Craig Capizzi
Technology Specialist
(212) 920-4523
Skills

Forward thinking technology specialist with 20 years of experience identifying, qualifying, implementing and maintaining technologies and enterprise systems that facilitate business processes and strategic objectives.  Broad expertise in IT and network infrastructure design and life cycle management.  Extensive experience in providing technology solutions to companies ranging from small offices to Fortune 50 companies at an enterprise level.  

Experience
Technology Lead
TravelHUB2009 - Present

Modernized infrastructure and migrated legacy systems from proprietary code to modern open source solutions that dramatically improved efficiency and reduced support costs by more than 90 percent.

Technology solutions include Windows Server, IIS, Red Hat Linux, CentOS, Apache, MySQL, MariaDB, Parallels Plesk, cPanel, WordPress, Drupal,

Provided technology solutions for Travel Agencies to implement and support new technologies while integrating legacy travel booking systems and other various challenges unique to their locations, goals and needs.

Senior Enterprise Engineer
IBM2002 - 2009

Lead Enterprise Engineer for American Express International Bank.  Designed solutions to integrate multiple legacy systems as well as integrating systems from vendors such as EDS and HP. 

Provided solutions for American Express globally.  Worked with branches across the globe to streamline processes and resolve problems that were business critical and could not be resolved by local support teams.

Senior Systems Engineer
American Express2000 - 2002

Created, tested and implemented solutions for Y2K bugs in legacy code. As the lead engineer, was on-site at midnight to maintain critical systems. 

Designed disaster recovery solution for the New York branch of American Express International Bank located at the World Trade Center. 

Worked alongside technology counterparts in the United Kingdom and Australia to develop and implement a strategy to rebuild and restore critical infrastructure for banking systems, and to implement a strategy to build new infrastructure solution to improve processes that reduced future risk to critical systems by creating a process for mirroring data across different regions to remove single point of failure in the future. 

Senior Systems Administrator
Vanstar / Inacom1998 - 2000

Administered a mixed Novell Netware and Microsoft Windows Active Directory environment. 

Responsible for security, patch management, user access control and all other aspects of day to day operations.  Supported Novell Netware 3.x, 4.x, Windows Server and Lotus Notes.

Technical Certifications
  • Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer + Internet (MCSE)
  • Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
  • Certified Netware Engineer (CNE)
  • CompTIA A+ Certified Technician (A+)

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