Noteworthy Accomplishments: (rev. 10-20-16)

Operational and Architectural:

Responsible for team that engineered and planned the technical solution and IT processes to

convert 500K Payroll clients from a legacy Cobol mainframe to a new Java/Unix platform. The

only business window was Thursday at 6:00pm until Friday at 7:00am. We had to plan for

weekly number of clients that could be converted each week within this window factoring client

profiles. This conversion was successfully completed over an 18 month window without

delaying or impacting a single client payroll cycle.

Co-founder and Sponsor of a Rochester based Enterprise Architecture group that had 22

participating regional businesses at our peak. Purpose was to share knowledge, experience, and

technical support.

Commissioned a new tier-3 “Green Datacenter” on campus in 2014. The center is now our

Primary datacenter for hosting the RIT private Cloud consisting of 3000+ V-servers and 2

Petabytes of storage in an HA configuration which has delivered a consistent yearly SLA of 99.9%

availability since commissioning.

Lead team at Citibank in technical and service proposal yielding Citi-SLC being awarded one of

first servicing contracts for the federal Direct Student Lending Program.

Planned for and executed the consolidation of all Citibank Rochester based business operations

for student loan processing to Citibank Sioux Falls SD Operational center. This included

managing the termination or transfer of 100+ staff, self-included.

Ancillary “Value add” Efforts: (These are examples of delivering on our department vision)

“Our unique value proposition must be evident and clear in our customers mind”

Facilitated partnership between my private CLOUD team, VMware and CISCO to partner with

Academic partners in the College Security Program to develop and host a national collegiate

security defensive competition. We provided the compute, technical knowledge and support for

the event. Addendum included is copy of the VMWare press release around the event and a link

to video interviews with IT and Academic leads.

Structured planned capital expenditure into a $12M corporate gift for the institution, yielding an

additional NYS grant of $15M for a regional business development center to be built on the RIT

Campus (Magic Center)

In process of building an Academic Cloud service for extending RIT curriculum to regional

training centers offering certificates in Security and IT training.

Addendum:

VMware Draft Press Release:

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Leveraging VMware’s NSX for Student Cybersecurity

Penetration Testing Competition

RIT Director of IT Operations Discusses Penetration Test and Enterprise Value Multiplier (EVM) at

EDUCAUSE 2015

PALO ALTO, CA – (Marketwired – October xx, 2015) - VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a global leader in

cloud infrastructure and business mobility, today announced that Rochester Institute of Technology

(RIT) is deploying the VMware NSX™ network virtualization platform as part of an upcoming student

cybersecurity penetration testing competition.

With 9 colleges in the U.S. Northeast participating, the upcoming RIT Department of Computing

Security-hosted penetration testing competition will focus on using offensive strategies to help secure

partner networks.

Participants will need to explore the environment, finding and exercising vulnerabilities, and offer

prioritized plans for better security, and how to mitigate the issues found. The Collegiate Pentesting

Competition (CPTC) will take place on November 7th and 8th at RIT.

“We aim to take the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition concept to the next level by

focusing on the ethical deployment of offensive cyber strategies,” said Steve Bertino, Director IT

Operations at RIT.

The Cloud-Based Components of the Collegiate Pentesting Competition

The RIT Academic Cloud will serve as the overall platform for the competition with VMware NSX and

micro-segmentation serving as the boundaries for the penetration test.

With VMware NSX and micro-segmentation, RIT will be able to isolate and segment different tenants

within the same cloud infrastructure. Micro-segmentation keeps any potential attacking agents from

moving east to west between VMs and accessing unauthorized applications or information.

VMware NSX also provides several key advantages over traditional hardware-defined network security

approaches, including distributed policy enforcement at every virtual interface, and in-kernel, scale-out

firewalling distributed to every hypervisor.

The RIT Academic Cloud also leverages a number of VMware solutions, including vCloud Suite Enterprise

and vCloud Air.

Beyond the Operational Maturity Model: Evolution of Infrastructure Teams

RIT continues to seek ways through technology automation to extend the value add proposition of its IT

staff. Staff can focus more on efforts and solutions that will be a value-add both to their own careers

and the university's core academic mission.

Bertino will be addressing this topic during his presentation at EDUCAUSE 2015 titled, “Beyond the

Operational Maturity Model: Evolution of Infrastructure Teams” on October 28th at 10:30 a.m. EDT.

“Technologies like VMware's infrastructure and suite of tools has made it possible for IT staff to better

automate traditional availability, efficiency and management processes to free their time for

educational growth beyond technical implementation and maintenance,” added Bertino.

Bertino will be participating in a VMware-hosted breakfast press briefing at EDUCAUSE 2015. The event

is taking place on October 28th at 7 a.m. at the JW Marriott Indianapolis in Room 208 on Floor 2.

Video link that was part of the Industry Presentation at EDUCAUSE conf.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0vTssr4ylo