Jay Morrison

Experience

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  Achaean Technology , Inc

  Feb 2003 - Aug 2004

  Web Programmer

  As one of the members of the web development team, responsibilities included meetingwith customers to outline project details, creating and submitting project proposals forcustomer approval, programming database-driven web applications, and managing externalweb hosting for customers.• Designed, developed and implemented web-based, data-driven applicationsincluding a shopping cart system for online sales.• Managed more than 50 websites and databases for clients around the country.• Designed and developed website and web-application graphic user interfaces. Show less

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  Silex Cubed , Inc

  Jul 2004 - Mar 2006

  CFO/Senior Programmer Analyst

  Converted web posting environment from FrontPage to Dreamweaver using FTP; As co-owner and one of the lead programmers in this company, responsibilities includedmanaging the company’s financial systems, customer relations, client/server applicationdevelopment, and web application development.• Designed and developed proprietary fax over IP client/server software using C/C++.• Designed and developed custom PHP web applications to meet customer’s businessneeds.• Managed financial records, including payroll, and customer billing for the thecompany. Show less

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  New York State Education Department

  Dec 2005 - Dec 2012

  As the Lead Unix Systems Administrator in the Unix Support Group, responsibilities included managing the department Unix servers, managing the department DNS servers, managing the department SFTP/FTP servers, managing department load balancing appliances, managing department backups, managing Unix Server disk arrays, issuing and managing SSL certificates, and troubleshooting application, web, network, and serverissues.• Researched and planned a migration of all Oracle/Sun Solaris SPARC servers to IBM AIX PowerVM servers• Developed and implemented a new web server environment to allow developers the ability to program dynamic applications using PHP and MySQL.• Consolidated several different department Solaris server installs so that all Solaris servers followed one department standard• Developed and implemented migration plans for all server, storage, and networking equipment to a newly constructed data center. Show less As one of the Unix Systems Administrators in the Unix Support Group, responsibilities included managing the department Unix servers, maintaining users and groups, maintainingthe departments Listserv, managing the department web/proxy servers, writing small applications and scripts, and server software installation and support.• Converted the department Solaris server environment from Solaris 8/9 to a virtualized environment on Solaris 10 using Solaris Zones.• Designed and implemented a standard backup architecture across all department servers, regardless of Operating System• Converted web posting environment from FrontPage to Dreamweaver using FTP Show less

  • Information Technology Specialist 3

    Jul 2007 - Dec 2012

  • Information Technology Specialist 2

    Dec 2005 - Jul 2007
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  NYS Office of the State Comptroller

  Dec 2012 - Mar 2014

  Information Technology Specialist 3

  Coordinated the deployment of custom developed application software onto the agency’s WebSphere environments; administered agency web and proxy servers; administered agency SFTP services; assisted with quality assurance load testing processes; managed agency SSL certificates; and led troubleshooting efforts for application, web, network, and server issues.

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  NYS Office of Information Technology Services

  Mar 2014 - now

  I currently lead a team of 50+ NYS Employees who administer a large consolidated enterprise server environments consisting of more than 1,500 servers running various UNIX based operating systems such as AIX, AS400, HP-UX, Solaris, OpenVMS and Oracle Linux (Exadata & PCA). I also lead the ITS endpoint integrity team responsible for managing security and vulnerability tracking systems using tools such as Tenable, Crowdstrike, McAfee, and PatchMyPC. In my role, I routinely manage, coordinate and lead various complex projects for OITS and multiple customer agencies including data center consolidations and migrations, server security and compliance remediation implementations, and large-scale hardware installations and updates; supervise and delegate work duties to individual staff members as well as other enterprise teams; involved in staff hiring and training; develop employee performance plans and provide performance evaluations. Show less Managed team of NYS Employees and Contractors who administered a large consolidated AIX environment consisting of 1,000+ servers; managed, coordinated and lead various complex projects for OITS and multiple customer agencies including data center consolidations and migrations, AIX security and compliance remediation implementations, and large-scale hardware installations and updates; reviewed and approved service requests and change requests for the DCH AIX team; supervised and delegated work duties to individual staff members as well as other enterprise teams; involved in staff and contractor hiring and training; developed employee performance plans and providing performance evaluations. Show less

  • Manager of Data Center Services

    Nov 2019 - now

  • Director of Client Engagement - NYS Behavioral Health Portfolio

    May 2019 - Nov 2019

  • Information Technology Specialist IV (Systems)

    Mar 2014 - May 2019