilities.
Over time, many businesses require Application or Data Center migrations.
SERVICES WE PROVIDE
Application Migration
Data Center Migration and Consolidation
The heart of a company’s infrastructure is its data center; it’s where the most IT investment is made and where small decisions can have a large impact long after implementation.
When it comes to Data Center Migration;
Data Profession's Golden Rules of Engagement are:
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Road Map
Inventory all your existing data center assets;
Hardware inventory
Communications inventory
Application Inventory Map
Replace, or retire the existing Data Center.
Program / Project Management
RECENT WORK
Shutterstock, Inc
Managed migration of 2 large application platforms (Mason and Search) as part of the Global Data Center Exit Program, as well as migration of multiple smaller services to a new DC / AWS EC2 / AWS K8s. Created and managed migration plans, communications and migration waves scheduling using Jira Epics, Stories and Tasks. Identified Risk and updated the Master Migration spreadsheet as well as other Executive Reporting sheets. Facilitated Change Ticket processing and approval in conjunction with the daily CAB meetings. Proactively executed the closure by pursuing post migration decommissioning of old systems and equipment.
Completing the project in a timely manner and under budget resulted in a significant cost reduction to Shutterstock’s operating cost.
Medical Devices, Johnson & Johnson Company
Led migration / decommission projects for 100+ Global applications to the Software Defined Data Center environment, changing to application as a service delivery. Using approved approach to application rationalization, planned and executed solutions for targeted applications in the Global Education Product Line portfolio. Application rationalization process included; in-house virtualization, cloud migration or decommission. Successfully provided leadership to Business, Technical Application Owners and Software Architects to establish / confirm a roadmap for each application in the portfolio, and manage their execution from inception to completion. Effectively identified potential risks and designed strategies for contingency planning and risk mitigation ensuring full compliance requirements. Tracked and reported project progress, and status on a regular basis to GES and Sr. IT Leadership.
CS Technology
1. Led and Directed a Strategy Team designing the “Five Applications Migration pilot” project for a leading bank in Denmark. The Bank is adopting a new strategy for providing IT Infrastructure and Data Center Services to improve IT response to changing business needs. As part of in-sourcing for the Bank, created a Pilot to test an application migration process prior to moving their portfolio of 3,000 business applications. Responsibility included delivery of a full application migration strategy. Managed development of documentation and templates to be used for all aspects of migration planning. Led creation of application profiles, including validated inventory and dependency mappings. Defined a migration strategy for each application and developed SOPs for move methodologies encompassing preparation of migration plans and schedules. Presented weekly progress to executive stakeholders.
2. Effectively managed the migration of all corporate applications including those in Human Resources and Financial sectors. In addition, acted as a Scrum Master running the daily application huddle-call where all application issues, tracked as JIRA tickets, were discussed, prioritized, and tracked until their resolution. Initiated “no server left behind”, a search for orphaned servers and / or applications that were then migrated at an expedited rate to avoid service disruptions. CST was engaged by a Ieading US-based provider of stock market indexes and equity portfolio analysis tools, for a multi-year and multi-site data center migration program.
3. Designed and implemented high availability program for Travel and Loyalty applications. Led work with Release Managers and Application Development teams to create hour by hour migration plans as well as a new release process that incorporated the Active – Passive Data Center Swing. Coordinated an effort with the Client and the Data Center hosting management to create a complex responsibility-matrix, KPI and Metrics to support the applications in the long run. The program was responsible for moving applications that services redemption worth over $2.5 billion per year and is used by millions of consumers. This resulted in improved availability and the creation of a competitive advantage for Loyalty Management Group.